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Founded in 1948 by the Southern governors, the S.R.E.B. has been a major boon to higher education in Dixie. But the man most responsible for its success is its softspoken, diplomatic Director John Eli Ivey Jr. When the governors found him, Sociologist Ivey was only 28-the youngest full professor at the University of North Carolina. His mission with the S.R.E.B.: to fill the gaps in Southern higher education by getting states and campuses to share each other's facilities...
...courses in international relations and political science; it selected the forestry school of Duke University as the "regional facility" for the Ph.D. in forestry, persuaded Louisiana to set up a much needed animal health research center instead of a superfluous school of veterinary medicine. Indeed, says Executive Director John Ivey, "in this region one can see the day when a college will not try to cover the whole field of liberal arts." Instead of attending just one institution for four years, a student might go to several, depending on which are strongest in his specialty...
Peaks of Excellence. Under its young (33) director, Sociologist John E. Ivey Jr., the program has invaded every aspect of higher education. Today, 14 states belong to it, and each year hundreds of students who cannot get the training they need in their own states apply to it for help. If the board accepts a student, it can assign him to a school in another state. The student's home legislature foots the bill: $1,500 a year for medical and dental students, $1,000 for veterinarians, $750 for nurses and social workers...
College and university presidents are beginning to learn that they no longer have to spread their budgets thin over dozens of different departments. With the board's help, they can now specialize ("We are building complementary peaks of excellence," says Ivey). Instead of diluting specialities by trying to duplicate those of other campuses, each school can go right on improving what it has: the board is willing to send a student to more than one place to earn a degree...
This year, the board is laying plans to reach out into such fields as city planning, hospital management, marine science, forestry, foreign affairs. It is considering a faculty exchange program and a combined library service. If all goes according to plan, says Ivey, the South's colleges and universities will eventually become a sort of education NATO: "There is nothing more isolationist than our colleges, and there is no greater barrier to sound development than the generally accepted notion of institutional sovereignty...