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"...a declaration of urgency in getting the Institution involved directly in a current domestic problem." - COURIMGE
Following the visit to the Center for Inner-City studies in Chicago, President Maucker asked then Executive Dean and Vice President for Student Affairs and Field Service, Daryl Pendergraft, to serve as the chair of the Committee on University Responsibility in Minority Group Education (COURIMGE). In addition to the group members who traveled to Chicago, others were soon added to the committee: University students and staff, representatives of the Waterloo and Cedar Falls school systems, and leaders of the black and white communities.
On the 21st of March, 1968, the COURIMGE held their first official meeting. At that time, President Maucker describe its tasks and functions. He charged the group to "recognize the limited knowledge of minority group problems...of most of…[the UNI] staff and students." Maucker stressed the need for the committee members to "lean over backwards to cooperate and consult with minority group people, those in the Waterloos and Cedar Falls schools and those representing the Cedar Falls-Waterloo communities."
At the outset, the COURIMGE was faced with several challenging issues. Chairman Pendergraft suggested that a cooperative program with the Waterloo school be established in order to enroll black students in the Malcolm Price Laboratory School, there be special efforts to improve the campus environment for better relations with minority groups' students, and establish an affiliation with a college or university were the students and staff were primarily black.
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