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By Tom Coyne
Staff Writer
The blue ribbon steerii
i established to devise a plan
South Carolina's public
universities, yesterday passe
plan "in principle."
The committee must ap
version of the report and subr
8 to the U.S. Department of E<
The department issued an
Dick Riley Jan. 7 that South C
plans to bring state public
universities into compliance i
the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
The committee's final vers
will go to the attorney gem
miccinn nn Uintiax
vii liuuld
governor for approval. T
Department will have 60 day
plan and to negotiate with Sot
revisions.
IF SOUTH Carolina fails t
the federal requirements, sta
universities will lose $25 mil
aid.
In the compliance order,
Department cited segregatioi
areas within the state's hig
system.
Racial identifiability of sch
student enrollment figures.
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ng committee, State College,
to desegregate
colleges and Duplication ol
;d a draft of its and other trac
the state.
prove a final *Kacial identi
nit it by March rninistrators a
iucation.
order to Gov. Racial inequa
arolina submit of state institu
colleges and
.vith Title VI of The overall i
will be $19.?
, , , Seventy-four ]
lion of the plan million, will be
aval tha ? -
\r :" Student recr
ilon *he million, and $
he Education graduate inc(
U?n the College progn
ith Carolina on and ^j000 wj
. 14. UNDER the
f.JZStHZ Wlt5 the propertioi
e colleges and ministrators
lion in federal state instituti
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' education xhe proport
ministrators a
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1 baaed on national prop
torates. The
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USC representatives appea
House committee to reinforc
allowed to maintain the tw<
programs offered by the Colle
USC's appeal to the House E
was in response to the Comi
recommendation that seven t
commission said the program
technical colleges.
THE 20-MEMBER commil
their arguments; however,
programs until after the Sei
evidence.
USC President James B. He
USC's position. He said USC <
consideration by the House th
commission.
HnlHprman caiH ahmit tKo
more apparent than real," an<
don't fix it."
llOLDERMAN introduced
represented the College of Ger
John N. Gardner, a Gener
House committee the quality
faculty has been improving sir
Gardner said USC has plaj
baccalaureate work," and to (
"avenue of upward social mob
USC PROVOST Frank Bork
costs of the "duplicated" prog
committee that funding for th
through a commission formu
containing program cost br
programs.
Borkowski said if the progr;
students moving into four-yea
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ne oaiu iuui -year programs s
year programs.
"The end result we submit, t
General Studies would be to f
student and not less," Borkows
USC GENERAL Studies gns
the quality of the General Sti
mittee to support USC.
McCurry, banging his fist
committee, "I've got mine, g
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plan
resource allocation to S.C.
f programs between S.C. State
litionally white institutions in
fiability of faculty and adt
state institutions.
ilit&es on the governing board
tions.
cost of the desegregation plan
> million over five years,
percent of the money, $14.5
} used to enhance S.C. State,
uitment will account for $1.9
1.5 million will be allotted to
rntives. Denmark Technical
ims will receive $1.1 million,
ill go for faculty recruitment.
proposed desegregation plan
r\ of black faculty and adwithout
doctorates at each
on will at least equal the
black students graduating
degrees from state inion
of black faculty and adt
each institution in Dositions
orates will at least equal the
ortion of blacks with docproportion
of non-academic
ild B. Weatherbee
itant News Editor
ired Monday before a South Carolin
re the university's position that it b
3-year occupational associate degre
ge of General Studies.
'.ducation and Public Works Committe
nission on Higher Education's Jan.
wo-year programs be eliminated. Th
s duplicated programs offered by stat
ttee listened as both sides presente
it will withhold judgement on th
late Education Committee hears th
>lderman began the hearing by statin
ioes not support a bill presently unde
at would dissolve the higher educatio
two-vear nrnerams "Himlinatinn i
i he quoted an adage, "11 it ain't broke
guest speakers, most of whor
leral Studies, to argue on USC's behall
al Studies faculty member, told th
of the General Studies programs an
ice the college was founded in 1915.
/ed a "vital role in offering less tha
?liminate the programs would close a
ility."
owski refuted commission claims tha
[rams are excessive Hp rpminrfpH th
le programs under attack is allocate
la. Using bar graphs and document
eakdowns, Borkowski defended th
ams were eliminated, General Studie
r programs would cost the state more
ire funded at a higher level than twc
herefore, of eliminating the College o
und USC at more dollars per averag<
;ki said.
tduate Chuck McCurry, who defendec
udies programs, also urged the com
against the podium, told tin
entiemen,' referring to his two-yea
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bring South Carolina inU
Education desegregation o
meet the federal requiremer
black personnel at each institutioi
least equal the proportion of blac
state job market.
Lt. Gov. Nancy Stevenson q
whether the plan would produce
improvement in faculty recruitrr
the next five years. "Of the s
stitutions in the state, four of ther
less than 2 percent increase in blac
and only one projects more than a
increase," Stevenson said.
Commission on Higher E<
Chairman James E. Bostic Jr. sai(
be impossible to have any great in
black faculty because only 3 to 4 p
all doctoral graduates in the m
black.
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mi mit tee, which was set up to
o compliance with a U S n
rder, yesterday approved a drai
its.
a must at TO ELIMINATE stu<
:ks in the based on student enrol
plan calls for a 50 percer
uestioned of the disparity in propo
suff cient white hi?h sch001 8"
over traditionally white four-y
.even in- T^e p^an wi^ allocate J
n project State to alleviate ineq
k faculty allocation.
0 oercent ?n duplication of pr
states that USC, Clemsoi
not have similar mission?
iucation USC and Clemson encc
1 it would areas of graduate and \
crease in The mission of S C. State
ercent of college with graduate pre
ition are master's level," the plan
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dent identifiability
iment figures, the
it reduction by 1986
rtions of black and
raduates entering
ear institutions.
H4.5 million to S.C.
uities in resource
ograms, the plan
n and S C. State do
i. "The functions of
>mpass prescribed
professional study.
5 is that of a senior
tgrams through the
states.
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