Expected Increase in Full Time Undergraduate Enrollment…, 50UMBC-054.

During the 1940s into the 1950s, dramatic increases in the number of Marylanders seeking a university education motivated State officials to begin planning for expansion of the University of Maryland. Beginning in 1955, a series of state commissions studied the need for expanding publicly supported higher education. Each recognized that the number of Maryland students attending college was greatly increasing. Albin O. Kuhn papers, Collection 44, bar graphs, 11 x 8.5.