University of Southern California
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LOS ANGELES, CALIF. AUGUST 7, 1963
NO. 13
Med School Receives $395,554 Education Gift
Photo by Robert Parker
SEAVER SCIENCE CENTER SEEN FROM VIVIAN HALL
The new structure is due to be completed by April 19, 1969„
USC to Host Black Leadership Seminar
Black member.'; of the college communities of Southern California will meet Saturday, for a planning conference of the newly-organized Association of Black College Faculty and Staff of Southern California, The sessions begin at 8:30 a m and will last until 1 p.m The conference, which will be held in the Student Activities Center, wili foe as on the role of the Black educator in higher ed-ucation and in the Black community. The theme of the planning conference is “Black Directions for Higher Education,’' Walter Bremond. chairman of the Los Angeles Black Congress, will address the general assembly which will later disperse into strategy and action groups. Each group will discuss a problem concerning Black higher education, define the goals, suggest strategy and propose resolutions to these prob-
lems. The areas of discussion
will include minority recruitment and admissions, minority curriculum, minority financial aid, minority student power and Black awareness
The Association of Black College Faculty and Staff of Southern California was organized to resolve the problems of Black people at the college and university levels, and to speak to the sensitive issue of Black consciousness and power.
Dr. William J. Williams, associate professor of public administration at USC, and Dr. Clyde Taylor, associate professor of English at California State College at Long Beach, are co-chairmen of the group. Derrick Bell, adjunct professor of law at USC, is secretary; and Harry Truly, instructor at California State College at Los Angeles, is treasurer.
A $395,554 grant from the W. K. Kellogg Foundation of Battle Creek, Mich., has been given the School of Medicine, to start continuing education programs in local community hospitals.
The award, allocated to USC over a three-year period, is for one of several pilot programs being sponsored throughout the country by the foundation. Each activity will have the similar goal of investigating new organizational patterns for the delivery of high-quality medical care to the public.
The program will be carried out by the Division of Postgraduate Medical Education. Dr, Phil R. Manning, associate dean, described the medical school's planned demonstration project as a new approach to the continuing education of professionals involved in patient care: self-instruction coupled with group study.
“Traditionally, we have offered programs to help the physician keep his knowledge updated through a series of refresher courses, which allow passive participation on his part," Dr. Manning said. “We have shown that physicians attending these courses do learn facts and basic principles. There are, though, some drawbacks to this method when one considers it in terms of its application to patient care. For one thing, the learning of facts must be looked upon as merely one component in the very complex problem of improving medical care. There is, for instance, no evidence to indicate that the mere acquisition of new knowledge by itself will allow the physician to practice better medicine.*'
According to Dr. Manning, continuing education will be brought directly into the environment in which health care is delivered — the community hospital — and will actively involve not only physicians, but other professionals who make up the health team.
The demonstration project will be started in one or two community hospitals. Staff physicians and other members of the health
School Teachers Travel to West African USC Program
Twenty-two teachers and administrators of elementary schools in the Southland are in Ghana, West Africa, for two months this sumer to study in an African Curriculum Institute sponsored by the University of Southern California School of Education.
The educators will gather firsthand information about the history, culture, and ancestry of
the people of Ghana to develop into classroom material for use in their own schools in the fall.
The institute will be financed with a $35,000 Fulbright-Hayes grant from the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare.
Each teacher will pay for and receive eight units of credit from the USC School of Education in curriculum making, advanced so-
ciology of education, and advanced comparative education. Travel and daily expenses will be paid by the federal grant.
Dr. W. Paul Fischer, instructor-coordinator in teacher education the past two years, will direct the institute. He is a graduate of East Stroudsburg State College in Pennsylvania, Stanford and USC,
team will divide themselves into groups of seven or eight; each group will be expected to meet one or two hours a week. The group members will decide on the topics they wish to study, based on the patients they will be dealing with, and the physicians in each group will rotate as moderators. The plan calls for a full-time hospital staff physician who is also on the medical faculty to be part of the group
The medical school will supply the educational material designed to meet each group’s needs Self-instructional kits pre-
pared by the school and audiovisual materials will be mads available. Discussants will have access to a library service, which can rapidly respond to their needs for selected references. Occasionally, faculty members from the medical school will join the groups.
• Dr. Manning noted that another reason for deviating from the traditional approach to continuing education is that there are not enough medical school faculty members to serve the educational needs of community health teams on an in-persoa basis.
Prejudice A ttributed To Social Pressure
By PAUL STAUDOHAR
Professor Thomas C. Shelling from Harvard University presented the first in a series of four lectures on urban problems yesterday. The lectures are sponsored by the Economics Dept,
Dr. Shelling, speaking on “The Mechanisms of Segregation,” said “if segregation goes a certain distance, it may rush to an extreme,” and highlighted the potentially volatile aspects of extreme segregation.
In speaking of the manner in which segregation comes about Dr. Shelling said “some people behave in a segregationist way because if they don’t they may be penalized by their peers.”
Dr. Shelling explored the phenomenon of tipping, which involves the question of what percentage of a neighborhood's population can become black before the neighborhood “tips” with a
mass outflow of white residents to become virtually all black. A study was cited which found the “tipping point” to be 20 percent black.
Besides segregation on the basis of color, Dr. Shelling pointed to the many other forms of segregation. The Harvard Business School gets only 6 to 12 applications from women per year because it is known that only about 6 to 12 women are accepted into a beginning class of about 600.
Also participating in the series are Professor Robert Dorfman from Harvard, Robert Summers from the University of Pennsylvania and Kenneth Arrow from Stanford,
The professors are all doing research at RAND Corporation in Santa Monica, the famous Air Force “think tank” which is becoming increasingly important in solving domestic problems.
Heading Center to Teach Hawaiians
Twenty-four teachers from the island of Hawaii gathered Monday in a month-long USC sponsored workshop to learn the latest techniques of teaching reading.
The USC Remedial Reading Workshop, being held at Hilo Union School in Hawaii, is designed to pave the way for establishment in September of two federally-funding reading centers, one in Hilo and the other in Kealakekua,
Workshop director Dr. Grayce Ransom, who heads the USC Reading Centers in Los Angeles, explained that six of the participants are remedial reading specialists who will staff the two proposed centers and other read-
ing programs which will serve children with extreme learning problems.
The other participants, Dr. Ransom said, are representing 18 schools which have individual federally-funded reading education programs.
Workshop faculty in addition to Dr. Ransom includes three master demonstration teachers who have worked closely with the USC Reading Center for several years.
“This training is designed to meet a critical need for a more intensive effort in reading education in Hawaii,” she said.
She said the new centers will be the first of their kind cm the island.