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...David Swanger, executive director of Upward Bound, said yesterday that the program had achieved important "changes in attitude" about school. "We're not a summer school--those who didn't know algebra when they came probably won't know it now. But they may be more willing to learn...
...Swanger said that Theodore Sizer, Dean of the School of Education and the director of the program, "has said, in effect, that he would like it to continue." Plans are being made to reapply for another Federal grant, Swanger said, and a number of changes are being considered...
...least twice as many eligible candidates as we could accept," Swanger declared, and that accounts for the proposal to double the program's size. But he would also like to shift from a commuter project to a residential...
...nation.) I don't want to get the students off in dormitories which are separated and isolated. I want the kind of room where they can bring in their friends and their parents, so there can be a lot more interplay between the University and the neighborhoods," Swanger said...
Both Finn and Swanger pointed out that making the program residential would involve a number of problems. Finn speculated that doubling the program's size and making it residential might triple the budget--from $70,000 to more than $200,000. There would also be, he said, possible problems of disciplinary rules and of finding dormitory space...