It THE MICHIGAN DAILY Wednesday, February 3, 1971 $9 MILLION BY '73-'74 > 4> 4~\\ ~v ~. N' "~ X 4 NI N>4.N N <~ ~N~'\ N N >4 4>N4 .4 4>'> 4> ~> K U' asks funds for black admissions (Continued from Page 1) During the BAM strike the cleans and governing faculties of the schopls and colleges agreed to meet the difference, which could conceivably be as much as $4.5 million, out of their own operating budgets. "We have long known that we must continually re-examine our total budget to find new money for higher priority items, and this is now simply a very high priority," Fleming wrote soon after. The fact that the University has assigned such a high prior- ity to suporting increased black admissions has aroused s o m e private resentment among a few faculty members, students and alumni. "The people hurt by a partic- ular decision are not going to like it and the place the money goes is going to make them un- happy," Yates explains. Private contributions to the University last year were down about a third, a decrease at least partially attributable to the BAM strike, Vice President for University Relations and Devel- opment Michael Raddock re- ported to the Regents last month. And in t h e business school, someone, apparently a faculty member, sent the Daily a confi- dential report issued by the school and underlined a state- ment that blacks, although only two per cent of t h e entering graduate class, were receiving 20 per cent of the school's sch- olarship funds. Financial Aid Director Brown points out that while funds for financial support for blacks will be increased, the total financial aid budget will also rise. "White students are not going to be shut out," he says. "But we are going to increase our em- phasis on low-income' groups." Brown denies tlat aid to white undergraduates has been cut because of the minority en- rollment program. "When there are cutbacks it is either because there are changes in (family) income that they report to us or because we usually expect students to pro- vide more out of their own earn- ings each year," Brown says, ex- plaining that sophomores, for example, would normally receive less aid than freshmen. Of this year's general f u n d for working in occupations such as teaching. Finally, the federal work- study program gives students jobs with the federal govern- ment paying 80 per cent of their education and the em- ployer paying the other 20 per cent. About 33 minority under- graduates are now in this pro- gram. One other issue concerning undergraduates left over from office to Detroit to help fill out the form. For black and other minority graduate students, the Oppor- tunity Program is allocating $293,000 this year and addition- al funding is provided by a wide variety of fellowships, loans and grants. While the amount of aid for black graduate students is in- creasing, financial support for white graduate students is drop- ping sharply because of c u t - backs in federal funds allocat- ed to graduate education. "The best estimate for the University at this time is that total federal funding of its ma- jor fellowship programs will de- crease by about $662,000 in 1971-72," the University's bud- get request for next year states. Although the University is attempting to recoup some of this money by part of the $1.3 million requested increase in financial aid funds, the dispar- ity between support for white and black graduate students will most likely continue. "We've come nowhere close to meeting their needs," Brown says of graduate and especially professional students in areas such as medicine and dentistry. The achievement of better dis- tribution of aid funds to all stu- dents when not enough money is available might require the Uni- versity to provide aid in the form of long-term loans rathen than outright grants," Brown adds. "We have long known that we must con- tinually re-examine our total budget to find new money for higher priority items, and this is now simply a very high priority," President Robben Fleming wrote after the Black Action Movement strike. w- .- ." .4+.;?"4:" ":":^:?':''"'f i , : " , } t : ; . N }. . budget about $3.27 million is included for student aid funds. Of this amount, $802,743 or about one-quarter is allocated to the Opportunity Program for minority students. Besides the Opportunity Pro- gram, Brown explains, under- graduate minority student g e t most of the rest of their aid from three federal programs. The first, Educational Op - portunity Grants, is aiding 255 minority undergraduates this year. These grants, are lim- ited to students from families with less than $9,000 annual in- come. The National Defense Student Loan program helping to sup- port 114 minority students, has no set income limit but students must show definite financial need. The loans are interest-free while the student is attending the University, with 3 per cent annual interest thereafter. Re- payment of the loan is reduced the BAM dispute still has not been settled. The black students claimed that the Parents Con- fidential Statement (PCS), used to determine financial need, should be revised. "The Parents Confidential Statement is complex, but there is no better system of n e e d analysis currently available," Brown.,says. To aid minority students and their parents with Brown plans to send representatives of h i s Join The Daily CIRCULATION DEPT. Come in any afternoon 420 Maynard IK Just as a progression of shape transforms itself from the common to the different so does the MICHIGANENSIAN. 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