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Noted commentator Roger Wilkins (top left) is the moderator for
FORUM on BLACK AMERICA 1985, a discussion focusing on the
economic issues facing Black Americans. This town meeting features a
panel of seven Black opinion leaders and a studio audience of Detroiters.
Panelists pictured top row, left to right: Wilkins; Geraldine Daniels,
New York state assemblywoman; Ernest Green, president, Green, Her-
Panelists chosen for Porum on Black America* 1985
Seven prominent Black
Americans, representing a broad
spectrum of Black politics and
philosophy, have been chosen to
be the panelists for “Forum on
Black America 1985,” airing on
many PBS stations Feb. 11, at 10
p.m. (check local listings). This
co-production of WTVS/Detroit
and the National Black Program
ming Consortium will be taped in
Detroit on Jan. 30th and will focus
on Black participation in the
American economy. The hour
long “town-meeting” discussion
wil be moderated by Roger Wilkins
of the Institute for Policy Studies.
Ims program was titled “The
State of Black America 1985” in a
press release datqd December 1984.
The title was changed in late
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Michael A. Myers
Peace Corps career proves
beneficial to counselor
“The people (in Costa Rica)
were constantly in awe of me
because I am 6’4 1/2” tall,” ex
claims Michael A. Myers, a 28-
year-old Peace Corps Volunteer
from Birmingham, Ala. “Being
Black,” he adds, “was not a
problem at all. The only refernce
to it was in my being North
American.”
Myers, who graduated from the
University of Alabama in
Tuscaloosa in 1978 with a
bachelor’s degree in emotional
conflict, counseled special
education teachers in the Central
American country. He completed
two years of Peace Corps service in
the middle of December.
“My day was spent working with
teachers and creating materials for
lessons,” reports Myers, who says
that his day began at 5:30 a.m. “I
gave seminars and small talks on
how to create teaching materials.
“My goals for the project were
to initiate progress in special
education and give the teachers a
variety of things to choose from
when teaching children,” he notes,
adding, “I feel that n.y greatest ac
complishment was p'y aonity to
itiirwith the people and give of
myself as fully as possible.”
Myers lived in a two-room house
with indoor plumbing in Aserri
Centro, a town located about 10
miles from San Jose, the capital of
Costa Rica. “The house was very
simple,” he remarks. “The floor
had holes and the walls had gaps,
but it was home. The neigh
borhood was poor, but well kept.”
People in Costa Rica are like
people everywhere, according to the
volunteer. “They care about their
culture and have pride in their
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December to “Forum on Black
America 1985.” The panelists for
“Forum on Black America 1985”
are: The Honorable Geraldine L.
Daniels, Assemblywoman, 70th
A.D., New York City; Ernest
Green, president, Green, Herman
& Associates, Inc., and former
assistant secretary of labor; M.
Carl Holman, president, The
National Urban Coalition; Eleanor
Holmes Norton, Georgetown
University Law Center and former
chairman of the Equal Em
ployment Opportunity Com
mission under President Carter;
The Honorable Clarence M. Pen
dleton, Jr., chairman, Civil Rights
Commission; Marc Stepp, Inter
national Vice President, the United
Auto Workers; Robert Woodson,’
county and liberty,” he says.
“They realize that we all are
human and try hard to accept dif
ferences and learn from others.”
Myers spoke Spanish, which he
studied in Peace Corps training.
“Learning the language was the
most frustrating part of the
training,” he recalls. “It took
three months of intensive training
and then some to just learn basic
phrases. The rest was experience
in the field.
“My co-workers and friends at
first made fun of my attempts at
Spanish, but then they helped me
and corrected my mistakes in a
genuine manner of caring.”
Like other Peace Corps Volun
teers, Myer experienced loneliness,
tension, doubts and frustrations,
“but the outcome was always an
experience to be remembered,” he
says.
“To be a volunteer in costa
Rica was a sharing experience for
me. I met more friends there in
two years than in all my life in the
States,” he reports. “I also lear
ned about myself and my
limitations.
“I will cherish the people
always,” concludes Myers. “And
I want to be remembered as a
friend who gave his best.”
Myers was one of about 130
Peace Corps volunteers serving in t
agriculture, fisheries, forestry,
speical education, environmental
education, cooperative develop
ment and other programs in Costa
Rica. There are more than 5,000
volunteers assigned to 62
developing countries around the
world.
Persons interested in infor
mation on the Peace Corps may
call 800-424-8580, Ext. 93.
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man & Assoc., Inc.; M. Carl Holman, president, The National Urban
Coalition; Eleanor Holmes Norton, former head of he Equal Em
ployment Opportunity Commission; Clarence Pendleton Jr. chairman,
Civil Rights Commission; Marc Stepp, international vice president, The
United Auto Workers; Robert Woodson, president, National Center for
Neighborhood Enterprise.
president, National Center for
Neighborhood Enterprise;
Along with a studio audience of
Detroiters, the panel will be
discussing the economic and
political status of black America
following the 1984 election. Among
the issues to be discussed are
unemployment, job training, land
loss and the increasing rift between
Americans within the economic
mainstream and the growing Black
“underclass.” In addition, the
panel will assess the impact of the
current administration’s policies
on the economic condition of
Black America and the relation
ship between political clout and
economic power.
Roger Wilkins, a former U.S.
assistant attorney general, will
Good Black faculty hard
to come by
Today, Black colleges are faced
with many grave issues that must
be dealt with. Foremost among
these issues is the fact that no
college is stronger than its faculty.
This fact has considerable
significance not only for black
colleges but for all institutions of
higher education. Thus, one of the
most important issues facing Black
colleges and universities during the
coming years is how to build and
maintain strong faculties.
