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May 2Q, 1971 BENNETT BANNER Page 3 Health Referral Services Students from Bennett COilege attneded the first Regional Health Careers Conference at North Carolina Central University in Durham, North Carolina, (left to right) Cynthia Richardson, Dimples Armstrong, Linda Silver, Myra McCoy, Mrs. Zipplyn Humphrey (Advisor), Betty King, Raynorda Brown, Glenda Purdie, Patricia Walker, Carolyn Crump. Health Careers Conference Held Nine students from Bennett College attended the Nation’s first Regional Health Careers Conference at North Carolina Central Universitty in Durham, North Carolin, on April 14-15, 1971. The students attending the Conference were Patrica Walker, Linda F. Silver, Cynthia Richardson, Betty King, Glenda Purdie, Myra McCoy, Carolyn F. Crump. Raynorda F. Brown, and Dimples L. Armstrong. ITie conference, designed to attract minority students to professional health careers, was sponsored by North Carolina Central University, and the Burear of Health Maiipower Education, National Instutes of Health. The Conference was attended by approximately 200 students, drawn from 16 colleges in North Carolina and Virginia, and 50 faculty advisors and counselors. The students were chosen by faculty members on the basis of their aptitude or potential for achievement in a health professional career. The students participants had direct contact with experienced health professionals and had opportunities for first-hand observations of activities in a medical center. Representatives from voluntary health agancies, professional and technical schools, and the Federal Government discussed a variety of health careers and emphasized the challenges and rewards of working as a health professional. On the first day of the Conference, the students had an opportunity in workshops to talk with qualified health professionals about all aspects of the professions. Emphasis was placed on opportunities for summer employment in area hospitals, how to volunteer for service in an area hospital and how to enter a hospital training program. On the second day of the Conference, the students took a “see-for-yourseir’ tour of the Duke University Medical Center and the Schools of Dentistry and Medicine at the University of North Carolina. As of January of this year, there were at least 150 free clinics and referal services in 25 states of the union. To set up a free clinic in your area, here are some guidelines: Do adequate research to clerrly show the nature and extent of community medical needs. Check conditions in local emergency and other public facilities. Are people being turned away? How long do they have to wait? Use the findings to build a broad supporting coalition in the communiyt to be served. Establishment allies of the Berkeley Free Clinic supported ' it in the state capital, the city council, the University of California, the county medical association, the American Red Cross, adn the city health department. In getting community support, emphasize the benefits likely to acrue in the control of communicable diseases and epidemics; provision of health care for the needy; placement for interns from local hospitals, in availability of field work for students of social welfare and public health. Instead of contending with existing health care facilities, seek help without sacrificing the clinic’s autonomy; some integration of functions may even be possible. One strategy to use in negotiating with health agencies is to explain how their support of the clinic will help them fulfill their own stated purposes. When teh medical problems of the area are identified. National Endowment Funds New Humanities Program The National Endowment for the Humanities has begun a new program of Educational Development Grants with the awarding of grants totaling more than $3 million to six colleges and universities. The announcement was made today (May 5, 1971) by Wallace B. Edgerton, Acting Chariman of the National Endowment. “These Educational Development Grants,” said Mr. Edgerton, “are intended to improve instruction in the humanities in selected institutions from the junior college level through graduate school. They are awarded competetively to institutions which have demonstrated a carefullyworked-out plan for humanities development over a three-to-five year perood.” The six colleges and universities are the University of Denver, Wilmington College, Pennsylvania State University Medical School, Lees Junior College, Bennett College, and Manhattanville College. ‘‘Each of these institutions,” said Dr. Herbert McArthur, Director of the Endowment’s Division of Education Programs, which administers the grants, “has a clear set of priorities and a firm institutional commitment to continue the level of development once it has begun. These six institutions represent in their range and variety some of the many ways in which development in the humanities can lead the way towards a significant improvement in teaching.” A typical development grant averages between $100,000 and $200,000 a