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Wednesday, October 22, 1975
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Minority programs need funds,support
By JEANIE EMMERT
Staff Writer
The University of Kansas needs to improve many of its minority programs and help minority students adjust and remain at the university. Ms. Jackson, assistant director of admissions,
"I've been able to get a pretty good number of minorities here," Jackson said yesterday. "What must be done now is to need a strong effort to keep students here."
JACKSON SAID Supportive Educational Services (SES) was an important program but it hadn't done its job the way it should have.
SEES is a program designed to help disadvantaged students get through college. Jackson said he thought that with leadership from Richard Lee, the new director of SES, the program would start doing its job.
"I spend more time on a smaller group of students," Jackson said. "I think my research is too large."
In recruiting minority group students, Jackson said he basically followed the same procedures the University used for recruiting all students.
The last five years, KU has had a Career Day in the spring for minority students. Jackson said students were invited to the campus for the weekend.
The students tour the campus, meet faculty members and other students and learn about minority programs, Jackson said.
"It is important that they know they are
at the University of Kansas," Jasper
HE SAID HE WENT to high schools,
junior colleges, and community
organizations in Kansas to make contact
with minority students.
He leaves information about KU for prospective students and keeps in touch with them during the year, Jackson said. He also serves as the care of financial aid opportunities," he said.
Through these efforts more minority students have applied and received general funds, Jackson said. But he said, there are additional funds available to minorities.
Jackson also said KU needed more programs for minorities to feel part of the team.
"Social life is important on campus," Jackson said. "If a student isn't happy in his or her living environment it will affect his academic life."
SALVADOR GOMEZ, chairman for MECHA, the campus Chicano organization, said he thought the University was beginning to do something in the direction of minority recruiting. But, he said, it was not nearly enough or nearly fast enough.
"Our goal isn't to bring every Chicago to KU," Gomez said. "Our wish is that the Chicanos in Kansas get the opportunity to come here."
The Chicanos should be as actively recruited as anyone else in the state, Gomez
Events ...
TONIGHT: THE STUDENT SENATE will meet at 6:30 in the Jahayawk Room of the Kansas Union. The first meeting of the class will be at the Physical Therapy Department of Watkins Hospital. A class, "WAYS OF APPROACHING THE BIBLE," will be at 7:30 at the United Ministries Center, 124 Orest St. The PANELNICHE RUSH Ballroom. The PANELNICHE RUSH Ballroom. EDWIN ALIARE, professor of philosophy from the University of Texas, will present a Colloquium Series lecture at 8 in the Forum Room of the Kansas Union. The ELYKIN read will from his novel, "The Franchiser," at 8 in Strong Hall Auditorium.
According to Jackson, Tony Espinoza,
assistant director of admissions and
records, has been hired as a full time
recruiter of Chicanos.
Espinosa said his job was created as an answer to a complaint filed last fall by MECHA and Native American Alliance. The complaint filed with the department of Justice and Welfare said, among other things, that not enough was done to recruit minorities.
Espinoza said he tried to stress the student services available for minorities at KU and help make the transition into KU easier for them.
"I HOPE TO LEARN about other universities recruiting programs and see if we can implement some of them here," Espinoza said.
According to S. K. Prophet, treasurer for Native American Alliance, that organization will begin a new recruiting effort with Haskell Indian Junior College next month.
Prophet said they would have people from various departments at KU along with someone from admissions and financial aid go talk with students at Haskell.
Prophet said the purpose was to tell students about the enrollment procedure and financial aid programs and to meet their needs. He said they were some grounding when they came to KU.
A brochure will be put out to introduce campus facilities to students and to tell them about the programs.
Paskell said people from KU would go to preschool every month to encourage and teach them.
Whether the College Assembly should change from an assembly to a council was discussed at the Assembly meeting yesterday.
College studies shift to council
The meeting, in Woodruff Auditorium,
was the second this year for the College
Assembly, the governing body of the
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
Robert P. Cobb, dean of the college, said during yesterday's forum discussion that an ad hoc committee was being formed to investigate possible revisions of the College bylaws, which could result in a restructuring of the Assembly.
An informal vote showed that only three members out of more than 50 in attendance approved of a change to a council form of governance.
The major complaint about the present assembly form was that most of its business was so routine that it could be handled by a smaller council.
Most of the Assembly seemed to agree, however, that the openness of the present system was preferable to the council system's more closed nature.
James B. Carothers, chairman of the Committee on Undergraduate Educational Policies and Procedures (EPPC), said the present assembly was better equipped than a council to handle any divisive issues that might arise.
"Such an issue could emerge tomorrow,
next May or in five years," Carothers browns.
In other business, the Assembly approved the curricular changes proposed by the EPF.
The Committee on Graduate Studies recommended a new Master of Human Development and Child Care degree, which was approved after some discussion.
Michael Young, chairman of the Committee on Advancement of Instruction and Advising (CAIA), said his committee was attempting to improve the quality of the advising of freshman and sophomore students.
Young said a survey conducted at registration showed that most students did consult with their advisers before registering.
The Exceptions
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Advanced Tickets $3.50 At the door $4.50
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Served with thin sliced roast beef, home-made dressing,
mushroom potatoes - smothered in dark brown gravy. Relishes
included.
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