The University-Urban Interface Program (UUIP) is a federally-funded project to study an urban university's community relations efforts and innovations, their successes and failures. This is a study of one of the UUIP areas of priority, Project Right Start, a plan for creating a facility for the detection and treatment of psychological problems in…

In October 1966 the Ford Foundation established a $10 million line of credit to encourage and assist Columbia University in committing a greater share of its resources and energies to urban and minority affairs. In September 1967 the Urban Center was established as an integral part of the University to administer the Ford funds and to increase the…

The University-Urban Interface Program (UUIP) of the University of Pittsburgh is an action-research effort designed to study the actual and potential roles of the University in the community in a time of change. Five basic projects are included within the UUIP: (1) Minority and Community Services; (2) Campus Development Impact; (3) Communications;…

This study is concerned with 1) citizens' opinions about the legitimacy of a campus disturbance and their attitudes about campus dissent generally, 2) the background factors which influence urban citizens' attitudes about campus dissent, and 3) the beliefs about campus life associated with attitudes about campus dissent. The major sample in the…

The two major addresses presented before the 1970 conference of the Association of Urban Universities concerned: (1) the Office of Urban Affairs of the American Council on Education whose purpose is to encourage and assist institutions of higher education to relate their programs to urban needs; and (2) the College Level Examination Program (CLEP)…

Because of the rapid growth of the State of Florida during the 60's, educational decisionmakers have decided that a 3-stage public university system is best suited to fulfill Florida's educational needs. The first and third levels are already well established. The first level is comprised of 2-year community colleges and the third is comprised of…

This article describes four special counseling programs that have been found to be quite effective in helping students achieve academic success. The programs, simple in concept and application, appear to have a positive impact on the new students enrolling in an urban open enrollment institution. (Author)

If the urban, independent university is to survive, it must recognize the impending enrollment decline and emphasize academic excellence and programs that are rooted in the urban community. (IRT)

When nontraditional students become alumni, building loyalty takes creativity. For an urban campus and its alumni, it is important to clearly identify-and then offer programs to-specific constituencies within the alumni. The experiences of New York University are described. (MLW)

Describes the program and discusses the success of intensive second language instruction, based on the Dartmouth Method, at a public, urban, nonresidential college. (EKN)

In the early sixties, Norman Burns published this article in the Quarterly, giving his views of how higher education would change in the immediate future. That future is now past, and many of his predictions are facts; but many of his worries remain and still require application of the wisdom he set down. (Editor/RK)

This paper discusses the development of a doctoral program specializing in community college leadership. When Morgan State University (Maryland) expanded its existing Urban Educational Leadership Doctoral Program to include a concentration in Urban Community College Leadership, it became the first historically black university in the United States…

From its inception to the present, Roosevelt University in Chicago has wrestled with problems that have to be solved by renovation. (Editor)

Suggests three goals toward which institutions of higher learning should strive if they want to become urban universities and recommends three courses of action which universities might take to help attain these goals. (Author)

Points out the advantages of double scheduling (offering each course twice a year, making it possible to double the number of students accepted and graduated). Presents a curriculum offered since 1963 at The George Washington University Medical School, where double scheduling will be put into effect in 1971. Speech delivered at the 79th Annual…