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Ford Foundation Annual Report 1971







relies on the student's motivation and initiative as the main engine of learning. Students and faculty advisors together design a course of study, for which the student may draw upon resources of several educational institutions and the community-at-large. In place of a fixed calendar, students enter and graduate from the program when they and their advisors feel they are ready. Evaluation includes the student's own assessment of his learning experiences and appraisals by faculty advisors and outside examiners, by oral as well as written examination.

The State University of New York received $500,000 each from the Foundation and from Carnegie Corporation to establish a similar nonresidency curriculum. The SUNY alternative offers three choices: all off-campus study, alternating on-campus and off-campus semesters, and off-campus study punctuated by on-campus seminars.

External degrees are intended for men and women who have not had four years of college but have equivalent experience and knowledge. The Foundation granted $400,000 to enable the Regents of the State of New York to design a program of certification and guidance for such candidates. Scholars will seek to ensure that external degree examinations for largely self-taught candidates are as rigorous measures of proficiency as the grading and testing of students who complete conventional programs.

The Foundation's Venture Fund program, in its second year, made grants totaling $2.2 million to help thirteen undergraduate colleges (listed on page 38) break out of traditional patterns. Ranging from $75,000 to $250,000, the grants serve as "internal foundations," enabling presidents and deans to respond to new ideas more rapidly than their regular budgets permit.

A number of efforts directed at expanding minority opportunities at the undergraduate level were assisted. For a second year, the Foundation financed a national scholarship competition enabling Black, Mexican American, Puerto Rican, and American Indian students who successfully complete work at two-year community colleges to continue studies at four-year institutions of

GRANTS-EDUCATION AND RESEARCH:

The first column shows grants approved in 1971; the second, payments on new grants or grants approved in earlier years. The original amounts and dates of earlier grants that were not fully paid at the beginning of fiscal 1971 are given in brackets [] after the names of grant recipients.

Grants Approved (Reductions) Payments (Refunds)
HIGHER EDUCATION AND RESEARCH
INSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Faculty, administrative, and curriculum strengthening in minority colleges and universities
Benedict College [$75,000-1970] $14,000
Bishop College [$300,000-1970] 69,150
Clark College [$70,000-1969] 45,000
Fisk University [$875,000-1968, 1970] 217,691
Hampton Institute [$875,770-1968] 167,617
Howard Institute [$300,000-1970] 190,000
Institute for Educational Management [$15,000-1970] 15,000
Johnson C. Smith University [$316,000-1970] 89,000
Lincoln University (Pa.) [$164,000-1968] 40,847
Miles College [$346,000-1968] 101,759
Paul Quinn College [$57,255-1970] 33,399
Shaw University [$1,221,872-1968] 157,479
Southern Education Program [$130,200-1968] 21,700
Talladega College [$250,000-1970] 49,500
Tougaloo College [$350,000-1966] 22,501
Matching grants for academic development of selected private universities and liberal arts colleges (1960-69)
Columbia University [$25,000,000-1967] 4,996,970
Duke University [$6,542,716-1966] $1,400,000 500,000
Hampshire College [$3,000,000-1969] 372,001
Hofstra University [$1,000,000-1961] 27,807
Radcliffe College [$2,500,000-1967] 587,784
Teachers College (Columbia University) [$2,500,000-1967] 965,392
UNDERGRADUATE EDUCATION
Afro-American studies, conferences, and materials
American Academy of Arts and Sciences [$99,500-1970] 44,000
Association for the Study of Negro Life and History [$300,000-1969] 118,432
Atlanta University [$540,680-1970] 192,990
Atlanta University Center Corporation [$46,000-1970] 23,000
Boston University [$116,350-1970] 80,000
Duke University [$100,000-1970] 45,600
Fisk University [$154,120-1970] 58,885
Historical Society of Pennsylvania [$50,000-1970] 25,000
Howard University [$143,567-1969] 103,079
Jackson State College [$23,000-1970] 23,000
Library Company of Philadelphia [$60,000-1970] 20,000
Morgan State College [$150,000-1969] 56,250
National Endowment for the Humanities (35,876) (35,876)
New York University [$150,000-1970] 60,000
Princeton University [$88,300-1969] 22,000
Rutgers University [$89,800-1969] 67,450
Tuskegee Institute [$33,900-1970] 25,425
Vanderbilt University [$47,100-1970] 14,742
Yale University [$184,000-1969] 51,750
California, University of (San Diego)
Curriculum development in new college focusing on racial and cultural minority experiences [$149,428-1970] 92,628
College Entrance Examination Board
Research on college admission criteria and tests [$200,000-1970] 71,500
Scholarships for minority-group graduates of two-year colleges 2,098,000 1,075,000
External degree and other experiments in instructional patterns
Dartmouth College 250,000
Lake Forest College (43,850) (43,850)
National Endowment for the Humanities (for the University of Vermont) [$25,000-1970] 25,000
New College (Sarasota, Fla.) [$1,000,000-1970] 250,000
New York, State University of 500,000 71,430
Regents of the State of New York 400,000 150,000
Syracuse University Research Corporation 300,000 135,000
Union for Experimenting Colleges and Universities 400,000 277,500
Improvement of student services and career guidance
College Placement Services [$227,700-1969] 75,900
Howard University [$188,232-1969] 48,100
Illinois State University 15,000 6,400
Trinity University 41,450