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DOCUMENT RESUME ED 027 467 AC 003 814 By-Ezrnes, Curtis, Ed.,; Splete, Allen, Ed. The University and Social Responsibility. InterimReport. Syracuse Univ., N.Y. Pub Date Jan 69 Note- 53p. EDRS Price MF-$0.25 HC-$2.75 Descriptors -*Adult Education Programs, CommunityService Programs, Course Descriptions, *Disadvantaged Croups, Educational Programs, Financial Support,Leadership Training, Negro History,Program Descriptions, School Community Relationship, *Social Problems,*Universities, *Urban Areas, Volunteers Identifiers-*Syracuse University Syracuse University is supporting or initiating135 programs directed toward problems of the disadvantaged and theurban community. Many programs evolvefrom the University's teachiog and researchfunctions, and others are less structuredand operate on a volunteer basis.The programs have five categoricalfunctions: improving educationalopportunities;helpingthe disadvantaged;solving urban community problems; developing community leadership;and relatingthe University and the neighborhood. Complete descriptions of the programs areincluded in the appendixes, along with a listing of 15 courseofferings which relate to the role and contributions of black Americans in the developmentof the nation. (author/pt) U.S. DEPARTMENT Of HEALTH, EDUCATION & WELFARE PFFICE OF EDUCATION

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THE UNIVERSITY AND SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY

Syracuse University currently is supporting orinitiating 135 separate programs specificallydirected toward the problems of the disadvantaged and to the crisis of America'surban communities.Many of these programs are carried forwardthrough the University's established teaching and research functions; while others areless structured and operate primarily on a volunteerbasis.All reflect the concerned com- mitment of many thousands of individuals --students, faculty, staff and administration -- in seeking solutions tothe pressing problems -of social injustice which are evident throughout the nationtoday. The programs can be described in fivebroad categories which give an indication of the scope and rangeof the University's activities in serving the needs of modern society asfollows: Improving Educational Opportunities Programs for the Disadvantaged Problems of the Urban Community Community Leadership Programs The University and theNeighborhood The following are highlights of programscurrently being supported in c ach of the five areas.A complete description of these programs is included in the Appendices, alongwith a listing of 15 course offerings 2

which relate to the role and contributionsof black Americans in the development of the nation.

IMPROVING EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES One of the basic responsibilities ofhigher education in serving the needs of contemporary society is toidentify and seek out students from disadvantaged areas who could benefit fromthe opportunity for further education.Syracuse University currently has threemajor programs directed toward this objective. University College, the division ofthe University which primarily serves part-time students from thelocal area, is providing full scholar- ships valued at $19,000 for 43 disadvantagedwhite and black students from the inner-city through Project Opportunity.These students are enrolled for a total of 115 hoursof instruction, and include (a) recenthigh school graduates, who will be eligible to continue theirstudies as full-time students if they meet appropriate academicstandards; and (b) older adults who hold key pOiTtions in the Negro community associal work aides, teacher's aides, etc., and who are in a position both to improvethemselves and to serve as role models for young people to encouragethem to continue their education. The University College program includesboth college level academic work and remedial courses to developstudy skills in reading, writing, mathematics and public speaking.A related course in black history,with emphasis on the role of the Negro in thedevelopment of American society, --,

3 is offered for participants in the programand others from the inner-city area to assist inthe development of self-identity. Plans are currently being developed toexpand the Project Op portunity program to 200 students bythe fall of 1970, subject to the availa- bility of adequate financing, at an estimated costof $1, 000. 000.The objectives of the broadened program will include(a) additional opportunities for full-time study for qualifiedstudents; (b) continued part-time studyfor those who are employed; and (c) thedevelopment of in-service training programs with industry forthose who might benefit more fromvocational training. Another program to recruit increasednumbers of disadvantaged students from outside the Syracuse areais being conducted by the University Admissions Office with the assistance of 95student volunteers.These students, members of the Student Afro-AmericanSociety (SAAS), are serving as a Freshman ActionCommittee to seek out qualified Negrostudents in their home communities and to encouragethem to apply to Syracuse.As a result of this concentrated recruiting effort,applications from Negro students have increased 50 to 75 percent over a year agoat this time. Beginning in the fall of 1969, a minimumof $95, 000, or 15 percent of the financial aid budgetfor incoming freshmen, will bereserved for students from disadvantaged areas.This amount could increase up to $120, 000, or 20 percent of freshmen aid funds,depending on the number and financial need of disadvantagedstudents accepted for admission tothe

University. Currently 347 non-white students areenrolled as full-time undergraduates at Syracuse University, representingapproximately 4 percent of the total undergraduateenrollment of 8, 969.Of the 347 non- white students, 245, or 2.7 percent, areblack Americans, a 29 percent increase from the 190 black Americanstudents enrolled in 1967-68. These students are receiving a total of$148,404 in financial aid through University sources, or an average of$1, 788 per student, compared with the average financial award of $761 forother undergraduates receiving financial assistance. In addition to the full amount offinancial aid necessary to provide for their educational and living expenses,including some individual awards up to $3, 500, students fromeducationally disadvantaged backgrounds have special tutoring and remedial programsavailable to assist them in achieving the maximumbenefit from their higher education experience. In addition to programs forundergraduates, similar efforts are being undertaken atthe graduate level to make educationalopportunities and financial assistance available toincreasing numbers of qualified Negro graduate students.Illustrative of this effort is the AllenFunt Graduate Fellowships in Radio and Televisionoffered through the New- house School of Communications to assistNegro students in preparing for high level positions in the field of masscommunications. 5

Established under two$16, 000 grants from AllenFunt, the creator of "CandidCamera", and a $30, 000 grantfrom the Ford Founda- tion, the fellowshipsinclude remitted tuition and acash stipend of $2, 000 per year andlead to a master's degreein communiCations.

PROGRAMS FOR THEDISADVANTAGED One of the basic objectivesin attacking the problemsof the urban community is theneed for improvededucational opportunitiesfor culturally deprived and sociallydisadvantaged children.Upgrading the quality of education in urbanghetto schools, however,is directly dependent on better teaching.Experience in urban schoolsystems has indicated that not all "good"teachers are necessarilyeffective in dealing with youngsters who come fromdisadvantaged backgrounds. To meet these needs,the University and theSyracuse Public Schools have joined in sponsoringthe Urban TeacherPreparation Program to train college graduatesspecifically for teaching ininner-city areas. The $642, 800 program is supportedby a $378, 000 FordFoundation grant, the first of its kind, and willproduce 80 specializedteachers at the end of a three-year period.Designed to prepare youngteachers specifically for service in hard core,inner-city ghetto areas,the program emphasizes those areas of curriculardew.. opment, use ofaudio-visual resources,and teacher training which willprovide greater relevanceand closer interaction between the teacher anddisadvantaged children. Similar programs directedtoward upgrading the qualityof teaching in urban schools areoffered for more experiencedteachers and for school administrators.These include Summer Workshopsfor Urban Teachers, to provide specializedtraining for supervising teachersin elementary schools; ExperiencedTeacher Fellowships, to assistexperienced classroom teachers in developing moreeffective communications within the classroom through innovative useof instructional materialssuch as slides, tape-recorders. filmsand overhead projectors; theUrban Admi- nistrative Internship Program, totrain young administratorsfor service in urban schools; and theMid-Career Training for PartnershipTeaching Program, supported by a$150, 000 grant from the TeachersReserve of the New York State EducationDepartment, to bring into the teachingfield on a part-time,team-teaching basis those individualswhose family responsibilities do not allow them towork full-time. Directly related to the preparationof specialized teachers is the need for more effectivelearning environments forstudents.To that end, the University and SyracuseCity Schools in 1967 establishedCroton- for appro- on-Campus, a $225, 000demonstration and research program ximately 300 fourth, fifth andsixth grade Negro studentswho attended a de facto segregated schooland who, for the most part,live within an urban housing project close to the campus. The children attend classes inthe campus school for one-half day, and spend the rest of the dayin their regular classrooms atthe Croton 7

Public School.Special emphasis is placed oncommunications skills, behavioral sciences and Negrohistory.The program is not subject- oriented, but instead tries torelate to the day-to-day lifeexperiences of the children, and seeksto offer a variety of newlearning experiences within their culturalframework. Initiated at the suggestion of aleader of the black community, the program has beenreceived favorably by thestudents, their parents, edudators and civic leaders.As noted by Dr. John L.Johnson, coordinator of Croton-on-Campus,"The whole issue ofuniversity-community cooperation is involved here,and there is a high degreeof cooperation between the two on the project.This is a clear example ofinstitutional response tocommunity suggestions; in this casethe suggestion of a leader of the black community." Another approach to the developmentof more effective learn-

ing environments isbeing conducted at the CrotonPublic School with children inkindegarten classes.Funded as part of a $394, 979 grantfrom Project Headstart to theSyracuse University Evaluationand Research Center, this experimental programis investigating the effectsof alternative learning situations onkindegarten children's development. Approximately 14 children fromeach of six kindegarten classes

in the predominantlyNegro school have been randomlyselected to participate in enrichmentactivities in addition to theregular classroom program, to determine therelative effects of alternatelearning situations on the S. 8

educational developmentof young children from aghetto area.Results after one year indicatethat individual attention is asignificant factor in learning development. Several less formal buthighly effective educational programs with underprivilegedchildren are being conducted on avolunteer basis by students.One which has achieved ahigh degree of success isProjection 70, a student-initiated programin which SyracuseUniversity undergraduates provide remedial tutoring on aone-to-one basis for one ortiko hotiS a week for more than 100 inner-citychildren.The project was sosuccessful in enriching the education ofthe student tutors, aswell as in providing a service to the community,that it has now beenestablished as an elective course in the School ofEducation, open to freshmenand sophomores forthree hours credit per semester. A similar student-run programis Operation Link,associated with the Croton Schoolproject, where 35 students serve as"big brothers" or "bigsisters" to a youngsterfrom the inner-city.Each student develops a closepersonal relationship with one ortwo children, andtogether they plan leisure time activitieswhich may range anywherefrom playing football to visiting a museum,depending on the child'sinterests. Students are not alone involunteering their services in a community service programfor the inner-city.The faculty currently isoffer- ing individual tutoringand college-level coursework to 19 non-whitehigh school graduates in OnondagaCounty under OperationShoestring, one of the many activitiesof the Maxwell School'sCommittee on the AmericanDilemma. 9

The 19 black students involved in the first phase of Operation Shoestring are enrolled for a total of 129 credit hours, representing $8, 600 in remitted tuition and fees each semester on the part of the University, without accounting for the value of the volunteer faculty services. Currently the program is intended to prepare the participants to earn college credit through the New York State Proficiency Examination Program but the participating faculty members have recommended that students who successfully complete the course work should, in the future. receive full academic credit from the University.

