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Beyond that point in the freshman program, education becomes "a double transmission of skill and awareness," and the tone of Miles College becomes part of the classroom experience. The "classroom gold" which Monro has uncovered is a reading list of black authors--Frederick Douglass, W. E. B. DuBois, Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Booker T. Washington and others. "Forget all these ideas that Hamlet is culturally useful," Monro says. "The students need to digest and think about these men and hammer out their feelings in discussions with their peers. Every young black person has awareness built into him. One thing...
...freshmen in each class, Monro has instituted an honors curriculum. The college now secures funds to send two Miles honors freshmen to Harvard Summer School each year. The program has helped boost the number of Miles students attending graduate school from five or ten per year in the mid-sixties to over 30 this year. "If we move four or five graduates on each year, it won't take any time before they're piling back as teachers, deans and community leaders," Monro says. "In the life of the college, that's essential. What's more, Miles College feels this...
...years ago, Monro catalyzed a workstudy program in which Miles students take a term off from school to work as interns in Birmingham businesses, labs and professional careers. Coming from steel-workers' families of eight or ten children, most Miles students have no idea of professional life styles, Monro says. "This program opens up expectations; when they come back, college takes on a ring of reality." The program also required a massive restructuring of the curriculum schedule, so that students returning from a semester in the community could pick up the normal sequence of courses. Yet Monro scoffs...
...Monro says that attitudes and orientations of Miles students have changed markedly during his years at Miles. Along with the small shift toward higher education, students have changed their career objectives. Whereas most Miles graduates went into education five years ago, Monro says that they now see teaching as unrealistic and unnecessary. "Black teachers are obviously losing their jobs, but other opportunities are visible." A newly-organized business major has become one of the largest programs at the college along with science and social science...
...politics on campus have taken a corresponding shift, Monro says. He describes 1969 as a period of "pronounced nationalism and separatism." "It was a good time for the white teachers to shut up," Monro says. "We did, and it worked out." Now he sees an emphasis on skills and careers, as reflected in the shift to new academic interests...