Monday, July 24, 1967
THE SUMMER ECHO
Page Eleven
Mixed Aid Sources
Make Good Package
By W. C. Blackwell
Financial Aid Officer
The start of a college career
is a time of pride and satisfac
tion for parents as well as a
time when most of us sharpen
our pencils to see how we can
balance the expenses against
possible sources of income.
The number of young people
going on to college has doubled
in the past decade and is still
rising. A great many of these
boys and girls need financial
aid.
As educational expenses have
risen and more youngsters
from moderate-income families
have sought higher education,
colleges have had to develop a
more uniform and exact way of
determining who needs help and
how much. Scholarships and
other kinds of aid awarded by
colleges themselves still repre
sent a recognition of ability
and promise. But nowadays the
amount of financial aid granted
is more closely related to the
student’s actual need.
Based on Need
Financial aid from non
college sources, such as govern
ment and private organizations,
also is based increasingly on
need. In fact, this trend has
been given additional impetus
by the new federal “educational
opportunity” and work-study
grants -for students from low-
income families and others who
can provide only small sums
toward college expenses. The
colleges are required to base
these federal awards entirely
on family income and need,
with admissibility or good
standing the sole academic re
quirement. These programs are
especially designed to provide
equality of educational oppor
tunity for limited income fami
lies.
Miss Silver
Student Learning
Newspaper Work
With NY Times
Esther Silver, a sophomore
from Goldsboro, N. C., is work
ing this summer with the New
York Times, in the newspaper’s
summer internship program.
Miss Silver, a political sci
ence major, is employed in the
newspaper’s library, assembling
reference files for newsmen.
The daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Joel H. Silver, Miss Silver has
been a house counselor during
the past year at NCC. She rep
resented North Carolina Col
lege in a Legislative workshop
in Raleigh this spring.
In Goldsboro’s Dillard High
School, she was a member of
the National Honor Society,
assistant to the drama coach,
president of the honor society,
and winner of an essay contest
sponsored by Radio Station
WGOL.
She plans to attend law
school or to become a news
paperwoman.
Many other organizations
that give scholarships, while
they may require evidence of
superior achievement, also take
need into account in determin
ing the amounts awarded.
For example, the actual
amounts provided by the Na
tional Merit Scholarships have
been based on need since their
inception in 1955. Two students
with the same standing on
tests and other measures of
ability may be awarded entire
ly different sums. One may be
offered a small scholarship as
a recognition of academic
achievement (or even no mone
tary award at all), while the
other may be offered a substan
tial amount because he cannot
otherwise attend college.
‘Tackaging” Increasing
Because of the need to help
more students, and because of
the requirements of federal
programs, almost all colleges
now “package” aid, offering a
combination of scholarships or
gifts, campus job, and loans.
How much of the “package” is
a gift depends on each college’s
available funds, the number of
students it is trying to help,
and its own financial aid poli
cies.
Some colleges make jobs the
initial part of their aid pro
grams, unless there is a specific
reason why a student cannot
work. Other colleges stress
loans more. Others—with more
funds and, often, higher
charges—make scholarships the
largest part. Still others may
offer a combination of loan and
job, or other variations of the
aid “package.”
Jobs or Scholarships?
Some colleges try to reserve
more of their scholarship money
for freshmen than for upper
classmen. Freshmen usually
need the time for study that
would otherwise be spent in
part-time work, and upperclass
men have both a better knowl
edge of local job opportunities
and, often, a higher learning
capacity. Many colleges and
financial aid authorities do feel,
however, that it is perfectly all
right for a student to take on
a modest amount of employ
ment during the first year of
college.
Naturally, one would prefer
aid in the form of a full schol
arship rather than in a combi
nation of gift, loan, and job.
But looking at financial aid
more impersonally, the “paclc-
age” method does mean that
more students can be helped.
The number of combined
awards offered has been in
creasing. This is because the
federal government’s Educa
tional Opportunity grants re
quire that the college match
such grants with other funds.
