tinuation otthis in the sphere otedueation threatened to spread the 
     
     disease to the next generation} rlhe Bonnell Commission and the 
     
     University Study Group spotted the solution, but had no power to 
     
     make the two universities admit the problem. 
     
    

    
     In July 1966, 33-year-old Alex Campbell and his Liberal team 
     
     arrived in power and found the cupboard all but bare. The Island 
     
     was carrying nearly $100 million in debt, and would need to make 
     
     dramatic changes. Within three years, Campbell brokered a $725 
     
     million federal—provincial Comprehensive Development Plan to do 
     
     just that. But there was a more immediate need to tighten belts, and 
     
     higher education was a good place to start: beginning in 1967, the 
     
     federal government transferred its funding for higher education to 
     
     the provinces rather than the universities themselves, putting Camp— 
     
     bell in a much—improved position to mediate the Prince ot‘VVales/St. 
     
     Dunstan’s rivalry. 
     
    

    
     Though both Island schools were enjoying a growing market 
     
     in the 19605, they shared that market, and so, like desperate suit— 
     
     ors seeking to outspend a rival, they both initiated major expansion 
     
     plans. St. Dunstan's built new residences and the Kelley blemorial 
     
     Library, and strengthened its laboratory facilities with the $1 million 
     
     Dufly Science Centre and a renovated Cass Science Hall. St. Dun- 
     
     Stan's had always relied for faculty on live—in clergy to whom they 
     
     paid a nominal fee. Expansion and a competitive Canadian market 
     
     for qualified professors meant the Catholic university now had to 
     
     invest much more on lay teaching staff. Even with climbing enroll— 
     
     ment and tuition revenue, St. Dunstan‘s was running into financial 
     
     trouble; as early as 1963, it had had to come to the province each year 
     
     for assistance." As for Prince of Wales College, having just been 
     
     granted full four—year status, it needed extensive workjust to handle 
     
    
   
   
    
     universitv students: it did not even have a men‘s residence until 1968. 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     5 See "l l Plil Origins # University Study (iroup, Beck papers" vertical tile, folder 1, 
     
     l’l‘il Collection. 
     
     6 “l ll’l‘il Origins 7 Baker papers" vertical iile,tiilder1. items 1071,“. l’l’il Collection. 
     
    
   
   
    
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