PROBLEMS OF THE URBAN COMMUNITY The University also is attacking many of the broad problems of the urban community on a variety of fronts through established educational programs, through the facilities and resources of the Continuing Education Center of University College, and through the Syracuse Univer- sity Research Corporation, an independent non-profit research organization established in 1957 to provide low-cost research facilities for area business, industry and governmental agencies. Faculty and students are directly involved in urban problems through a variety of programs.For example, third year design students in the School of Architecture are developing practical applications to their academic course work by participating in a project called "New Uses for Old Neighborhoods", a detailed study of a deteriorating neighborhood ad- jaccrit to the University, with the objective of developing a Neighborhood 10

Master Plan which could be applied to the analysis and revitalization of other urban areas classifiedas "zones in transition. " Faculty members and graduate students in the Division of Special Education have establisheda Poverty Field Unit to assist the Onondaga County Department of Social Services in applying theconcepts of rehabilitation counseling to the socially handicapped.The program operates on the assumption that poverty isa social disability -- much like a physical, mentalor emotional disability -- and therefore can be approached from a total service rehabilitation point ofview. A mem- ber of the Division's Rehabilitation Counselor EducationProgram staff is assigned half-time to the Poverty Field Unit, and 5graduate students hold full-time internships in theprogram each semester. Among other programs initiated by the faculty toserve the educational and social needs of the inner-cityare the Institute for Com- munity Psychology, through which members of the University'sPsycho- logical Services and Research Center cooperate withmany community agencies in applying psychological knowledge and methodsto relevant problems in the areas of (a)program development; (b) staff training; and (c) evaluation ofprogram effectiveness; the Civil Service Prepara- tion Course, conducted by members of the Maxwell Committeeon the American Dilemma, to assist inner-city residents in preparing forcivil service examinations to upgrade their economic status; and theSub-Mensa

Program, an interdisciplinary group of volunteer faculty memberswho work with inner-city elementary schools to identify variousfactors contributing to learning disabilities. 11

Activities of the Syracuse UniversityResearch Corporation specifically in the area of urbanproblems include cooperating withthe New York State Employment Servicein the Syracuse Upgrading Project, to develop new techniquesfor providing in-service trainingleading to the promotion of workers alreadyemployed; transportation studies todevelop more effective patternsof urban traffic flow; participation inthe Commu- nity Baseline Study, Long Term CareStudy, and Ambulatory Care Study to formulate a com rehensivelonran. e slan forhealth services in the Syracuse metropolitan area; and serving asplanning staff consultants to the five-county Central New York RegionalPlanning Board. Some of the programs directedtoward urban problems which were conductedthrough the Continuing Education Centerof University College during the past year include:the Thursday Morning_ Round Table, which brings together approximately50 community leaders each week to exchange information and ideas on urbanproblems; a Conference on Mass Media in Race Relations; Seminar onPlanning Issues in the Syracuse Metropolitan Area; the Community Seminar,an informal discussion program for professional menand women in the fields of health,education and welfare; Seminar on the Changing City;and the Mid-Career Executive Development Program, designed to assist upperand middle managers in preparing for responsible public servicepositions in their own communities. 12

COMMUNITY LEADERSHIPPROGRAMS Faculty from the School of SocialWork were activelyinvolved in YES '68, a community-wide programto provide summeremployment for approximately 4, 000 teenage youngyoungsters in the City ofSyracuse last summer, includingabout 1, 000 who wereconsidered disadvantaged. School of Social Work personnelconducted pre-employmentcounseling sessions for management andsupervisory personnel of manyof the 125 participating business firms,and provided emergencycounseling service throughout the summer to bothemployers and employees if aproblem developed on the job which could notbe resolved by the firm'sstaff personnel. The YES program washighly successful and willbe repeated in the summer of 1969. The Continuing EducationCenter of Univer$ityCollege offered a 10-weekseminar in the springof 1967 on Funding Servicesfor the Poor to assist the executiveofficers and board presidentsof urban social service agencies in identifying sourcesof federal and state fundsto support their organizations, and totrain them in propermethods of writing proposals for fund support.The Center also sponsored aseries of discussions on ConsumerEducation for Central CityResidents to train keyindividuals from various parts of theinner-city in consumereconomics.These group leaders hold informal meetingsin their own neighborhoodsto inform inner- city residents how to getthe most for their money. 13

Other members of the University faculty,including Dr. Gordon Hoop le, former Chairman of theBoard of Trustees, have established the Onondaga Pastoral Counseling Center, avolunteer service agency designed to provide counseling trainingfor clergymen of all faiths, especially those who function in the inner-city area. Students who are interested in communityservice have many opportunities to volunteer their services inthe Syracuse area.A student- originated program which has been highly successfulin directing students to appropriate volunteer placementsis Operation Volunteer, through which students sign up to work in one of 35 participatingagencies in the city. Dur- ing the 1968 fall semester more than110 students participated in this program.

THE UNIVERSITY AND THE NEIGHBORHOOD The "University Hill" area includes -- inaddition to Syracuse University -- the city's five major hospitals,Upstate Medical Center, the State University College of Forestry atSyracuse University, the Syracuse Housing Authority, the Crouse-MarshallBusinessmen's Association, the Thornden Park Association, several churches and synagogues,and many private residences.Collectively they form a distinctiveneighborhood within the larger urban community; it is, infact, the institutional center for the Central New York area, providingeducational, medical and social service functions for over a million people. 14

As in any complex of this size, the high density of traffic, and continuing growth through modernization and expansion programsdesigned to serve increasing numbers of people, can create some problems.In re- cognition of the need for coordinated long-range planning, and their responsibilities to the individual citizen as well as to the larger community, the institutions within the University Hill area formed the University Hill Cor- poration in 1962 to serve as a coordinating and information channel for all groups in the neighborhood, thus avoiding someof the planning and communications problems which, for example, have created difficulties between Columbia University and the Harlem community in New York City. Membership in the University Hill Corporation includes representatives of the major educational and public service institutions inthe area, individual homeowners and smallbusinessmen, and representatives of the Syracuse Urban Renewal Agency, which is directly involved in plans to revitalize the area. Through the cooperative planning of the Corporation, a unique approach to urban housing undertaken by the University and the Syracuse Housing Authority was completed in the fall of 1968.Called the St. Mary's Project, the program resulted in the development of a $8, 452, 000 high rise housing complex adjacent to the University's main campus and to the City medical complex.The project includes three major buildings -- a thirteen- story residence hall for 469 men; a nine-story residence for284 women and 15 an adjoiningdining hall; and 350 living unitsfor the elderly.Thus both young and old arebeing served in an imaginative,relevant fashion. The University Hill Corporationand the City of Syracuse currently are sponsoring a jointapplication for a major FederalUrban Re- newal program for the neighborhoodwhich ultimately will result inthe complete renewal of a167. 5 acre area, and the creationof a unified re- sidential-educational-service-business complexserving the entire Uni- versity Hill community.Approval of a $12, 800, 000 grant toimplement the first major urban renewal programin the University Hill areahas been received.The purpose of the first projectis to provide improved housing, better transportation, andthe development of a long-rangeland use plan forthe area.The entire project was plannedcooperatively by all of the publics that make upthe neighborhood.In this way the Univer- sity and other institutions inthe area are working withtheir immediate neighbors and with the City indeveloping plans for acomprehensive solution to urban problems. Currently, the Corporation isattempting to broaden the repre- sentation and involvementof non-white residents in itsactivities, and to expand its information programs toacquaint all residents of thehill area about the long-range plans andopportunities for improvementunder Urban

Renewal.As part of this effort, the Cityand the Corporation haveopened a field office inthe immediate neighborhood toinform individual residents and businessmen of theirrights and to assist them asappropriate as the Urban Renewal program getsunderway. ,

SUMMARY Through carefully developed programsin the five areasnoted meet its, above, SyracuseUniversity is movingpositively and directly to responsibility as aneducational institution ininitiating and supporting a wide range of programsdirected toward the problemsof the disadvantaged and to the society inwhich we live. The programs sponsoredby the University inthe areas of

(a) the disadvantaged,(b) urban problemsand (c) communityleadership about aresummarized in the followingappendices.Further information specific programs maybe obtained bydirecting inquiries to theproject supervisor indicated inthe appendices or to:

Dr. Allen P. Splete Assistant Dean ForAcademic Affairs Syracuse University Syracuse, New York13210 Telephone: (315) 476-5541,Extension 2744

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APPENDIX I

PROGRAMS FOR THEDISADVANTAGED

School of Education URBAN TEACHERPREPARATION PROGRAM Dr. Ernest J. Milner

In the belief that urbanteachers require specialunderstandings and skills, Syracuse University andthe Syracuse PublicSchools are cooperatingin the development of this pioneering programdesigned to train newteachers speci- inner city ghetto areas.Emphasis is on fically for service in hard core, in- curricular developmentand teacher trainingwhich will provide greater volvement between the teacherand disadvantagedchildren; and on theteacher's in stimulating positivestudent attitudestoward learn- role as a "change agent" institutions are eligible ing.Graduates of liberal arts orteacher preparation for participation in the program,which leads to a masterof arts degree inedu- cation after two summersand a full academic yearof course work and super- vised field teaching experience.Approximately 80 teacherswill have success- by the end of the1968-69 academic year.Sources fully completed the program $47, 300; of funding include: FordFoundation, $378, 000;Syracuse University, Syracuse City Schools,$217, 000 - Total $642,800.

