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Robert J. Gross, assistant director of the Master of Arts and Teaching program at the Graduate School of Education, has been appointed the new executive director of Harvard's Upward Bound program...
...Upward Bound is a federally-financed program designed to encourage disadvantaged high school students and drop-outs to continue their education through tutoring, counseling, special activities, and seminars. At the present time the project is the University's only official contribution to the federal anti-poverty program...
...increase in tuition has been made necessary by the relentless upward pressures on our educational costs. The dilemma posed by increased costs is one we share with all the major private universities of the country," Johnson said...
Civil rights experts maintain that the Negro protests about promotions indicate a speedup in their desire for "upward mobility." Up to now, most well-positioned Negroes have been inclined to accept what they have without much complaint. Another reason that complaints have been slow in accumulating is that promotional discrimination is more difficult to spot than discrimination in hiring practices. "Supervisors can, in subtle ways, throw blocks at a Negro," says Raymond Scannell, a white member of the Chicago Human Rights Commission. One of the blocks, complain Negroes, is lily-white upgrading instead of the old lily-white hiring practices...
Some of the patients are not fully aware of the very existence of their own bodies. The directed exercise of parts of the body in therapy sessions helps to develop this awareness. During one dance period, a young woman suddenly stretched upward and said, "I can feel myself. Now I can be with the rest of you." A crucial sense of self was developing...