ABSTRACT
The widening and deepening of educational opportunity has been pursued steadfastly, and it has been held by many Americans that the end of the road to opportunity will be reached only when every person can be educated up to his full capacity as a unique human being. However, the nation is engaged in a great debate about the future of higher education, especially about the wisdom of expanding it still further to serve new classes of students. Though higher education may be clothed with a pervasive moral imperative, it does not have unlimited claims on resources. In extending higher education, therefore, the higher educational community is heavily obliged to be efficient in the use of resources. Higher education happens to be a service industry of great value that makes minimal claims on scarce natural resources and generates little environmental pollution.
