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Thursday, June 21, 1973
University Daily Kansan
Cash Shortage Cancels SES Program for Summer
By KATHY TUSSING
and LYDIA BEEBE
Kansas Staff Writers
There have been Supportive Educational Services (SES) programs at KU for the past four summers, although there is no SES program this summer because there are no funds, according to William Balfour, vice chancellor for Student Affairs.
"There are two lacks of funds—a lack of Student Senate Funds and a financial aid cutback due to cuts in federal funds," Balfour said.
SES is designed to provide tutoring, scholarships and loans for racial minority students.
THE SES PROGRAM has been criticized during the last year for failing to include minorities other than blacks. It is currently having difficulty finding funds to expand the program to include non-black minorities, and avenues of funding are being explored.
A request was made last spring to receive funds from the federal government, Balfour Bank and others concerned federal funds. In addition, Balfour said that the application is for only the 1975-74 academic year, and it would not sustain the program before that even if
Jerry Rogers, director of the Office of Student Financial Aid, said no National
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HE SAID it appeared this spring that the federal government was not going to fund NDSI loans at all next year, so the decision would be to lend them next academic year, except for students who have been receiving such loans and who are graduating at the end of the school year.
Thus, virtually no NDSL loans were available to any students for the summer
Rogers said that later he found that the program was going to be funded, but didn't.
Some of the students in the SES program have in the past received financial aid or loans such as NDSL on their own, though not as a group, he said.
"As of this date, we have not been able to get a permanent or a definite commitment yet. We are still pursuing this and we might have to change some of our requirements for the program and maybe start bringing those students who can finance their own way."
Direct Student Loans (NDSL) were available to minority students this summer
"WE DON'T HAVE a program where all you have to be is a minority to get aid. You have to have financial need," Rogers said. He has considered other avenues of funding.
"We called the city manager's office and asked about revenue-sharing money," Capula Taylor, acting director of the SES program, said in an allocation hearing before the Senate's Finance and Auditing Committee last spring.
"SES does not qualify because we don't fall into any of the eight categories that we described."
BRENDA MARZATT VANN, acting director of the Office of Minority Affairs, said at the Senate hearing, "At this point, I think what we're trying to avoid doing is saying anything definite because there are things that are as of yet undetermined.
"WE HAVE TALKED with Chancellor Nichols and explained about our admirers, but we haven't helped us and looking for other alternatives, and endowments was one suggestion. This doesn't mean that they have commitments to us or that this will be a problem."
Taylor would not talk with the Kansas about these funding sources about which she had spoken to the Senate Committee. However, SES has apparently received no financial commitments, at least for the summer.
"We're seeking other means of funding and right now we can't say to this committee that definitely money's going to be used by students from endowment or from whatever.
"But there are students who we feel we would be able to serve, who would be able to come here, who would be low-income and same students that we have been serving."
"The sorts of funding would be changing
By DEAN FORD Kansas Staff Writer
Minorities to Stage Own Show At Business Exposition in K.C.
At a time when government expenditures are in a period of transition from the Model Cities plan to the President's proposed Better Communities Act, minority communities are continuing programs to increase the growth and development of minority business.
Kansas City, Missouri's Municipal Auditorium will be the site of a two-day midwestern minority business expoion in Kansas City. The event's position, minority businessmen can display
their products and services to potential financiers and prospective customers.
"New programs will make this year's exposition quite different from its predecessors"; R. H. Selleck, promotion chairman for the harman for the exposition said Wednesday.
ACCOUNTING TO Selleck, the people with booths this year will be the minority businessman, instead of the majority businessman as it was in the past.
Sellack said that at previous expositions, a few minority businessmen came to sell the company.
"This increases the chance for contracts," Selleck said, "because the majority businessman have a chance to view the businessman's product right on the app."
products, because the number of minority businesses has grown, there are now enough minority businessmen to set up their own businesses to the majority businessmen come to them.
More Effective Plan Required For Minorities, Nichols Says
Chancellor Raymond Nichols said Wednesday that the new advisory board for the Office of Minority Affairs was intended to assist with the development, adequate and was meeting its responsibilities.
Nichols said that he thought the office needed some help in making its program more efficient.
The Office of Minority Affairs exists to provide whatever services are necessary to minority students and staff, according to Brenda Martelli Vann, acting director.
Vann said there were four full-time staff members in the office who worked directly with her. All four, she said, were members of minority groups.
She said that most of their work involved recruiting minority group members for staff positions and for prospective students, and that a great deal of work was done to
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Vann said that the office had been trying to develop more job opportunities for minority group members and had also been trying to work with departments to develop a more extensive system for recruiting more minority group members for faculty positions.
Members of the new advisory board were reluctant to make any comment. Don Green, assistant professor of human development and family life, said the board had met only once and had not yet determined its internal organization.
