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Trends and Challenges in the Training of Dairy Technologists

State College of Washington

ABSTRACT

Considerable concern is shown everywhere today about the low enrollment in the field of dairy technology at our colleges. A recent survey by DR. I. A. GOULD of Ohio State University revealed that the total number of degrees in dairy technology granted by colleges in the U. S. dropped 46% from 1950 to 1953. There are, no doubt, numerous reasons for this rather alarming situation. It must be remembered, however, that 1950 was a boom year for the number of all students graduated from American colleges, because of the flood of war veterans taking advantage of government aid for education.

At the State College of Washington a study has been made of the general trend in the number of various graduates at our institution over a longer period of time. The accompanying chart shows the percentage changes in the total number of academic degrees granted to male students during the last 25 years: (1) in dairy manufacturing; (2) in all branches of agriculture, exclusive of agricultural education and agricultural engineering; and (3) in all divisions of the College, using as a base the average number of such degrees granted during the first 5 years of this period, namely, the years of 1928 through 1932.