FOR PARTNERSHIPTEACHING School ofEducation MID-CAREER TRAINING Dr. Robert E. Newman supported by a A prototype programsponsored by SyracuseUniversity and $150, 000 grant from the TeachersReserve of the NewYork State Education Department, MTPT isdesigned to bring into theteaching profession on a part-time basis thoseindividuals, such ashousewives with smallchildren, who may be qualified toteach, but whose familyresponsibilities do not allow them to work on afull-time basis.It is anticipatedthat through this program be prepared toassist in resolvingthe press- a new typeof part-time teacher can teachers ing need for additionalteachers in the publicschools, with two part-time sharing a single class on ateam basis.Special emphasis isbeing placed on developing teachers forinner city schoolsthrough betterunderstanding of the culture, language andvarious curriculumapproaches relevant forinner city children. A total of 30 students areenrolled in the prototype programwhich uses Seymour School as a laboratoryclassroom. Page 2 (I)

URBAN ADMINISTRATIVEINTERNSHIP PROGRAM School of Education Dr. Samuel Goldman

The administration of urbanschools, especially those in innercity areas, re- quires highly talented andsensitive administrators, just asthese same quali- ties are desirable in membersof the teaching staff.With the initial assistance of a $145, 000 grant fromthe Ford Foundation, SyracuseUniversity established the Urban AdministrativeInternship Program in cooperationwith the Utica Public School System.Objectives of the program are(a) to determine appropriate criteria for the selectionof administrators for urban areas;(b) to examine administrative conceptsrelated to urban education;(c) to provide super- vised on-the-job experienceswhich are relevant for the urbanadministrator; and (d) to stimulate change inurban schools by introducingthe intern as a resi- dent change agent, leading tocross-education of other membersof the administrative staff, who participateactively in training and evaluationthrough monthly discussion meetings with the internand the supervising professor.

MATHEMATICS PROGRAM FORINNER-CITY CHILDREN Schoolof Education Dr. Vincent J. Glennon

Standard textbooks which are toorigorous and irrelevant foreducationally de- pr ived andlow-achieving children tend to contributeto discouragement,failure and high dropout rates.Dr. Vincent J. Glennon, Directorof the Syracuse Uni- versity Arithmetic Studies Centeris the senior author ofEssential Modern Mathematic% the first in a new seriesof textbooks written to providesocially relevant mathematics in a soundpsychological manner.The books recognize and make provision for the distinctiveproblems of inner-citychildren -- low verbal ability; need for increased useof enactive and representationalmodes of learning; lack of ability to concentratefor extended periods of time;low tolerance of frustration; and the needfor carefully paced systematicinstruc- tion, with provisions for diagnosis atregular and frequent intervals.The books were field tested in printedform in inner city schools inPhiladelphia, New York City and Boston, andwill be published in March,1969, by Ginn & Co.,Boston, Mass.

COMPUTER-ASSISTED INSTRUCTION Center For Instructional FOR POVERTY AREAS Communications Dr. Kenneth N. Fishell

The Syracuse University CenterFor Instructional Communicationsis developing a program ofcomputer-assisted instruction forurban schools, intended to provide computer-based simulation and learning"games" for students who aredisruptive influences in the classroom and/or are notable to benefit from regular classroom instruction.The computer system also can beused to keep records ofindividual pupil performance as an aid todeveloping individualized patternsof instruction and learning for each student.The program is being developedin cooperation with the Rome Air Force DevelopmentCenter. 7

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OPERATION SHOESTRING Maxwell School Dean Alfred H. Cope

Nineteen non-white residentsof the Syracuse inner city arereceiving a total of 129 credit hours of freeinstruction at the undergraduatelevel through Operation Shoestring during the FallSemester 1968-69.Instruction is provided by SU faculty volunteers and is intended toassist inner -city adults toupgrade themselves socially and economicallythrough education.While credit is not granted through the University, participants mayobtain college credit by passing appropriate New York StateCollege Proficiency Examinations.Estimated value of the Syracuse Universitycontribution, not including facultysalaries, for the 1968-69 academic year is$18,354.

POVERTY FIELD UNITSpecial Education REHABILITATION COUNSELING Dr. Lawrence B. Feinberg

As part of a new emphasis onrehabilitation of the sociallydisadvantaged, the Rehabilitation Counselor EducationProgram has initiated a "PovertyField Unit" to assist the OnondagaCounty Department ofSocial Services in extendingrehabi- litation services to the sociallyhandicapped. The program operates onthe a'ssumption that poverty is a socialdisability -- much like physical,mental and emotional disability -- and,therefore, can be approachedfrom a total service rehabilitation philosophy.In pursuing this approachall rehabilitation resources -- medical, social arid psychological -- areused to assist welfarerecipients to re-orient their goals to positiveachievements, or to more fullyrealize their own potential.After individual diagnosis andplanning by the rehabilitationunit, clients are then referred toother agencies for such needs asmedical assistance, job training, etc. A memberof the RehabilitationCounselor Education Program staff is assigned half-time tothe poverty field unit, andapproximately 5 graduate students per semester holdfull-time internships in the program.

School of Education CROTON-ON-CAMPUS Dr. John L. Johnson

Croton-On-Campus is a uniqueeducational experience focused onNegro children in a ghetto schoolwhich seeks to make education morerelevant for the culturally deprived child by building onhis own cultural foundationsrather than on so-called white middle class values.The experimental programis for fourth, fifthand sixth grade students atCroton School, an elementaryschool in the inner-city. Students attend classes intheir regular school forone-half day and spend the other half day in the specialsix-classroom building on theSyracuse University campus.The project seeks to identifyconditions in existingschools contributing to frustration,educational failure and highdropout rates which arecharac- teristic of children in innercity schools; and to developand implement in a 177

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systematic fashion newpatterns of learningwhich will heightenmotivation for The program attempts torelate to the day-to-dayliff experience learning. behavioral of the child andplaces special emphasis oncommunications skills, sciences and Negrohistory.The project is sponsoredjointly by Syracuse University and theSyracuse City Schools.

KINDEGARTEN PROJECT School of Education CROTON SCHOOL Dr. Margaret Lay

A research programconducted with kindegartenchildren at Croton School to investigate the effectsof alternative learningsituations on kindegartenchildren's Selected groups of 14children from each of6 kindegarten classes development. of have in addition tothe regular classroom programeither (a) a program sequentially arrangedexperiences to developcognitive abilities or(b) a program of expressive activities(painting, dramatic play, etc.). The objective of the determine the relative effectsof the alternativelearning situations program is to while at the same time on thedevelopment of youngchildren from a ghetto area enriching the kindegarten programof the school.

LANGUAGE STUDY Special Education CROTON SCHOOL Dr. Ruth Lencione Dr. E. Harris Nober

Inner-city youngsterswho attend the predominentlyNegro Croton School are being studied by studentsand faculty in Linguisticsto determinewhat effects distinctive speech andlanguage patterns mayhave on the communications between student andteacher; and in particularthe effect of language"coding" teacher "deaf" to thelanguage of the student,and vice which might make the of versa.One of the possibleeffects of the studycould be the development special language training programsfor students teacherswhich would teach them the language of theinner-city child beforeconfronting a languagebarrier in the classroomsituation.At the same time, itis possible that a"second" language - of the whitemi.ddle class - may have tobe taught to blackchildren to assist them incommunicating effectivelywith the teacher.

School of Music CROTON SCHOOL MUSICPROGRAMS Dr. Marie J. Curtiss Students Music is a universallanguage, bridging gapsthat words cannot close. variety of programs atCroton Elementary in the School ofMusic are conducting a them School designed to enrichthe lives of disadvantagedchildren by encouraging expression through themedium of music.These include: to develop individual tutoring by music (a) a doctoral studentteaching instrumentalmusic; (b) individual students; and (c) fieldservice projects by musicstudents related to theiracademic course work onthe campus. Page 5 (I)

School of Social Work YES '68 Mr. Michael Herrera Mr. Leonard Shot land

YES '68 was acommunity-wide program toprovide summer employmentfor approximately 4,000 teen-ageyoungsters in the Cityof Syracuse including about 1,000 who wereconsidered disadvantaged.The Syracuse University School of Social Workundertook major responsibilitywithin the program by providing immediate emergencycounseling service to bothemployers and emplo.fees if a problemdeveloped on the job whichcould not be handled by the firm's staff personnel.Included as part of thecounseling service was a program ofreferral to other agenciesfor help with such problems as rehabilitation counseling,remedial reading, educationalcounseling, etc. The School also participatedwith local industry inpre-employment training sessions for managerialand supervisory personnelof many of the 125 business firms involved.

SUMMER FIELD WORKPROJECT IN SOCIAL ACTION Dept. of Sociology Fiiifia CITY IN SMALLUR-IAN University College AREAS James LeFlore Study of the distinctiveproblems of smaller urbancommunities in developing potential self-motivatedleadership within their Negrocommunities. Methods included identification of theleader-organizer and establishmentof a pilot leadership training programfor the leaders of inner-city groupsto assist them in developing in-group socialaction programs forself-help: Conducted in cooperation with the EpiscopalChurch General Conventionwhich provided $4,600 for the pilot project.

Special Education URBAN LEAGUE PROJECT Dr. Lawrence B. Fineberg

Students in Special Educationand Rehabilitation volunteertheir services at the Urban League to assistNegros in finding jobsand to provide rehabilitation counseling services appropriateto individual clientneeds.

PROJECTION 70 School of Education Mr. John W. Wilson

Projection 70 started in1967 as a student initiatedand administered volunteer service program to provideremedial tutoring forelementary school childrenof' the Syracuse inner-city.Initial funding wasprovided under a $20,000planning grant from the U. S.Office of Economic Opportunity.During 1967-68 approximately 100 inner-city children weretutored two hours perweek on a one-to-one basis.The program was so successful.both in serving an evidentneed for the elementary studentsand as an educationalexperience for the studenttuto s the it has been established as a 3 credit hourelective course open to freshmen and sophomores through the School of Education.66 students are enrolled for Page 6 (I) the fall semester and during the springsemester an additional 100 students will participate in the tutorial workof the project.

SUB-MENSA PROGRAM School of Education Dr. Frank Greene

Established in 1967 on a volunteer basis bymembers of the Syracuse Univer- sity faculty from a variety ofdisciplines, the Sub-Mensa Program is an interdisciplinary approach to attempt toidentify various factors contributing to learning disabilities, especially on the partof inner-city children.The program presently isfunctioning primarily at Sumner School, aninner-city school designated as a "target" school by USOE.A team from Sub-Mensa works with Sumner teachers to identify and diagnosethe learning disabilities of children with learning and/or adjustment problems inthe school situation and plans appropriate remedial programs withthe teachers such as assistance in the Syracuse University Reading Clinic,Mathematics Clinic, psychological assistance and the correction of speechand hearing disorders.

REHABILITATION COUNSELOR EDUCATIONPROGRAM Special Education Dr. James F. Winschel

A special program sponsored by SyracuseUniversity and the Rehabilitation Services Administration (HEW) leading tothe master's and doctoral degrees in Rehabilitation Counseling.Students in the program serve as internsin various rehabilitation and social serviceagencies throughout the City of Syracuse.

