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University Obtains Funds
To Combat Social Problems

By Neill Alford III
Cavalier Daily Staff Writer

The University has received $25,482
in federal funds and $12,881 in state and
local funds as part of a federal project
designed to help solve community
problems.

Grants have been awarded to the
University and to 15 other Virginia
schools under Title 1 of the Higher
Education Act of 1965 by the School of
General Studies, which allocates the
federal funds in the state.

The Title 1 program is intended to
assist the citizen in combating such
problems as housing, poverty, recreation,
employment, youth opportunities,
transportation, and land use.

Funds are distributed under the program in
order to encourage colleges and universities to
use their facilities and personnel to help find
solutions to these problems.

Grant Terms

Under the terms of the grant, the federal
government supplies two-thirds of the money,
and the institution makes up the remaining
one-third from its own funds.

The University will use $3,666 of its grant
to establish workshops to teach professional
and paraprofessional daycare center personnel
how to create a more enriched learning
environment for children. The workshop
training will be used to provide an upgrading of
standards and programs of existing facilities in
the Charlottesville area.

Volunteers

Another $10,882 of the funds will finance a
program to train student volunteers to tutor
educationally disadvantaged elementary and
secondary school pupils, to work with
psychiatric patients, and to provide services for
the aged.

Plans for using the money also include a
comprehensive teaching program to increase the
effectiveness of health workers, particularly in
isolated areas of the state and in the field of
respiratory care, and a series of educational
films and lectures on air and water pollution.

Fifteen other Virginia schools also received
funds under the Title I program, including 11
state-supported schools and five private
institutions.