What happens when the vast generation of war babies (now 15-19 years old) really hits the public campuses? Nobody has spent more hours seeking precise answers than Clark Kerr, president of the mammoth, seven-campus* University of California (47,895 students), the largest college complex in the U.S. Few states are growing faster than California: whether by birth or by migration, the population increases by one a minute. Each year California’s growth matches the size of San Diego. Each day it needs one new school. Already it has the nation’s biggest public school system (3,300,000). Already it has the nation’s highest number of Collegians (234,000 fulltime), and 80% of them are on public campuses. Freeze & Pry. Californians are proud of their university network, and well they might be. It is huge, young, brilliant, aggressive, progressive. It colonizes everything from the atom to outer space.

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by the staff, Time Magazine.

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