Word: fellowships
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When Martinez Soler was notified of his Nieman Fellowship award during August, he almost refused it since at the time he was awaiting court martial because of another controversial article in Doblon and could not leave Spain...
...mentions the Fellowship of Southern Churchmen, another populist group in the Southern tradition from which Carter has emerged. That group was a tenant and farmer organization that the Southern Baptists and Presbyterians formed many decades ago. Cox says they were "swimming against the stream of racism" and prejudice against poor whites long before that became a popular middle class Northern cause...
...Like most black Americans, my roots are in the South. " So writes TIME Atlanta Correspondent Jack White, 30, who reported on many of the stories in this issue before taking nine months'leave for a Nieman Fellowship at Harvard. Here is White's personal account of being brought up under segregation...
...seminars are self-supporting, charging $160 for each course, and paying instructors $1300 for their services. But the program cannot attempt to attract the working women of the area--the women who were at the heart of the early fellowship program--without financial aid for those who cannot meet the costs. "There is not too much scholarship money," says Downey, who was herself a seminar participant in the '60s. "There's a little, with some $50 and $75 scholarships and then an installment plan for payment of the remainder. We've written thousands of letters asking for funds for scholarship...
...women caught in between, the non-tenured faculty women in the Boston area, the Institute is sponsoring a fellowship program, funded by a grant from the Carnegie Corporation. "Most women in academic life are not tenured, and power of course, is tenure," Dean Graham says. "You have to get tenure to make a difference, and that is difficult with the shrinking job market. If you are going to make a contribution to the community, you ought to lead with your strongest suit, and we think that is a program with access to libraries and facilities," she adds. The Institute...