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Show UJju salt lake free not for sale n hi vc!ume one july 6. 1972 number forty-si- x Educational System Needs Improvement by Kirk Terry When the educational system is lingually biased and the system doesn't include curriculum as culturally different as the students within the system, the minority pupil can find no sense i. of identity in the system, becomes frustrated and quits ? y c? v 1 school; this condition has no PP 'y. Vfl'A ' , i silver lining. Anita Young Boswell, executive chairwoman of League of Black Women speaks at conference. Women Meet in D.C. "While this conference (In an attempt to keep residents of the model neighborhood informed of local and national issues and programs which might affect them, we include press releases from various governmental agencies and news items from other states. This article on the first national conference for businesswomen should be of interest to women in our community who are forced or elect to go to work or open their own business.) Participants among the more than 500 women from across the country who met recently in Washington, D. C. at the first national Conference on Business Opportunities for Women called the conference a success in the national effort to assist in eliminating barriers to the full participation of women in the business world. The conference, the first of its kind, was sponsored by the Department of Commerce's Office of Minority Business Enterprise (OMBE), the lead agency in the government's program to increase participation of minorities economy as operators. John OMBE, L. the Nation's business owners and in Jenkins, director of said during the is just beginning," Jenkins said, "it is a most promising beginning. The barriers which women, especially minority women, face in the business world have been identified here and together we can move toward removing them so that women can reach their full a of psycology, University of Utah. Garcia is working closely with the Salt Lake Board of Education for the development of an educational system that isn't culturally lacking. Garcia sees the problem, locally, as the absence of effective communication channels open between teachers, students, parents andMostschool teachers administration. Dr. Eugene Garcia says minority student loses sense agreed that lending institutions do not apply the same credit system becomes apparent when the student can't reach above the of standards to women that they do to men, and they stressed that the a member of the board. Garcia language barriers. a Garcia said pilot program said the board members need to grant, expected to be functional spend a great deal of time actually soon, in the form of a Day Care in the schools, meeting students, Center has been planned for parents and the community at al Conference participants inability to obtain credit financing commensurate with what is necessary to implement their business plans is the chief barrier faced by women in the business world. The conference identity. overcome the lack of business experience on the part of women development. The Center will enroll eight children, 2 to 3 years of age, and their parents. The central focus of the pilot program is aimed at the Chicano home environment and language. By which has resulted from reaching the young minority Training School and in traditional exclusion of women from business pursuits. Polly Gallardo, conference for representative and Indian children and educating them to development of language training adjust more easily to the for normal students. He received community at large and the his B.A. from the University of school system, the children will Utah, continuing his doctoral be able to overcome more readily studies at the University of women their cultural also looked at methods to Spanish-speakin- g in the Southwest, commented, "there are common problems that confront all women in business and I think we all need to unite and work very closely together in order to really achieve the benefits that think I are possible." Others who participated in the meeting called it an excellent forum for women to air their exchange information and problems and exchange develop programs to respond to the unmet business needs of women. Ph.D., assistant professor don't have a capability and the confrontation with the potential as entrepreneurs." conference, "it is encouraging to see so many women from around the country gathered here to experiences. This exchange will give OMBE the basis on which to So said Eugene Garcia, experiences and information, and described it as a good first step toward making equal business opportunity accessible to all women. disadvantages. Program plans call for a cultural curriculum with studies to cover all aspects of the community and the Chicano life styles from home life to training. The program will be administered in conjunction with the University of Utah. Dr. Garcia identified certain conditions with the city school board as culturally biased and in need of change. One condition, he said, is absence of a Chicano member on the board. What's more, he added, is the fact that there has never been a Chicano as large. said Garcia. The work planned in the Day Care Center is new in nature, and solutions to the problems identified in the community haven't been developed. But, Dr. Garcia feels that changes must be made in the educational systems and procedures and in the Research with retarded children is another of Dr. Garcia's fields of endeavor. He said he is working with the retarded children at the American Fork Kansas. Dr. Garcia said continuing problems of educational systems lacking culturally are deserving of more attention. All too often the chicano student who can't succeed in school is blamed al erronously for the crime and disruptive conditions found in the community. Garcia said would show that .this isn't the case, in general those evidence problems I in a community originate elsewhere. Not all of the information, strategy and curriculum are available or known at this time. community as a whole. Without the access to effective education through curriculum the Chicano could find himself floating alone on a piece of ice that doesn't stop melting. Without a foot hold in a community the Chicano is easily swept away, that much is certain. |