Word: moll
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...down to the lad wanting fisheries. It pains our soul. It sort of runs against the grain of the American tradition in education which lets everybody choose for himself. But the young applicant for a scholarship is really an impersonal part of this big thing called African socialism," Moll says...
...ASPAU students have to adjust as Negroes as well as individuals. Director Moll indicated there did not seem to be any strong geographic pattern to racial prejudice encountered by African students in the United States. Some campuses, like the University of Kansas at Lawrence -- "not a place you'd expect to be particularly cosmopolitan," says Moll--give the Africans a "marvelous" reception. Students have also commented favorably on the atmosphere in Atlanta, while there are "real social problems" in Oregon, he says...
...Moll says he is perplexed about the social problems which Harvard and Radcliffe raise for the African student...
...spring, a team of 10 American ASPAU representatives spends a month in Africa, traveling in pairs to interview students in the capital city of their country. (Moll left the day before yesterday.) The two ASPAU admissions officers, plus one representative from the Agency for International Development, sit on a board with about a dozen African government officials and educators of the particular nation. This board interviews two or three times as many applicants as there are places available and makes recommendations to the final selection committee in America...
...filling only one-third of the places offered us by our member colleges," Moll says. There is certainly no lack of applicants, but the bottle-neck comes in trying to find money for living expenses since the U.S. government is budget-cutting on ASPAU. Moll is beginning to cast about for supplementary sources...