ADMINISTRATION OF SPECIAL EDUCATIONPROGRAMS Special Education Dr. Daniel Sage

Administration of programs for handicappedchildren in public schools is often undertaken by individuals who are notexperienced with the unique problemsand procedures required to support such programs.Dr. Daniel Sage has developed an intensive two-weekseminar -- Special Education AdministrationTask Simu- lation (SEATS)Game,--which simulates the problems of personneladministra- tion, physical facilities, services toinstruction, pupil placement, information handling and public and professionalrelations, to assist administrators in this field in obtaining appropriate training toimprove their effectiveness as administrators of special education programs.In many cases, it is anticipated that the simulation experience will bereinforced by subsequent administrative internships in the field.While initially directed to the area of specialeducation, the simulation approach has broadapplication to other areas of higher education, Page 7 (I) especially in training administrators and staffpersonnel in the areas of urban problems, where too often they are not thoroughlyfamiliar with the cultural, economic and sociological forces of the innercity while trying to deal with them.

CIVIL SERVICE PREPARATION COURSE Maxwell Committee on the American Dilemma Dr. Harvey Martens At the suggestion of the Reverend ForestAdams, a Negro civil rights leader, a program to explain civilservice career opportunities and how to prepare forthe Civil Service Exam has been established bySyracuse University faculty and graduate students to assist inner-city residents inupgrading their economic status by taking advantage of civil serviceopportunities which are available in the Syracuse area.Individual tutoring is available to those who need it.

EDUCATION FOR SLOW LEARNERS Special Education Dr. James F. Winschel The relationship between cultural deprivation in inner-cityghettos and some forms of apparent mental retardation is being studied indepth by 9 graduate Fellows in Special Education who serve as half-time internsin eight community agencies for a semester.Interns serve for two weeks in each of the following agencies: Rehabilitation Center, Upstate MedicalCenter; Cerebral Palsy Clinic, De Villa Sloane School for trainable children;Association for Retarded Children; Syracuse State School; Croton School; SyracuseHeadstart Program; and McCarthy School for trainable children.The program involves working with both children and adults and is aimed specifically at determining if someforms of apparent mental retardation should more appropriately beconsidered a depression in intellectual functioning or intellectual deficit, resultingfrom cultural and sociological factors rather than from mental deficiencies.

FAMILY MEDICAL CENTER Special Education Dr. Lawrence B. Feinberg

The application of rehabilitation concepts tosocial disabilities is being studied by Dr. Lawrence Feinberg as part ofhis consulting activities with the Family Medical Center.The Center is sponsored jointly by Upstate MedicalCenter and the Onondaga County Welfare Departmentand services approximately 100 Aid to Dependent Children families in theadjacent inner-city area.The special Feinberg research project is intended to reinforcethe medical services received through the Center by providing additionalrehabilitation counseling to assist the Aid to Dependent Children families in developingpersonal plans which will help them escape the poverty trap. Page 8(I)

SPEECH PATHOLOGY AND AUDIOLOGY Special Education Dr. Mitchell R. Burkowsky

Graduate students in the SpeechPathology and Audiology program serve as volunteer tutors to approximately40-50 foreign students enrolled atSyracuse University to assist them withlanguage and speech problems.An important concept of the program,which has broad application toculturally deprived individuals, is that those.who do notunderstand conventional language patterns are in essence"deaf" until they learn new communicationspatterns.

URBAN PRE-SCHOOL NURSERYCENTERS Special Education Dr. Mitchell R. Burkowsky

Student teachers from theSchool of Education and studentsin the speech and hearing programs of the Departmentof Speech Pathology andAudiology of the Division of Special Education areworking with six pre-school nurserycenters on a StateDemonstration Program for theinner city to study languagedevelop- ment and its effect onlearning; and to provide earlyidentification and treatment of speech and hearing disorderswhich, if untreated, could restrictthe child's educational development.

SPEECH AND AUDIO CLINIC Special Education Dr. Mitchell R. Burkowsky

Conducted by the Department ofSpeech Pathology and Audiology as partof its undergraduate and graduateinstructional program, the SyracuseUniversity Speech and Audiology Clinic servesresidents of the City, County andFive- County regional area in the diagnosisand treatment of speech, hearingand language disorders.

MULTI-GRADED CLASSROOMS:SUMNERSCHOOL School of Education Dr. Frank Greene

Students at Sumner ElementarySchool have the opportunity todevelop their learning skills at their own pacethrough the multi-graded classroom concept introduced with the assistance ofthe Syracuse University School ofEducation on anexperimental basis in 1967-68and expended to include tenclassrooms for 1968-69.The multi-graded approach notonly provides a high degree of individualized instruction for thestudents, but also has served as astimulus in developing a more effectivedialogue among parents, teachersand the administrators of the inner-city school,resulting in the awarding of$132,000 in Urban Aid funds to the schoolfor the development of expandedcooperative programs. Page 9(I)

READING CLINIC School of Education Dr. Frank Greene

Faculty and staff of the Reading Clinic areworking directly with teachers at several inner-city elementary schools todevelop and refine programs and materials to raise the reading level ofculturally deprived children.Although used primarily for inner-city children atthe present time, the program has broad application to any youngsterswith reading disabilities.A major part of the Clinic's work is undertaken atSumner School which is immediately adjacent to the campus.Other schools in the project includeCharles Andrews and Croton.

LIVERPOOL PRE-SCHOOL PROGRAM School of Education Dr. William J. Meyer

The Research & Development Center inEarly Childhood Education conducts a preschool program for 108 children inLiverpool designed to pre-condition the youngsters for formal schoolexperiences and, in particular, to identifyand offer remedial services to those youngsterswho might experience problems during the primary grades.

TEACHER RESPONSIBILITY IN School of Education ADMINISTRATIVE DECISION MAKING Dr. William Wayson An experimental program instituted atCroton School in 1967-68 involves classroom teachers in planning andimplementing both the procedural and curricular aspects of the school program.A primary objective of the program is to improveteacher motivation and effectiveness byproviding the opportunity to participate in thebroad scope of the total education program instead of limiting their concerns only toindividual classroom activities. The result of the program has been to improvemorale and motivation among the entire faculty by involving them actively as acohesive problem-solving unit in the overall management of theirschool.

LIVERPOOL HEADSTART PROGRAM School of Education Dr. William J. Meyer

During the summer of 1967 the Evaluationand Research Center conducted a six-weeks program for "culturallydeprived children" in the Liverpool area to assist them in achieving theirmaximum educational potential.Approximately 40 children were involved.Followup studies are still being conductedwith these youngsters to determine theeffects of the summer program on their educational development and growth. Page 10(I)

School of Education MADISON PROJECT Dr. Robert Davis

Initially developed approximately adecade ago at the MadisonSchool in Syracuse as a modernmathematics curriculum forelementary school students, the Madison Project nowis worldwide in scope.Considerable emphasis in the programis placed on teacher training programsto train experienced and studentteachers in developing moreeffective patterns for teaching mathematics,especially to disadvantagedstudents or slow learners.

A LIFE SCIENCEUNIT IN EFFECTIVE FAMILY College of Home Economics LIVING FOR LOW-INCOMEADOLESCENT BOYS Dr. Bettye Caldwell Dr. John Crosby

A group of 18 or 19junior high school boysfrom an inner-city school, predominantly Negro, wererecruited to participate in asix-week course in the spring of 1968 which dealtwith the masculine role in thefamily in which the boys had grown up and inthe future family of whichthey would be a central figure.The class was non.creditand on a volunteer basis only.A post test was given to boththe class and a control groupof boys which indicated an increaseof 5 points (mean) inknowledge of personal familybehavior and life.This research intervention program wasfunded by the Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. Foundation.

SYRACUSE UNIVERSITYCHILDREN'S CENTER College of Home Economics Dr. Bettye Caldwell.

A Demonstration Day-CareCenter funded by theChildren's Bureau of the Department of Health, Educationand Welfare, and designed to measurethe effect of environmental input oncognitive development, serves75 to 80 children from 6 months through4 1/2 years of age, primarilydrawn from the very low income groupof the inner-city of Syracuse.This Center serves not only as a research centerbut also as a trainingexperience for students within the College of Home Economicswhile at the same timerenders out- standing service to inner-cityfamilies by providing day carewhich is one of the great unmet needs of the lowincome group in the inner-cityof Syracuse.

NURSERY SCHOOL College of Home Economics SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY Mrs. Laura Preston

This is conducted by the Collegeof Home Economics as atraining center for teachers of pre-school childrenand serving approximately 70children per year, provides nurseryschool experience for a groupof 17 inner-city Negro children who are bussed into theNursery School under thePre-Kindergarten Program of the Syracuse SchoolDistrict.This provides a nursery school experience in an integrated settingfor these children and alsofor the training of two nursery school aides who areboth Negro. Page 11 (I)

OPERATION LINK Student - Volunteer Miss Pam Frazee This is a student-run volunteer program to provide "big brothers" and "big sisters" for inner-city children on a one-to-one, or one-to-two basis. The program is closely associated with Croton School.Appro:cimately 35 students are serving as "big brothers" or "big sisters" for 1968-69.

SERVICES FOR THO:SE IN_TROUBLE_ CEC- UniversityCollege Mr. James LeFlore A survey of all services and programs in the Syracuse area which may be of ass;.stance to Inner-city neighborhood residents, conducted at the request of the Community Chest and Council and the Chamber of Commerce.Will be published .n a booklet using forme and language easily understoody inner- city residents in the spring of 1969.

FAMILY SERVICE CENTER School of Social Work Mr. Harry Thompson The Family Service Center is a multi-service inter-generational agency administered by the Syracuse University School of Social Work and is intended to serve as an educational-research laboratory for evaluating new approaches in providing services to the urban poor and in determining requirements of social work education in addressing itself to serving the urban disadvantaged. Recipients of services range from young and nniddleage blacks to elderly whites, the major populations tending to live in ghetto areas.The Agency is co- sponsored by Syracuse University, the Syracuse Housing Authority and the United Community Chest and Cowncil of Onondaga County, with additional support from the State Department of Mental Hygiene through the Onondaga County Department of Mental Health, to provide primary and secondary pre- ventative mental health services to the poor and aged.A Board of Directors drawn from the inner-city neighborhood which is served determine service poli- cies while the educational and research components are the responsibility of the School of Social Work.

