The B’nai B’rith headquarters announced here today that it plans to undertake a study to determine the trend of Jewish college enrollment. The study will reveal the total enrollment and the number of Jewish students at 1, 600 institutions of higher learning in the United States and Canada, broken down by major professional fields and sex.
The organization will also undertake a national sampling survey of boys and girls who were graduated from high school three years ago to determine what vocational and educational progress they have made toward reaching their goals. It will involve sending questionnaires to 500 Jewish and 500 non-Jewish graduates in a selected group of cities to discover their present socio-economic status. Both college and non-college youth will be questioned. A major purpose of this project is to enable vocational guidance experts to help youth with their vocational planning.
A third project will be experimental and non-statistical in nature. It will be conducted in cooperation with the Anti-Defamation League and will seek to determine by means of interviews with Jewish employers and Jewish employees in three selected fields what restrictions exist in regard to employment and advancement. The fields to be studied are college teaching, air transport, and insurance.
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