University of Notre Dame - Dome Yearbook (Notre Dame, IN)

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Secretary, Alumni Association: Mr. James E. Armstrong Fr. Hesburgh: Well this is a matter that has mixed in with a great deal of myth and a great deal of reality. I would imagine if you would put 15 or 20 first-rate educators in a room and ask them to make a list of the top 20 universities in the country, they would probably agree on more than 15 of them. What criteria do you use? I think the most solid criteria, of course, are your own graduates. If your graduates are compet- ing nationally with the graduates of every other uni- versity in the land and coming out creditably - - or indeed in the top ten and the top five as we have in some of these, actually at the top of some of these programs then I think you have some indication that your university is doing good work, at least at the undergraduate level. On the graduate level this is quite another thing because one here must judge the number of research grants that are given to the uni- versity. Another indication at the other end of the spectrum would be how many students who have full scholarships and can go to any university of the land pick Notre Dame. I think we would probably be among the top twelve in admitting merit scholarship winners. Stall. Considering all the sides and dimensions of the University what would you say, just personally, would be the biggest problems that Notre Dame is to face in the next two, three, or ten years. I know this re- quires a lot of thought, but I wonder what they might be. Fr. Hesburgh: Well I think the number one problem, of course, is to attract, to hold, and to reward suitably the finest faculty we can assemble. Stalt. Do you look for the Notre Dame Foundation to be of increasing help along the way? Fr. Hesburgh: Well, it must be, Neil; there ' s no ques- tion about the fact that we will probably in the next ten years for example, need at least twice the amount of money that we are bringing in through the Founda- tion today. If we didn ' t increase in anything, our ex- penditures in the next ten years would be 180 million dollars just for operations, apart from new additions to buildings and other things. Bab. Well, Father, on behalf of this group and the student body I ' d like to thank you very much for tak- ing this time to be with us, and I ' m certain that the student body through the Dome will come a great deal closer to both yourself and the problems, ideals and aspirations of Notre Dame. 23

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