1. Interdisciplinary, international and intercampus research concerning Mexico and Mexican peoples in California is essential to the understanding of many of the critical issues addressed in the Report of the SCR 43 Task Force. Support of such research will increase the University's ability to attract and retain excellent Hispanic faculty members in many disciplines. UC MEXUS is an important University initiative for work in these areas, and its status and funding should reflect the magnitude of its responsibilities.

2. Campus-based research units which are concerned with Chicano/Chicana studies, Latin American studies, and U.S.-Mexico relations appear in general to receive little core support and only minimal funds for research development. These units require substantially increased University support, and this has been a recurrent theme in recommendations resulting from their formal periodic reviews.

3. There are faculty members at several campuses attempting to develop new organized research programs in some essential new areas of Mexican/Chicano/Latin American studies research. These efforts, including the Chicana studies group at Davis, the Mexico/Chicano program at Irvine, the Latin American studies program at Santa Cruz, and the health sciences focus at San Francisco, should be provided the basic support essential to the development of their research emphasis.

4. Increased funding for the research of all Hispanic faculty, from the arts to the sciences, and particularly for new faculty, will enhance UC's recruitment and retention abilities. "Minority" research funding now available is limited and not effectively awarded. Where it is now awarded by affirmative action committees, the responsibility should be changed to committees on research. And research support should be one of the enticements chancellors can extend to new Hispanic faculty members.

5. A Universitywide fund to support Hispanic research and exchanges with Mexican and other Latin American institutions should be established. The fund should be administered by a Universitywide committee and should consider proposals for individual and collaborative research as well as ties with Mexican and other Latin American institutions.

6. UC press is an essential outlet for the University's research and creative activity, but it has neglected Chicano/Latino and Latin American studies in recent years. The Press should receive additional funding targeted toward these areas. UC journals in these areas are a source of Universitywide distinction, but they receive little support. The Office of the President should provide additional funding to assure their survival. Publications programs established in Chicano, Latin American, or Mexico ORUs should be supported.

7. University and ORU-based libraries are faced with limitations in funding and space which restrict their abilities to acquire and maintain material in many areas. In order to assure library development which must accompany new emphasis in Chicano/Latino and Latin American studies, funds should be allocated specifically for acquisitions and data maintenance/coordination in these areas.

8. The campuses should assign a high priority to the allocation of space to research units in Chicano/Latino and Latin American studies. As their faculties, staffs, students and libraries grow, it is essential to accommodate also their needs for appropriate space.