COORDINATING AGENCIES AND RESIDENT SCHOOLS

The four institutions have primarily the same purpose. They wish to stim-
ulate an active and continuing interest in current problems and to encourage
their students to assume an increasing degree of social and economic responsi-
bility." They recognize the function of collective bargaining but do not train
their students in its techniques to the same extent as does the Highlander
School. Neither do they emphasize as strongly the concept of a new social
order. Rather they teach general requisites of leadership and membership
for all types of community organizations. While not stressing summer com-
munity and extension work to the same degree, the field work which they
do after the summer session is somewhat similar.

The four schools vary somewhat among themselves, the differences depend-
ing upon their funds, control, the type of applicants whom they accept. Par-
ticular emphases reflect, of course, social forces influencing workers in the
geographical region where the schools are located. It is natural that the
East have problems different from those of the West, Middlewest, and the
South.”

The Wisconsin and Pacific Coast Schools for Workers differ from the School
for Office Workers and the Southern Summer School for Workers in their
control and the source of their money. The latter institutions solicit support
from private individuals and groups. Representatives of a variety of organ-
izations sit upon their Boards of Directors and their Advisory Committees.
The Wisconsin School, as a regular department of the University of Wis-
consin,” is financed by the State. Funds are also obtained through the W.P.A.
since the State’s W.P.A. program of workers’ education is supervised by the
School. In the same way, the State of California contributes to the Pacific
Coast School because the institution supervises the State educational program
for workers. The two institutions respectively supported wholly or partially
by public authorities are accordingly under State jurisdiction. The Director
and Assistant Director of the Wisconsin organization are responsible to a
University committee of three faculty members and three leaders of organ-
ized labor. The University of California, the California State Department
of Education, the California State Federation of Labor, and other units of

E.G. Coit, “Summer Schools in the Wintertime,” American Federationist, Vol. 40
(June, 1933), p. 589.
"LOE. McLaren, ' ‘Summer Schools for Workers in Industry,” Progressive Education,
Vol. 9 (November, 1932), p. 503.
* The School, founded in 1925, became a regular unit of the University in 1937.

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