Atlantic
Cooperation
Following
Oxford University's landmark self-study by the Franks Commission of
Inquiry, which urged greater attention to graduate education in the
natural and social sciences, the Foundation granted $4.5 million
for the transformation of Iffley College, now to be known as
Wolfson College, into a resident graduate institution emphasizing
the sciences. Headed by Sir Isaiah Berlin, the college will house
fifty to sixty fellows and 250 to 350 graduate students, of whom
two-thirds will be scientists.
The
Foundation also made a grant of $3 million to St. Antony's College,
Oxford, a graduate institution of foreign studies that is a prime
source of faculty for British universities and has trained students
from some fifty countries for careers in foreign offices,
international business, and research. The college, which has
concentrated on Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Latin America,
will extend its program to the study of contemporary China. As in
the case of Wolfson College, the Foundation's grant for St.
Antony's is to be matched by funds from British sources.
Continuing
the Foundation's long-term efforts to help strengthen training of
European social scientists and improve research on basic social and
economic problems, a $400,000 grant was made to an Italian-American
committee that will make research grants, conduct courses, and work
with government, universities, and other institutions. Further
assistance was given to the Free University of Berlin, to
strengthen American studies at the John F. Kennedy Institute, and
to the Institute for Advanced Studies and Scientific Research, in
Vienna, for training and research in sociology, economics, and
political science.
In Italy, the
Foundation granted $300,000 to help establish the Institute of
International Affairs as the country's major private organization
for study and discussion of international issues. The institute, in
which business, professional, and academic leaders are taking part,
cooperates with similar institutions in other countries.
Extending its
support for economic research and training in Greece, the
Foundation granted $530,000 to Harvard University for further
strengthening of the Athens Center of Planning and Economic
Research. The center, supported by Foundation grants since its
formation in 1961, last year completed the country's first Five
Year Development Plan.
For programs
to help improve English-language training in secondary schools and
colleges in Spain and Italy, respectively, grants were made to
Georgetown and Cornell Universities.
To help
enrich its instructional program by expanded research, the European
Institute of Business Administration, in France, received $150,000.
In cooperation with American universities, the institute will study
such topics as comparative marketing customs, consumer behavior,
and sales management and relations between American companies'
overseas subsidiaries and their European counterparts.
Two
institutions that help inform British, European, and American
leaders and the public of developments in the Atlantic
region—Political and Economic Planning and the Royal
Institute of International Affairs—received additional
support for research and publications on British relations with the
Common Market and other European institutions.