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(1) Prooess and Plan; Including:' Enrollment, Degrees DOCUMENT' RESUME P*1 HE 006 589 ED 109 967 Seventeenth Biennial .Report-ParteII. TITLE'', Higher Education, Oklahoma INSTITUTION Oklahoma ptateRegents for ,City. .-- lo pfrsDATE 30 Min 74 NOTE 192p. EDRS 'PRICE 16-$0.16 116-$1.51 *US POSTAGE Accreditation,Inititutions); udgetsl Dscfrees DESCRIPTORS s; Fedefal Aid: ,. Critles);Enrollment; Expenditu Fees; Financia] Support;*Governi Boards; %rant-s; .., 1 1 - *Higher Education; Income;StitelAid, *State .Colleges; *State Universities;*Statistics; Work Study,Programs -411 IDENTIFIERS *Oklahoma -.) . - ABSTRACT . This document is designedto recordcertain ,- 6- Oklahoma higher education as viewedfrom highlights of prdgress of Oklahoma the perspective of thestate -levelcoordinating agency, the re'ords the p% stat4 Regents for HigherEducation. The document of pklahoma higher educate nund'provides 'historical accomplishments the governor, summary data for-useby the 1975 OklahomaLegislature of.tke state sy*tem, andother individUals 'colleges and universities higher education in interested in'thee progressand prospectS ckt the (2) historical and Oklahoma. Chapters are:(1) proOess and plan; including:' enrollment, degrees, . statistical information, college accreditation, student aid,Title VII-HEFA; Title VI-k-H4,_ . testing program, rege,ntsgresolutions, appropriition.acts,-budget informatiow-income andexpenditures, bondedindebtedness; capital improvements; new collegefunds, and student fees;(3) historical (Authbr/F.E) record of boards,institutions, and presidents. *******************4g************************************************* ERIC include manyinformal unpublished * Documents acquired by * available from other sources.ERIC makes every effort * materials not items of marginal * * to obtain the lest copyavailable. nevertheless, often encountered andthis 'affects the quality * * reproducibility are * and hardeopyreproductions ERIC, makesavailable * of the microfiche EDRS is, not * via the ERIC DocumentReproduction Service (EDRS) . original document.Reproductions * * responsible forthe quality of the * supplied by' EDRS aretie bett -that canbe made.from.the ****************************************************ic**********i****** ,rot :zr 4, t '^ , , ' , - '*(4* t A ' . .,. I. , Irg,' ' GNI . : , . .1 Z `a. ir 1.4" ' ZA S ,* ; i ' " , 4,` \ kattkat&Z,4Z., ,CON, , a. opiaETTER OF TRANSMITTAL S ,TO THE HONORABLE DAVID BOREN Governor. of the State of Oklahoma pear' Governor Boren: *, ".7`), The Oklahoma. State Regents for Higher 'Educationherewith . r 0 silbmit tie Seventeenth BiennialReportPart II in compliance 'With::, !R tje Oklahoma Higher Education Cade, Article II, Section204:'R' -? This Seventeenth Biennial ReportPart-II covers thepeOtt:trOnv,1. Jul); I, 1973-to June 30, 197,4 pertaining to The Oklahoma StateSystem., of Higher Education.. $ Respectfully subMitted, EXALL ENGLISH, Chairman ° , ATTEST: JOHN H. PATTEN, §ecretasiy E.. T. DLTNLAP, Chancellor .1 June 30,11974 Oklahoma City Oklahoma '4' N. ii I TABLE. OF CONTENTS Chapter 1: F;rOgress and Plans Oklahoma, State System of Higher Education 4 , 1 10 Institutional Reports ., . , . / 1 Chapter II: Historical and Statistical Information Enrollment , 7 74 Degrees ' 3 ' :Accreditation 84 86 Student Aid- - 91 . Title VII, HEPA f ,,, TitleVI-A, PIMA 96 Regents' PUblications 4 00 Oklahoma *liege Testing Program 101 Regents' Resolutions 101 Appropriation Acts -, 119 . Budget Infortaatio 120 Current Income axpenditures 7 133 Bonded Indebtedness 136 Capital Improvements 140 bction Thirteen ,and New Collegetzuncir 145 Student Feei' . 146 Chaptes Ill: Jlistoriccd Record of Boards, Institutions,and Presidents .Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education 149 Officers of the Board 149 4 Board Positions 150 Governing Boards of Coittrol--,-Staie InstitutiOns 152 Board of Regents of the University ofOklahoma -111 152 Board Positions tr- .152 Board of Regents for the Oklahoma A&M.Colleges 155 Board Positions 155 Board of Regentos of, Oklahoma Colleges 158 Board Positions 158 Board of Regents of tht Oklahoma College ofLiberal,Aits A60 Board Positions 160 Board of Regens of the Altus Junior College Boiird Positions 4 162 TABLE OF CONTENTS (Continued) pme. Boarcl, of Regents of Claremore JuniorCollege 164 Board Positiqns 164 Board of Repts of Eastern Oklahoma StateCollege Board Positions 165 Board of Regents of Murray State College 167 Board Positions 167 Board of Regents of Northern OklahomaCoilegd. 168 Board Position's 168 Board of Regents of,Tulsa Junior College 169 Board Positions 1d9 Board of ,Trustees og Carl Albert Junior College, 171 Board Positions 171: Board of Trustees of El RenoJunior College 173 Board Positions 173 Board of Trustees of Oscar Rose Junior College 174 Board Positions 174 Board of Trustees of Seminole Junior College 177 Board Positions 177 Board of Trustees of South Oklahoma Cityjuaior-Calege 1_479 Board Positions 179 Oklahoma Institutions of Higher Echication 1. 