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Section III Page 4 What's A Doctorate Good For? M(o Of the 3,030 degrees award ed at the 172nd UNC Com mencement in June, a total of 116 of them were doctorat es. There were 108 Ph.D.'s, six doctorates in education and -two in public health. As statistics on degree re cipients are announced each year, one wonders where these highly trained scholars and researchers go once they complete their studies at the University. Though some accept posi tions with government agen cies and with private business es, the majority of UNC's doc toral recipients are going in- 1 11 . 1 ' L A 10 conege ana university lea ching. Since the first Ph.D. was conferred at UNC in 1883, sev eral thousand students have received doctoral degrees. At present, 34 departments and schools within the University award the doctorate. Several of these haye newly established-programs and have grant ed few degrees to date. GRADUATE POLL The Graduate School re cently completed a survey of the whereabouts of outstand ing doctoral graduates over the past five to 10 years. A Welcome Freshmen! Old World s!r GIFTS tJt JEWELRY CANDY fi no- 1 RAD OS 'PhoDoS sample from half of the 34 departments and schools awarding doctorates gives some clue as to where UNC's doctoral graduates are going when they leave Chapel Hill. A sampling of 8 depart ments and schools shows that of 541 doctoral recipients re ported in the survey, 41 per cent are teaching in higher educational institutions in the South. A total of 24 per cent are on faculties in North Carolina, and 35 per cent are scattered throughout the Unit ed States and Europe, chief ly in prestigious, highly rated institutions. TOP THREE The American Council on Education has just ranked the Graduate School one of the top three in the South. This honor UNC shares with Duke and the University of Texas. The University the first state university in the nation to admit students has long made a major contribution to faculties of institutions in North Carolina and the South eastern region. From 1955-64, Chapel Hill ranked 28th among the 242 graduate schools in the U. S. in the number of Ph.D.'s DANZIGER FOR 30 YEARS Gift Shop T KELLY Open 8 To 6 Weekdays 8 To 5 Saturdays Become Educator awarded. A total of 987 Ph.D.s were awarded during this per iod, with the largest number, 138, granted in 1964. "Though we are smaller in' total enrollment than the ma jority of institutions who have degrees," says Acting Grad uate School Dean Earle Wal lace "we stand high among all the universities in the per centage of doctoral degrees granted." With regard to regional placement of UNC doctorates, Wallace points to the facul ties of several Southern uni versities. A survey of cata logues over the past six years reveals 19 Chapel Hill doctorates at the University of Alabama, 21 at Florida, 27 at Georgia, 16 at Kentucky, 24 at South Carolina, 15 at Tennessee, 11 at Tulane, nine at Maryland, eight at Texas, seven full - ranking profess ors at Mississippi, and four on the Louisiana State fac ulty. Within the Southern univer sities listed above, UNC doc torates account for 22 depart mental chairmen, one arts and sciences dean, one graduate dean, one president and one vice - president. N. C. TEACHERS An estimated one - fourth of UNC's doctorates are tea ching in North Carolina. Many are employed by the state, while others have re search positions in Tar Heel industries. . In addition to regional and state placement of graduates, Wallace stresses their geo graphical distribution through out the U. S. and the aca demic and administrative po sitions many are holding in nationally ranked, "prestigi ous" universities. A number are holding key posts over-, seas also. Twelve U. S. graduate schools have been singled out as "tops" in the nation by the American Council onJEd u c ai t i o n . The Graduate School's survey of Chapel Hill doctorates shows that UNC has contributed to the faculties of all but one of these dozen "prestigious" in stitutions. These institutions and the known number of Chapel Hill doctorates on their faculties are as follows: California at Berkeley, three; two each at ope FRON I and U ii U U Ln J u u THE DAILY Harvard, Stanford, Columbia, Illinois, Princeton and M.I.T.; four at Michigan; five each at Yale and Wisconsin; and one at Cal Tech. , TOP POSTS The survey further reveals at least 15 Chapel Hill doc torates in top educational ad ministrative posts, around the nation. For example, George L. Simpson Jr. is president and George Parthemos, vice president, of th University of Georgia. Other presidents in clude Grover Murray of Tex as Tech, J. C. Elmendorf of New College in Sarasota, Fla., and C. G. Taylor of Louisiana State. At least 15 Chapel Hill doc torates are holding