Sunday, January 31, 1971 ' ' THE MICHIGAN DAILY THE MICHIGAN DAILY Sunday, January 31, 1971k 1AM AGREEMENT Black admissions: Seeking 10%0 FEBRUARY 2 TUESDAY LUNCH-DISCUSSION AT THE INTERNATIONAL CENTER "AFSCME: Issues and Negotiations" ROBERT ROSNER, President, Council 7, AFSCME Cost: 50c Sponsored by Ecumenical Campus Center HEAR- Linda Jenness member socialist worker's party (Continued from Page 1) Some administrators claim that ligh school counselors in the inner cities often discourage black students from applying to the University.4 J. Frank Yates, director of the Coalition for the Utilization of Learning Skills, says that an important factor in keeping minority students will be how well faculty members can teach people different from them- selves. "There are enough bod- ies," Yates says of the number of qualified blacks. ' To reach a manimum number of minority high school stu- dents, the. University has tnounted an extensive recruiting effort. Five undergraduate ad- missions counselors have already been hired and the admissions office is interviewing for two additional positions. Two of these seven new admis- sions officers will be stationed in Detroit ate the University's Rackham Extension Bldg. with a third at the University's Grand Rapids Extension Center. Each of the five new coun- selors, he says, have logged about 3,550 miles during t h e fall, visiting and often revisiting a total of 125 high schools and 14 community colleges in the state. "Student recruiters also go out to the high schools," Good- man adds. "We have contact people in all of the academic units and they send representa- tives from the academic units to us." Stevens claims the University is using "conventional means of recruiting and admissions for an unconventional situation". She urges a greater effort to re- cruit Chicanos and blacks, es- pecially veterans and older peo- ple who want to continue their education. The main inducement that re- cruiters can offer black and oth- er minority high school stud- ents is the University's Oppor- tunity Program. Established in 1962, the program is open to all disadvantaged students but is approximately 87 per cent black. The program aids students both financially and academi- cally, providing special counsel- ing and tutoring, along w i t h grants. loans and jobs to help pay tuition and living costs. Un- dsrgraduates require an aver- age of $1,700 and graduate stu- dents need about $3,900 in aid annually. Approximately 675 students are now enrolled in the under- graduate Opportunity Program with an additional 133 students in the graduate section. Fresh- man enrollment under the plan has increased from 70 in 1964 to 268 in 1970. Of the 522 applicants for the undergraduate p r o g r a m last year, 49 per cent were admitted to the University. An increase of 370 under- graduate and 180 graduate stu- dents in the program is ex- pected for next fall. Besides the University-wide Opportunity Program, a num- b ber of the schools and colleges have their own minority recruit- ment efforts. Black enrollment in the law school has risen from none in 1966 to about 75 students at pre- sent, eight per cent of the total enrollment. Of this year's in- coming class of 419 students, 50 were black and two were chi- cano. The medical school has a sum- mer program for minority un- dergraduates who are interest- ed in medicine and sends out faculty members and students to recruit. Thirty students out of an entering class of 225 last fall, or 13 per cent, were black. Doing most of its own re- cruiting, the social work school already has about 14 per cent minority enrollment. T h e school's entering class this year was 19 per cent black and two per cent chicano. In the graduate school, black enrollment has increased de- spite a drop of about 10 per cent in overall admissions. Many of the 150 departments which en- roll graduate students h a v e, their own recruiting programs. While no figures are avail- able for the total number of black graduate students this year, by the end of last May admission certificates had been sent to 140 black students com- pared with 50 the year before. Total black graduate enrollment last year was about 400. One of the major questions of the admissions problem is whe- ther these recruitment programs in the schools and colleges can meet the 10 per cent black en- rollment figure without dimin- ishing admission standards. After the agreement last spring, Vice-President Spiro Ag- new charged the University had surrendered" to black militants and that "in a few years time perhaps-thanks to the Univer- sity of Michigan's callow re- treat from reality-America will give the diplomas from Michi- gan the same fish eye that Italians now give diplomas from the University of Rome," which has an open admissions pro- gram. Fleming emphasizes, however, that the Opportunity Program is not an open admissions pro- gram. "We will maintain the standard that to be admitted a student must show reasonable< probability of success in his aca- demic program," he says. Citing differences in cultural and educational opportunities, Fleming said that traditional criteria for judging high school students, such as SAT scores and high school grades, are sometimes inadequate. "We've never denied that we use somewhat of a . different standard for these people." Fleming says. "We defend it on the grounds that this is a criti- cal social problem that each in- stitution must help and this is our contribution." Stevens believes the Univer- sity should go further, point- ing out that other schools such as Harvard, Yale and North- western have successful pro- grams which offer to blacks with high school grade points lower than the cutoff used here. "The entrance criteria are too stilted," she says. "They are incidental to how a stulent per- forms." While students and adminis- trators thus hold different opin- ions about whether the 10 per cent black admissions foal will be met, they all seem to agree it is worthwhile. "A lot of people have been ex- cluded here who could have made it," says Yates, a situa- tion described by Maddox as a "tragic waste of human re- sources." But looking 'at the results of the BAM agreement thus far Hunt says, "On paper it accom- plished a lot but whether this bud is going to become a rose, I'm pessimistic." TUESDAY: SUPPORTIVE SERVICES Beau tfu 1 li porled an Do in es/c LEATHER Boots, Coats, and Accessories Morrocan Imports Distinctive Men and Women's Clothing Mayoral Candidate, Atlanta 1969 Gubernatorial Candidate, Georgia 1970 Women's Liberation & Anti-War Activist SPEAKING ON: Amiterican Imperialism and the current radicalization' MONDAY, FEB. 11 8:00 P.M. 3524 SAB 13 17 S. 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