1960
Ten-year
Comprehensive School Improvement Program in public schools
throughout the country begins.
Special Program
in Education is started to accelerate the development of selected
private universities and colleges as important national and
regional centers. Also known as "challenge grants" program, it
totals $349 million by 1967.
National series
of grants is given for master's degree programs to train students
for college teaching ($10.2 million, 1960-1966).
Support of
non-Western studies in U.S. universities is expanded ($45 million,
1960-1962).
Foundation
gives $6.9 million to help establish the International Rice
Research Institute in cooperation with the Rockefeller Foundation
and appropriates $10.5 million for projects to increase food
production in India.
Great Cities
and Gray Areas grants are initiated to address problems of the
urban poor ($30.9 million, 1960-1966).
Intensive
Agricultural Districts program is initiated to demonstrate the most
effective ways of expanding national food production in pilot
districts in India.
1961
Trustees set up
a committee to conduct a general review of the programs and
procedures of the Foundation.
Calcutta
Metropolitan Planning Organization is established with a grant of
$800,000 to formulate a development plan for Calcutta.
1962
Trustees
formulate a framework for the Foundation's activities in the 1960s,
published in The Ford Foundation in the 1960s, the
first