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| ‘ae Ceys
Dishwashing, parking cars, pumping gas...are these
your ideas of world saving jobs.
How about ours: running a street theatre, planning
a playground, serving as an assistant to the Mayor, working on
traffic flow problems, or any of several hundred opportunities
in all areas of the city, How many times have you said,"If I
were running this city things would really be different"? Well
we can't give you the keys to City Hall, but we can get you
in thé:front door through the Urban Corps,
The Atlanta Urban Corps is a cooperative program for bringing
bright, notte lee young people into an intimate involvement with
Atlanta's municipal government and inter-city problems, The
primary emphasis is aimed at interim employment of college students
in Metropolitan governient positions and in non-profit agencies,
Available jobs range from administrative postsin city
goverment to social involvement in inter-city communities. The
program offers a service-learning experience that acts as an
extension of the students's college education by expoing him to
“real life" problems by offering him a chance to temper idealism
with actuality.
Internships provide not only an educationally relevant
experience that simulaneously serves the city and its people,
but it also serves as a source of the funds for the student,
The Urban Corps is staffed almost entirely by students,
Students started the programme and now colleges, metro governments
and businesses are helping to make it a success, .It is funded
primarily by the Federal Work-Study Program through participating
colleges, Students that are financially eligible are funded 80%
by their colleges and 20% by the employing agency, Atlanta
businessmen and foundations contribute funds for administration
and interns not eligible for work-study funding.
Employing agencies include: the City of Atlanta, Fulton County
Government, DeKalb County Government, Southern Regional Education
Broad, VISTA, southwestYMCA, Grady Hospital, Atlanta Lirary
Boys' Club’ and others,
Students eligible for Urban Corps include entering freshmen
through graduate students, Practically all Atlanta area colleges
are participating, Course credit possibility should be discussed
with your college dean, Students interested in applying should
contact their Student Government Office or apply directly to
Atlanta Urban Corps, 50 Courtland St.N.E,, Atlanta Ga. 30303,
Telephone(0Ol.) 524-3091
Mayor Ivan Allen says of the Urban Corps:
"Our young people and our cities can no longer
afford to be strangers, The Urban Corps offers
Students a chance to be in the mainstream of
Atlanta's problems and potentials,"