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By College Press Service
The increasingly strident debate over how
colleges with predominantly white student
enrollments should accommodate their black
student population may erupt anew in the
coming weeks as a guide that grades college
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Author Barry Beckham cxpccts to sell
10,000 copies of his Black Student's Guide to
Colleges, published Dec. 14th, or about one
for every 25 black students enrolled next fall.
The guide assesses 158 campuses' efforts
to meet black students' needs. Curricula offerings,
counselings services, social atmosphere
and interaction with the local community
arc among the factors evaluated.
AS WITH his first edition, published in
1982, Beckham cxpccts the guide to produce
a raft of complaints from administrators
who feel their schools have been slighted.
But more significantly, the guide
underscores the debate over how universities
should treat minority students' special needs
by focusing on services geared toward them.
Colleges need to meet those needs if blacks
are ever to have the same opportunities as
others, Beckham said.
"If you're a white Christian male, you can
do anything," Beckham said. "If you're a
Jewish male, you can do a bit less. If you're a
black male, you can do still a bit less."
OPPONENTS OF special programs to
meet those needs, however, argue the programs
can be unfair to white students or can
isolate black students from predominantly
white student bodies.
Regardless of the programs' effectiveness,
mostly white colleges arc having a harder
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meet their integration goals.
The number of black college students
declined slightly from 1980 to 1982, the most
recent period for which federal government
statistics are available.
University administrators are particularly
worried the subjective evaluations in the
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black students guide could further hurt their
recruiting efforts.
"WE DID get a little pressure to change
things after the first edition came out," said
Beckham, a Brown University English professor
said.
Beckham has changed his methodology t<^^
answer administrators' concerns.
For the second edition, the number of
students who filled out the questionnaires
was increased from five to an average of
eight per campus.
University administrators got to select the
students who filled out the questionnaires.
ADMINISTRATORS ARK less likely to
be on the defensive this time," Beckham
said.
Although the changes convinced almost^
twice as many school to participate in the second
edition, more than 2(X) schools still
refused to assist Beckham.
Among them were the University of
California at Los Angeles (one UCLA student
was quoted in the first edition as saying
UCLA has "an atmosphere of de facto
segregation"), Amherst College and Jackson
State University. ^
Administrators at other schools may wish
they hadn't. The guide says:
Many black students "feel unhappy and ?
disenchanged" with the University of%P
Arizona at Tucson, and not even black
students and black professors get along.
Black athletes at the University of Idaho
at Moscow are revered as demj-gods, but
other black students are assumed to be at the
school because they have learning
disabilities. The surrounding community is
described as an area "not yet reached by the
civil rights movement."
Black students have trouble adjusting at
Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio
One black student says the favorite words of
black alums are, "I'm glad to be out."
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