SAFETY
Tuesday, Jan. 19, 1965
University Daily Kansan
Page 3
Chancellor Urges Women to Pursue Knowledge
KU Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe said last night that not enough women are pursuing higher education.
REGARDING THE high school achievements of women, he pointed out that some studies reveal twice as many women as men rank in the upper ten per cent of their class.
In the text of a speech prepared for delivery at the annual meeting of the Campfire Girls Sunflower Council at the YWCA in Kansas City. Chancellor Wescoe charged that the American society still contains remnants of the idea that the woman's place is in the home, and that a college education is a luxury for the American woman.
In Kansas, the chancellor said, as in the rest of the nation, nearly twice as many men enroll in college as do women. Of the one million 1963 women high school graduates in the United States, about 440,000 began college work.
"Last year more than 4.5 million students were enrolled in the nation's colleges. Only 1.7 million of them were women," Chancellor Wescoe said, "despite the fact that more girls than boys are graduated from high school."
This compares with slightly more than 600,000 1963 men high school graduates who enrolled in college. The total number of men graduated from high school in 1963 was 960,000. Chancellor Wescoe said.
"The traditional reasons why a college education is good for men and not so good for women—that men are the breadwinners, that they are preparing for careers, that women will get married and spend their lives raising children and keeping house—no longer are valid," he said.
"DEPARTMENT OR LABOR projections indicate that today's young woman will work outside her home for 25 years." Chancellor Wescoe said, "most of that time after her child-rearing days."
"Perhaps the most persuasive reason for the higher education of women is the impact of the educated woman on her children," he said.
"Sociologists and psychologists inform us that children get their values chiefly from their mothers. Better-educated mothers find it easier to instill in their children knowledge of the duties and obligations to self and to country that they face in a changing and challenged America." Chancellor Wescoe said.
"SO FAR we haven't developed any statistics on this matter at the University of Kansas, but I can tell you this: it is virtually impossible to schedule Danforth Chapel toward the end of any semester," Chancellor Wescoe observed.
He said in addition to marriage, women must find an intellectual life, and he said statistics show an increasing number of women are finding intellectual fulfillment in college
Between 1950 and 1963 the enrollment of women in college increased more than 100 per cent, Chancellor Wescoe said, while in the same period the increase in men's enrollment jumped only 50 per cent. At KU the ratio between men and women students 15 years ago was three to one in favor of the men. Today, he said, the ratio in favor of the men has dropped to 1.8 to 1.
Among the reasons for increased enrollment by women which Chancellor Wescoe outlined are the search for an intellectual life; the desire to find new friends and a new way of life; higher incomes resulting from college training; to fit themselves into a particular role or vocation; and to find a husband.
TRADITIONALLY, Chancellor Wescoe said, women have gone into
five principal occupations—teaching nursing, secretarial and stenographic, as biological technicians, and into social and welfare work.
He predicted that in the next 10 years the needs of the labor force will be greatly increased in these areas.
He urged the Campfire Girls to consider the public universities in the nation for their collegiate training.
"State universities represent less than five per cent of the nation's colleges and universities and enroll only 27 per cent of its college and university students, but they enroll 36 per cent of all graduate students and award more than half of all Ph.D. degrees and just under half
of all master's degrees," Chancellor Wescoe said.
"IF COLLEGE represents the road to a better future for a growing majority of young men and women," he said. "the state university represents the road to the future for states and nations."
"My hope for you," he said in conclusion to the Sunflower Council, "is that you pursue knowledge with the same fervor as the hardest working graduate student and the most learned professor at the University of Kansas, that you pursue knowledge wherever it may lead.
"In most cases you will find that it leads through the doors of higher education, but for all of us, whether in formal ways or through individual initiative, the pursuit of knowledge should never cease."
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