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...weeks, demanding among other things the admission of more minority students. "We could have withstood the political pressure and the violence for two more years, but only with a lot of academic double talk and finagling," says Healy. Instead, the university's deceptively soft-spoken Chancellor Albert H. Bowker and a unanimous Board of Higher Education decided to outpace the militants, speed up expansion plans by five years, and offer a place to every city high school graduate who wanted one this fall...
Acknowledging fears that the expansion would scare off outstanding students, Bowker redoubled recruiting efforts and succeeded in attracting the same proportion of academic whiz kids that the university has boasted in past years. To keep the disadvantaged students from dragging down academic standards, the university is giving them as much time as they need to finish, plus a stiff dose of remedial courses. The catch-up work will not count toward a degree. Bowker insists: "We will not award college degrees for anything except college-level work...
...million budget is adequate for only 30,000 freshmen instead of the estimated 35,000 now signed up. With backing from labor unions, who see open admissions as a boon for their members' children, the state and city will probably provide all the funds that Bowker needs. But until the money comes through, the university's 1,000 new teachers and guidance counselors will be far from sufficient. It will take longer to unjam the classrooms. Construction is so slow that the shortage of space will not let up for another two years...
Unpardonable Sin. Despite Bowker's determination to keep high standards, critics feel that some dilution of quality must eventually appear in even the best-funded and -staffed open-admissions program. Guaranteed admissions, they argue, may lead to insidious pressures for guaranteed diplomas. At the moment the biggest worry is how to keep many students from dropping out, but "20% of these kids get a degree," says Vice-Chancellor Healy. "That's 20% above zero." Even those who earn two-year degrees will benefit the city, which sorely needs trained people in fields ranging from medicine to police work...
...Mason '71 of North House and Savannah, Ga., and Evan W. Thomas '73 of Grays Hall and Huntington, N. Y., to the News Board; Charles F. Allan '72 of Adams House and Dallas, Texas, Jeffrey L. Baker '71 of Dunster House and East Amherst, N. Y., Richard J. Bowker '72 of Mather House and West Roxbury, Elizabeth R. Fishel '72 of Barnard Hall and New York City, Laurence P. Meyer '70-3 of Eliot House and Palo Alto, Cal., Meredith A. Palmer '73 of Barnard Hall and Los Angeles, and Matthew Witt '72 of Leverett House and Los Angeles...