Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...inquire specifically how this University is relating to its own immediate environment. Is our relationship with our environment constructive or destructive? Is the University behaving as a good and responsible neighbor? What sorts of things can universities in general and this University in particular properly do to help in the solution of our community's immediate needs? How can we avoid duplication, waste or misdirection in our efforts? What might we do--without betraying, or at least injuring our capacity to forward our essential tasks of teaching and advancing knowledge? Pursuing this thought, have we come to a time when...
...Business School committed almost $100,000 of its scholarship funds to help black students in a resolve to admit between 25 and 30 in the enter- ing M.B.A. class this past fall. Since we are prohibited by Massachusetts law from obtaining photographs or asking any questions pertaining to race or religion of applicants for admission, precise information is not easy to come by, but there can be no doubt that the number of students from disadvantaged groups, especially black students, shows a marked increase this year in this and in other departments of the University. It is interesting, too, that...
...groups to come to the School and so to enter the design profession. Scholarship funds in the amount of $25,000 were set aside to assist the effort. Other funds were provided to aid members of the faculty to travel to southern colleges, and to other places where their help had been requested with urban problems, where they might have a change to acquaint disadvantaged students with the nature, opportunities and challenges of the design profession...
...areas. The number of black students in the Law School has risen appreciably in recent years. Now an increased effort is being made there to attract from disadvantaged areas black students who give promise of returning to those areas to put their new-won professional competence to work to help their friends and neighbors...
...School of Education sees clearly the need to help provide Afro-Americans, Puerto Ricans and Mexican-Americans for positions of leadership in the nation's schools. Last year it raised more than $60,000, much of it from its own members, to further a new effort toward this end. It undertook a very successful recruitment drive, using black students and alumni, in Boston, New York, Washington, Philadelphia, Chicago, and Detroit. The result is that black students are conspicuous by their numbers in this year's entering class. And concerned as never before by the fact that minority groups have produced...