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This February 11, 1970, article by Melanie Bassett, copy editor of The Carolinian, the student newspaper of The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG), discusses the university's response to pressure from the United States Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (HEW) to further its desegregation efforts. HEW requested a report within sixty days on actions that would promote desegregation and minority faculty recruitment. Chancellor James Sharbrough Ferguson cited the Upward Bound program as a positive step toward cooperation with black schools, but noted that there was room for imporovement with respect to black enrollment (3.8 percent) and faculty (five instructors). HEW suggested that the university system should add equal opportunity statements to all publications, review its recruitment program, cooperate with black schools, increase faculty recruitment efforts, and work with "high risk" populations.