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Show The Broad directors and others Project Trio involved in educational opportunity programs cannot afford to work in isolation. Indeed , early results of a questionnaire circulated among project directors indicates that isolais a problem central to program tionism is essential administration. Communication for continued program vitality and growth. and Bound Upward Search, Talent Special Services all started as programs of unequaled energy; the esprit de corps of the Individuals was overwhelming. profession political the and sion attracted to the profes may sixties the of e and educational climat the but , menon account in part for this pheno ors direct t projec frequency of contact among must also be considered. Ax June 1975 | COMMITTMENT IN THE There were national conferences in New Orleans, Denver and Washington D.C. Project directors also met on a regional and state basis. Some individuals decried national meetings, others vigorously supported them. Political leaders and some of those individuals highly placed in the federal bureaucracy lost all hope of predicting outcomes. conferences and meetings Some s reminded one of the Old West and individual it ing, shot from the lip as well as contemplat But was alleged, shooting from the hip. the project directors made their mark upon and ways of er numb a in m educational syste in tion educa of e cours basically altered the ories. territ the United States and its While there is little need to romanticize of the ‘‘early days’’ we must remind ourselves have how far and in which direction we traveled. We must try to know what we have We done wrong and what we have done right. we than e decad d secon the can do better in did in the first and that must be our major committment. Page SECOND DECADE 2 |
