Word: grouped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...been a change in the size of commitment, and in definition of competence, but the style of intervention remains intact. The School, in other words, will remain officially detached. It continues to maintain that research is its primary function, though now it also emphasizes the training of minority-group students to lead the ghettos to independence. And there will be no taking sides. The Ed School will work with anyone who needs help. It is staying out of politics...
...students are the only group working openly for formal community links. In a document circulated among faculty last week, MAT's asked for compulsory student work with educational self-help groups in Roxbury, and also suggested that community leaders attend courses at Harvard and discussion groups with MAT's. Eventually, Roxbury leaders would become full faculty members and, hopefully, exert some influence on the course of Ed School urban activities...
There are some hopeful signs. Last Thursday, the Urban League and Boston College announced a joint project to ease the transfer of white businesses to blacks. The agreement gave the community group control of resources, which seemed the key community demand. But the problem of hard-won foundation grants wasn't involved, and there was only one project and a relatively small group of people involved. Broad, institutionalized cooperation will vastly increase the chance of misunderstanding--slighting of community advisors, and a whole range of personal problems which easily take on racial connotations...
...guidelines are necessarily vague, for the situation is unprecedented. The key words seems to be flexibility and old-fashioned, personal politics. Mutual interest may provide a powerful incentive--for the Ed School researcher, an access to materials of his trade, and for the self-help group, assistance in teaching, in drawing up applications for grants, in conversing with the white establishment...
...group of undergraduate SCLC supporters is circulating sheets in the dining halls today, asking students to take a poor person to dinner in the Dining halls on Thursday evening and house him in their room on Thursday night...