'. FERENCE VERTICAL ElIJj Inside • • • .. ; Hannah's speech, page 2 MSU News -Bulletin · . . Studies of fear, page 2 · .. Secretary's secretary, page 4 · . ; "Radio Talking Book." page 5 · . : The Arts, page 6 Vol. 4; No. 24 , Michigan State University April 12, 1973 College quota system proving effective Enrollment quotas in the College of Education are doing the job they were designed to do - limiting enrollment to the number of students the faculty can adequately handle. The quotas were instituted just over a year ago in March, 1972, limiting elementary education majors to 1,100 and secondary education majors to 1,600 seniors and juniors. for The limits were misinterpreted by some as a response to the current tight job market teachers. However, College of Education spokesmen have been saying for some time that its graduates can fmd jobs if they're willing to go to where the jobs are. BY JANET MARSH Leland W. Dean, associate dean and director of the School and Teacher Education at MSU, has said several times that during the past two falls, elementary education jobs have gone unfilled. The situation is the same in secondary education, he says, except in social studies, English and foreign languages. "We never saw (the quotas) ~S:l way to keep a lot of people out of education," says Kenneth L. Harding, coordinator of undergraduate student affairs for the College of Education. In fact, when the quotas were set a year ago, the number of students then enrolled. they exceeded This past fall the effects of the quotas began to be seen. There were 1,052 seniors in elementary education and 851 juniors. In secondary education there were 1,274 seniors and 890 juniors. As, an example for comparison, there were 1,55 1 seniors in secondary education in the fall of I 971 . Harding explains that the College of Education enrollment was nearing the point where its faculty could not devote the attention to each student that they should. The quotas and course called "Exploring Teaching" are part of an effort freshmen and sophomores to seriously examine their motivations for choosing -a'teaching career, to encourage In addition, publicity about the so . called "over - supply" of teachers has also deterred students who were going into education because they weren't sure what they wanted to be, As a footnote, the publicity about the over supply of teachers was usually accompanied by the observation that for special there was a big need education teachers. As a result, the College of Education has been inundated with applicants for special education, according to Dean. Harding says that almost two 'out of every the pre - education program say they would like to be special education teachers. three freshmen in College of Education officials aren't particularly worried at this point because they believe that when these students become juniors and are ready to be admitted into a specific college many of them will have changed their minds. The quotas that were introduced in elementary limit enrollment education to 1,100 juniors and 1,100 seniors. Likewise secondary education quotas limit enrollment to i ,600 juniors and 1,600 ' seniors. However, secondary education quotas are broken down into specific categories, such as art, history, and mathematics. the the If the quota in anyone area is met, but there are still qualuied and highly motivated students who would like to be admitted, there is a special appeal procedure. Within the memory of some faculty members, the University laundry facilities CODSi