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The office has been conducting job interviews in cooperation with some of the large corporations that visit campuses to recruit personnel.
Adams said that, as he understood it, the board was to evaluate the University's various programs for minorities, rather than those for whites. He programed of the Office of Minority Affairs.
She said that she had not formed any opinion yet about the new advisory board, but that it had the potential to be helpful to the office.
The board may make recommendations to the chancellor if it chooses, it may make recommendations directly to departments and other subsets of this University, if I understand the chancellor's charge," he said.
Samuel Adams, associate professor of journalism, said that he expected the board to assist the University by assisting the minority students.
"WE ARE ALSO opening the exposition to the public for the first time," said Selleck. "This will give the prospective customer a chance to see the minority businessmen's products."
Adams said that one responsibility of the board would be to determine what the real problem was.
The original goal in 1970 was to generate $500,000 in new business for the area's minority businessman, Beckel said, adding that about $500,000 in new business from 1970 to 1971.
The Mid-America Minority Business Exposition is a part of the Minority Business Week activities that started Sunday.
THE LACK OF A nummer SES program
will, he said, make it difficult for student
writers to succeed.
"THE NEXT EXPOSITION produced over $800,000 in new business, according to Selleck, and in 1972 the exposition was made for more than $1 million in new business.
"They'll have to be pretty careful and give them some intensive help, because I think it has been an advantage to have it in the summer."
The SES summer program the last four years has provided intensive remedial aid to underprivileged minority students, according to Balfour.
but not the direction of the program."
"This is reported monetary increases," Selleck said. "For every dollar that is reported, there is probably a dollar that goes unreported.
However, the University Senate Committee on Financial Aid to Students said that the summer program could be eliminated.
The exposition will be open to the public from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. on Friday and from 9 a.m. to 10 a.m. on Saturday.
Another highlight of the Minority Business Week will be a dinner tonight at the Hotel Muehlbach in Kansas City, Mo. Missouri Governor Christopher S. Bond and James Tern Jr., assistant director of the Business Enterprise in Washington, D.C., will participate in minority businessmen. Cookie Rojas of the Kansas City Royals baseball team is the banquet chairman and will be the master of ceremonies.
"In other words, minority businessmen who were not connected with the exposition may be indirectly aided by the exposition and therefore would not send in a report."
In an April letter sent to Taylor, the committee said, "Although we realize that the summer session provides unique advantages for the SES program, we feel that
--most of its goals can still be accomplished in the academic year."
The SES summer program the last four years has provided intensive remedial aid to underprivileged minority students.
ROGERS SUGGESTED that the committee had discussed the idea that an intensive program the first eight weeks in the fall would probably be adequate.
Last November, the Student Senate passed a bill urging the University of Kansas Memorial Corp. Board of Directors to freeze funds for the SES program until SES reorganized with other campus libraries and opened its records to the Senate.
Prior to this bill, the Office of Minority Affairs, which SES was under, the Association of Mexican-American Students, the National Council for African American and the Black Student Union (BSU) decided to unite in an attempt to gain more funding for the operation of the Office of Minority Affairs. The action followed complaints by the BSU that the SES program did not serve all minorities.
At the time, Vann said that her office did not enough money to serve other majorprises.
SHE SAID THAT the SES program was begun by the BSU and was originally funded as an all-back program and that she had never been informed of a change from an all-back program to one that included all minorities.
In response to the Senate's request that the Memorial Corp. freezes funds, the board of directors requested and received from the offices on the policies and finances of the program.
Richard Von Ende, acting executive secretary of the University, said in November that the original SES proposal was terminated by students, not "black" or "minority."
After reviewing the reports, the board decided to provide $12,000 for the SES program. The Board recommended that the Office of Student Affairs seek additional funding for the remainder of the year to serve students of the SES program, now participating in the SES program.
"We know it isn't easy to find money," said Richard Wintermote, executive director of the Alumni Association and corporation's financial affairs committee.
THE CORPORATION directors also recommended that the Chancellor study the program and assign it to an administrative officer who is responsible for sources of permanent financing be pursued.
At the same time, the corporation allocated $3,000 to be used for services to students of minority groups not currently participating in the SES program.
He said that the corporation's funding was tentative funding.
"NO MATTER HATter worthwhile any program is." *Winternote* said, "it's hard to take funds away from all the students who do business in the bookstore.*
The corporation said further funding of the SES program would depend upon the making of the program available to all minority groups and the program accepting and utilizing University accounting procedures.
"The biggest change should be in getting more minority students in the program, Bailfour said. "Whether this can be done with the same funding is questionable."
There are currently 120 students in the SES program, according to Tavlor.
"OUR STUDENTS come to us through the same channels as any other student in the school."
