MIDA Loic de Fourgéres confers with the person in change of admissions at the FLEA academy, the head of the curriculum committee, and the HR person in charge of general recruiting. He asks for breakdowns on the provincial, ethnic, and language backgrounds for FLEA officers, recruits, and staff in general, then for a briefing of the core and elective coursework at the academy. After reviewing their input, he says, "I am against quotas, but in the ideal, FLEA should be a mirror of Eutopia. The existing officers are more heavily weighted towards English heritage than the current cadets, so we are making some progress, but they are still more English than the Eutopia in general, so we still have a ways to go. I would like us to do something extra to at least increase the number of French heritage and minority applicants. At a minimum this would include French language recruiting posters. But you are experts at this and I am just a minister serving briefly at the pleasure of the president. Work out a recruiiting program that will attract good applicants from all backgrounds. You don't need to report back to me, I expect that I will be able to see the results on my own.
As far as admissions goes, I don't want the standards lowered for any kind of applicant, but I do want to take into account the value of language skills in other than English as well as the existing battery of tests we administer.
In the curriculum, I realize it has to cover what it does at present, but we need to make sure ethics, respect for constitutional rights, and appreciation of Eutopian diversity are not ignored. This could either be by adding new courses or adjusting the content of the existing courses. I realize this takes time, but I would appreciate it if you could get back to me with a plan before the Senate elections, with a view to implementing it in the class admitted before the Term XI elections.
I think this is really important. If you run into any roadblocks that need to be cleared, please let me know."
