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I N D E X| 171 | Academic Council, 108–9 Academic Senate, 130; enforcing Subject A requirement, 120–21; setting requirements for transfer students, 78; on Subject A, 15, 68, 89, 113–14 accessibility, 151n4; at City College of New York, 14–15; demands for, 48, 69; elitism vs., 13, 142; limits of, 113; under Master Plan for Higher Education, 94; regional colleges to increase, 52; standards vs., 16, 31–32, 41, 46–47, 120–21, 137; UC’s obligation for, 111, 123–24 accreditation. See certification, of high school curricula Ad Hoc Committee to Review Subject A Office and SANSE, 126–32 administrators, UC, 14, 35, 100, 127 admissions: affirmative action and, 115–16; ambivalence about underprepared students and, 1–2, 5–7; Asian ancestry students directed to other UC campuses , 126–28; colleges differing in, 90–91; conditioning of underprepared students and, 8–9, 21–22; demands for access to UC and, 9–11; high schools English requirements in, 121–22; in- fluences on, 1–2, 6–7, 15; under Master Plan for Higher Education, 94–95; proposal to use Subject A exam as entrance exam and, 15, 86–87, 90–91, 106–7; relaxed for veterans, 11–12, 64, 66–67, 79; Subject A exam not used as entrance exam, 20, 30, 59–60. See also enrollment; standards Admissions, Office of, and Subject A problem , 76–77, 90 affirmative action: Bakke case and, 115–16; Subject A and, 125–26 Affirmative Action Program, immigrant students in, 117 Afoot and Alone (Powers), 24 agriculture, California’s, 37; disasters in, 28– 29; economy dependence on, 49–50; rebounding after Depression, 63; UC thought to be disserving, 51 Agriculture, College of, admission practices of, 90–91 Ahlport, Regent, 75 aircraft industry, 62–63 “Alternatives to Remedial Writing” (Hull), 5–6 alumni, Sproul rallying against regional colleges, 52 Analytical Writing Placement Exams, 140–41. See also Subject A exam Angell, James, 7 Annals of San Francisco, 24 Annals of the California Gold Era (Bancroft), 34 Asian Americans, 107, 126; in Educational Opportunity Program, 122, 154n24; Subject A accused of cultural insensitivity toward, 15–16, 108; treatment of students, 126–27 Asian American Studies Program, 15, 107–8, 118, 156n18 Asian American Task Force on University Admissions, 126–28 Asian Studies, to satisfy Subject A requirement , 15, 107–8 Bakke v. Regents of the University of California , 115–16 Bancroft, Hubert Howe, 34 Bartholomae, David, 127, 129, 157n18 Berlin, James, 2, 156n20 Big Four, in California politics, 145n4, 145nn6–7 Bird, Grace, 78 Boddam-Whetham, J. W., 24 booklists, university faculty giving high schools, 4 Bradley, Cornelius Beach, 31; criticizing students ’ writing, 8, 144n1; joining UC faculty, 27, 29–30; Suggestions to Teachers of English in the Secondary Schools by, 3–4, 43 Bridges, Harry, 100 Bronson, Sherwood, 76 Brown, Edmund G. (“Pat”), 92, 97–98, 103 Index| 172 | Committee on Remedial Education Committee on Preparatory and Remedial Education, 130 Committee on Preparatory Education, 136 Committee on Relation with Schools, 23 Committee on Remedial Education: on credit for remedial courses, 108–9 Committee on Subject A. See Subject A, Committee on Committee on the Treatment of Incompetent Students, 10 Committee to Study the Status of Remedial Education, 120 Communists: campaigns against, 69–71, 73, 97; fear of, 50, 66; higher education and, 56, 66; UC and, 56, 69–71 community colleges: proposal to outsource Subject A to, 16, 125, 128. See also junior colleges composition: criticism of “Standard Academic Prose,” 154n29; linked to morality , 2, 14; relation to clear thinking, 67; tendencies of Asian Americans, 108 composition department, Wells wanting, 38–39 composition instruction: College Writing Programs to be center of, 17, 131–33; faculty for, 3, 29–30, 158n1; grading of, 128; in junior colleges, 76–77; recommendation to integrate in departments , 13, 16–17, 42–43, 80, 87, 135; for upper-division students, 85, 133–36; in writing minor, 134. See also Subject A composition proficiency: dissatisfaction with students’, 5, 29, 89, 136; faculty complaints about, 12, 31, 36, 119; high schools blamed for deficiencies, 4, 23; inadequacy as cultural epiphenomenon , 7, 23, 111–12; proposal to test juniors ’, 78, 86; proposal to test seniors’, 135; public criticism of, 80, 83; Subject A unable to guarantee, 85; of transfer students, 12–13; of upper-level students , 17, 139. See also students, underprepared composition theory: in development of College Writing Programs, 130–31; writing as developmental, 135–36 conditioning: of Subject A...

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