This report is the last in a series of four quarterly progress reports covering Phase III of the University-Urban Interface Program. Its content is concentrated on events and research activities in the five priority areas during the period April-June, 1972. An introductory section briefly redefines these areas: 1) minority and community services;…

Future community changes in Pittsburgh over the next five years are predicted in this study, the purpose of which is to determine the extent of community consensus regarding changes and the extent to which widely differing perspectives of community leaders might contribute to conflict. One hundred and six selected, prominent, community leaders…

Comments from community leaders in Pittsburgh concerning health issues point out some of the major examples of the kinds of concerns and suggestions for action voiced in the University-Urban Interface Program study on Pittsburgh goals. Quotations from the questionnaire administered by the goals committee also illustrate the kinds of things which…

This is a report on a series of University-Community Forums in the Goals Project of the University-Urban Interface Program of the University of Pittsburgh in which the relationships of urban universities and their urban communities are explored. A review of the original study plan and an explanation of departures from this plan precedes a…

This background paper for the Community Goals Forum at the University of Pittsburgh focuses on some of the local experiences that seem to be related to the Pittsburgh citizenry's low level of confidence in and expectation of local government as a means for improving the quality of life in the metropolis. The recent development of the great urban…

One of the priority areas for study in the University-Urban Inteface Program at the University of Pittsburgh is community goals as they relate to metropolitan governance. This report includes some of the findings of the Pittsburgh Goals Study organized from data gathered through a questionnaire sent to key Pittsburgh community leaders. These…

The nature of youth gangs is explored, with suggestions for gang prevention and intervention. The emphasis is on organizing citizens, especially at the neighborhood level, to affect all community institutions. Suggestions are offered for citizens' groups to look at critical areas in schooling, incarceration, law enforcement, community programs,…

Racial integration and compensatory education must be used to solve the problems in the big cities. A little boy or a little girl who grows up feeling different from other people and is unable to have access to solutions that would lift him out of his excluded and isolated way of life has every reason to be sick, to be desperate, to be incomplete…

The main purpose of this study was to determine the extent to which community consensus existed regarding a variety of major changes in Pittsburgh and the extent to which widely differing perspectives of community leaders might contribute to conflict, or at least significant difficulties, on these issues. A pragmatic secondary objective was to…