Word: program
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...BEST way to upgrade Harvard's black workers would be continued hiring of unskilled blacks in some sort of "helper" or "trainee" category and adoption of a formal training program to move them up in the job levels. Thus. a black could get a job at Harvard with little difficulty, then receive formal training (not the current informal training or lack of it) to move up as if on an escalator. Basically. this is the idea behind the Federal MA-5 program, for which Harvard is currently completing an application, and to which unions seem agreeable, at least in principle...
...works, that it is not sabotaged, whether by Harvard, unions, foremen, or workers. For this, special measures would seem to be in order, perhaps along the lines of the committee proposed by Afro. Such a committee-composed of union members, Harvard personnel officers, and black students-would oversee the program, try to iron out the problems of the black workers in it, and decide in cases of dispute over promotions. Though it might take a considerable effort to persuade Harvard and the union to accept such a committee, the effort would seem to be worthwhile, so that good intentions will...
Early in the meeting, Butler sought to describe the underlying aims and problems of the helper program. The program he said, was conceived by the University in 1967 as a "contribution toward employment of people not regularly employed before." The painting trade had been chosen as the first in which to establish a helper program because it involved the least skills, he added...
...favors making minority group students 10 per cent of each class-a move which took place under Baker's administration. Fouraker said he "will undertake ?enthusiastically" the job of "raising money to enable the approximately 75 men and women a year to come into that program...
Hillel spokesman Jay R. Rothstein '71 said that the Jewish organization has also been more active this year than in the past. But Rothstein said the activity at Hillel has been a social action program which arose simply because "something has to be done," and not due to the direct influence...