the Michigan Daily-Sunday, February 17, 1980-Page 3

Report finds black
students alienated

By KEVIN TOTTIS
Black students at the University and
several of its peer institutions across
the nation find themselves in a hostile
environment, suffer from inadequate
financial support, and are often
handicapped by poor secondary school
preparation, according to a recent
government report.
The study, which was commissioned
by the National"Advisory Committee on
Black Higher Education aryl the
Department of Health, Eduation and
Welfare, reported that, for the most
part, black students seemed lonely,
depressed, and alienated. "They feel
their universities are hostile places and
their relationships with white
professors and white students are often
demoralizing," the report said.
THE PURPOSE of the study was to
identify problems associated with black
undergradaute attrition rates, propose
strategies for their retention and
gradaution from college, and to make
recommendations "regarding the
responsibilities of predominately white
institutions in assuring access and
graduation opportunities to black
students."
An investigator from the City
University of New York surveyed and
conducted personal interviews with 84
black students, 47 black administrators
and faculty, and 38 white
administrators and faculty at four
) private and three public universities in
different geographical regions
throughout the country. Along with the
University, these institutions. included
Harvard, Rutgers, Duke, Chicago,
Stanford, and UCLA.
The survey was divided into three
parts including: barriers to admission
to the university; barriers to remaining
at the university; and possible
remedies to these problems.
According ,to, the report, the
responses of black students, faculty,
and administrators differed greatly

from those of the white faculty and
administrators.
FOR EXAMPLE, 77 per cent of the
black students indicated that
inadequate financial aid was either a
somewhat important or very important
barrier to admission. 74 per cent of the
black faculty and administration
agreed, while only 26 per cent of the
white faculty and administrators
concurred.
All three groups, however, felt that
poor secondary school preparation was
a barrier to admission, with 86 per cent
of the black students agreeing, and 85
per cent and 74 per cent of the black and
white faculty and administration
agreeing respectively.
Seventy-seven per cent of the
students felt that feelings of alienation
and loneliness were a deterrent to
remaining in school, while 96 per cent of
the black faculty and administrators
agreed. Only 60 per cent of the white
faculty and administrators felt
likewise.
NINETY-FOUR per cent of the
students surveyed perceived a need for
an increased number of black
administrative and faculty role models.
All of the black administrators and
faculty agreed, compared to 68 per cent
of their white counterparts.
One recommendation for
improvement stressed admissions and
recruitment policies that seek out
students from "under-achieving inner-
city high schools." Policies that are
designed to admit only high achieving
students "who have been socialized to
fit the university's image" will exclude
the majority of black youths, the report
said.
One of the most critical needs, the
study said, was that of counseling.
"Black students are subjected to
extraordinary wipressures at
predominately white universities," the
report said.

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AMMAN, Jordan (UPI)-U.N.
Ambassador Donald McHenry arrived
in Jordan yesterday on the fifth leg of
his seven-nation Middle East tour and
immediately began closed-door talks
with King Hussein.
McMenry's arrival in Jordan came
only hours after reports in New York
and Jordan and the Islamic council had
requested that the U.N. Security
Council meet to discuss Israeli
settlements in the occupied West Bank.
A GOVERNMENT source insisted
the timing of McHenry's two-day visit
and the call for a meeting of the 15-
nation Security Council was

coincidental.
But McHenry confirmed he had been
notified of the request and said he was
certain the issue of the Israeli
settlements would come up during his
talks with Jordanian officials.
The 48-year-old career diplomat was
taken from the airport to Bassman
Palace to meet with King Hussein for
what officials said would be three or
four hours.
Jordan has been concerned about
continued Israeli occupation of the
West Bank, particularly the current
curfew in the Arab town of Hebron,
which Hussein was expected to discuss
with McHenry

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