Preparing for the Week of Demands and Protests
The students from Liberation through Education began by compiling a list of demands for the Claremont Colleges' Administrations and Presidents. With the purpose of best representing their intentions, most of the demands focused on increasing the hiring of minority faculty by 50%, searching and reopening for a Spanish/Chicano studies position at Scripps College, allowing students to partake in the hiring process of faculty and administration, and requesting more attention for Black Studies/Asian-American Studies/Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual communities on campus. This list, first presented on Monday, February 1st, was the main spearhead in initiating a week of awareness and change.
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Monday
February 1st, 1993
AS STUDENTS WE DEMAND:
1. Absolute, without negotiation, AMNESTY for ALL students involved in this struggle to secure an education that is not racially biased.
2. That the Black Studies/Pomona's English Department position search be re-opened and that Sue Houchin's candidacy be reinstated. In two weeks, we want to see a list of the three new candidates with Sue Houchins as one of them. We want this position filled by March 1st, 1993.
3. That the search for a tenure-tracked Spanish/Chicano Studies position at Scripps be reopened and that money be allocated from the existing budge for this search immediately. We want this position filled by April 16, 1993.
4. An increase in faculty hiring and retention of people of color in all departments.
5. That all of The Claremont Colleges publish in all college funded newspapers information (including official job descriptions) about the searches conducted for new job openings.
6. That students immediately be put on all committees having to do with hiring, retention, tenuring and firing of all faculty in all five colleges, and that they be given voting power within these committees.
7. That there be biweekly meetings between administration and students concerning the progress being made to meet our demands.
8. (a) That money be allocated for the creation of two paid scholarships for students of color living in low income areas surrounding The Claremont Colleges. (b) These scholarships must be created at each school for each school year beginning next semester (ten annual scholarships in all).
9. That demands 1-8 be acknowledged and confirmed by Presidents Stanley, Bekavac, Stark, Massey, and Riggs as well as Eleanor Montague, and the Judicial boards with the authority to grant amnesty immediately.
Monday
February 1st, 1993
AS STUDENTS WE DEMAND:
1. Absolute, without negotiation, AMNESTY for ALL students involved in this struggle to secure an education that is not racially biased.
2. That the Black Studies/Pomona's English Department position search be re-opened and that Sue Houchin's candidacy be reinstated. In two weeks, we want to see a list of the three new candidates with Sue Houchins as one of them. We want this position filled by March 1st, 1993.
3. That the search for a tenure-tracked Spanish/Chicano Studies position at Scripps be reopened and that money be allocated from the existing budge for this search immediately. We want this position filled by April 16, 1993.
4. An increase in faculty hiring and retention of people of color in all departments.
5. That all of The Claremont Colleges publish in all college funded newspapers information (including official job descriptions) about the searches conducted for new job openings.
6. That students immediately be put on all committees having to do with hiring, retention, tenuring and firing of all faculty in all five colleges, and that they be given voting power within these committees.
7. That there be biweekly meetings between administration and students concerning the progress being made to meet our demands.
8. (a) That money be allocated for the creation of two paid scholarships for students of color living in low income areas surrounding The Claremont Colleges. (b) These scholarships must be created at each school for each school year beginning next semester (ten annual scholarships in all).
9. That demands 1-8 be acknowledged and confirmed by Presidents Stanley, Bekavac, Stark, Massey, and Riggs as well as Eleanor Montague, and the Judicial boards with the authority to grant amnesty immediately.
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