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Show The Broad Ax September 1975 Page 3 “The present structure of the Carnegie- Mellon Upward Bound program was designed to increase and improve and involvement between the level of contact program staff and Upward - Bound students. In addition, the half-day, five-day week approach executed during the academic school year, enhances the students’ understanding of what it means to attend a college or university on a regular basis. So states Cordell Richardson, Director Carnegie-Mellon Upward Bound Program in a report on the Universities pre-college minority engineering program. Representing the only program of its kind based directly at an engineering institution, Carnegie-Mellon’s program was designed to meet the demands for an increased population of minority engineers, ‘’as well as to the preparation of students for the many other challenging service and technically oriented career options.” Begun in 1969, the Carnegie-Mellon Upward Bound program has, according to the report, “‘Advanced through a process of trial and error, acquired characteristics of a private high school based at a private four-year technical institution’, and plans a year-round, full-day program with _ pre-engineering emphasis by September 1977. The strongest feature of the current design according to the report, is the Academic Year Program. Following a sixweek summer session aimed at increasing student knowledge in engineering and ‘‘other areas of academic and non-academic endeavors’’, the Academic Year Program allows students to receive credit toward high school diplomas by attending morning courses at the University and returning to their home high schools in the afternoon. Morning classes at Carnegie-Mellon include Chemistry 1 and 11, Geometry, Trigonometry, Physics, Algebra II and English. In addition, the report points out that the half-day, five-day a week approach, “Enhances the students understanding of what it means to attend a college or university on a regular basis.’ In its attempts to increase the minority engineer population, Carnegie-Mellon has as its goal the creation of an Upward Bound Pre-College Engineering Program. The objectives of this goal as listed in the report are: |