HENDRICKS CHAPEL - PROGRAMS Hendricks Chapel FOR THE DISADVANTAGED Dean John H. McCombe Fifteen religious groups affiliated with Hendricks Chapel have separate programs in progress to improve community conditions, including individual tutoring for the disadvantaged by student volunteers. 772:112-

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Maxwell School THE MAXWELLCOMMITTEE ON Dean Alfred H. Cope THE AMERICANDILEMMA group The Maxwell Committee onthe American Dilemmais an interdisciplinary members who areconcerned with thecritical issues facing of volunteer faculty Activities of American Societyand especiallythose in the urbancommunity. of "OperationShoestring", a programde- the Committeeinclude sponsorship community; signed to offer college coursework for nonl-Nvhitesin the Syracuse Relations course inSyracuse city highschools at the re- teaching of a Human to assist quest of students;development of a CivilService Preparation course in preparing forcivil serviceexaminations; and members of minority groups directed speci- the developmentof proposals foradditional academic courses fically toward theproblems of thedisadvantaged and urbanproblems.

FOR THE POOR CEC - UniversityCollege CONSUMER EDUCATION Mr. JamesLeFlore trained as groupdiscussion Twelve women fromlow-income neighborhoods were credit buying, foodand clothing buying, moneyplanning, leaders in such areas as discussions in their own food preparation, etc.They, in turn,led small group relating to publichousing, concentrating on neighborhoods.A similar program conducted in late1968. the aged populationin the CentralVillage project was

University College PROJECT OPPORTUNITY Mr. Thomas F.Benzel

currently is providing115 credit hours ofcollege work for University College the inner-city at acost of 43 recent highschool graduates andolder adults from developed, subject toobtaining adequatefinancing, to $19, 000.Plans are being students by the expand the program toinclude approximately200 disadvantaged fall of 1970.

Admissions Office FRESHMAN ACTIONCOMMITTEE Mr. Lester Dye Society (SAAS), Ninety-five freshmen,members of theStudent Afro-American "task force" to assistthe UniversityAdmissions are serving asa volunteer communities and Office in seeking outqualified blackstudents in their home apply to Syracuse.In the first sixmonths of the program, encouraging them to increased 50 to 75 percent. applications fromblack high schoolstudents have Page 13 (I)

FINANCIAL AID PROGRAMFOR Financial Aid Office DISADVANTAGED STUDENTS Mr. Arthur Fritz Approximately $95, 000 to$120, 000 or 15 to 20 percentof the total financial aid budget for incomingfreshman for the fall of1969 has been designated fordis- advantaged students.Currently disadvantagedstudents from all fourunder- graduate classes are receivingfinancial assistance averaging$975 per student compared with averageawards of $675 for allother financial aid recipients.

ALLEN FUNT GRADUATEFELLOWSHIPS Dept. of Television-Radio IN RADIO ANDTELEVISION Dr. Lawrence Myers Graduate fellowships valuedat $4, 000 each areavailable to qualified Negros planning careers in televisionand radio.The awards include a cashstipend of $2, 000, 30 hours ofremitted graduate tuition,and lead to the master's degree in communicationsin one year.The program is supportedby two $16, 000 grants from AllenFunt, the creator of "CandidCamera" and a $30, 000 grant from the FordFoundation.

SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WORKPROGRAMS School of Social Work SERVING THE DISADVANTAGED Dean Walter M. Beattie As part of its regularactivities as a center f orhuman social serviceeducation Syracuse University's Schoolof Social Work is involvedin a variety of programs related to problems of thedisadvantaged and the inner-city.The School recently hosted a hearing by theSpecial Committee onAging of the United StatesSenate on the topic"Usefulness of the Model CitiesProgram to the Elderly"and is presently involved in contractnegotiations with the federalgovernment around astudy of the role of model citiesin planning environmentsfor those aged citizenslocated in inner-city areas.Another program, pendingfunding, is a joint venturewith the University of Georgia'sSchool of Social Work toprovide opportunity and responsible support to the Negrostudent and members ofother minority groups to move into themainstream of social workeducation and human-socialservice de- livery systems.Even the planning by theSchool of Social Workfor a new building has included significantrepresentation from the localinner-city in an attempt to successfully plan a learning centerthat will insure appropriaterelationships between educational andcommunity priorities,plus maximizing thefacility for the benefit of both. SOCIAL WORK INTERNSHIPS School of Social Work Dean Walter M. Beattie .A significant aspect of the School of Social Work's general program as related to the disadvantaged is its field instructional program of "internships, " required of all candidates for the degree of Master of Social Work.During the two years at the School each master's degree candidate is placed in a social agency for two to three days a week.Working along with trained professionals these students, many with extensive training and experience of their own help fill the critical shortage for social work manpower while at the same time acquiring valuable experience.

NEWMAN ASSOCIATION 'ACTION' PROGRAMS Newman Association Student-Volunteer Betsy Nicholson Approximately 80 students associated with Newman Fellowship on the Syracuse University campus are involved in a series of volunteer community service programs, including the following: Do Corps - students who provide tutoring assistance to disadvantaged high school students in the urban area; Youth Center Pro- gram - conducted at Northside C. Y. 0. in downtown Syracuse, provides volunteer group leadership for inner-city youngsters in crafts, sketching and drawing, sewing, shop, art, dancing, athletics, etc.The volunteers meet monthly with members of the C. Y. 0. professional staff for training and evaluation sessions. Catholic Action Program-under the overall supersion of the Reverend Carey of the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, the program is designed to assist in relieving inner-city tensions, and includes tutoring disadvantaged elementary and high school students, visitation of the elderly, and planning outings and recreation with groups of inner-city children.

HEAD START TRAINING PROGRAM College of Home Economics Mrs. Laura Preston For the past three summers Mrs. Laura Preston has served as Coordinator or the training program for Head Start staff in the Syracuse area, funded through the Office of Economic Opportunity.The program includes the training of teachers, professionals, non-professionals, youth corps, doctors, nurses, speech therapists, psychologists, social workers, etc. to work with disadvantaged children in the Head Start program.

NUTRITIONAL SERVICES FOR INNER-CITY CHILDREN College of Home Economics Dean Bernice M. Wright Members of the College of Home Economics staff serve as nutrition consultants for nonnday meal programs at both the Children's Center and the University Nursery School to assure balanced diets and adequate nutritional intake forinner-city children involved in these programs. 7,7.1t

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ENTREPRENEURSHIP ASSISTANCE College of Business Ad. SMALL BUSINESS Business Research Center Dr. Peter Franck

The Syracuse University BusinessResearch Center is working withthe predominantly Negro Central CityBusinessmen's Association todevelop a joint business leadership assistance program directedtoward the small businessman --actual or potential -- serving the inner-city.By bringing joint resources tobear on the growth of inner- city business, it is believedthat income and employment ofinner-city residents will increase as well.The Business Research Centercurrently is working with 15 young men from theinner-city to devalop a tailor-madebusiness program.Teams from the Research Center and Businessmen'sAssociation are providingvolunteer assistance in such areas asmarketing, real estate, andaccounting.A joint application to the Federal Small BusinessAdministration for approximately$80, 000 to support a two-year programof technical assistance and toprovide seed money currently is pending.

NATIONAL CHARACTERIZATIONOF UPWARD BOUND Youth Development Center Dr. David E. Hunt PROGRAMS Dr. Robert H. Hardt

The general purpose was toobtain information about the goalof Project Upward Bound, "to generate the skillsand motivation necessary forcollege success among young peoplefrom low-income backgrounds." (Guidelines, 1966) Biographical questionnaires that had beencompleted by students were used tosummarize certain demographic characteristics.Specific objectives were to measureattitudes and motivation of Upward Boundstudents and to determine anychange.In addition, information about academicachievement was collected andreported.

SELF-CONCEPT AND ACADEMICMOTIVATION IN A Youth Development Center NATIONAL SAMPLE OF UPWARDBOUND STUDENTS Dr. Robert H. Hardt The promotion of a more positiveself-concept has been recognized as animportant goal of educational programsdirected towards low-income youth.In part, the focus on self-concept isjustified as a worthy educationalobjective in itself.In addition, a positiveself-concept may facilitate theattainment of the more- conventionaleduca- tional goals of academic achievement.This project is examining certaincorrelates of variations in self-esteem,utilizing a large national sampleof high school students participating in a special Officeof Economic Opportunity Program,Upward Bound, designed to increase the chancesof college attendance amongthis group.Selected factors related to shifts inself-esteem over a two-year periodalso are being studied. P7,77, 7 Page 16 (I)

TEACHING ASSOCIATES School of Education Dr. John Johnson

Senior students preparing toenter the teachingprofession have the opportunity to obtain valuable experience in anexperimental inner-city schoolsituation through the Associate Teachers programconducted with Croton Schoolby the School of Education.Students spend a full semester atCroton School, teaching underthe supervision of a cooperatingteacher.

PARA-PROFESSIONAL TRAINING Croton School Dr. William Wayson

Seven adults from the inner-city areinvolved in the Croton School program as semi-or para-professionalteaching assistants to classroomteachers. The participants receive individualspecialized training as teacher'saides, library aides and receive tuitioncredits through Syracuse Universityto continue their education to prepare for full-timeteaching positions.

ARITHMETIC CLINIC School of Education Dr. John Wilson

The Arithmetic Clinic offersdiagnostic and remedial programsfor children in kindegarten through juniorhigh school who are experiencingdifficulties in mathematics.Currently 60 students are receivingassistance through the program.Increased emphasis is beingplaced on the learning problemsof disadvantaged inner-city childrenthrough direct involvement inurban schools, re- ferrals from the Family MedicalCenter, and participation inthe interdisciplinary Sub-Mensa program. APPENDIX II

PROBLEMS OF THE URBANCOMMUNITY

URBAN TEACHERTRAINING PROGRAM School of Education Summer Workshop for UrbanCooperating Teachers Dr. Thomas E. Clayton Recognizing that specializedtraining is required forteachers in urban schools, and that effective teachingapproaches can be developed instudent teachers through proper supervisionand training, cooperatingteachers in the Syracuse City Schools who superviseSyracuse University studentteachers have been given special trainingin two summer workshops to preparethem to work with student teachers inelementary schools during theregular school year. A research project is beingconducted concurrently to determinethe difference, if any, in the performanceof student teachers workingunder such supervision compared with those who are not.Techniques being used in theproject include the use of videotaperecording of both supervisingand student teachers and micro-teaching projects.3 3 supervising teachers weretrained in 1967, and 35 in 1968.

