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Annual Report of the University Committee on Human Rights, 1966-1967 Page 3

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Human Rights Committee of the University of Iowa recommends that this policy be given added impetus in the direction of recruiting Negro students.
(B) The Human Rights Committee recommends that specially designated funds be made available for the support of low-income Negro students and that time and effort in the Office of Admissions be directed toward recruiting such students.
(C) Since many "ghetto" Negro students have not enjoyed either the literate home background of middle class white students nor the same quality of elementary and secondary education that standards for admission and scholarship for Negro students be related to the totality of Negro high school graduates and not to high school graduates in general. (For example, if the university admits the upper 50% of high school graduates, they would admit the upper 50% of Negro high school graduates. By implication, on the graduate level a raw score total of 1100 on the verbal and quantitative sections of the Graduate Record Exam is the minimum for scholarship aid to a student in the Graduate College, a raw score total of perhaps 950 be used as the minimum for Negro graduate students). This does not mean that the standards for graduation be lowered in any way, but it does mean that the university would take more risks in accepting Negro students and that the university would use every special facility available to improve the level of achievement of such Negro students as it accepts.
Respectfully submitted,
[actual signature]
James C. Spalding, Chairman
Human Rights Committee

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-3- Human Rights Committee of the University of Iowa recommends that this policy be given added impetus in the direction of recruiting Negro students. (B) The Human Rights Committee recommends that specially designated funds be made available for the support of low-income Negro students and that time and effort in the Office of Admissions be directed toward recruiting such students. (C) Since many "ghetto" Negro students have not enjoyed either the literate home background of middle class white students nor the same quality of elementary and secondary education that standards for admission and scholarship for Negro students be related to the totality of Negro high school graduates and not to high school graduates in general. (For example, if the university admits the upper 50% of high school graduates, they would admit the upper 50% of Negro high school graduates. By implication, on the graduate level a raw score total of 1100 on the verbal and quantitative sections of the Graduate Record Exam is the minimum for scholarship aid to a student in the Graduate College, a raw score total of perhaps 950 be used as the minimum for Negro graduate students). This does not mean that the standards for graduation be lowered in any way, but it does mean that the university would take more risks in accepting Negro students and that the university would use every special facility available to improve the level of achievement of such Negro students as it accepts. Respectfully submitted, [actual signature] James C. Spalding, Chairman Human Rights Committee