1. Recommendations for increasing the numbers of Hispanic faculty members at UC are important also in the University's efforts to increase the numbers and success of Hispanic graduate students. The research interests of many Hispanic faculty members and the existence of organized research units in Chicano/Latino, Mexican and Latin American areas will attract Hispanic graduate students to UC.

2. Faculty mentoring programs are essential to the success of many Hispanic graduate students. All faculty members should be held responsible for mentoring of minority students, and should be helped to do so by the increased availability of research assistantships for this purpose.

3. Graduate financial support is typically awarded by University Graduate Divisions for only the first year of study. While research and teaching assistantships may be available to students in later years, these are not available in some disciplines and positions are intermittent and fractional in many others. Minority graduate students should receive multiple-year support commitments which enable study through the completion of the degree.

4. Graduate and undergraduate recruiting programs should work together towards the long-term goal of increasing the numbers of minorities in academic careers. It is essential that faculty members play a leadership role in these programs. The University should focus in the recruitment of graduate students on its own outstanding minority undergraduates, a resource largely neglected in observance of the outdated and impractical "we don't recruit our own" maxim.