There has been a comparatively
rapid increase of Black students
during the past 20 yearss. But,
there has been no comparable in
crease in Black professors. This
appears to be true of Black
professors in the nation’s 3,000 or
more predominantly white colleges
and universities where less than
two percent of their faculties is
Black.
Some major obstacles to the
maintenance of a strong faculty
at predominantly Black in
stitutions are: availability of
professors, salary structure and
working conditions. It is im
perative that these problems be
given serious consideration as they
gravely affect the quality of
teaching available to students.
Prolonged neglect of these
problems could contribute to the
end of the Black college and
university as we know them today.
The number of adequately
trained faculty memoers in many
fields is very low. The fields in
which the most Blacks are
prepared for college level teaching
remains chiefly in the area of
education and social science.
Currently, things do not look
overly bright for increasing the
reserves of Black college
professors. Not even the newer
predominantly Black colleges with
Black student enrollments of only
slightly more than 50 percent have
appreciably helped in this
situation. And, even when Black
faculty members are found in
white and the newer predominan
tly Black institutions, they are
more likely to be found invery
small numbers. They also tend to
be found in lower and non-tenured
positions.
The National Advisory Commit
tee on Black Higher Education
reports that there continues to be a
decline in the number of Blacks
enrolled in doctoral programs.
Not only are Blacks un
derrepresented in all fields of doc
toral level study, they are even
more unucii epresen tea in the high
again serve as moderator, as he did
for the “State of Black America
1984” program aired by 172 PBS
stations across the country in May
and June 1984. Returning
panelists from that program are
Eleanor Holmes Norton and
Robert Woodson.
The panelists represent many
viewpoints in the Black com
munity, from liberal to conser
vative, confirming what Wilkins
noted about “State of Black
America 1984,” that it proved
Black thought was not monolithic.
The liveliness of that discussion is
likely to be repeated in “Forum on
Black America 1985.”
“Forum on Black America
1985” is produced by Tony Batten.
Executive producer is Juanita An
derson.
growth areas of the physical scien
ces and engineering.
It we are to affect a change in
the shortage of strong Black
faculties, we have to alter the
decline in the completion of
graduate and professional
programs by Blacks. There are
many reasons why Blacks uo not
complete graduate programs. One
major reason is the inequitable
distribution of graduate
fellowships for Blacks from public
and private sources. Most other
Federal and institutional grants
awarded to Blacks are also in the
fields of education and the social
sciences. Ther are very few awards
made in the area of engineering,
physical or life sciences.
There are many more barriers.
Two major ones are the high drop
out rate in elementary and secon
dary schools and the negative
counseling of Black students in
high school and college.
A significant contribution to the
death of Black faculty at Black
colleges, especially in engineering
and sciences is the recruitment by
predominantly white colleges and
the business community of the
“best and the brightest” Blacks
who have become qualified. Shor
tages in these areas, even among
whites,, necessarily means that
there is fierce competition among
prspective employers. Whether or
not educated Blacks are wanted to
integrate faculties of all white
universities and colleges, to give a
more liberal appearance to a com
pany’s employee roster, or to
enhance the quality or quantity of
a company’s work force, there are
still too few to go around.
Often the pay structure is of
overriding importance in recruiting
Black educators. Black colleges of
necessity have low salary scales
since they usually are not heavily
endowed nor do they have wealthy
students or well healed alumni to
make up the difference.
Another deterrent to finding an
adequate supply of teachers for
Black colleges is the absence of
money for basic research. Much
of this money usually comes from
public sources—Federal, state and
local governments. Black colleges
will have to learn to convince the
controllers of these funds that they
too can conduct research
programs. Currently, Black
colleges are being denied funds
because they do not have research
programs and Black colleges do
not have research programs
because they are denied funds.
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by the City of Augusta, Owner, at the Office of the Clerk of City
Council, City-County Municipal building until 12 o'clock Noon at
the time legally prevailing in Augusta, Georgia on Friday, Feb
ruary 15, 1985, for the construction of:
FACADE RESTORATION
440 GREENE STREET
AUGUSTA, GEORGIA 30901
At the time and place noted above the proposals will be
publicly opened and read.
Bidding documents may be obtained at the office of the AR
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Suite 1008, 699 Broad Street, Augusta, Georgia 30901.
Applications for documents together with a deposit of $25 per
set should be filed promptly with the ARCHITECT. Bidding mate
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each general contractor who submits a bona fide bid upon re
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date of opening of bids. All other deposits will be refunded with
deductions approximating cost of reproduction of documents
upon return of same in good condition within 30 days after date
of opening of bids.
Plans and specifications are open for public inspection at the
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AUGUSTA BUILDERS EXCHANGE
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Augusta, Georgia
F. W. DODGE PLAN ROOM
360 Bay Street
Augusta, Georgia
The contract, if awarded, will be on a lump sum basis. No
bid may be withdrawn for a period of 35 days after time has
been called on the date of opening. Bids must be accompanied
by a bid bond in an amount not less than 5% of the base bid.
Both a performance bond and a payment bond will be required
in an amount equal to 100% of the contract.
The owner reserves the right to reject any and all bids and to
waive any technicalities and informalities.
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by the City of Augusta, Owner, at the Office of the Clerk of City
Council, City-County Municipal building until 12 o'clock Noon at
the time legally prevailing in Augusta, Georgia on Friday, Feb
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At the time and place noted above the proposals will be
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Bidding documents may be obtained at the office of the AR
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Suite 1008, 699 Broad Street, Augusta, Georgia 30901.
Applications for documents together with a deposit of $25 per
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Augusta, Georgia
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