VOL. LI!	LOS	ANGELES,	CALIFORNIA,	THURSDAY,	MAY	18,	1961	NO.	126
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Topping Announces Campus Master Plan
Stresses Greater Quality
A 20-year Master Plan totaling more than SI.Hi million was announced by the univer-.itN last night at a formal dinner at the Bcverlj Hilton.
PANORAMIC PROJECT — USC's Master Plan will challenge the anticipated growth of the future with a campus which will look like this aerial view of the project. The results of two-and-a-half-year study call for a greater emphasis
on graduate study, more studenl housing, more fellowships and scholarships, expansion of library, expansion of campus from 78 to 138 acres and the erection of high - rise buildings on campus to meet future needs.-
President Topping Outlines Future Goals of University
(Editor’s Xote; The following article is taken from a speech on “The University and the Future” delivered by President Norman Topping at a dinner at the Beverly Hilton last night, where details of the university’s Master Plan were announced.) + * +
The nation’s concern for education in the years just ahead is based partly upon the burgeoning enrollments and the shortage of professors which we face at this very moment.
But the nation’s concern is also an expression of deep human needs. The human needs for understanding, for justice, for freedom and for survival have been made critical by the status symbol of an atomic age: the power to destroy the life upon the only planet known to support human lire.
We, as a nation, justifiably hope to be assured that our great institutions of higher learning will provide the leaders we need, now and throughout the future, who will reassert the supremacy Of the traditional symbols of civilized human status: government with wisdom, the perpetual maintenance of free institutions, research for a better life and life in peace with all our fellow men.
Where then, but from the nation's colleges and universities, will come the fully-educated men who are free from ignorance, in-
tolerance and secularism — the men who are the leaders we seek? And how, but by concentrating on quality in scholarship, can any university assure leaders of quality to the community, to the nation and to all mankind?
The University of Southern California’s answer to these questions is the only proper answer.
All our faculty, all our trustee», all our administration have
agreed that our mission must Ik*. | exclusively, to pursue excellence j in education — to pursue excel-I lence only with those scholars ; w ho show definite promise of attaining it—to pursue excellence, j w ith vigor and without compro-| mise. as long as we can lead bright young minds along the 1 path to truth.
We have devoted the past two-j and one-half years to intensive planning and to a thorough study of what our task requires.
KENNEDY WIRES PRAISE OF USC's MASTER PLAN
The White House, Washington, D.C.
Dr. Norman Topping, president, USC:
I have been pleased to learn from Senator Thomas Kuchel of the University of Southern California Master Plan which was launched in Los Angeles yesterday.
The consequence of higher education to our nation cannot be overstressed, and we must continue to strengthen our universities by every appropriate means.
You are to be congratulated for having so intensively planned your future and for undertaking this important venture.
I am confident that the citizens of the United States as well as the people of California and Los Angeles will give you their untiring support to provide the means whereby your goals for a new era of enterprise and excellence in education may be attained.
With every best wish,
John F. Kennedy President of the United States
We have sifted and studied and analyzed every factor which could lead to the fulfillment jf 1 our educational mission.
Our Planning Commission faculty, department heads, directors. deans, trustees, alumni and community leaders — has examined. then rejected or accept , ed, each result of this penetrat ing study — one -by-one, day by -i day — in a concentrated effort to bring forth the best possible j plan.
Together we have reviewed the substance of all great uni versities. Together we ha\e stud ied the multitude of reports and have formulated precisely the plan we need. With this plan to guide us, our every step will be a stride — our every stride will be sure — and our ascent toward academic excellence will end in triumph.
This guide is our Master Plan for a new era of enterprise and excellence in education. We know that we must grow academically and physically in the coming years: the Master Plan tells what shape this growth must take.
Our academic goals are the foundation of all others. These goals are predicated on the substance of all great universities through history and in our time: the wise and dedicated teacher, the able and eager student, im-(Continued on Page 2)
The Plan, the result of two-an.l-a-half years of preparation. emphasizes comp lenient a.-y goals for improving the academic and physical capacities of the university
Announcing the plan. President Norman Topping said that tile education goal would stress development of able and ea'ger students, wise and dedicated , professors and imaginative and stimulating study. lie added that the second goal is to develop the facilities to make this possible.
Dr. Topping emphasized that the Master Plan places quality over quantity.
i “We anticipate an increase of only 25 ¡»er cent more students b> 1970—an increase from 10.000 to 20.000 whereas the national increase in enrollment will oe 100 per cent," he said. Stress will be placed upon more fulltime students and more graduate students.
At the same time, USC p'ans to increase its faculty up ;o jO per cent to maintain and improve the already high ratio oi faculty to students.
The Master Plan emphasizes educational enrichment througn the endowment of professorial chairs in specialized fields of teaching, higher salaries for present faculty and the attraction of other renown scholars to the teaching anti research staii.
To finance the educational Master Plan, the university announced an objective of $3>J.200,-
000	to lie achieved in til.* next four years. This is the first phase j of a long-range program v\ith an objective of $106,67.1,000 to t>c I raised as soon as possible there-! after, reported H. Leslie Hoff-i man. national chairman jf the i Master Plan program.
Although the fund-raising program will not start until next fall, USC trustees have already made personal gifts of more t.han million toward the goal. Hoft-| man said. Other cash and pledg-j es on hand bring the total to fS I million.
Of the Master Plan's total ' tjoal. 529 million, or 27.2 per | cent, will be for faculty additions and salaries, expanded research, fellowships and scholarships-The amount for new academic (Uontinued on Page 3)