181 Recoid of Presidents of Institutions 4 183 f.N 4 /NO s. This publiAtion - was prepared and distributed onauthorization of the State Regents as a regular part of the work of the agency. There were600 copies printed by Soupwestern Stationery and Rirnk sSupply at a cost of$2,694 ($4.49 per copy). - CHAPTER I PROGRESS AND PLANS as. ti THE OKLAHOMA STATESYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION General Progress of the State System Chancellor E. T. Dunlap This statement is designed to record forthe Seventeenth Biennial Report--Part II certain highlights of progressof Oklahoma higher education as'viewed from the perspective of thestate-level coordinating agency, the Oklahoma StateRegents for Higher Education. The purpose of this section is top4ocument the historicalaccomplishments of Okla- homa higher 'education and provide summarydata for use by the 1975 Oklahoma Legislature, the Governor,colleges and universities of the State system, and other individualsinterested in the progress and prospects of higher education inOklahoma. ;, The Oklahoma State System of HigherEducation acc.epted the challenge in 1973-74 to begin to seek out newhigher education clientele during this levehng-off period oftraditional student enroll- ments and at the same nmelaid...the ground work to improve the efficiency land effectiveness of higher educationin Oklahoma. New clientele are being reached via anexpanded televised in- struction systdm, by. a more flexible extensionoperAtion, through a special consortium arrangement, and becauseof increased student aid and institutional cooperation. These efforts arereflected in a greater percentage enrollment increase in1973 than in the previous year, even though these efforts ,,have not yet been fullyimplemented. The efficiency and effectiveness of highereducation in Oklahoma are being improved throughinstitutional'progratn planning, televised instruction, cooperative program planningand because of program 8 budgeting., The Oklahoma State System of HigherEducation continued to grow in fiscal year 197344 eventhough the rate of growth in Okla- homa and throughout the country hasdecreased far more than an- ticipatec Student Enrollments. The number ,ofstudents enrolling in Okla- homa highs' education,bath public and private, in the Fall Semester' of 1973 'was 124,829 which was anincrease of 4,427 students (3.7%) more that the 120,402enrolled in the, Fall Semester, of theprevious year. -There NverV105,490of these enrolled in state -supported colleges and universities which is an increase of3.9Wover the 101,515 students enrolled its these institutions in the FallSemester of the previous year.. Thus, about 84.5% of all studentsenrolled in Oklahoma higher edu- cation in 1973-74 were in state-supportedinstitution? and about 15-5% of the students were if privateinstitutions of higher education. In .n11 Oklahoma higher education,both public and privates enrollments increased by 85.2% in the last decade, increasingfrom 67,420 in 1963 -to-124,829in 1973. In state-supportedinstituticmsrenrollments in- creased 96.6% in the past ten years, goingfrom 53,666 in 1963 to 105,490 in 1973. Approximately 69% ofOklahoma's high school gradu-' ates in the spring of 1973 started tocollege, in the fall of 1973. This college-going rate places OklahOma near the topof the 50 states. Of the 105,490 students enrolled in the StateSystem institutions in the fall of 1973, 92.0% were residents of Oklahomaand 8.0% were from other states and foreign countries. I Number of Institutions.In the 1973-74 Fiscal Year, Oklahoma had 40 colleges and universities in'operation, 26 of which 'were state supported institutions and 14 wereprivate institutions. Oklahoma ranks twelfth among the 50 'states in theratio of public institutions to population withotie institution per 98,000 citizens.Oklahoma ranks twenty-third amon e states in ratio oftotal institutions, public and private to star optilation with one institution for each 64,000 citizens.' tft Accreditation of Institutions. All 40 colleges and universities operating in the State ofOklahoma last year were accredited by the Oklahoma State Regents for' Higher:Education and 29 institutions of this group were accredited bythe regional accrediting agency, the North Central Association 61Colleges and Secondary Schools. Approxi- mately 91% of the students enrolledin Oklahoma higher education were at institutionsaccredited by the North CentralAssociation. Oklahoma ranks among the leading statesof the% nation in percent of its colltge students attending regionallyaccredited institutions. Students attending institutions so accredited areeligible for transfer 'to
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