deanships TEACHERS-TO-BE In June of this year 3,030 UNC students were awarded degrees. Of these, only 116 were doctorates. Re cent surveys hae shown that the great majority of those who have earned the Ph.D. degree make a career in some phase of education. Shown above are a few of the University's most recent doctors on the day they received the degree. Photo by Jock Lauterer D O) An llllXJ F i USEB END BRAKE TAR HEEL across the nation and 50 are serving as department chair men. - In the South, UNC doctor ates figure prominently in universities . such "as Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, Vanderbilt, Emory, Texas, Florida, South Carolina, Ten nessee and Kentucky. UNC is also represented on faculties at Vassar, Smith, Cornell, the Air Force Aca demy, Northwestern, S y r a cuse, New York University, California at Los Angeles, San Francisco, Rutgers, Mas sachusetts, Ohio State, Ari zona, Washington, Iowa, In diana, Pennsylvania, Missou ri, Minnesota, Kansas, North Dakota and Oregon. 5 r3 0, I 13 i I nil i ! G FIELD BIKES ALIGNMENT SERVICE R ecruitrnen 'or Careers In: Farming WASHINGTON (AP) The time may be near when' the nation's agriculture and food industries will have to con duct vigorous recruiting cam paigns to persuade young peo ple to seek careers in them. Farm leaders and students of agriculture are expressing concern about the way young people, including rural youth, iat forming fnl PorOCfS in reject farming for careers in the cities Some see in this a threat to the nation's future ef ficiency in food production. The problem was discussed recently at a conference of dairy industry educators at the University of Nebraska. An educator from the Uni versity of Kentucky A. W. Rudnick, Jr.-declared there is a serious need for recruit ment of college youth for edu cation in this field. NOT POPULAR Rudnick said discussions with high school advisers show that students and their parents want, first of all, to be doctors, second, chemists, and third, en gineers. He said he finds agri culture is not popular. "I have decided," he told the conference, "that it is the image that has attracted young people. "The doctor eases pain and More Attend Tost Colony9 MANTEO All-time attend ance records since state audit ed counting was started in 1946 fell for the second conse cutive year asNPaul Green's "The Lost Colony" outdoor drama wound up its 26th pro duction season in the Water side Theater on the Ft. Ra leigh National Historic Site. General manager John W .Fox announced that 58,226 paid to see the 54 performances bet ween June 24 and August 28. "This compares," Fox said, "with 58,144 last year when 60 performances were tiven. With six less performances this year, our average paid at tendance per night rose from 969 to 1,078." Paul Green is a 1920 grad uate of. the University. .n JQ(p L3 0 1 TMES RALE I G REPAIR t Is Predicted makes a child feel better. The chemists and physicists are shooting the moon. .The en gineer is building as never be fore and some of his struc tures are amazing . . NOT MODEST "Furthermore the propon ents of these professions or iinoHnri: are not modest . tt,P world know . while. Pick up UlCJf " , j rrUnf any newspaper tuuajr. will be at least one, and gen erally several, stories about the wonders of medicine, engineer ing, chemistry and other pro fessions." . . But, Rudnick said, agricul ture as a pursuit is virtually ignored. "Agriculture is doing cum- parable miracles every day, but where is the publicity?' he asked. IMPROVE IMAGE The Kentucky dairy educa tor said there is need to im prove what he called the ilasGO Ltd., One. I ': : V S 3 tWBWariBlianrinnriiiihinnnfiftnnririiinfMiwnlii)iifiiiTifiT rir trT-rrTfiirTrnr'n-inimamf' Glasgo makes sweaters to wear on geology field trips. FOR STORE NEAR YOU. WRITE TO GLASGO LTD.. 1407 B'WAYj NEW YORK. September 13, 1966. "image of farming and ther farmer Historically," he said, riculture " has meant an ocok nation of peasants, bubcon-; A. . I 11 1 . .n;nnciv if stiii nnes evpn in- APOLOGETIC XiC IvlU O w . U A T III I lltl.r n l.Lr. illllllK LI II CnrnQ TftCiT HP WHS Wl 111 HO" - 1 1 1 -ll- tn icnppr mat uicic was iiut a - XL4 4- l-k s-vsl iiTrtf va4 t person present who at one." time Oi ailUtuci uau "ui iLfccH apOlOgCUV; lUi "6v-m.. ture. Dnin cain T.nar nprnans 1 1 r rrnfacci An . ... 1 1 1 A J J ... . 1 ican Medical Association or the American Chemical Society and should "get accreditation on lippncpc and all the rest aiiu .www. to gain recognition." He add ed, however, he would hate to see this. . "Personally whenever any- U i I J nnp inniiires auuui inv iieiu r 11 1 : T 1 1 i- (nnii hlTVl YT hoiTlrf in iijt tv aww O . dairy science. 1 136 E. Main Carrboro Phone 942-2563 CYCLES
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