a fourth won the national singles title in bowling. A football player was drafted by a professional team, a basketballer received national recognition and a high jumper won the NAIA championship. Harding bowlers won both the singles and doubles events in the national tournament and a bowler was selected to the United States team in the Federation International des Quilluers World Tourney in London. A Harding student placed second in competition among Arkansas athletes in the Cliff Shaw Scholar-Athlete Award. In the spring about 2,500 high school students attended the annual Youth Meeting on the campus and in the summer 400 young people were on campus for the challenging Citizenship . Youth Seminars conducted by the American Studies program. Christian education is probably more important today than at any other time in the history of our country. .Harding College faces a tremendous challenge to serve as effectively as possible each of the 2,601 students who enrolled for the fall semester. The capacity enrollment has presented the College with the greatest challenge and responsibility she has yet faced. For the current academic year, the instructional faculty consists of 110 full-time equivalent faculty members to give a student-faculty ratio of22:1. This year, 39.4 per cent hold the earned doctorate and 54.8 per cent hold the Master's or higher but not the doctorate. Ten lack only the completion and defense of the dissertation for the earned doctorate. In 1966-67 the College began offering Distinguished Teacher Awards to three teachers annually, presented at spring commencement with a stipend of $1,000 each. The three recipients for 1975 were Dr. David B. Burks, assistant professor of business; Dr. Dean B. Priest, professor of mathematics and Dr. Neale T. Pryor, professor of Bible. Withe the exception of the faculty of an institution, the library is probably the most significant facet of the academic program. Harding College is blessed with excellent library facilities and the library services are administered by four capable professional librarians who are highly dedicated to their work. They are assisted by a capable staff which relies heavily on student help. The library contains 133,917 volumes, including 7,231 microfilm volumes. The library also containes 245 cassette tapes and 2,337 records in mucis, speech and biology. The library receives 943 periodicals and 12 daily newspapers. During the past year, 6,629 volumes were added to the collection. The library has stack space to accommodate 170,000 volumes. .This year, an evaluation team from the North Central Association of accreditation visited the campus. An extensive self-study report involving all of the faculty had been submitted to the association. The five-man team made a thorough investigation of every facet of the College lind wrote a very favorable report. The following comment is representative: "Overall, Harding College has achieved an unuaual balance and standard of quality in almost every aspect of collegiate life, of which these students are the beneficiaries, and to which they are justifiably proud contributors." The evaluation team made the following recommendation : "The committee finds that Harding College is an institution with a clear sense of educational purpose, to which all of the constituent elements are committed and which they carry out very successfully. The College has consistently attracted and retained capable students and competent , dedicated faculty and staff. Morale is exceptionally high. The physical plant is functional, attractive, and well-maintained. The financial operation of the College is sound and prospects are good for continued support. "We recommend, therefore, that Harding College be continued on full accreditation at the Master's degree level, and that the institution be placed on decennial evaluation schedule." In the Financial Resources section of the North Central Report, the following quotation concerning finances presents fairly, I believe, the overall financial strength of the institution. ..As did previous NCA teams, we found Harding College to be a very well-managed institution. At a time when many colleges and instutitutions are in serious, if not dire, financial straits, Harding seems to be in sound condition, and with excellent prospects of remaining so." -Condensed from the "Harding Bulletin" November 1975. REPORT / 35
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