Detroit Free Press from Detroit, Michigan • Page 132

1 Sunday. Oct. 16, '60 DETROIT FREE PRESS HILBERRY KEEPS FAST PACE TO FILL SOCIETY'S NEEDS Now One of Finest Education Centers WS BY DON BECK Fi-m Pratt Staff Writtr In the heart of Detroit is Wayne State University, one of the nation's largest and, if you'll pardon local pride, one of its finest educational centers. It is a major university in the full sense of the word. It is big, with over 20,000 students.

It is complex, with 11 schools and colleges offering courses in hundreds of subjects. It is nationally and internationally recognized for its academic stature, especially in the areas of medicine, chemistry, social work, teacher education and i. i -aw I if 1 firm sonable," Hilberry said. "But I shudder to think of anything like 70,000 students." He said that one vital factor that should limit the future growth of Wayne is available land. "We are sometimes accused of being a rancor gnawing away at the center of the city," Hilberry said with a grin.

"We certainly realize that we can't just go on indefinitely, grabbing off great chunks of real estate to make room for more and more students. "But we also feel that, far from being a 'cancer' here, we have helped to revitalize the central city. "Our goal now Is to make this an even better section, to attract private housing of high quality for our faculty and for those who want and need the stimulation of a cultural center close to their homes and businesses. "The true university should be a heart, not a cancer." Wayne's president said. "We think we fill that role." senior college area and the final third on the graduate level.

"We are just about there now and now it looks a though we'll have a larger proportion of graduate tu-rient and a smaller proportion of junior college level undergraduates," Hilberry said. He said, that he could not forsee a time when Wayne would drop junior college level programs. "We need freshmen and sophomores for the intellectual reinforcement they give us through their questions and bright seeking. "Nothing stimulates advanced instruction much as having open, eager minds at the beginning levels asking 'why and demanding a good answer," Hilberry said. HE NOTED that Wayne "planned capacity" is 35,000 students, a figure that should be reached by 1970 or 1975.

"To say that we won't go beyond that is to be unrea Clarence B. Hilberry looks to future to teach what has already happened and how what is happening now will affect what has happened and what might happen. "We mut try to make people ready and able to live in a world nuch a thi at the same time trying; to maintain our traditional concern with the underlying value form the real basis of our civilization, Hilberry said. "This, of course, places an increasingly heavy burden on the liberal arts." It was easy to see that it placed a heavy burden on Hilberry, too. who stood for a moment, thoughtfully looking out his second-floor window at the traffic along Cass rushing past his sprawling school.

"I think we've moved wisely and well in expanding our programs here," he said. "ASK ME A BO IT the future and I can only say that we must expect an inevitable extension of past change. Ask me to be more specific and I have to start guessing." He started guessing. "A half-dozen years ago, when we first started seriously considering the move of Wayne from Detroit Board of Education control to State university status, those studying Wayne's future figured we should wind up, in the mid-1960s, with a fairly well balanced enrollment. "We expected about a third of our student body would be in the junior college, or freshman-sophomore, area, another third in the their nuts-and-bolts technological training.

SINCE 1932, the man in charge at Wayne has been Clarence B. (for Beverly) Hilberry. The tall, lean, 57-year-old, soft-voiced scholar, a product of Oberlin (O.) College and the University of Chicago, imagination and determination of some outstanding scholars, it is hard at work building a reputation, in the liberal arts through its year-old Monteith College. This is a school for specialists who. at Monteith, are getting a general, liberal education to complement ALTHOUGH HAMPERED by chronic lack of funds and snowballing enrollments, it is gaining stature in such other fields as engineering, law, nursing, business administration and pharmacy.

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Rite; ci'd on tequfst. 5S0 W. lafoyetta tlvd. Datrait true of urban universities and of Wayne. 1 "The nation and our own state continue to demand and need more and more professional people, better trained and in greater numbers, both because of our expanding population and because our areas of specialization are becoming more complex," Hilberry said.

"We are aware of this, certainly, in medicine, where the old-time, all-around doctor has been replaced by the highly skilled, highly trained specialist. "We are, perhaps, less aware of this trend in the other professions. It is happening in law, nursing, teaching, scores of fields." HILBERRY SAID HE feels such specialized training is both necessary and good. "But we have to realize that it is also expensive." he said. "And it is, today, vastly more expensive than the graduate training of only a decade ago.

"Unfortunately; people find it hard to understand wiry it should be so much more expensive." He said it is easier to explain why the cost of training a physicist should be so much higher now than 20 years ago, but vastly more difficult to get across the skyrocketing costs of graduate instruction in fields such as mathematics. "This appears to be a 'simple' and nonmechranical field," Hilberry said. "But mathematics training now means, especially for the urban university, complicated and expensive computers and elaborate computation centers." WAYN E. OF COURSE, has such a computation center which not only trains mathematicians but also serves Detroit, Michigan and other states and countries through contract problem-solving for governmental agencies and private industries. "Just think of the Echo satellite," Hilberry said.

"A do7.en years ago, a giant plastic hag zooming through space was a fit subject only for science; fiction stories or a handful of space-conscious eggheads tucked away in government laboratories or university astronomy departments. "But in midsummer, there it was. Millions of people craned their necks to watch it. Newspapers printed 'echedules' of its passages on their front pages. "And now," Hilberry said, "it has become commonplace and a suddenly blase citizenry wants to know what next to expect." THE BURDEN of "what next" falls on the university as well as the responsibility 1 ffllilWu The FIRST successful pre-formed automotive carpet cuts installation time and costs ill liufcli il.li-li.'ili.lll i nllilMll a.

first came to Wayne when it was the College of the City of Detroit, in 1930 as an English instructor. He worked his way through the academic ranks, becoming a full professor and chairman of the English Department in 1939. In 1945, when the first flood of World War II veterans poured into the nation's colleges and universities under the GI Bxll, Hil-beiry's talents for running things as well as teaching was recognized and he became dean of administration. DAVID D. HENRY, who became president of Wayne in 1945.

left the school in 1952 to become vice chancellor of mammoth New York University (and later president of the University of Illinois). Hilberry was everyone's choice to take over from Henry. He was named acting president and, in 1953, became president of the university, which was still under the Detroit Board of Education. Under David D. Henry.

Wayne tripled its size In seven years. Under Hilberry, it has quadrupled its size in eight years. "More importantly," Hilberry said during an interview in his small, neat, plant-filled office in an old mansion on Cass, "it has become four times more complex." HIGHER EDI CATION in general, 4 and Wayne State University in particular, are Hilberry's favorite subjects. It took little urging to have him explain what he meant by increasing complexity. "We are doing things today that nobody recognized as existing in the intellectual spectrum only 10 years ago," he said.

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