NEW USES FOR OLDNEIGHBORHOODS School of Architecture Westcott Area - Syracuse Dr. Kermit Lee Third year design students inthe School of Architecturehave the opportunity to develop practicalapplications of their coursework through a project involving a detailed study ofthe Westcott Area, with theobjective of developing a NeighborhoodMaster Program whichcould be applied to the analysisand revitalization of other urban areasclassified as a "zone in transi+ion" a neighborhood experiencing socialand physical deteriorationthrough population mobility.Specific objectives of theproject include (a) identifyingthe needs and potentialities of the existing area;and (b) projecting MasterProgramming for the upgrading of the area as aunit.

CONFERENCES ON REHABILITATIONAND POVERTYSpecial Education Dr. Lawrence B. Feinberg

The Rehabilitation CounselorEducation Program at SyracuseUniversity has sponsored two conferences onRehabilitation and its role infighting poverty since 1965, and a third conference isscheduled in the Spring of1969. The first conference was directed toward thequestion of rehabilitationcounseling for the socially disabled, to determinewhat kinds of personnel wererequired to develop Page 2 (II) effective programs in the Syracuse area.As a result of this conference, a special Rehabilitation Counseling Poverty Field Unit wasestablished as part of the local Syracuse Community Action Program, Crusadefor Opportunity. In 1967 the Field Unit became affiliated with theOnondaga County Department of Social Services.The second conference, held in 1967, was a four-state regional institute involving directors of rehabilitation and poverty programs from New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Delaware todetermine guidelines for cooperation and interaction on a regional basis.The conference scheduled in April, 1969, will be national in scope and will bedirected toward rehabilitation in the inner-city as pioneered by the Syracuse PovertyField Unit.Participants will include Model City directors; NeighborhoodService Project directors; and representatives of CommunityDevelopment Agencies.

CAMPUS PLAN School of Education Dr. Augustine A. Root Members of the Syracuse University School of Educationfaculty have assisted as consultants in thedevelopment of the "Campus Plan", a pioneering concept in elementary education for Syracuse public schools.Through programmed instruction, team teaching and other innovativelearning-teaching approaches, a high degree ofindividualized instruction will be afforded each student. This concept has particular relevance in the educationof inner-city children, as it will allow learning to take place in his socio-cultural context,and at the most appropriate pace.At the same time, by grouping all elementary school students on four large campuses in four quadrents of the city, theplan will provide the opportunity to achieve racial balance thrnughout the systemthrough appropriate bussing procedures which are an integral part ofthe overall program. Syracuse University faculty have made considerablecontributions to the development of the Campus Plan by designing and carrying outstudies to obtain data on all aspects of the overall program and, in particular,through their assistance in the design of a flexible, innovative curriculum.

EXPERIENCED TEACHER FELLOWS Center For Instructional Communications Dr. Donald Ely The Center For Instructional Communications atSyracuse University conducts a program for experiencedclassroom teachers which allows them to gain additional experience in the rapidly developing field of instructionaltechnology.The 15 participating teachers serve a minimum of oneday a week as interns in city schools where they work with other teachers and withstudents in developing innovative uses for instructionalmaterials such as slides, tape-recorders, films andoverhead projectors for more effective communications within theclassroom. Page 3 (H)

CITY EDUCATION SYSTEMS Metropolitan Studies STUDY OF LARGE Dr. Alan Campbell

Supported by a $276, 500 grantfrom the Carnegie Corporation,the study involved faculty from SyracuseUniversity and from othermajor universitiesthroughout the nation, includingColumbia, Northwestern,Harvard, M. I. T. , the University of Georgia, Universityof Virginia and SanFrancisco State College.Focus of the study is on the economicand political problemsof large-city education in five major areas -- NewYork City, Chicago,Boston, San Franciscoand Atlanta. The economics part ofthe study concerns thepublic financing of educationand the interrelation betweeninputs and outputs oflarge city schools; whilethe political analysis rangesfrom the forces involved inacquiring federal fundsfor education to the role ofteachers' organization inmaking educational policy.

WORKSHOP ON THE ROLEOF THE CEC - UniversityCollege CHURCH IN URBAN CHANGE Mr. Lee Smith and A five week workshopfor clergymen and layleaders, attended by 75 men women, toconsider the changing roleof the church in contemporarysociety with emphasis on thechurch's responsibility forinitiating and supporting new programs designedspecifically to serve urban areas.

INSTITUTE Metropolitan Studies Program HIGH SCHOOL TEACHERS' Dr. Arthur LeGacy

A six week instituteheld in the summer of1968, and supported by a$75, 000 grant from the U. S.Office of Education, tohelp secondary schoolteachers develop curriculum related tourban affairs.

SEMINAR Metropolitan Studies Program. COMPARATIVE URBANISM Dr. Nikos Georgulas

Sponsored jointly by theSyracuse UniversityMetropolitan Studies Programand the New York State EducationDepartment, the seminarincludes 20 faculty and advanced graduate studentsfrom Syracuse Universityand 10 faculty members representing seven othercolleges and universities inupstate New York. The objective of the seminaris to provide deeperinsights into urban problemsfor faculty engaged in teachingand research in thisfield. Page 4 (II)

COMMUNITY BASELINESTUDY S. U. Research Corporation (Ind. & Comm. Serv. Div.) Mr. L. J. Danehy of The Syracuse UniversityResearch Corporationparticipated in the development logistics, computerizationof data, and analysisof findings with theCommunity Health Information andPlanning Service (CHIPS).The study included a hospital bed utilization survey,patient origin study,physicians' inventory and services and facilities analysis toassist in determininganticipated future needs inthose areas and todevelop guidelines andobjectives for meetingthose needs through coordinated communitylong-range planning.

AMBULATORY CARE STUDY S. U. Research Corporation (Ind. & Comm. Serv. Div.) Mr. L. J. Danehy

A proposed study bythe Syracuse UniversityResearch Corporation todetermine the types and numbersof patients whoseproblems do not requirehospitalization and who can be treatedsatisfactorily without costly bed occupancy,thus reducing costs both to theindividual patient and to thehospitals. The scope of the survey includes determining whatpatients can best be servedby this type of program, facilities and personnelrequired, costs, and methodsof operation.

STUDY S. U. Research Corporation LONG TERM CARE (Ind. & Comm. Serv. Div. ) Mr. L. J. Danehy the In cooperation withthe Community HealthInformation and Planning Service, Syracuse UniversityResearch Corporationdeveloped and analyzed data aboutexist- ing services and facilitiesand anticipated future needsfor long-term health care for the aged in the Syracusecommunity, with particularattention to projecting anticipated future needs fornursing homes and domiciliaryhomes for the aged.

FAMILY MEDICAL CENTER S. U. ResearchCorporation (Ind. & Comm. Serv. Div.) Mr. L. J. Danehy

The Syracuse UniversityResearch Corporation hasserved as a consultant to the Upstate Medical Centerin the design of astudy to determine the impactof per- sonalized medical and socialservices on educationachievement.The interests of four major departmentsof the city or county(Health, Social Services,Education and Mental Health) werecombined into a unifiedplanning study with a commonaim for the first time, underthe Syracuse UniversityResearch Corporation's direction. Page 5 (II)

STATE TECHNICAL SERVICES PROJECT S. U. Research Corporation Information Services Laborator Mr. Robert Levesque Technical information developed under the Department ofDefense and other federal contracts is made available through the SyracuseUniversity Research Corporation to small businesses and small industries inthe Syracuse regional area through seminars,free referral service and small amounts of free help.

STANDARD CODES FOR URBAN RENEWAL S. U. Research Corporation Mr. Robert Herman The Syracuse University Research Corporation is assisting the Urban Improve- ment Department in the development of standard codesfor urban renewal in- spections to define more carefully which buildings should becondemned under the program.

MODEL CITIES PROJECT S. U. Research Corporation Mr. William Bell The Syracuse University Research Corporation assisted in the preparation ofthe application for the Syracuse Model Cities grant from the Department of Housing and Urban Development in surveying the proposed area; determining the assistance available from the various units of Syracuse University in supportof the project; and interpretation of the needs of the inner city to be included in the project application.The Syracuse University Research Corporation will continue to work closely with the project directors in all phases as the program develops.

REGIONAL PLANNING CONSULTANTS S. U. Research Corporation (Ind. & Comm.Serv. Div. ) Mr. William Bell The Syracuse University Research Corporation served as consultants tothe Interim Committee for the establishment of a five-county Central NewYork Regional Planning Board -- to assist in the gathering of data and orientation of county leaders and legislators to the need, advantages and benefitsof such a Board in developing cooperativelong-range planning and programs for the Counties of Onondaga, Cayuga, Madison, Cortland and Oswego, both in terms of County functions and the relationships of these functions tothe urban communities located within the regional area. Page 6 (II)

S. U. Research Corporation URBAN HOUSING Mr. Robert Herman the The Syracuse UniversityResearch Corporation hasserved as consultants for University Hill Corporationfor the General NeighborhoodRenewal Plan. The Research Corporationadvised on the location of newresi- Syracuse University the dential construction,relocation of families, andmade recommendations for development of three action areaprograms --community relations,"positive environment", and marketstudy of housingdevelopment.

MANPOWER DEVELOPMENT - S. U. Research Corporation PROJECT (Ind. & Comm. Serv. Div.) SYRACUSE UPGRADING Mr. David LaMar

The Syracuse UniversityResearch Corporation andthe New York StateEmployment Service are cooperatingin the developmentof new techniques forupgrading workers already employed bytraining, records analysis,etc.Close consultation wi.th management and laborand a study of educationaltraining facilities is expectedto evolve a prototype systemwhich will be appliednationally.

TRANSPORTATION S. U. Research Corporation (hid. & Comm. Serv. Div.) Mr. William Bell

The Syracuse UniversityResearch Corporation hasdeveloped a simulated street intersection which makesit possible to plan streetsignals more effectivelyfor maximum traffic flow inurban areas; and currentlyis working on projects to develop safer motor vehicleand aircraft design,with particular attention to passenger safetyin the event of accident.The Syracuse UniversityResearch Corporation also serves as aconsultant to the SyracuseCommissioner of Trans- portation in the developmentof research proposalsand surveys for the City.

