Printed for the use of the Committee on Science and Astronautics 80-157 U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE WASHINGTON: 1967 COMMITTEE ON SCIENCE AND ASTRONAUTICS GEORGE P. MILLER, California, Chairman OLIN E. TEAGUE, Texas J. EDWARD ROUSH, Indiana GEORGE E. BROWN, JR., California WILLIAM J. GREEN, Pennsylvania JACK BRINKLEY, Georgia BOB ECKHARDT, Texas ROBERT O. TIERNAN, Rhode Island JAMES G. FULTON, Pennsylvania CHARLES F. DUCANDER, Executive Director and Chief Counsel FRANK R. HAMMILL, Jr., Counsel JOSEPH M. FELTON, Counsel ELIZABETH S. KERNAN, Scientific Research Assistant DENIS C. QUIGLEY, Publications Clerk SUBCOMMITTEE ON SCIENCE, RESEARCH, AND DEVELOPMENT J. EDWARD ROUSH, Indiana JOE D. WAGGONNER, JR., Louisiana II ALPHONZO BELL, California LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, COMMITTEE ON SCIENCE AND ASTRONAUTICS, Hon. GEORGE P. MILLER, Chairman, Committee on Science and Astronautics. DEAR MR. CHAIRMAN: I am forwarding herewith a study prepared by the National Science Foundation entitled "The Junior College and Education in the Sciences." This report was prepared at the request of your Subcommittee on Science, Research, and Development; it is pursuant to your instructions that the subcommittee endeavor to identify and describe, for the Congress, major areas of concern in the overall Government-science complex. While this was prepared mainly for congressional consumption, and is not aimed at the scientific or educational communities as such, we nonetheless believe that it will be received by them with interest. The report is the third and last in a series on background, status, and problems of American science education which we have requested the National Science Foundation to undertake over the past several years. I commend this report to the committee and the entire Congress. I believe it will be a valuable tool in the legislative understanding of educational needs and resources pertinent to the Nation's welfare in science and technology. LETTER OF SUBMITTAL NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION, Hon. EMILIO Q. DADDARIO, OFFICE OF THE DIRECTOR, Chairman, Subcommittee on Science, Research, and Development, House of Representatives, Washington, D.C. DEAR MR. DADDARIO: I am pleased to submit herewith the third in a series of three reports on science education in the United States as prepared by the National Science Foundation at the request of the Subcommittee on Science, Research, and Development, Committee on Science and Astronautics of the House of Representatives. The first report dealt with science education at the elementary and secondary school levels. The second report considered science education as carried on in the colleges and universities at the undergraduate and graduate levels. This report focuses attention on education in the sciences in the junior colleges of the United States. The distinctive and heterogeneous nature of the institutions which constitute the junior colleges of the United States have led to the format of this report which consists of a series of selective "snapshots," each of which considers a discrete aspect of junior colleges relevant to education in the sciences. The National Science Foundation is willing, of course, to provide such other reports and information as the committee or subcommittee may request. Sincerely yours, LELAND J. HAWORTH, Director. V |