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...thinking back to the early years of HSA, rife with controversy and mistakes, Burke said that he felt Monro??s experiment “did work overall...

Author: By June Q. Wu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Evolving Face of HSA | 6/1/2008 | See Source »

...time many people thought, ‘Jeez, he’s leaving this great place to go to this little, unaccredited college in the south,” says Fred L. Glimp ’50, a long-time colleague of Monro??s in the financial aid office and his successor as dean of the College. “But people who knew him weren’t in the least bit surprised...

Author: By Alexander L. Pasternack, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Black Education Pioneer Monro Dies | 4/8/2002 | See Source »

...Harvard Monro??s colleagues admired his determination to extend opportunities to all students. As director of financial aid, Monro helped develop new methods of recruiting students and awarding aid—trying to dismantle the “old-boy network” that had long fed privileged students into the nation’s prestigious colleges...

Author: By Alexander L. Pasternack, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Black Education Pioneer Monro Dies | 4/8/2002 | See Source »

During his Harvard years, Monro??s interest in black issues was piqued in 1962, when he met Lucius Pitts, the president of Miles College. He accepted Pitts’ invitation to visit and spent his next three summers at Miles, teaching without...

Author: By Alexander L. Pasternack, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Black Education Pioneer Monro Dies | 4/8/2002 | See Source »

...Monro??s passion for change followed him to Miles. Refusing an administrative post, he spent more than 10 hours a week teaching writing, which he saw as the cornerstone of education. He also established a writing program at Tougaloo College in Mississippi after he left Miles in the late...

Author: By Alexander L. Pasternack, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Black Education Pioneer Monro Dies | 4/8/2002 | See Source »

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