LAW ENFORCEMENTSTUDIES S. U. Research Corporation (Ind. & Comm.Serv.Div. ) Mr. D. B. MacDermott

The Industrial and CommunityServices Division of the SyracuseUniversity Research Corporation currently isdeveloping or studying a seriesof proposals in the law enforcement field, includingthe following: "Pclice OperationsSystems" "Police CommunicationsSystems" "Information RetrievalMethods" "Victimology and UnreportedCrime" "Reasons for Criminal'Drop out" "Warning/Protective Devices for Homesand Small Businesses" ,

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POLICE PILOT PROJECT FOR YOUTH:DEVELOPMENT Youth Development Center OF IMPROVED STRATEGIES FOR EARLYIDENTIFICA- Dr. David E. Hunt TION AND HANDLING The grant for this project was given by the U.S. Department of Justice to the Syracuse Police Department who,themselves, accomplished the major part of it.The project focused on young boys with a patternof early anti-social be- havior.The goal was to identify these boys as early aspossible through revision in police procedures and training, and to makereferrals to existing or especially created services.The Youth Development Center's role in this program was to identify and characterize the delinquent populationof Syracuse and Onondaga County. APPENDIX III

COMMUNITY LEADERSHIP PROGRAMS

CIVIC LEADERSHIP TRAINING SEMINARS CEC - University College Mr. James LeFlore An annual series of eight seminarsdesigned to engage and instruct potential leaders in the greater Syracuse area, withemphasis on individuals-living in inner-city areas.A total of 68 persons were enrolled in the programin the fall of 1968, including 38 representatives of inner-cityneighborhoods, and members of the League of Women Voters, JuniorLeague and Urban League Women's Guild.Programs are intended to improve perceptions and knowledge of the complex social problems of the community; tobroaden understanding of the leadership structure and operationwithin the community; and to facilitate more active involvement ofparticipants in community affairs and civic leadership responsibilities.

CIVIC LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT PROJECT CEC - University College Mr. Lee Smith Long-range, multi-faceted project directed toward certainwhite, nationalistic and ethnic groups in the Syracuse area (such asGerman-Americans, Irish- Americans, Polish-Americans, etc. ) to develop leadershippotential within the ethnic group leading to greater interaction with other similar groupsand agencies within the larger community.The project will include two conferences at a Syracuse University Adirondack MountainConference Center; a 10-week seminv on the nature, conditions and problems of themodern urban community; and a series of surveys and graduate research studies of the variouspopulations in the program.The project will continue throughout 1969.

COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT TRAINING PROJECT CEC - University College Dr. Joseph Miraglia Six short workshops for mayors, county executives,and other leading elected officials will be conducted throughout New York Statefrom January through May of 1969 to discuss housing and urban development, urbansocial problems, fiscal problems and intergovernmental relations.A similar program for approximately 125 department heads and other specialists in local governmentwill be offered as a three-day seminar at the SyracuseUniversity Continuing Education Center. Page 2 (III)

ROUNDTABLE CEC - University College THURSDAY MORNING Mr. Lee Smith

Provides a continuingchannel of communicationfor civic leaders in theSyracuse area toexchange ideas and opinions onimportant public issues.Meets weekly from October throughApril to hear a presentationby a speaker fromwithin or outside the local community,followed by informaldiscussion.Over 100 leaders from business, government,education and religioncurrently participate on a regular basis.

CONFERENCE ON MASS MEDIAAND RACE RELATIONSCEC - University College & Newhouse School of Comm. Mr. Frank Render

A three-day conferenceheld in the spring of1968 to consider the role of newspapers , radio and television incovering news involvingminority groups -- rangingfrom ghetto riots.Particular emphasis wasplaced on approaches Civil Rights legislation to will which will maximizeeffective communications amongall groups concerned and minimize possiblemisinterpretation of information.Also considered were the recruiting and training of Negro newsmenand their role in the massmedia.Partici- included: Syracuse University,Newhouse School of Communica- pating organizations Officials; tions; New York StateChapter, National Associationof Intergroup Relations Community Relations Service,United States Departmentof Justice; Syracuse Univer- and Onon- sity Continuing EducationCenter; Human RightsCommission of Syracuse daga County.

SEMINAR ON PLANNINGISSUES IN CEC - University College THE SYRACUSEMETROPOLITAN AREA Mr. Lee Smith the A ten-week programdesigned to improve theunderstanding and strengthen support of key individualsand group representativesin regard to the conceptsof planning and its relevance tobasic public issues inthe Syracuse Metropolitan Area.Focus on the role of planningin approaching majorproblems of the inner- of housing, education,transportation, health andeconomic city, including the areas the need for development.Emphasis on the interdependenceof city and county and broad coordinated planning on aregional basis among city,county and town governmental units.Participating organizationsincluded: Syracuse UniversityContinuing Education Center; SyracuseCity Planning Department;Onondaga County Planning Department; Central NewYork Regional Planningand Development Board. V^, 4,7

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COMMUNITY LEADERSHIP CONFERENCES CEC - University College Mr. Lee Smith Generally held in the fall and spring of each year, the CommunityLeadership Conferences complement and supplement other community service programs of the University by providing the opportunity forin-depth, extensive examination of one special problem or issue confrontingthe civic leadership of the Syracuse Metropolitan Area.Each conference is attended by 50-60 government officials and other community leaders,including the mayor, county executive, Chamber of Commerce executives, public schooland University administrators, city and county departmental heads, business andindustry managers, and representativesof state and federal agencies.

M1D-CAREER EXECUTIVE DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM CEC - University College Maxwell School Dr. Karl M. Schmidt The Mid-Career Executive Development Program is designed tohelp upper and middle managers in Federal Government agencies "re-energize"themselves in preparing for more effective performance in theirjobs and more responsible positions in public service.In particular, the program provides participants the opportunity to broaden their knowledge of governmentalaffairs and to improve their understanding of political andintergovernmental relations in leading to their assuming more important leadershiproles in society.

THE COMMUNITY SEMINAR CEC - University College Maxwell School Mr. James LeFlore The Community Seminar is an informal discussion program forprofessional men and women in the fieldsof health, education and welfare, and other civic leaders especially concerned with issues in these fields.Approximately 25-30 participants meet bi-weekly from October through May to discussspecific community problems, submitted by the participants themselves,thus developing greater understanding of the complex nature of urban societyand their individual responsibilities as civic leaders.Topics considered in recent seminars include: "Alternate Plans for School Desegration, " "Community HealthPlanning, "'Poverty and Public Policy, " and "Medicare Legislation and Its LocalImplications. " 7,77

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INSTITUTE ON COMMUNITYSERVICE PROGRAMMING CEC University College Mr. Lee Smith

Recognizing the developmentof community service programsis a major responsibility of the urban university,administrators representing 24 publicand private institutions in New York Stateparticipated in the Institute,designed to prepare adult educators who hadlittle or no experience in thisfield to plan and conduct effective programs of continuingeducation for community service.The Institute included three interrelatedphases: a one-week seminar toorient participants in the development of communityservice programs; a month and ahalf interim period during whichparticipants prepared individual programplans; and a two- day concluding seminar toevaluate the program plans anddiscuss practical im- plementation of them at thecommunity level.

INSTITUTE ON CRITICALISSUES University College IN AMERICAN SOCIETY Mr. Thomas F. Cummings An institute for administratorsof adult education and continuingeducation programs focused onfour major issues: racialconflict, war, education and the generation gap, and theirimplications in the field of adulteducation.This is the sixth in a series ofannual conferences sponsoredby University College to promote a dialogue betweenadult educators and scholarsfrom disciplines related to continuing education.

SYRACUSE METROPOLITANREVIEW CEC - University College Mr. Lee Smith

Published monthly by UniversityCollege to serve as a meansof communication among communityleaders and those who sharespecial responsibilities for the solution of public problemsand the improvement ofcommunity life.Circula- tion 3, 000 per month.

CONTINUING EDUCATIONCONFERENCE SERIES CEC - University College Mr. Lee Smith

The Continuing Education Centerconducts an on-going series ofconferences at the request of, or of particularinterest to, specific groupsand organizations within the Syracuse area.These conferences providein-service training or concentrated workshops to keep arealeaders abreast of current trendsand new developments in their fields. Topicsof some recent conferencesinclude: Page 5 (III)

"New Federal Legislation for Housing and UrbanDevelopment - Impact on the Syracuse Area". "Financial Problems of Local Government" (Oct4-6, 1966). "The Changing City: Federal and State Relationships -Problems and Prospects" (May 19-20,1965) "Institute on Public Health and Community Organization"(March 24-29, 1968) Conference on Social Work Manpower Utilization inMental Health Programs" (October 10-12, 1968) "New Directions in Mass Transportation"

CONFERENCE - GOVERNING ONONDAGA CEC-University College COUNTY - STRUCTURE AND ISSUES Mr. Lee Smith A three-day conference held at Minnowbrook May 8-10,1968, designed to provide County legislators and administrative officers withup-to-date and authoritative information on special issues and problemsrelated to the changing nature of local government; with particular emphasis onthe major problems facing Onondaga County in the near future.

CENTRAL NEW YORK CONSORTIUM CEC - University College Mr. Lee Smith Eleven colleges and universities in Central New York and theCooperative Extension personnel in the Central New Yorl ,region are planning aseminar program for Spring 1969 designed tohelp increase the effectiveness of local government officials in the five counties.A similar program was held in the Spring of 1968 to relate regional planning in the areas ofhealth, education and land use problems.

LOCAL GOVERNMENT MANAGEMENT University College TRAINING PROGRAMS Dr. Joseph Miraglia A series of 10 Management Training Programsfor city and county government officials prepared by the staff of the Metropolitan Studies Program werepresented over Educational TelevisionChannel 24 during 1967 and 1968.The programs were planned in cooperation with the local government units to providein-service training for approximately 100 department and division heads ortheir deputies. Page 6 (III)

NEW FRONTIERS IN LAW ENFORCEMENT CEC - University College Mr. Lee Smith An annual seminar program sponsored jointlywith the National Conference of Christians and Jews brought 2. 9 law enforcementofficials from various cities and towns in New York State to the campus foradvanced training, with particular emphasis on dealing with minority grouppopulations in law enforcement.

COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT TRAINING PROJECT CEC - University College Mr. Lee Smith A training program to be conducted during the springof 1969 at the Center For Continuing Education and other locations throughoutNew York State for chief officials and department heads, to improve publicmanagement at the local level.The program is being conducted for the New York StateOffice of Local Government in cooperation with the New York StateConference of Mayors.

CONFERENCE - ART, SCIENCE AND THE CLERGY CEC - University College Mr. James LeFlore A five-day seminar for twenty-seven clergymen in the Syracuse area,aimed at bringing the clergy up-to-date on latestfindings and trends in the various sciences, performing and visual arts.

