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. n 'ra6sr%oeFrgakdrsN-dav.Ar-rqr- "Nor do we have a head count by citizenship of the 600 members of our faculty. By adopting the Mathews criterion of using the tmiversiiy where a person took "Our alumni secretary informs me that 92 percent of our 5,000 alumni are living and working in Canada. Our registrar tells me that more than 90 percent of our 10000 students are Canadians. We do not have a head count of citizenship of 1,500 staff mem- bers but I would be very much Surprised if fewer than 90 per- cent were Canadians. "The University of Waterloo'is a Canadian institution. Our pri- mary aim is to provide relevant programs in higher education for Canadians and to conduct re- search of which a good portion will be aimed specifically at Canadian problems. "I shall not attempt this here but I do state categorically that there is not one shred of evidence to suggest that the University of Waterloo has been operating to the detriment of Canada, Canad- ians, or our students. "The Mathews document, how- ever, does nothing to help solve the very real problem of main- taining a healthy Canadian bal- ance at our universities. It con- tains so many inaccuracies, mis. leading statements, innuendoes and rumors than a complete re- buttal is possible only on a line by line basis. "I sympathize with the funda- mental concern from which the Mathews' study o s t e n s i b I y springs. As a Canadian academic, I hold it to be self-evident that in normal circumstances a Canadian university ought to be staffed and managed mainly by Canadian citizens. "After reading the walled special study, I feel my first duty is to apologize to our faculty members and graduate students who have come here from other lands. particularly the United States. That this type of academic racism could take place in Canada is a shock and embarrassment not only to myself but also, I am sure, to all other Canadians at Waterloo. Fetch returned to campus last week for the first time since the Mathews' study was made public and made the following state- ment: The acting president was on holidays in Western Canada when Robin Mathews of Carlton Uni. versity issued I report on the local university, in which he level- led charges of over-"Americaniza- tion" against the administration. Dr. Howard E. Fetch. acting president ot the University of Waterloo, called the Mathews report "academic rod-m" in a statement issued this week. Petcll is embarrassed by ‘academic racism' Boat and Trailer Storage SUN VALLEY BEACH I mites from Waterloo on Ert, Wed Telephone 634-8651 " Columbia, Waterloo 743-6726 (Wood Staining and New and Old He Is Tears muurieoee i. Free Estimates - Reds ALL KINDS OF INTERIOR EXTERIOR PAINTING al.'S PAINTING SERVICE "In fact, the total output'of potentially available "university teachers by all the universities in Canada was not sufficient to meet the needs of Ontario alone. "To make the picture even bleaker. the distribution of Ph.Ds "Perhaps two-thirds, or only 2,361 were available to meet the need for university teachers in all of Canada which we had cal- culated to be 7,447. In other words. there was about_one Ph.D. graduate from a Canadian univer- sity for every three university positions potentially available. "Again according to D.B.S. statistics, the Canadian univer- sities awarded PhD. degrees to a 3,541 candidates in all fields between 1963 and 1968. Of these, some would be hired by industry and business; some by govem- ment; some would go on for post- doctoral studies; some would emigrate to the U.S.A., and some non-Canadians would return to their country of origin. “FOr a university which plans to offer both undergraduate and graduate education, it is general. ly conceded that in most fields the minimum qualification for a university teacher is a Ph.D. de- gree or equivalent. Thus the potential university teacher must spend. after completing high school. approximately eight years at university of which four will have been spent, in graduate studies. "This has created an enormous need for buildings and university teachers. If one uses the common ratio of 15 students to one pro- fessor, the above increase in en- rolled students developed a re- quirement for 1,447 additional pro- fessors in Canada and for 3,227 in Ontario alone. Inside or Out "According to the Dominion Bureau Statistics, the enrollment of full-time university students increased from 158,388 in 196364 to 270.093.5n 1968/69, a total in- crease of 111,705 in a five-year period. The corresponding in- crease in Ontario alone was 48,398. "Earlier, I stated that in nor- mal circumstances a Canadian university ought to be staffed and managed mainly by Canadians. But circumstancesdtave not been normal for Canadian universities for the past decade. This period has seen a growth in student num- bers unprecedented in our coun~ try's history. " Rrst degree as an Indication of anaemia), it would appear that when 55 and I pereenrof our faculty members are Canad- ian and fewer than " percent are American. "Ot those from other countries, we do not know how many are now Canadian citizens or landed immigrants. and Painting d Homes) ICC in k-W Area Reasonable Rates AND "The various alternatives open to the universities would have been to refuse admission to thou- sands of students; to hire profes- sors from other countries; to hire unqualified persons or to allow the studentvto-professor ratio to "Thus, the picture of develop. ment we find in the universities is that on average the student en- rollment has been growing at about three times the rate at which potential university teach- ers were being graduated by the Canadian universities, but the situation is much worse in certain subjects. "Since Mathews has attacked Americans in particular. I should point out certain advantages in recruiting Americans in a time of a severe, shortage of Canadians. Neither language nor major cul, tural differences create problems and the Canadian and American university systems are so similar that Americans find it easy to adjust to our ways. "The social sciences are pri- marily an American development and in these areas the graduate schools in the USA. are the best in the world. It has been na- tural therefore for the Canadian universities to seek professors for the social sciences in the US. "While our graduate schools have been building up, other countries, particularly the U.S.A., have accepted and have finan- cially supported and educated in their universities large numbers of Canadian graduate students. Many of these have returned to Canada to accept teaching posts in our universities. "In other areas, we find that the Ph.D. production has been running at approximately to per year in history and a little better than 15 per your in English and philosophy, although a substan- tial improvement is beginning to appear. "There were no Ph.Ds granted m fine arts, five in anthropology, five in political science and 21 in economics'in the same five-year period. out for particular abuse by Math- ews, grew from zero to " and from three to " respectively. "A for dramatic examples might help to emphasize this point. During the past five years, the Canadian universities pro- duced only four PhD: in sociol- ogy yet in this same period, the staffs of the sociology depart, ments at the Universities of Waterloo and of Alberta, singled granted in the various subjects is wry uneven. 'iiatti Mt 7 N " . . ' ’ fg , , - ' i v p, 7 ' . f , 'ah I _ . ‘ * Fr""eruhku'd'C.' " i %' T% 'N N i 'yiA " Ft g ara '1. , - . il .cd ii E"') . . 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