RG 10. Committees, Projects, and Reports

Abstract The Labor Program Council advises and assists the Dean of Labor in interpreting and applying the vision for the Student Labor Program. It has comprehensive responsibility for major programmatic changes that affect experiential, non-credit learning in the Labor Program, with specific responsibility regarding labor evaluation, assessment of goals and outcomes, and recommendations for improvements to the program as a result of analyzing assessment data. The Council receives proposals from the...

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The Lilly Committee was tasked with researching and writing a proposal for a grant of the Lilly Endowment to improve racial and ethnic diversity and campus climate.

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On Thursday, March 5, 1964, 170 Berea students and 30 faculty and townspeople joined approximately 10,000 other demonstrators for a March on Frankfort. At the March, demonstrators listened to speeches by Frank Stanley Jr., Martin Luther King, Jr., Jackie Robinson, D.E. King, and Ralph Abernathy. Speakers pleaded for the Governor Breathitt and state legislature to consider seriously the House-sponsored Public Accomodations Bill.

Abstract In 1987 the New Opportunity School for Women (NOSW) was founded as an outreach program of Berea College by Jane Stephenson, wife of former Berea College President John Stephenson.  Stephenson recognized a chronic problem in the Appalachian region of low-income women needing to be better educated and needing assistance in the search for employment.  The mission statement of the New Opportunity School for Women was “...to improve the educational, financial, and personal circumstances of...

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In contract with the U.S. Peace Corps, in June and August of 1963, Berea College provided training for forty Peace Corp Volunteers to serve in Senegal while undertaking projects in rural community development, English education, and physical Education. Associate Dean Kenneth H. Thompson served as Berea's Peace Corp Project Director and Dr. James R. Bobbitt served as the Program Studies Coordinator and Assistant Project Director.

Abstract Part of a Carnegie-sponsored study of liberal arts colleges, the Profiles Project took a close look at a dozen colleges, including Berea. The study was projected to have outcomes including: (1) a book of profiles illustrating the wide variety of effectively operating colleges across the country, and (2) a collection of guidelines for methods of observations for describing and assessing the work of colleges. The project resulted in the 1962 publication of Profile of...

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Records in this collection include records documenting short-term projects conducted by the College and/or research reports conducted by, or on behalf of, the College.

Abstract In conjunction with the Ministry of Education of the Government of India and the National Council of Rural Higher Education (U.S.), Berea College provided technical assistance, training, and educational programming to the Rural Higher Institutes in India during the late 1950s and early 1960s.  Consultation and programming included work by Berea College faculty in India and on the Berea College campus (including a semester long study program for Indian students at Berea). The two main areas...

Abstract The Rural School Improvement Project (RSIP), implemented by Berea College, began its planning in the spring of 1952.  Financed by a grant from the Fund for the Advancement of Education, the project officially began in 1953.  The project was based on two principles:  (1) good schools make for good communities and (2) good teachers are indispensable for good schools.  Implementation of the project primarily took place in the mountains of Eastern Kentucky. Project objectives included...