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Figures Cited

For example, according to the
1971 Fact Book on Higher
Education, just published by the
American Council on Higher
Education, the rate of growth of
graduate education in Virginia
between 1964 and 1969-5 years -
was 190 per cent, I repeat, 190 per
cent.

Nationally this growth was 59
per cent and in the southeastern
states this growth was 80 per cent.

Not only are these programs
costly; some substantial people

question whether many of them are
worthwhile. All of us know that
there are some fields a number of
Ph.D.'s that constitute a glut on the
job market today.