"As of March 5, 1973, there were 215 students in Ohioans, two Indians and 19 Orientals. Our order to be a participant, you not only have to apply for admission, but you have to be eligible for financial aid—either an undergraduate or a National Defense, work or study what您.
A program that was to become the SES program was started in 1989 through the BSU and the Urban Action Council, according to a report on the SES program submitted to the University of Kansas Memorial Corporation Jan. 8, by Vann.
"In terms of selecting students for our summer program, number one, we look at the University. We have accepted to the University; number two, the student qualifies for financial aid; and number three, the student has indicated that will be attending the University in the fall.
"We serve as the administrative body that implements program and courses that are needed to help the students succeed at college," he said, then them here, but we want them to succeed.
"OUR STUDENTS are low-income students from urban areas, and they are predominately students who are academically deficient in specific subject areas. They work in the school or environment or whatever, but we take them as they are when they come to us.
The Urban Action Council was composed at the time of people who desired to make an impact on the urban community through programs, research or both.
THE BSU WAS setting up committees to develop programs to meet the needs of black students. These needs were defined as including the retention of black students already in school and the recruitment of other blacks to enter KU.
When black students became aware of the Urban Action Council, they requested that the BSU take action for implementation of their plans to bring more black students to KU. Consequently, the BSU/Urban Scholars program was transferred to the education committee of the BSU.
Fuding for the original program came from $17,500 allocation from Kansas Union University and $25,000 increased to $80,000 later that year. National Defense Student Loans (now National Direct Student Loans) and Educational Loan Programs have been made available to the BSU-Urban Scholars.
The education committee of the BSU then began recruitment and selection of urban scholars. Admission to the program required students be high school graduates or pass the GED (a high school equivalency test), qualify for the National Defense Grant and the Educational Opportunity Grant and show interest in attending college.
IN ADDITION, other black students who applied directly through the Office of Financial Aid and who were recruited by the BSU urban scholars program.
In the spring of 1989, Philip Gary was hired as director of Urban Affairs. The BSU and the Urban Action Council interviewed all applicants for the job.
When the program was put into effect, students were able to get academic and social counseling. Tutors were also assigned to students who needed them.
The program focused on utilizing the unique heritage and cultural norms of black people as an asset in providing an education that will well as support services." The report states.
Tutors were selected on the basis of their interest in the program, ability to relate to black students and academic competence. Many black graduate students provided services without pay, according to the report prepared by Vann.
THE NAME SUPPORTIVE Educational Services came into being because the term tutorial" was thought to denote a program that uses instructional materials. The program was already providing a variety of resources.
The report stated that the SES program was designed for students who lacked traditional admissions criteria, financial support, past educational opportunities for college and graduate school, that college was a possibility. Priority was given students from an urban setting.
"The program focused on utilizing the unique heritage and cultural norms of black people as an asset in providing an auditory and visual well as support services." The report states.
"The initiative for the development of the program came about because black students at KU and throughout the country were attempting to fulfill their needs. Thus, the program, reflecting the mood of the country, was designed for one ethnic group."
IN AUGUST 1972, the Office of Urban
Affair changed to the Office of
Minority Affairs.
The concern should be with minorities", he said, "not with the broader area urban of Chicago."
The name of the office was changed to give a more descriptive title to the office. The office was renamed.
According to a report made to the Memorial Corporation Jan. 31, grants, scholarships and loans are awarded to students who have met severe financial need or failure to receive a paycheck on time. Students must have exhausted all other avenues of aid and must have indicated that without aid, they could not afford their education. They also indicate some source for repaying the loan.
The report said the requests for aid were approved by the EES staff in consultation with representatives from both the financial aid and the admissions offices.
For the fall semester of 1972, the staff consisted of one assistant director, eight counselors, two graduate assistants and 16 full-time, and six part-time tutors. There were 146 students in the program that semester.
Department Seeks Minority Members For Grad School
Black, Mexican-American and American Indian graduate students are actively recruited by the department of human biology at Green, assistant professor of human development.
A minority recruiting committee sends information on the department of human development to psychology departments of major, predominantly black institutions, Green said Wednesday. Students who show an interest are contacted by telephone.
Of the 103 graduate students now in the department 79 are white, 15 are black and Asian. Of the 84 departmental staff Flora Thompson, departmental assistant. Two out of 24 faculty members are black, Asian or Hispanic.
Other departmental resources for recruiting include professors at other universities and former human development students.
"We're pretty well represented in the minorities," she said.
Two out of 24 faculty members are black Thompson said.
Thompson said that before the department hired a preschool teacher a few years ago, it had set out looking for a member of a minority.
The most recently hired professor happened to be a member of a minority, she said, but the job was unique and he was the only person who filled the qualifications
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