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graduates to be at least proportional to the
number of white high school graduates entering
undergraduate institutions.
• Take “all reasonable steps” to reduce any
disparity in the proportion of retention rates
between black and white students.
• Adopt the goal that the proportion of black
state residents who graduate from undergrad
uate institutions and enter graduate or profes
sional study or schools be at least equal.
The federal courts and civil rights office also
have set time limits on the establishment and
ultimate success of the plan.
At the trustees’ meeting, Bartoo explained that
the state has “roughly five years” to reach the
plan’s goals once they are approved by the court.
The University’s drafting team which in
addition to Bartoo includes Robert E. Dunham,
vice president for undergraduate studies; Robert
J. Scannell, vice president and dean, the Univer
sity’s Commonwealth Educational System; Lo
ren M. Furtado, director of the Office of Planning
and Budget, and William W. Asbury, assistant to
the provost and affirmative action officer has
worked hard with the state officials and officers
from the other schools to produce ah acceptable
plan, Bartoo said. But, he added, he must remain
realistic about the eventual productivity of the
drafting team’s work.
“I have to be a realist and say that there is not
going to be a dramatic change overnight,” Bar
too said in a recent interview. He explained that
the University will also add a “price tag” to the
report it submits to the state and the Office of
Civil Rights because many of the programs the
University plans to suggest will involve additio
nal expense.
Although the 1978 regulations also contain
sections on increasing black faculty and staff, the
University has not focused on that area, Bartoo
said, because of a previously approved affirma
tive action plan.
Therefore, the University’s efforts have fo
cused on black student enrollment. And in line
with the federal requirements, Bartoo said the
drafting team has set a black enrollment goal of
about 5 percent. Now, according to the latest
figures available, the University has a black
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enrollment of about 2.3 percent,
The drafting team established the 5 percent
figure by setting a goal of doubling black enroll
ment and adding the additional 0.4 percent from
thedesired increases in retention rates, Bartoo
said.
With the University’s centralized administra
tion process, it will be easier to increase the
number of first-time enrollments of black stu
dents than to significantly change the Universi
ty’s retention rates, Bartoo said.
In contrast to the admissions system, Bartoo
said, the University does not have a centralized
retention system. The admissions office, finan
cial aid office and minority support services all
report to different administrators, Bartoo said,
which forces inherent difficulties in the Universi
ty’s efforts.
Incoming University President Bryce Jordan,
when asked about the University’s minority
enrollment problem at a recent news conference
in Harrisburg, said he will be “doing some work
in” those areas.
“I do look to the possibility of reorganizing
some of the recruitment efforts at the University
and also some of the the support mechanisms
that help minority students acclimate them
selves and take full advantage of what Penn State
has to offer,” said Jordan, executive vice chan
cellor of acadnieic affairs at the University of
Texas System
Jordan, who will take office on July 1, declined
to elaborate on his comments.
Bartloo declined to release some specifics on
the drafting team’s plans in this area until the
state plan is sent to the civil rights office.
Bartoo did, however, say the University will
most likely select certain Commonwealth cam
puses which he declined to specify where
additional support services for minorities will be
established.
The drafting team has recognized that “a lot of
(black students) are going to come into the
Commonwealth campus system,” Bartoo said.
“It’s unrealistic to say we are going to put a
support system at each campus.”
In addition to the enrollment and retention
proposals, the University’s plans will also focus
on cooperative efforts with predominantly black
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schools, Bartoo said.
At the Harrisburg news conference, Jordan
said he had seen the draft of the University’s
plan, which he called “an excellent good faith
effort.” , >
The University’s plan, Jordan said, included
suggestions for joint programming and cooper
ative efforts,
The Office of Civil Rights is working with the
general theme of providing better access for
'black students to professional and graduate
schools, Bartoo said.
Bartoo said he had discussions in Harrisburg
with Lincoln and Cheyney “about ways and
means that we could perhaps admit more black'
students from Lincoln and Cheyney into our
medical school, for example.”
Most likely, Bartoo said, a joint effort among
Penn State, Temple and Pitt will be conducted to
assist Lincoln and Cheyney with pre-medical
curriculum, counseling of students and, possibly,
a similar program in the other sciences.
“I am reasonably sure that we are going to end
up appointing some kind of liaison committees to
enter into discussions about ways and means that
programs can oe enhanced with cooperative
programs.”
At the trustees’ meeting, Oswald had warned
the board that an integration plan could possibly
result in the elimination of academic programs.
In April, for example, the educatution depart
ment approved a "desegregation plan in which
some programs had been eliminated from some
institutions.
However, Bartoo said he does not think the
state’s plan will include any suggestions for
program elimination
For instance, Bartoo said programs in special
education are offered at several institutions
within a 20-mile radius of each other. Penn State
offers its programs at the King of Prussia Center.
West Chester State College, Cheyney and Temple
also have graduate programs in that curriculum.
A recent study found that 2,500 teachers in that
area.needed or wanted certification or higher
degrees in special education, Bartoo said.
“Quite frankly, I don’t think that the discussion
(about program elimination) is going to be a high
priority.”
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ago.” Letterman said health records
for screenings of former Drake em
ployees were then being gathered
with state Health Department funds.
He said he believes the money could
have been spent by the June 30 dead
line because of the urgent need for the
tests.
against a tax increase and believes
the governor is trying to gain his vote
in return for health screening funds.
To pass the budget in the House,
Letterman said Thornburgh “needs
at least 25 Democrats.”
Explaining that tax increases are
inevitably anyway, Letterman has
said he would vote for Thornburgh's
budget if that .would secure the mon
ey for the health screening.
Both Letterman and Corman were
angered that the governor did not
consult them before blue-lining the
amendment. Letterman said he tried
unsuccessfully to speak to Thorn
burgh before the governor received
the bill. He said he wanted to convey
to the governor the urgency of the
screenings.
“Unless you live with it, you can’t
know the extent of the problem,”
Letterman said.
Corfhan said: “I couldn’t believe
the governor could be that insensitive
to the problem.”
Corman met on Friday with Arnold
Muller, director of the state Depart
ment of Health and some of Thorn
burgh’s aides.
After the meeting, Corman an
nounced that information on the pos-
‘I don’t need any
more studies. I need
people tested.’
—state Rep. Russell
Letterman; D-Centre
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sible health affects of chemical
exposure at the Drake plant would
continue to be gathered with Depart
ment of Health funds despite the fact
that no screening of individuals would
tako place yet.
Deputy Secretary of Health Donald
Reid’said one of the ways information
would be gathered is through a ques
tionnaire for former Drake workers
and nearby residents. Another test
would document the incidence of can
cer in Clinton County and then com
pare that with cancer rates of the
surrounding counties.
Corman said that if significant evi
dence of a health problem exists due
to chemical exposure, a strategy for
health screening would be developed.
But Letterman said he is not satis
fied because he believes enough infor
' mation has been gathered to warrant
individual health screenings.
“I don’t need any more studies. I
need people tested,” Letterman said.
Frank Furl, president of Citizens
and Laborers for Environmental Ac
tion Now (CLEAN), said the studies
“will help the Department of Health
to nail down a little closer cost (for
the health screenings) and to deter
mine whether the federal aid will be
needed.”
CLEAN is a group of former em
ployees of Drake and other concerned
Lock Haven residents who have
banded together to push for health
screenings and a prompt cleanup of
the site,
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‘I couldn’t believe the
governor could be
that insensitive to
the problem.’
—state Sen. J. Doyle
Corman' R-Centre County