University President Bryce Jordan will make his yearly pilgrimage to the state capital this morning to ask the House Appropriations Committee for a 14.1 percent increase in state funding.

Frank Forni, special assistant to the president for governmental affairs, said Jordan will use the same plan of attack against House committee members as he used against the Senate Appropriations Committee on Feb. 28.

In the past, House members from the Philadelphia area have questioned University efforts to increase black enrollment and raised concerns about other issues affecting the black community.

During the House Appropriations hearing two years ago, legislators listened to Jordan stress the importance of Penn State's role in research and general education and then proceeded to drill him on issues including low minority recruitment and incidents of racial tension. Fresh in the minds of Harrisburg politicos was the shantytown students built on the lawn of Old Main in 1986, protesting the University's South African holdings.

"President Jordan will make the same, excellent presentation he made before the Senate," Forni said. "His justifications for an increase are just as valid in the House, as well as in the Senate."

During the Senate hearing, Jordan discussed the details of a six-year plan to increase state funding that includes Pennsylvania's three other state-related schools: the University of Pittsburgh, Lincoln and Temple universities; the 14 state-owned institutions in the state system of higher education; and the state's 14 community colleges.

The six-year plan calls for a $400 million state investment in higher education -- a cost of about $67 million per year. In past remarks, Jordan has characterized the plan as "front-loaded," which means funding would increase initially by 14 percent, falling to a 9 percent increase by the final year.

For 1989-90, Penn State's portion of the plan includes an appropriation increase of 14.1 percent, or $29 million. Along with state funding, a 5 percent tuition increase will net an additional $11.9 million, for a total income change of $41.1 million over this year.

After last month's Senate hearing, J. Doyle Corman, R-Centre, said he agreed with the details of the six-year plan, but admitted that a 14.1 percent is not likely.

"I'm going to be fighting very hard to get a 10 percent increase," he said.