The Omaha guide., 1934-04-28
National News Briefs

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financially one hundred thousand col
lege and University students during
the ensuing semester. The plan pro-
vided that worthy young men and
women be given jobs by the educa-
tional institutions and be paid from
SO to $25 a month from Government
relief funds The colleges to waive
all tuition,r registration and other fees.
The preliminary report from college,
and universities throughout the coun-
try to Harry L. Hopkins. Federal
Emergency Relief Administrator,
shows that approximately 1000 col
legos and universities are now CO.
operating with the Government in
this movement.
The cost Of the program is about
81 017,612 a month with more than
10000 young men and wcmen re-
ceiving aid. Among the 1,207 educa-
tional Institutions listed in the move
ment are eighty Sodd colored intsi-
tutions caring for some 2,2O0 students
at an approximate cost to the Fed
eral Government of $4,000 per month.
The plans for putting the program
into effect were worked out by Dr..
L. R. Alderman, the Director Of Emer-
ency Education, Federal Emergency
Relief Administration and with the
~coopedation of the Office Of Education
Department of the Interior, and
With Dr.. Ambrose Caliver, Specialist
IN Negro Education saw to it that the
colored institutions Of the United
States, some 120 in number were fully
advised as to the movement
Approximately three-fourths of the
, students helped are those who would
have to drop out at the end Of the
first semester for financial reasons
and about one-fourth are new students
who would have been unable to enter
without the income from a part time
Job. The jobs provide an income OF
approximately SIS. 90 per month
The report shows that students IN
colored schools and colleges in IL
States have been given employment
on a wide variety of useful projects.
The projects range from unskilled
labor or repair work to technical
assistance in scientific %labortorles and
libraries. as well as clerical service
and waiting on table In the instltu-
lions the student laid program IS
carried out under the presidents with
the Federal funds received through
the different State authorities
OF the 81 colored colleges and uni
versities shown in the report, North
Carolina leads with eleven, followed
bv Georgia with ten; Texas with nine;
Tennessee with eight; Virginia with
six; and South Carolina and Louisiana
with five each. The number of color
ed colleges in the various States, the
maximum number of students they
NAV aid with Federal funds and the
maximum allotment the State emer-
gency relief administration may take
to each college each month until the
end of the school term follow:
State and Name of College Job Mo.
Quota All.
Alabama
Miles Memorial College ID 5 1913
T~alladega College ~ SUI
The State Teachers College
Montgomery, Alabama 80 45O
State Agricultural and
Mechanical Institution 10 15O
Tuskegee Normal and In
dustrial Institute 81 LID
154 1910
Arkansas
Shorter College 20
Philander Smith College II 100
Arkansas State College 81 100
81 1,OO5
District of Columbia
Miner Teachers College So 195
Howard University 10y l'ooo
1872 2,43O
Georgia
Industrial College ~ 4oo
Atlanta University on
Clark University az 4oo
Morehouse College "a 5oo
Cannon Theo. Seminary 6 ~
Morris Brown College "a sou
Ga. Nor. & Agri. Col. 46 oso
Fit. Valley Nor. & Ind. Sch. 6 W
Spellman College Il so
Paine College 1o 100
2O8- 1920
Kentucky
Kentucky st. Ind Col. 81 400
Lincoln Inst. Of Kentucky A 60
West Ken. Ind. College 10 $50
As 675
Louisiana