Word: programming
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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This is the world which five Harvard students stepped into last summer. As part of a Phillips Brooks House (PBH) outreach project, they went to the Homes to design a summer academic and social program for inner-city youths. Three months later, they came away somewhat frustrated and somewhat surprised--and better educated...
...program was initiated last spring when Madison Singleton, a University of Michigan student, and Greg Johnson, the graduate secretary of PBH, began reminiscing about a similar project organized by PBH ten years ago. Singleton was one of the children who participated in the original Free School at Columbia Point and Johnson was his counselor. The two won PBH's support to recreate the program and formed the Academy Homes Summer Youth Program...
Their plan seemed simple: the students would move into the Academy Homes, use Singleton, now a resident of the project, to establish a rapport with the families, and begin a sort of educational-social summer school. But from the start, they encountered problems. A shortage of funds threatened the program. Eventually, Harvard's Office of Government and Community Relations and the Roxbury juvenile, courts added funds to the original PBH grant--enough to support the project...
...housing project but again faced obstacles. They encountered difficulties in recruiting because Singleton did not have the rapport with residents that the students expected to find. In part because Singleton attends college, "his family was just not considered the model family," Lester Parrette '83, student administrator of the program, explained...
Black South Africans are also enthusiastic about the program. Ernest Mchunu, a South African student who is attending the Law School, said the Harvard fellowship program enabled him to come to America and that it was his first experience outside of South Africa...