Intelligence Group
Employs Graduate
Theodore R. Picott, a June
graduate from Newport News,
Va., has accepted a position
with the Defense Intelligence
Agency, a branch of the De
partment of Defense.
As an Intelligence Research
Specialist, Picott will be a
member of a military-civilian
team studying economic, social,
cultural, physical, geographic,
scientific, and military condi
tions, trends and forces in for
eign and domestic areas.
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ELEMENTARY ACTIVITIES PROGRAM—Top left, Mrs. Cora R. Rogers gives students experience in
creative writing. Top right, youngsters watch filmstrip about the Congo basin under guidance of Miss
Pauline Lawson. Second row, left, supervisors Mrs. R. L. Anderson and Mrs. E. E. Barfield discuss activities
with Dr. Rose Butler Brown. Second row, right, pupils t “listening center” hear and watch language
programmed supplement, “Phonics in a Nutshell.” Third row, left, eager students answer teacher’s ques
tion about addition and subtraction. Right, Mrs. Anderson and Miss L. M. Bostic show youngsters procedure
for making out deposit slips in banking studies.
In Activities Program
^Team Teaching^ Featured
Fifty-eight pupils from the
kindergarten through the sev
enth grade are serving as train
ing tools for experienced ele
mentary teachers in NCC’s
Activities Program in Elemen
tary Education.
Under the direction of Dr.
Rose Butler Browne, the ele
mentary teachers are leading
the students, divided into five
ungraded groups, in a study of
African Life.
The team teaching approach
being used is described by Dr.
Browne as follows:
“There are many definitions
of team teaching and many
designated as team teaching
However, it is generally con
ceded that there are at least
four criteria for team teaching
in the elementary school. The
first is that the team members
must assume joint and simul
taneous responsibility for plan
ning, executing, and evaluating
an educational program for a
distinct group of pupils.
“The second is that consider
able time must be scheduled
for cooperative planning. The
Summer Program Subsidies
Come From Many Sources
Four programs with subsidies
totaling approximately $228,888
are among North Carolina Col
lege’s special offerings this
summer.
Three institutes beginning
on June 12 have subsidies
totaling $153,888. They are the
eleventh Summer Institute for
Teachers of Science and Mathe
matics, directed by Dr. Mary
Townes and subsidized by the
National Science Foundation
for $75,950; the NDEA Insti
tute for Advanced Study for
Educational Media Specialists,
directed by James E. Parker,
with approximately $61,938 in
financial support; and the
$16,000 NSF Summer Science
Program for High Ability
Eleventh Grade Students under
the direction of Dr. C. E. Boul-
ware.
Approximately 80 persons are
participants in the science in
stitute, 40 in the high school
science student program, and
35 in the educational media
institute.
A fourth program, the NDEA
Summer Institute for Advanced
Study for Elementary Teach
ers, Supervisors, and Princi
pals of Disadvantaged Youth,
began June 19. Directed by Dr.
Joseph P. McKelpin, it has a
$75,000 subsidy and enrolls ap
proximately 54 persons.
third is that on any team the
members will vary in their com
petencies and interests. It is
important therefore to capital
ize these individual differences.
The fourth is that the size of
the learning groups must be
suited to the nature of the ac
tivities and the objectives to be
achieved.”
The program emphasizes cre
ativity and makes use of recent
innovations in education.
School Executives
Hold Conference
Thursday, Friday
The seventeenth Summer Con
ference for Principals and Su
pervisors, sponsored annually
by North Carolina College, is
scheduled for Thursday and Fri
day, July 20-21, in the audi
torium of the college’s education
building.
According to Dr. F. G. Ship
man, chairman of the NCC De
partment of Education and
chairman of the conference,
principals and supervisors from
throughout the state will par
ticipate in the event.
Following the theme, “Articu
lation Between the Public
Scools, Colleges, and Graduate
Schools; Issues, Problems, Pro
posed Solutions,” the conference
will have three general sessions.