Judith Chambers on the 1969 Demonstrations

Judith Chambers on the 1969 Demonstrations

Judy Chambers describes the demonstrations and the establishment of the Community Involvement Program (CIP).

Listen to Judy Chambers describe the demonstrations and the Community Involvement Program (CIP) at UOP.

Doris Meyer for University of the Pacific

Meyer, Doris, "Chambers, Judith Oral History Interview" (2008). Emeriti Society Oral History Collection. 26. https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/esohc/26

University of the Pacific

2008

University of the Pacific

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English

oral history

1969 protests at University of the Pacific; Community Involvement Program

1960s; Stockton, California

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2:24 minutes

"Well, during my early years at Pacific I think the most significant program that the university became involved with is the Community Involvement program and I believe that the year would be 1969. That would be easy to check. But you know it was a time of great unrest and there were a group of students on the campus who felt that we were seriously underrepresented in the area of minorities. And so they had this demonstration and those of you who know the tower know that there‘s only one way in and one way out, so they wanted to be sure they got President Burns‘ attention and also very much involved in negotiating all of this was our academic vice-president Jack Bevan. The negotiations resulted in the development of a Community Involvement program and I think it was for two-hundred students back then, it is less now. But it was from certain areas of Stockton where most of the minorities were primarily in the south and it was based on certain zip codes and it was first generation minorities. It was a very successful program. Part of the challenge was that the students didn‘t live on campus and they weren‘t always real supported by their parents to move in this direction, so there were special support services, a whole office of special services set up to help these students succeed and that program exists to this day and there have been literally hundreds of students, many of them very successful who have gone through that program. In fact I think they have their twenty-fifth reunion not too long ago and it was very successful. But I think at that time there wasn‘t another program like that in any private university in the country because it was funded entirely from university dollars, from tuition dollars, from the tuition of other students."