year over a period of three to five years, a level needed in order to assure a significant change in the quality of humanities teaching in the institution Cost-sharing is required, with the financing projected to insure continuation of the program beyond the period of Federal support. In each development grant a large portion of the funds will be contingent upon gifts to the Endowment and Federal matiching funds. “Of vastly more importance than the financing of the programs, which is modest,” said Mr. Edgerton, “is the content of the programs themselves. It is expected that these institutions will share that content, together with the experience they have gained and the expertise they have developed, with other institutions. In this manner a broad upgrading of humanities instruction can be effected by making long-range, in-depth grants to a few institutions.” Bennett College, a small, liberal arts college predominantly for Negro women in Greensboro, North Carolina, has begun “An Experimental Prototype Program in Humanities Education” to prepare students for a new degree-Bachelor of Arts and Sciences in Interdisciplinary Studies. Students qualifying for this degree will be trained to make use of a broad base of knowledge in order to gain insight into man and his society and to facilitate communication between members of that society as they attempt to solve their common problems. The degree leads to off-campus activities. A major feature of the program is involvement by students in externships in the local community in which they take active part in work done by agencies of government, education, and industry. They cooperate with existing community groups, volunteer and professional, in helping to improve the quality of life in Greensboro and in the neighborhood of Bennett College. This four year program carries an Endowment grant of $219,132, combined with a gifts and matching offer of $100,000. “Thse six programs will stress man’s relationship to man,” said Dr. Louis W. Norris, formerly president of Albion College and now Program Officer in charge of Planning and Development Grants for the National Endowment. begin by preparing to cope with the most prevalent first. Do this by finding sympathetic doctors, nurses, medical school people, and concerned volunteers. Locate a place; get an idea about how much it will cost, then go out to find backers. The building will “sell’, people. The local school board may be helpful in procuring quarters if convinced the clinic will benefit students. Next, prepare a list of medical facilities already in existence, complete with their hours and services. Personal contacts should be made with hospitals and ambulance services. A1 list of doctors to call must be compiled and people must be trained to answer a 24-hour “hot - line”. Canvass local physicians to find those willing to put in a day or a night per week in the clinic. Some may agree to regularly handle a small number of clinic patients free in their own offices. Others may pledge to perform specialized services free. Public health services and commercial medical laboratories may donate help or give materials . If a hospital is expanding in the area, it may be possible to have some secondhand equipment donted. Hustle! Finally, don’t forget to check on local legal regulations pertaining to fire safety, health, and building occupancy. You may not be able to comply with all these regulations, but you should at least know them. Once the clinic is running and winning the community’s trust, help should come from unexpected quarters and the clinic will mushroom. Many who were treated free may give decorating service in return and some will stay to be trained and later servfe as volunteers. Further information can be had from your local office of the Medical Committee for Human Rights, or the Berkeley Community Health Project, 2398 Bancroft Way, Berkeley 94704. |‘71 GRADUATE ■ Mrs. Ethel Littlejohn Bonds I Virginia Polythechnic Institute g Assistantship in English $3,064 I Miss Ruby Bradher Freemen’s Hospital Howard University School of Medical Technology $ 1,600 Plus tuition Miss Mae Lois Bums Vanderbilt University School of Law 1 year stipend $3,000 Miss Carolyn Everette University of Michigan $2,400 and waiver of tuition Miss Barbara Frierson Counselor for Alumni Camp $350 + room and board 10 weeks FELLOWSHIPS Miss Zara Miller Smith College Fellowship Tuition room & Board plus $500 Miss Phyllis Poteat School of Medical Technology Corte Hospital $3,360 stipend Miss Cynthia Richardson Duke University $2,300 plus full tuition Miss Linda Silver University of Michigan College of Pharmacy $2,400 plus tuition Miss Susanne Tropez University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine Miss Janice Gwynn School of Medical Technology Cone Hospital $3,360 stipend, 12 months Miss.Betty King Harvard Medical School four year $2,500 annual Grant Miss Gwendolyn Bradley Smith College $2300 Miss Barbara Williams School of Medical Technology Cone Hospital $4,000
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