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Show The Broad Ax THE CARNEGIE-MELLON UNIVERSITY UPWARD September 1975 Page BOUND PROGRAM from sponsoring institutions if their program design coincides with the mission of the insti- tution where it is housed. B) Students need to ‘learn the importance of organization and establishing goals if they are to successfully negotiate the technical and social rigors which are imposed, specifically, by technical institutions. Having a clear hand in decision-making at most levels of administration in Upward Bound programs should provide the proper vehicles for growth in the necessary management and technical skill areas. C) The thrust engineering minority pre-college towards programs financially sponsored by the corporate structure, suggests that Upward Bound programs housed at engineering institutions, should be responding to the industrial demand for increased minority engineers. D) Public high school curricula, apparently., Is resistant to change at the expense of the A) To design by September, 1977, a yearround, full-day program with a pre-college engineering emphasis to serve as a national model for Upward Bound programs based at: engineering institutions. B) To increase the suppiy of minority engineers who attend Carnegie-Mellon University and like institu- tions. C) To design a program that will provide Upward Bound _ students with increased management training so that students may realize some semblance of control with respect to their own academic and social requirements and obligations. D) To design a program that will simultaneously meet the requirements of the Office of Education, the local Board of Carnegie-Mellon program Education, University. and specifically, E) To design a that will provide for positive student interaction in a racially mixed environment, that may be used as a model to address some of the problems in the racially tense inner-city schools. F) To design a program with acurric: ulum that will meet the requirements for the ever-increasing academic demand being imposed by two-year and four-year postsecondary institutions where regular high school curricula seem to fail. G) To design a program where parent support also means fund-raising as well as social and political action on behalf of the students. H) To design a program which will allow for participation of male minorities. increased The corresponding rationale for these objectives as stated in the report include: A) Upward Bound programs may solicit more intellectual and perhaps, financial support students who attend them. E) Racial tension has decreased the level of communication between minority and white students in the inner-city schools, which could prove to be an explosive national problem, if it is not addressed by clear and realistic thought and action. F) Statistics have indicated that generally, the numbers of Black male students who are intellectually and socially unchallenged, and who subsequently withdraw from high school, is proportionately greater than ‘that of any other race or sex. G) Parents’ participation is vital to the Upward Bound structure. The role of the parents’ organization should be clearly defined as a fundraising and supportive organ of Upward Bound, thereby adding to the working “‘family’’ concept. H) Research has indicated that there is only one other program (two at the most) presently operating under a similar, and thus far, only one is apparently in operainstitution. The engineering at an tion structure of the Carnegie-Mellon program may qualify as a model structure for designing minority pre-college for approaches engineering efforts. 4 |