CONFERENCE - SOCIAL CONSCIENCE CEC - University College OF THE SCHOOL ADMINISTRATOR Mr. Lee Smith A two-day conference at the University's MinnowbrookConference Center involving twenty-three chief school administrators from OnondagaCounty to discuss the 13roblems of race relations and integration as theyaffect the educational programs of all schools in this area. CONFERENCE - THE FUTURE OF CEC - University College EDUCATION IN ONONDAGA COUNTY Mr. Lee Smith A one-day conference for members of school boards in eighteen districts throughout Onondaga County, to discuss social problems affecting theschools and changes which might make educational programs more relevant tothose problems. Page 7 (III)

CONFERENCE - PROFESSIONAL PROBLEMS OF CEC-University College MUNICIPAL CLERKS Dr. Joseph Miraglia A one-week training program for members of the New York State Association of Municipal Clerks to bring them up-to-date on techniques and information pertinent to their work and to broaden their perspectives and understanding on social change, community problems, governmental relations and other matters relevant to local government.

MID-CAREER EDUCATION FOR CEC-University College THE LOCAL PUBLIC SERVICE Mr. Lee Smith The complex issues and problems involved in local government require highly trained administrators and officials.A three-phase seminar was designed to assist governmental and other civic leaders in five upstate New York metropolitan areas (Binghamton, Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse, Utica) in meeting their professional responsibilities in the following ways: (1) through improving understanding of the social, political, and economic characteristics of urban society in general; (2) through better understanding of the complex factors characterizing decision-making and the conduct of public affairs in a modern city; (3) through improving understanding of how a major metropolitan area's characteristics affect the conduct of specific functions or operations; (4) through providing skills and guidance for the analysis of major characteristics of a metropolitan area.The program included a one-week planning seminar, a two-month study of the participants' local metropolitan area; and a wrap-up seminar at which reports were presented and evaluated by the participants.

CONFERENCE ON CRIME AND THE PRESS Dept. of Sociology Dr. Charles V. Willie The purpose of the Conference is to increase public understanding of social science analysis of public problems.Editors and reporters of daily newspapers in New York State are brought together with social scientists to examine crime and how the public may deal with it based on recent research. Special attention is given to unscrambling the technical language of social science research reports on crime.

THE HUMANISTIC STUDIES CENTER University College Mrs. Mary Iverson The Humanistic Studies Center, now in its eighth year, offers timely lecture series, lecture-discussion seminars and other special programs for intellec- tually curious adults across a broad range of liberal studies, including the arts, the humanities, and the social sciences.Programs are flexible, and reflect adult concern with contemporary issues in modern society. Among programs Page 8 (III)

offered in 1968 were: "ANation Divided: Black Cities,White Suburbs ?"; "The Negro in Literature:Searching for Identity";"About People: In Search of Understanding";"The Expressive Revolution:Society in Flux"; "Government in Action";and "The Literature ofViolence: Studies in Modernist Writing".

INSTITUTE FOR COMMUNITYPSYCHOLOGY School of Education Dean David Krathwohl Dr. Eric Gardner

A division of the PsychologicalServices and Research Centerof Syracuse University, the Institute ForCommunity Psychology cooperateswith many community agencies in applyingpsychological knowledge and methodsto relevant problems.The Institute for CommunityPsychology does not supply direct services to clients ofthese agencies, but assists theagencies directly in establishing services tomeet client needs.The three main areas of ICP's involvements include (a) programdevelopment; (b) training; and (c)evaluation. ICP consults with school systems,community centers, hospitalsand other agencies to help them improvethe psychological effectivenessof existing programs to train aides, nurses,teachers, parents and others to servein therapeutic roles; Ind to evaluatethe effectiveness of programsdesigned to meet psychologicalneeds.

OPERATION VOLUNTEER Student - Volunteer Volunteer placement service forstudents interested in communityservice, in cooperation with the SyracuseVolunteer Center.Students sign up for work in one of 35 participatingagencies in the city.Currently 113 students are participatingin the program.

COUNSELING CENTER Faculty - Volunteer ONONDAGA PASTORAL Dr. A. A. Root

Several members of the SyracuseUniversity faculty, includingDr. Gordon Hoop le, M.D., former Chairmanof the Board of Trustees,assisted in found- ing the Onondaga PastoralCounseling Center, as a volunteerservice agency designed to provide-counseling trainingfor clergymen of all faiths inthe Syracuse area, and personalcounseling for persons seekinghelp within an ecumenical religious environment.As a result of its initial success,the Center has received Federaland State fund supportwhich has allowed it to expand its counseling and trainingactivities, especially in theinner-city area. Page 9 (III)

HIGH SCHOOL HUMANRELATIONS COURSE Maxwell Committee on the American Dilemma Dr. Roy Price Mr. Richard Tabors

An experimental course onHuman Relations is beingoffered by Syracuse University in all cityhigh schools at the requestof the students, who have a majorrole in planning the course.Intended to develop greatersensitivity to the distinctivequalities of people asindividuals, an important objective of the course is tofoster greater understandingbetween the races.

FUNDING SERVICES FORTHE POOR CEC - University College Mr. Lee Smith

A ten week seminar toassist the executiveoffices and board presidentsof urban social agencies in identifying sourcesof federal and state fundsto supplort their organizations and to trainthem in proper methodsof writing proposalsfor fund support.

University College EVENT Mr. John Staufford

A quarterly publicationin the field of publicaffairs, Event placesconsiderable emphasis on the problemsof urban society and thedisadvantaged.It has achieved an internationalreputation, and currentlyhas a circulation of 3,500 in the United Statesand abroad.

PARA-PROFESSIONAL TRAINING College of Home Economics PROFESSIONAL - Dean Bernice Wright the The Child and FamilyDevelopment Department willconduct a workshop during 1969 summer session to trainprofessionals to work withpara-professionals (teacher's aides, audio-visualassistants, etc. ) inpreschool programs andsocial agency settings.A group ofpara-professionals willparticipate in the program to present the needs andpoint of view ofpara-professionals to theprofessional staffs in the school or agencysetting. Page 10 (III)

SCHOOL OF MUSIC COMMUNITY SERVICEPROGRAMS School of Music Dr. Marie Joy Curtiss Among community service projects supported bystudents and staff of the School of Music are (a) teaching music to problemchildren at Sumner School; (b)providing lectures and demonstrations for schoolmusic teachers in the Syracuse area; and (c) organizing and directing the Metropolitan Youth ChoirFestival in the spring of 1967, in cooperation with theAmerican Guild of Organists, with 550 students and 18 directors participating. APPENDIX IV

COURSE OFFERINGSRELATING TO THE NEGRO INAMERICAN SOCIETY

THE NEGRO INLITERATURE: SEARCHINGFOR IDENTITY (English) A series of eight seminarsto examine some ofthe literature about the Negro by Negroes, as well asliterature about the Negroby whites, focused on the part of the Negro inAmerican society. Wiritings search for identity on the Richard by James Baldwin,Ralph Ellison, ChesterHimes, John A. Williams, Wright, William Faulknerand William Styron serve asthe basis for discussions.

BLACK MAN IN AMERICANHISTORY (History) A discussion ofautobiographies by and books onNegro leaders.Offered in freshman and sophomorehonors courses.

LEADING FIGURES INAMERICAN HISTORY:AFRO-AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY(History Students meet twice a weekin four seminar groups todiscuss a book about a Negro leader in the Revolutionary,pre-and post-Civil War or contemporaryperiods of American history.Discussions are led by fourundergraduates, two white and two black.Enrollment in the course is50 students, about 20 ofthem black.

AMERICAN URBAN HISTORY(History) An examination of thecity in American history,including an analysis ofproblems unique t4) urban institutionssuch as ghettos (e.g. ,Jewish, Black) and theirparti- cular relevance to theAmerican past and future.

THE BLACK PRESS(Journalism) The first such course tobe offered in the UnitedStates, the course dealswith the historical background, managementproblems, training, recruitment,vocational opportunities and other aspectsof the Negro press in thefields of newspapers, magazines, advertisingand public relations. Page 2 (IV)

RELATIONS BETWEENBLACK AND WHITE AMERICA(Public Affairs) An examination of therelationship between the black manand the white man in America today,supplemented with considerationof pertinent historical background.An experimental coursewith six sections each including15 students and an undergraduatepreceptor.

SPECIAL PROBLEMS INAMERICAN POLITICS(Political Science) Emphasis on the present and past,present and future role ofthe Negro's participation in Americanpolitics.

RACIAL AND ETHNICMINORITIES (Sociology) A sociology coursefocusing on the problems ofthe Negro in American life.

COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION(Sociology) Local community approachto study of social organization.Community` service agencies and institutionsand their integration into aunified action pattern. Problems of disorganization,reorganization and communityplanning, with particular attention to theproblems of minority groupsand the disadvantaged.

WORKSHOP IN URBANPROBLEMS (Sociology) A study of contemporaryNegro culture, and inparticular the role of the Negro in urban society.

METROPOLITAN STUDIESSEMINAR (Sociology) A consideration of thesocial, economic andpolitical aspects of metropolitan areas.

HERE AND NOW IN BLACKAMERICAN HISTORY(University College) Offered primarily for blacksliving in the inner-city -- toassist them in the development of self-identity --the course deals with currentevents in black American history, withemphasis on placing these eventsin a proper historical perspective.Topics considered include:How new is Black Power?What have been some of the reasons,reactions, and results ofprevious race riots? What have been the major accomplishmentsof black Americans? Page 3 (IV)

College) A NATION DIVIDED:BLACK CITIES, WHITESUBURBS? (University Offered in eight publichigh schools throughoutthe Syracuse metropolitan area 1968 by black and white facultyteams, with a totalenrollment of in the fall of be offered in the 184. Expanded in length and content aswell as format, it will spring term as "BlackCities, White Suburbs ?A 1969 Perspective".

BLACK CITIES, WHITESUBURBS? PERSPECTIVE1969 (University College) A companion to the coursein black Americanhistory offered for ghettoresidents but intended primarilyfor whites living in thesuburbs, this course istaught by teams of black andwhite faculty and isconducted as a series of eightsetlinars meeting concurrently at fourlocations throughout theSyracuse suburbs.Focus of the seminar is on factorswhich contribute tosegregation, the developmentof ghettos, poverty, and thedecline of cities, and whatwhite Americans can do to remedy these conditions.The Kerner Report is used as aprimary source for readings and discussions.

SELECTED TOPICS IN NEGROHISTORY ( UniversityCollege) A lecture discussionseminar in Negro history,with emphasis on the roleof black Americans in thehistory of the nation, aswell as a consideration of contemporary problems viewedfrom a historical perspective.

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