Word: monroes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...donors earmarked the money for the freshman studies program which Dean Monro will direct when he joins the Miles faculty next year...
...Monro, serving as a consultant on General Education, helped develop the program over the last three summers. Its primary goal is to keep the "gifted non-achiever" from dropping out of school, Lucius H. Pitts, Miles president, said last night...
Miles, a non-accredited Negro school, has a 25 per cent annual drop-out rate because of inadequate high school training. To combat this, Monro has designed a special course of studies for freshmen, with emphasis on small classes and intensive counseling. But the program is just getting off the ground...
...Monro's new job is in keeping with his longtime interests at Harvard. As director of financial aid there, he actively recruited Negro students in the early '50s, broadened the college's enrollment by promoting more scholarships based on need, organizing part-time student jobs and instituting no-interest loans. Promoted to dean in 1958, Monro was well liked by the students, despite his 1963 public complaint that "wild parties" and "sexual intercourse" were commonplace in the Harvard dorms. He later conceded that he had overstated the problem and allowed that "a degree of companionship is very...
...Monro will take an undisclosed cut in salary at Miles, but he insists that he does not consider the shift any kind of personal sacrifice. He has helped advise Miles on its problems since 1963, becoming increasingly involved in its struggles to survive and grow. "By the act of involvement," says Monro, "each individual begins the lifelong process of paying his own dues, being a member in good standing of the society that sustains...