Word: californiaisms
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...largest disadvantaged minority in America (TIME, April 28), and working from a concern rooted deep in his Texas past, Lyndon Johnson last week appointed Armando Rodriguez, 46, as coordinator of the new Mexican-American Affairs Unit of the U.S. Office of Education. Born in Durango, Mexico, and a former California educator, Rodriguez will supervise programs aimed at easing the lot of both braceros (Mexican farm workers) and pochos (a self-description used by native-born Mexican-Americans that the more assimilated consider pejorative), as well as innovating programs to dissolve the cultural barrier that keeps so many Mexican-Americans...
...university "sure as hell isn't run like a corporation-university people simply aren't yes men." Another difference, notes Wisconsin Regent Kenneth Greenquist, is that "there is no balance sheet with a university-you could make a mistake and not know it for a generation." California Regent Edward Carter contends that what a regent really needs is a diversified "experience of life and the breadth of vision that comes from it, since by the time problems get to the regents' level they are pretty broad...
Regents vary on how deeply they delve into operational detail. Most try to confine themselves to setting broad policy and letting administrators carry it out. The California regents were long plagued by administrative trivia, once even had to pass upon the hiring of janitors. Authority has now been decentralized to the point where troublesome student behavior is a campus chancellor's problem, rather than the regents' or the university president's. On the other hand, Minnesota regents must still pass upon every clerical appointment and even $200 equipment purchases...
...buffer role effectively, they clearly need to know student and faculty leaders. Not all of them do. "Nobody really has any contact with the board of governors-it's like speaking to the gods on Olympus," complains Bart Mindszenthy, a campus newspaper editor at Wayne State University. Yet California regents are trying hard: they meet monthly with student leaders, sometimes hike with them in the High Sierras. Governors of Central Michigan University stay in student dorms when they meet...
...public servants are more convinced of the worth of what they do than are university regents. California Regent William Forbes, president of a music firm, concedes that his service as a regent, which takes about 30% of his time, is the biggest thing in his life because "the hope of mankind lies in educating as many people as best...