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University of Iowa Committee on Human Rights policies, 1958-1986

1968-11-15 University Human Rights Committee to President Howard Bowen Page 6

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of the Committee that valuable assistance in interesting students in the University will be provided by minority students already on campus, as well as the Afro-American organization, a full time person, plus secretarial help, will be required. 
   There are two geographic areas in which a University of Iowa minority recruiter could operate effectively. The first is Iowa and its immediately adjoining cities of Omaha and the Illinois part of Quad cities. In addition to the possibility of recruitment of Indians at Tama and Sioux City, and disadvantaged Negroes and others at the Job Corps Center at Clinton, there are probably five high schools in the Iowa area with significant Negro enrollment, plus perhaps another dozen with some Negroes, It is the feeling of Mr. Robert Sauers, the University recruiter, that an intensive recruitment program at these schools would enroll perhaps 25 additional minority group students the first year, but would build on prior success and, when fully effective, result in some 40-50 additional minority group students from the Iowa area entering each year. 
   The second area for the recruiter to operate in would be the major metropolitan areas of the Midwest. Given the low proportion of minority group students in Iowa, if the University is to fulfill its role as an educator of minority group students, intensive recruiting must be done out of state. There should be no objection as a matter of policy to such a course of action if it is once decided that the University must fulfill its societal commitment by increasing the number of its black students. Nor could this be out of line when compared with other University policies. Iowa is not, in fact, an institution exclusively for Iowans. Both its student body and faculty now include substantial numbers of out of staters. It is desirable to retain and even extend this multi-state character. Much

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-6- of the Committee that valuable assistance in interesting students in the University will be provided by minority students already on campus, as well as the Afro-American organization, a full time person, plus secretarial help, will be required. There are two geographic areas in which a University of Iowa minority recruiter could operate effectively. The first is Iowa and its immediately adjoining cities of Omaha and the Illinois part of Quad cities. In addition to the possibility of recruitment of Indians at Tama and Sioux City, and disadvantaged Negroes and others at the Job Corps Center at Clinton, there are probably five high schools in the Iowa area with significant Negro enrollment, plus perhaps another dozen with some Negroes, It is the feeling of Mr. Robert Sauers, the University recruiter, that an intensive recruitment program at these schools would enroll perhaps 25 additional minority group students the first year, but would build on prior success and, when fully effective, result in some 40-50 additional minority group students from the Iowa area entering each year. The second area for the recruiter to operate in would be the major metropolitan areas of the Midwest. Given the low proportion of minority group students in Iowa, if the University is to fulfill its role as an educator of minority group students, intensive recruiting must be done out of state. There should be no objection as a matter of policy to such a course of action if it is once decided that the University must fulfill its societal commitment by increasing the number of its black students. Nor could this be out of line when compared with other University policies. Iowa is not, in fact, an institution exclusively for Iowans. Both its student body and faculty now include substantial numbers of out of staters. It is desirable to retain and even extend this multi-state character. Much