Rowan College - Oak Yearbook (Glassboro, NJ)

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VISTA With its operation of a VISTA Student Volunteer program, Glassboro is unique in the Nation. This program permits a college student to continue his academic growth, while experiencing important inputs from the community to which some day he will bring these learnings. In a very direct way, we ore extending to the community at large the primary resources of our college — the student. With careful consideration being given to in-service training and seminar group discussions, the program is directing itself towards relating an empirical com- munity experience to the scholarly materials avail- able within the disciplines of sociology, urbanology, political science, etc. This program, then, is one which utilizes several of the concepts being addressed in the profes- sional journals of social welfare. It provides an opportunity, in a structured field setting, for an indi- vidual who is a product of a poverty environment to return to his home community and attempt to deal with those forces in his society which tend to per- petuate the cycle of poverty. 30