WEBVTT 00:00:00.540 --> 00:00:04.547 But the number of bachelors and first professional degrees has multiplied 00:00:04.580 --> 00:00:10.677 11 times And the number of doctors degrees about 22 times as you would 00:00:10.710 --> 00:00:15.797 expect. The most dramatic change has come in science and technology. 80 00:00:15.830 --> 00:00:19.877 years ago, scientists and engineers were so little in demand that they 00:00:19.910 --> 00:00:26.877 were only 3% of our professional man today. They are more than 20 80 years 00:00:26.910 --> 00:00:32.537 ago. A scientist, engineer or technician was only one worker in 1100 Today. 00:00:32.570 --> 00:00:38.677 Jim he is one in 60. I'd like to ask. Mr Edens what this means here in 00:00:38.710 --> 00:00:43.667 Arizona. Well, Haskell, Arizona is the fastest growing state in the nation 00:00:43.700 --> 00:00:49.366 in the past 10 years. Arizona is bursting with industrial expansion with a 00:00:49.399 --> 00:00:55.836 huge plant in Tucson. The electric center at Fort Huachuca. Sperry rand 00:00:55.869 --> 00:01:01.217 General Electric Motorola Air Research, Goodyear Reynolds, metals and 00:01:01.250 --> 00:01:06.667 sylvania. These industries need engineers. Well, is Arizona turning out 00:01:06.700 --> 00:01:11.186 enough engineers know we're not the total production of engineers in this 00:01:11.219 --> 00:01:14.447 state last year was not enough to fill the needs of just one phoenix 00:01:14.480 --> 00:01:20.367 industry tom what do you think? The answer is? Part of the answer was the 00:01:20.400 --> 00:01:24.397 establishment of a full college of Engineering at Arizona state last 00:01:24.430 --> 00:01:29.186 september and our new engineering school enrolled over 600 students. On 00:01:29.219 --> 00:01:33.796 the first day it was open, They're studying five different engineering 00:01:33.829 --> 00:01:39.326 fields and this is good tom. I noticed you said this was only a partial 00:01:39.359 --> 00:01:44.717 answer. Yes. Haskell because these new Arizona industries tell us they 00:01:44.750 --> 00:01:50.546 need graduate engineering at Arizona as well. A master's degree in 00:01:50.579 --> 00:01:55.667 engineering and a doctor's degree. This is important because engineers 00:01:55.700 --> 00:02:00.016 recruited by these companies come into Arizona nearly always want to 00:02:00.049 --> 00:02:04.986 graduate. I want to do graduate work to advance themselves well now, tom 00:02:05.019 --> 00:02:08.756 how good is the engineering? The undergraduate engineering that's now 00:02:08.789 --> 00:02:13.577 offered by Arizona State in Tempe. Well, jim, it was established on the 00:02:13.610 --> 00:02:17.976 basis of the latest evaluation of engineering education by the American 00:02:18.009 --> 00:02:23.476 Society of Engineers and we are confident that it will be accredited fully 00:02:23.509 --> 00:02:27.967 as soon as we have graduated the first class. Not only that, but the 00:02:28.000 --> 00:02:32.487 personnel brought into the state by our industries include engineers and 00:02:32.520 --> 00:02:36.717 men with doctors degrees who might serve as a nucleus for a graduate 00:02:36.750 --> 00:02:41.066 engineering faculty, second to none in the United States. How does this 00:02:41.099 --> 00:02:45.087 tie in with the university status at Tempe? And our hopes we call a 00:02:45.120 --> 00:02:50.497 university, will Haskell. Arizona state in Tempe is a university already. 00:02:50.530 --> 00:02:55.756 It has four colleges professional degrees, a doctor's degree, increasing 00:02:55.789 --> 00:03:00.617 research activity. And it is listed by the American Council on Education 00:03:00.650 --> 00:03:05.626 In the United States Office of Education As a university, it should be 00:03:05.659 --> 00:03:09.946 called a university because that's what it is and students doing work 00:03:09.979 --> 00:03:15.906 deserve a university degree. If it is called Arizona State University, it 00:03:15.939 --> 00:03:20.147 will make it easier to recruit new engineering faculty and other faculty 00:03:20.180 --> 00:03:24.707 and will add prestige to the state and make Arizona State's job easier and 00:03:24.740 --> 00:03:29.406 more effective as we do our part to meet the need for educated talent. We 00:03:29.439 --> 00:03:34.677 have been talking about, well tom, we hear a lot of talk by people who 00:03:34.710 --> 00:03:40.017 take a great interest in this problem of developing Arizona's higher 00:03:40.050 --> 00:03:45.457 education. A lot of talk about, well this will hurt some other institution. 