«up progress of California Polytechnic School has been steady, and has achieved nationwide interest, since the State twpartment of Education took over the direct administration of the technical college in 1933. To have this growth and interest retarded at this time when youth needs every encouragement to prepare himself for a definite occupation, would be a tragic blow. While the degree resolution will be discussed again later in "Future Needs”, it is important to call attention at the beginning of this report, to the fact that each year, more and more employers are demanding the bachelor of science degree, or attendance at a degree-granting institution, as a pro-requisite for employment. It is important to know that the students at California Polytechnic now receive the technical content of a four-year degree course at Oregon State, Iowa State, Oklahoma A. & M., and other colleges of this type, and lack only some social and physical science. Little faculty or curricula expansion or change will be necessary to round out one more year of work leading to this degree. It is interesting and vital to know that in the opinion of legal authority, and in the words of the state law, the development of California Polytechnic was to have paralleled the development of the other colleges administered by the State Board of Education. These institutions, too, passed through changes - from high school level to normal schools, to four-year teacher colleges, and to regional colleges of general nature. California Polytechnic School has exper- ienced exactly the same needs for educational advancement, and now seeks only the same baccalaureate goal. Last, it is emphasized most clearly that the function of the California Polytechnic School -- training for employment -— will be maintained to the fullest degree. Both the present and the contemplated curricula are set up primarily for the young man who goes only two or three years. WheneVer he leaves, he will have had the maximum amount of "doing" education leading to employment. For the comparatively small number who complete the four-year course,