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Salient: Victoria University Students' Paper. Vol. 25. No. 12. 1962

[introduction]

Within the past few decades American colleges and universities have come to recognize that they have a greater responsibility than that of educating the more than four million students in their classrooms. They are now increasingly offering their cultural facilities to the local communities and are intensifying adult education.

The most complete description of the contributions of the American colleges and universities to the cultural life of the community is probably provided by the program of the University of California at its Los Angeles campus. (The University Of California, America's largest, also has campuses at Berkeley and several smaller (owns, totalling more than 47,000 students). The Los Angeles campus every year presents a large and varied selection of cultural events. Ii also has the biggest adult education program in the United States in 1961 more than 150,000 extension students were enrolled. About 80 par cent of them previously attended college.