00:03:45.490 --> 00:03:50.467 Do you think that this development here at Tempe is going to harm any 00:03:50.500 --> 00:03:55.017 other state institution? Definitely not? Jim I can't understand why there 00:03:55.050 --> 00:03:58.647 has been any objections, particularly from the University of Arizona 00:03:58.680 --> 00:04:03.487 Tucson, unlike some of the other friends of the University of Tucson, we 00:04:03.520 --> 00:04:07.897 believe it can stand and grow and develop on its own merits. We believe it 00:04:07.930 --> 00:04:15.047 does not need to thwart another institution in order to thrive. Whenever 00:04:15.080 --> 00:04:19.556 the program of Arizona State at Tempe is expanded. It doesn't take away 00:04:19.589 --> 00:04:24.736 anything from the University of Tucson or Arizona state at Flagstaff. 00:04:24.769 --> 00:04:29.906 Success is not divisible, you can't have success one place in Arizona 00:04:29.939 --> 00:04:34.246 without the whole state benefiting. And you can't have weakness one place 00:04:34.279 --> 00:04:40.587 without hurting the whole state. Tom as uh alumni president pointed out 00:04:40.620 --> 00:04:45.967 while ago, you are a graduate of both Arizona state at Tempe and the 00:04:46.000 --> 00:04:52.036 University at Tucson. Do you feel that uh this uh gives you a pretty 00:04:52.069 --> 00:04:58.556 objective feeling about them? Yes, Jim, I am very proud that I am a native 00:04:58.589 --> 00:05:03.467 of Arizona too and I have a degree from Arizona state in Tempe and very 00:05:03.500 --> 00:05:07.596 proud that I have Arizona Tucson and I wouldn't want to do anything to 00:05:07.629 --> 00:05:11.147 hurt either one of these schools. I want to see both of these schools 00:05:11.180 --> 00:05:17.036 increase. I want to see them have a better curriculum, higher standings 00:05:17.069 --> 00:05:20.947 And I also would like to include, I would like to see Arizona stated 00:05:20.980 --> 00:05:27.606 Flagstaff be a better college and a better school of higher education. 00:05:27.639 --> 00:05:34.676 Our point is, Arizona needs all three institutions, one at Tucson, one at 00:05:34.709 --> 00:05:40.467 10 P and one at flags down. And in a few years Arizona may need even more 00:05:40.500 --> 00:05:46.346 Enrollments are going to triple in Arizona by 1970 On our campus at 10 p 00:05:46.379 --> 00:05:53.507 alone. Our registrar conservatively expects over 15,000 students by 1960. 00:05:53.540 --> 00:05:57.937 We believe Arizona state in Tempe called a university can meet that 00:05:57.970 --> 00:06:02.507 responsibility better and we believe in the steady and progressive 00:06:02.540 --> 00:06:07.137 development of a unified program of university education that will meet 00:06:07.170 --> 00:06:11.116 the needs of the people of Arizona economically efficiently and 00:06:11.149 --> 00:06:16.137 effectively through a multiple campus university system. Thank you very 00:06:16.170 --> 00:06:20.387 much tom Edens Jr of phoenix for this review of your very fine address 00:06:20.420 --> 00:06:24.817 titled Arizona's part in brain power for survival. And to remind our 00:06:24.850 --> 00:06:27.656 listeners that they can have a copy simply by dropping a postcard to the 00:06:27.689 --> 00:06:31.507 alumni opposite Arizona state. And thank you also Haskell Henshaw, our 00:06:31.540 --> 00:06:39.540 alumni president for being with us tonight. 00:06:43.240 --> 00:06:51.240 The 00:06:52.170 --> 00:06:55.916 Arizona statesman is transcribed Arizona state Radio production directed 00:06:55.949 --> 00:07:00.337 by Jim roper, our engineer today, Lynn Dryer and until next week. This is 00:07:00.370 --> 00:07:08.370 Jim Cressman saying goodbye for the Arizona statesman on the air. The 00:07:17.319 --> 00:07:20.860 this is the Arizona Network.