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Ethnic enrollment plan being drafted admissions criteria, family financial with money put aside each term on considerations, inadequate the basis of grades. Preparation underway elementary and secondary Black Chicano White preparation and institutional con- CSUC universities train 70 straints. on five year strategy percent of all elementary and 7/7, secondary teachers according to the The plan requests campuses to plan. It calls for a greater emphasis statistically determine enrollment By Don McCarthy dergraduates are women. being put on particular needs and disparities in their individual ser- The chancellor's office is calling problems of minority students in The statistics are different for vice areas. The service area is on all universities in the California CSUC teacher education. minorities. defined as the geographic range State Universities and Colleges "Mexican-Americans remain from which 80 percent of a system to create five year plans To combat institutional con- to the most severely underrepresented university's students come from. increase minority enrollment and straints to minority success, the in the system, but there is continued plan calls for improved counseling retention. to underrepresentation of Blacks as Campuses are also called services to minorities, a review of Campuses will be assisted in the minority students well," the plan states. identify reasons the minority relevance of campus development of their plans by a rates than the leave at higher libraries and increased career recently released Plan for Student Blacks make up eight percent of general student body. Affirmative Action, from the 12th grade and community college programs for minority students such chancellor's office. Additionally, the students. They account for 6.6 The plan suggests the broader as field work and internships. alternative admissions CSUC system is requestiing $1.3 percent of CSUC uridergrads. Some use of Further, the second report of the minority students. million from the state legislature to 12.7 percent of 12th graders in criteria for chancellor's task force on student autobiographical get the program started. California are Mexican-American. Written affirmative action stresses that interviews and letters of 10 % The systemwide plan is a The figure for Mexican-American statements, "inadequate advisement is a 737, are proposed in response to Assembly Concurrent students in the CSUC system is less recommendation systemwide concern." 6% Resolution 151 01 1974 and the work than half that, 6.3 percent. lieu of the standard of the top 33 and 870 of a chancellor appointed task force. one-third of California high school The task force also reconimends According to the plan, the intent As well as minority recruiting, graduates as determined by grades all policies which mighti inhibit the plan calls for increased retention of student affirmative action is to, and aptitude test scores. minority retention be examined, RESHMEN ReSH/1._iv s 0 s F RES H.,76A7 sEJkooR S "bring into higher education of minority students. The dropout including facilities usage, stan- SEA, ORS members of socio-economic groups rate among Mexican-Americans and "The appropriateness of dardized tests, advising and course The CSUC system has presented who have not traditionally been blacks is higher than for whites. minority-sensitive admissions approval policies, and grievance the PCP. According to Stephanie a Program Change Proposal to the enrolled in reasonable relation to Blacks make up 10 percent of criteria, so long as they are not tied procedures. Adams, associate university dean state legislature. The money will their presence in the general CSUC freshmen, but 6 percent of to rigid racial quotas, was for student affairs in the chan- provide for a student affirmative population, primarily ethnic seniors. For Mexican-Americans the established in the U.S. Supreme Perhaps the most controversial cellor's office, the financial aid action director for each of 19 CSUC minorities and women." drop is from 7.6 to 5 percent. The Court's Bakke decision," according proposal is the plan's suggestion of proposal involves issues of political percentage of whites increases from to the plan. giving course credit for remedial campuses. Additionally, funds are philosophy and is not as acceptable However, statistics indicate the 71 to 73.4 percent. instruction. Such a proposal has met available for 48 and one-half other as other action items in the plan. representation of women in the Conditional commitments to strong resistance at SJSU. positions. These funds will be given However, CSU-Chico has such a CSUC ststem is close to parity with According to the plan, barriers financial aid early in a student's on the basis of individual university program, she said. their percentage of the population. to increased enrollment and high school or junior high school "Without remedial attention, proposals and five year plans. Several legislators have told her About 48 percent of CSUC un- retention include inadequate data, years is proposed in the plan. The college admission is a cruel hoax," The proposal for grade earned the proposal will pass, Adams aid would be an incentive system, the plan states. financial assistance is missing from related. plan Task force to affirmative action By Don McCarthy dropouts, Fullerton said. A blue ribbon task force will be To help with those problems, she appointed by SJSU President Gail suggested an expanding of the co-op Spartan Daily Fullerton to produce SJSU's five- education program, in which year plan for student affirmative students work a semester in a action, the president said recently. career-related job and then go to Volume 71, Number 51 Serving the San Jose State Community Since 1934 Tuesday, November 14, 1978 The task was originally assigned school a semester and so on. The to the Academic Senate Affirmative program is currently used by the Action Committee by former SJSU schools of business, engineering and President John Bunzel. But the social sciences, according to committee, preoccupied with its Fullerton. Legislative approval needed duties in monitoring employee af- firmative action, proposed the She cited a recent legislative coordinating board. allocation which allows 20 hours of Fullerton said she will be taking CETA work for students in the nominations for the task force soon, Upward Bound program as an example of meeting the financial Public safety jobs proposed including positions for students and members of the community at large. needs of minority students. Additionally, SJSU currently is According to Steve Faustina, The SJSU campus will gain two public safety at the chancellor's provided by the legislature and Preliminary results of a current one of three CSUC campuses which affirmative action coordinator, additional crime prevention officers office in Long Beach. "Most are approved by the governor in the workload study show that officers has a $33,000 grant for a student minorities "flunk out because many and an emergency dispatcher next getting less or none. It is because of current 1978-79 budget. have less than one hour every day to affirmative action pilot project of don't think the four years are worth fall if trustee budget action is ap- the size of your campus." The goal of the program, ac- devote to patrol, Quinton said. outreach to local high schools. it and because they are not properly proved by the state legislature and Robinson said the chance or's cording to the 1979-80 CSUC support "That is not enough. Officers Fullerton will serve on the CSUC prepared.' the governor. office has its "fingers crossed," as budget, is to provide a safe campus need to be out patroling and talking commission on student affirmative Many minority students come The positions are part of a public to final approval of the program by environment by increasing the to people and making them more action statewide. from "high schools which are not the safety proposal of the California the governor and the legislature this availability of emergency services aware," Quiri.on said. She thinks an immediate task is best," according to Fullerton. State University and Colleges which spring. and improving cooperation with Quinton said the new proposed to determine why minority students She suggested the use of self- adds 35 positions statewide and costs He felt positive about approval, members of the educational com- positions would aid in public leave. Some of the reasons will be paced learning to help such students $632,400. however, because the program is in munity. awareness education and com- unique to minorities, she says. make up for inadequate secondary In its second phase, the proposal the last phase of implementation munity relations, but would not be With young minorities having preparation. was approved by CSUC trustees in and is the result of a pilot program Called "an improved process for restricted to that. He will not begin great difficulty finding jobs, Emphasizing the need for all October as a Program Change on public safety at CSU-Northridge. protecting the campus en- recruiting until July when the Fullerton said, "they probably levels of the university to work for Proposal in the 1979-80 support The proposal continues the vironment," the proposal would wonder, 'what has four years got to budget. implementation of recom- stress safety precautions rather budget is signed by the governor and student affirmative action, he do with my chances of earning a "No campus is getting any more mendations from a two-year public than "merely reacting to crime," receives final authorization, he Fullerton said, "I hope the campus said. living'?" can make the commitment." positions than San Jose," said Doug safety study completed in July 1976. the budget report said. Financial problems cause many (Continued on back page) Robinson, assistant coordinator of Resources for the first phase were His department is currently SJSU Police Chief Earnest working on a crime prevention Quinton cited the need for crime program, Quinton noted, since one Protesters in Veteran's Day Parade, prevention on campus.