z
Community College .
J le Vaughn, III, At! Y d
Hall and Detroit School Supt.
ong distinguised
the inspiration Cor
at the 001. Turn to
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CO
LANSI G - A preliminary
study by the Michigan Dept
of Civil Rights sho that
without the Bla enrollments
of W yne County Community
Hopes
In his third year with the
ichi an Youth Corps Brian
ichols of Benton Harbor sud­
denly learned that he was
going to be pervisor for an
Y work ere for the ity
of Col om .
ccording to City of Coloma
Department of Publi Wor s
man er arren Damon, it wa
fate and Brian's proven ability
th t cast him in his new super-
vi ory role, Through illnes
and oth r cirucmstance, two
pervisors left, leaving u with­
out anyone, Brian had shown
his ability to handle people
1 t year and good wor quali­
ti it was only natural to
choose him " Damon said.
Continued 5
Who Is The at er
With You?
Magic Of African
edicine Page 6
Serving the State's African American Commu..; � .
� ..... rvey
PCC Blac
communi y college -
e roUment ups level
College and Highland Park
Community Colleges, the level
of Black enrollment in
Michigan Community Colleges
ould be w y below the level
of Blacks in the general
population.
Those two Wayne County in­
stitutions enroll 38.6% of the
total Black community college
ICHOLS of Benton Harbor perv a group of ffve
workers at the City of Colom Department of Public Works for
the • hi n YouthCorp ,
e U 0 e ended amily,
e a confe ence hear
U - return to the
e tend d family of frica and
early Blac America and creat-
in "ne kinship networ for
the new e - networ that
ill embrace and affirm
families he ded by omen
by men or b th," were urged
by Dr. iar Sudar asa, an
anthropol gist, t an inter­
nati nal conference on singl
parenting here.
, e need to call for a revis­
ion of public polici s that
disallo or penalize extended
family h u holds," she dec1 .
ed.
Dr. udar a , the fir t
woman presi ent of Penn 1·
ania' hi toric Lincoln Univer­
ity e on the ird day of
man to oman: ingle
Parenting from A Global Per­
ctive" , pon red by Delt
igm Thet ro ri y.
'eros residential coopera-
tion is ill a very important
f ctor in the urvival of Black
families in citie as in rural
area ," Dr. Sundarkasa said,
but i threatened by "the
poverty that engulfs the maj r­
ity of Blac due to a lac of
jobs or training,
, The pattern of young
mothers living alone with their
children, much di u d
today, i a recent pattern
among Blac Americans,.,
The ri of isolated households
headed by teenage mother i
directly related to publi wel­
fare policies and publi housing
policies that have di our ed
multi-generational hou -
hold char teri tic of Blac
famille ... '
Th former Uni er ity of
ichigan holar said I would
hypothesiz that phenomenal
rise in the number of single
parent households' among Blac
Americans is as much as con-
quence of a change in resi­
dential pattern as it i the
re It of higher incidences of
teen-age pregnancies. , ,
'It i about time that we,
as Black women scholars and
profe sionals t e the lead in
acknowledging unequivocally
that female headed households
have been- and are an accept-
ed and cceptable form of
domesti organization among
most Africans among peoples
of African de ent and , , ,
others," e declared.
Underlying thi acceptance
as and is the fact that fund­
amentally fri ans value chil­
dren . , . the maiden aunt i a
rarity , ,. ong fricans
and people of African descent,'
she added.
enrollemnt statewide
Wayne County itself ac­
counts for 29.8 percent of all
Black enrollment among the
21 colleges surveyed.
The figures represent full­
time enrollment only and
reflect beginning of the year
data, with no follow up for
dropouts.
EMPLOYME
"Little attention has been
given to monitoring or evaluat­
ing employment within the
community college system,"
the Civil Rights report s13 es.
"The . picture which emerges
from the initial MDCR is one
which is generally unsatisfac­
tory."
The report listed these "un­
satisfactory" findings:
-Sixteen of the 21 colleges
have minority workforces
below the percentage of
minorities in the county they
serve. Four college workforces
exceeded county minority
populations --- Wayne, High­
land Park, Grand Rapids and
Fewer Black
teachers, more
Black students
LOS A GELES - The num­
ber of Black and other minority
teachers is declining at the same
time the nation's publi hool
are bracing for an unprecedent­
ed influx of minority students
by the year 2000 the ational
Education As ciation said dur­
ing their recent convention,
A new EA study that pr -
files America s public ho 1
teachers notes that the percent­
age of Black teachers has de­
clined from 7, percent in 19 1
to 6.9 percent in 19 6.
By the end of the century
EA President Mary Hatwood
Futrell notes minoriti s ill
likely m e up more than
30 percent of all public h 1
tudents and only 5 percent of
all teacher - if present trends
continue.
'Thi trend toward fe er and
Washtenaw.
- Only 741 minority persons
are employed in the colleges
surveyed, or 12 percent of the
total workforce. Of this num-
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Selected
Community
College
Enrollment as
of Fall 1986
CoUeg
BI
Total
8,585
9,513
58
5,797
6,137
4,666
3,007
18,107
4,732
2243
3,444
C.S. Mott
Grand Rapids
Highland Par
Jackson
Kalamazoo
Kellogg
Lake Michi an
Lansing 1166
�uskegon 354
Southwestern 198
Wayne 6364
1,411
686
1,893
687
707
321
fe
have