University Daily Kansan
Friday, September 22, 1972
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KUMC Recruits Minorities
By MARGE LEVIT
Kansas Staff Writer
Helping members of minority groups get a bigger piece of the action might be one way to help them learn how to program now forging ahead at the University of Kansas Medical Leadership of Chester Remson.
Rempson, the first black administrator at the Medical Center, was appointed assistant vice chancellor for affirmative action at the Med Center in March. The personable 30-year-old woman who was an assistant dean of students at the University of Chicago.
"our goal," he said in a recent interview, "is to increase the recruitment, training and utilization of minorities in all health fields." This includes medicine, nursing and allied health fields."
He defined these minorities as
representation in the planning stage of the report at their school, and to give the question on faculty participation in COCAO), and what could be done.
AAUP . . .
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"The project has gone so far now that no chance for participation remains." Nichols said.
There has been some faculty input, he said, though not in a formal setting. Input has been confined mainly to ideas discussed with the deans of the faculty and recommended for the report.
This does not close the door to new programs, he said. Warniness was emphasized to avoid unnecessary expense.
"When the report is released,
it's significant and significant.
Nicholas said. "The report says,
let's be conservative about the
new degree programs."
Nichols also is participating in monthly question and answer sessions with AAUP officers and interested members, John L. Glinka, AAUP president, said. These sessions were first held in Maitland with Laurence Chambers Jr., former chancellor.
blacks, Mexican Americans, American Indians, Puerto Ricans and women. "Medical schools have been much more willing to deal with the problem of women with other minorities," he said.
FIGURES ON current enrollment in the program. To a total of 548 students, 19, or 4 per cent, are members of other minorities, and 20, or 4 per cent, are non-minorities.
"We hope our student enrollment will increase to 12 percent minority representation as
our program continues," he said. That was the figure proposed by the National Medical Association at its August meeting in Kansas.
As Rempson makes his rounds of colleges and universities in the United States, medical school applicants whose motivation and potential may not have been accurately expressed point averages and test scores.
Chester Rempson
He said that many college extrance exams, including medical aptitude tests, had been naturally biased against majorities.
subjects  as anatomy, mashenism, and general science. Several students completed last summer's program and gained admittance  now are performing better than initially were rated higher. Renaissance students
"WE HOPE TO EXPAND the program to include more white students from disadvantaged backgrounds, too." Rempson said.
Promising minority applicants who need remedial study are offered a summer catch-up course. Courses are offered in such
Once admitted, these medical students can take a reduced course load, necessary, thereby allowing them to have somewhat longer period. Physicians from minority backgrounds are more apt to practice in inner-city areas, especially great, he said.
Although Rempson is concentrating his efforts on recruiting minor students for booths, he also involved with increasing the
minority representation on the faculty and staff at the Medical Center. Speaking of the overall picture, Remson said that 25 per cent of medical students at the Medical Center was made up of minority representatives.
"But the major of these workers are in lower echelon jobs, rather than in executive and faculty positions," he said.
Affirmative action programs arise from the Civil Rights Act of 1968, discrimination, but also required that programs of "affirmative action" be initiated to alleviate discrimination in minorities. Noncompliance with provisions of that act and the Civil Rights Act of 1968 augmented it can result in the withholding of federal funds. This has happened to several large corporations.
Rempson expects to be recruiting on the KU campus Oct. 2.
Union Board Plans Meeting For Saturday
An organizational meeting of the university of Kansas Memorial Hospital to discuss a report on operations and financial statement of the past fiscal year will be held at 10 a.m. in Room 346 of the Room of the Kansas Union. This will be the organization's first meeting since its new bylaws were adopted.
The Memorial Corporation,
which filed a charter in 1921,
owns and operates the contents
activities of the Kansas
Union.
The board of directors is composed of 30 people. Twelve University administrators and five teachers in the Union staff members, five students appointed by the Student Senate, three faculty appointed by the Student Senate, and seven members of the Board of Directors are members.
Faculty Interest Tops Student For Chancellor Committee
Faculty response has exceeded student response after four days of accepting applications for the campus advisory committee.
Twenty faculty members had made application for the search committee for a new chancellor position, and only two Dye students.
Alen said that the workload that went with the position might have scared some people off. But they had 25 to 30 applications are still out.
The Student Executive Committee will meet tonight to narrow down the number of applicants to 10 to 15 students if they remain among students will be interviewed the weekend in preparation for the selection Tuesday of the one student representative yet to be chosen to serve on the board with Allen and David Dillon. Student representatives and a student from the University of Kansas Medical Center.
nominations of Faculty Senate at their Thursday meeting.
Applications for Faculty
representative can be obtained at
223 Strong Hall. Application
must include faculty member
members 8 p.m. Tuesday
Campus Bulletin
Luzo-Brazilian 11:30 a.m., Alcove B
Cafeteria.
Muslim Students; 12:30 p.m., Parlor A.
SU Popular Film, "Bob and Carol and
Ted and Alice"; 7 p.m., Woodruff
Auditorium.
College Room
Study Hall 7:30 p.m. Governors Room
SATURDAY
Cafeteria
Basket Table: 11:30 a.m., Meadowlark
Cafeteria
GASP: noon, Mendowlark Cafeteria,
Geology Associates: noon, English third
floor.
p.m. Governors Room.
Luso-Brazilian 11:30 a.m. Alceo B
California
Chinese Student Association: 7 p.m.
Counsel Room.
Geology Association 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Council Room, Kansas Union.
Social Welfare Adv. Comm. 10 a.m. to 3
SATURDAY
Museum Associates Fossil Trip: 9 a.m.
Dyche Hall.
CPA Review Course: 9 a.m. & 1 p.m. 202
Football: 1:30 p.m. KU vs. Wyoming
Memorial Stadium
SUNDAY
SUA Bridge: 1:30 p.m., Pine Room.
Carillon Reckalt 3 p.m. Campanile.
"Bring in the Sun and Arrow!"
7:30 p.m. Woodruff Auditorium.
CPA Review Course: 9 a.m. & 1 p.m., 302
Summerfield
Kansas Union
Gallery Tour; 2 p.m., Museum of Art.
PharMACY Student Wives; 2 p.m., Watkins
Room.
Applications for student
U.S. Military Air Force Corporation - 10 Bld.
International Room, Kansas Union.
Jayhawk Buffet; 11 a.m., Kansas Union
Ballroom.
representative may be picked up in the Student Senate office and must be returned by 5 p.m. today.
The Faculty Council will make the selection of the three faculty representatives for the search committee from the list of
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