San Jose: Portrait of a Second-Rate College

Over nineteen thousand students registered at San Jose State College this fall, two thousand more than a year ago. This rate of increase is common among California colleges, where the shock of the population explosion has been felt year after year. In 1975, when an estimated 660,000 students will be enrolled in California’s public institutions of higher learning, the state still plans to offer each student not only a place to sit and a book to read, but the best public education in th...