Quality Education for Chicanos
Ruben Bonilla discusses a report from the Department of Health, Education and Welfare (HEW) on segregation in Texas’ institutions of higher learning. HEW has only released segments of the report, claiming that some of the information was gathered for law enforcement purposes and cannot be released. Nonetheless, groups like LULAC are pressing to see the entire report, which also explored the participation of minorities in higher education and reviews recruitment and admission policies. Bonilla, president of the National LULAC, explains that the report reveals widespread discrimination against Hispanics in Texas Universities as well as severe levels of under representation both in the classroom and at the administrative level. Moreover, Hispanics are largely segregated in smaller, less well-funded universities, where the quality of education is not the same as in larger schools.
In response to the released portions of the study, LULAC has issued a 10-point program that calls on universities to voluntarily desegregate and aggressively recruit Hispanic students and professors, many of whom are choosing to stay at small local colleges or leaving for the Ivy League. Bonilla further argues that HEW’s refusal to release the whole report is part of a larger backlash against the civil rights movement and also constitutes a political ploy by the Carter Administration and its bid for reelection.
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Abelardo Valdez
Affirmative Action
California
Civil Rights Backlash
Civil Rights Movement
Community Colleges
Conservative Ideology
Corpus Christi
Department of Education
Department of Health, Education and Welfare
Discrimination in Higher Education
Diversity
Dr. Israel Treble
Edward Kennedy
Estella Torres
FOIA
Freedom of Information Act
Gilbert Pompa
Harvard
Higher Education
Hispanic population
Inflation
Ivy League Colleges
Jarvis Miller
Jimmy Carter
Julian Nava
League of United Latin American Citizens
Liberal Education
LULAC
Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund
Minorities in Higher Education
Minority Recruitment
Minority-owned business
New York Times
Office of Civil Rights
Patricia Harris
Peter T. Flawn
Pittsburgh
Proposition 13
Ruben Bonilla
San Antonio College
Segregation
Segregation in Higher Education
Set-aside requirements
Shirley Hufstedler
South Texas
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Texas Politics
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The Bakke Case
The Weber Case
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