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authorized to the extent that it is consistent
with the primary function of the California
Suite University and Colleges."
-s. The proposed revision plan stales, "The
primary function of the CSU is the provision
of instruction for undergraduate and graduate
students. Facutly scholarship research and
* creative activity arc integral to the instruction
and public service funtions of the CSU."
The academic senate also approved the
proposed policy on faculty exchange, which
according to^a letter from Lyon to Schroeder.
originated as a result of the'university joining
the National Faculty Exchange, a program
designed to encourage and facilitate exchanges.
A requirement of this participation is a policy
addressing the university's procedures.
The proposal states, "The university will
attempt to facilitate and support the oppor¬
tunities for faculty to participate in faculty ex¬
changes with other instituions of higher
education, domestic and foreign, and with other
appropriate organizations.
The university is a member of the
National Faculty Exchange and, as appropriate,
will join and cooperate with other exchange
opportunities."
The senate also approved the university
budget committee resolution on,use of lottery.
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Record...
A story in Monday's paper
incorrectly identified a speaker as
Carla Romero. The story should
have said Carmen Romero.
Errors in The Daily Collegian can be
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U.S. policies stir reaction
(CPS) — A whirlwind of student activism
has swept across campuses around the world in
recent weeks and months, largely because uni¬
versities are trying to adopt policies U.S. stud¬
ents have lived with for years.
Students at the National Autonomous
University of Mexico, for example, recently
agreed to suspend a three-week strike they
started to protest new campus admissions stand¬
ards, standardized tests and increases in some
fees.
The students also disliked new requirements
that they attend at least 80 j-crccni of their
registered classes and that they Oan only make¬
up two exams a semester.
In France, thousands of students boycotted
classes and marched in the streets last Decem¬
ber to protest Premier Jacques Chirac's bill to
allow universities to set their own admission
requirements and increase registration fees.
In January, Canadian students donned black
armbands mourning the "death of post-second¬
ary education." Students in all provinces,
including Quebec, are pressuring their provin¬
cial legislatures to put more money from con¬
stantly spiraling tuitions back into higher
education.
Students in China, Peru, Spain. Italy and
Argentina, among other countries, also protest¬
ed new higher education policies ranging from
funding deficiencies to admissions and curric¬
ulum reforms.
"A bunch of countries have tried to change
their laws recently," said Ed Battle of the
Institute of International Education in Washing¬
ton, D.C.
The apparent reason is that they need to
streamline their colleges to cope with interna¬
tional economic shifts, he said.
"In the 1960's, they were under pressure to
expand the educational systems to make educa¬
tion accessible to more people. So they made
the systems bigger — some now are enormous
— but now they're also expensive,"
Battle said.
Battle notes that, while the countries try to
control the sprawl of their higher education
systems, "youth unemployment in many of
those countries is high now, and people still
see education as a way out of poverty. Of
course, they're not going to be happy with
those kinds of changes that restrict and limit
access to education or to particular programs.
"I feel that down deep, the protests are bom
of frustration," said Phil Coombs of the
International Council, a group that researches
and analyzes foreign education issues.
"Youth unemployment is quite high in
some countries, like Spain and France, and
students even in secondary school have a deep-
down fear of what kind of career they will
have," he said. ^V
Coombs said foreign students often are
bewildered by the diversity of U.S. colleges
and their relative independence from govern¬
ment interference.
"Americans, on the other hand, don't
•understand foreign students' protests of their
educational systems, while from those stud¬
ents' point of view, the systems are horren¬
dous," he said.
The systems, he added, are "loaded with
rules."
The current book of Spanish legislation on
higher education," Coombs said, "looks like
the New York City phone book."
The big difference between protests in the
U.S.    and    abroad,    said   Philip    Altbach,
Comparative Education Center director at the
State University of New York»at Buffalo. Is
that the ones abroad are much more limited and
insular.
While U.S. students may demonstrate
against apartheid half way across the globe,
many of the recent foreign universjty upheav¬
als concern issues that don't extend beyond
campus boundaries, he said.
Battle added,   though, that foreign univer¬
sities often are under the direct control of
their   national   governments,    which   many
students consider faceless bureaucracies with ,
no ear for student concerns.
Governments consequently take school
protests as direct affronts, and often quake in
response, he said. -s 7
French Premier Chirac, for example,
withdrew his college reform bill, though not
before one student died of a police beating that
incited still more furious protests.
And Mexican authorities ended the student
strike by agreeing to delay implementing
reforms, and forming a university-wide "con¬
gress" to reconsider .them.
Perhaps because those governments are so
inextricably involved in those campuses too,
higher education protests quickly can become
more general.
"Politics are often more important than
education policies in arousing student acti-   •
vism," Altbach said.
In Thailand, the West Bank of Israel, South
Korea and South Africa, students have played
major roles in recent massive demonstrations
against government policies not necessarily
related to higher education.
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