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Ford Foundation Annual Report 1971







GRANTS-EDUCATION AND RESEARCH Grants Approved (Reductions) Payments (Refunds)
Association of American Colleges
Commission to study tenure practices 125,000
California, University of (Berkeley)
Study of California higher education system [$61,200-1970] 61,200
Dissemination of information
Change Magazine 250,000 62,500
Editorial Projects for Education [$300,000-1969] 75,000
Intercollegiate cooperation
Alabama Center for Higher Education 75,000
Associated Colleges of the Midwest [$120,926-1968] 27,480
Atlanta University Center Corporation [$204,600-1968] 31,600
Benedict College [$99,775-1970] 35,025
Consortium of Universities (Washington, D.C.) 23,500 23,500
Stillman College [$40,000-1970] 20,000
Texas Association of Developing Colleges [$270,000-1967, 1969] 41,753
Vanderbilt University [$75,000-1969] 25,000
Studies and other programs related to academic goals and governance
American Academy of Arts and Sciences [$63,000-1969] 30,000
American Association of State Colleges and Universities [$50,000-1970] 34,500
American Association of University Professors [$86,121-1969] 14,733
American Council on Education [$200,000-1970] 100,000
Board of National Missions of United Presbyterian Church, U.S.A. (14,683) (14,683)
City University of New York (Medgar Evers College) [$442,039-1968] 236,313
Massachusetts, University of 50,000
Minnesota, University of 59,000 59,000
Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn 50,000 50,000
Princeton University 75,000 27,150
Stanford University [$1,000,000-1968] 5,000 113,666
Syracuse University [$10,325-1970] 10,325
Wisconsin, University of 10,700 10,700
Xavier University [$24,400-1970] 24,400
SOCIAL RESEARCH AND ADVANCED TRAINING
Faculty research fellowships in economics, political science, and sociology
Brown University 13,107
California, University of (Berkeley) 15,816 15,816
California, University of (Los Angeles) 11,450 11,450
California, University of (San Diego) 20,614 20,614
Carnegie-Mellon University 18,300 18,300
Chicago, University of 78,909 78,909
Columbia University 24,500 24,500
Cornell University 12,457 12,457
Duke University 11,100 11,100
Harvard University 21,150 21,150
Iowa State University 15,410 15,410
Minnesota, University of 25,895 25,895
New York, City University of (Brooklyn College) 27,821 27,821
New York, City University of (Hunter College) 31,746 31,746
New York, State University of (Buffalo) 15,683 15,683
New York, State University of (Stony Brook) 19,452 19,452
North Carolina, University of 14,402 14,402
Northwestern University 51,665 51,665
Pennsylvania, University of 17,500 17,500
Princeton University 28,791 28,791
Rochester, University of 31,743 31,743
Stanford University 44,912 44,912
Teachers College (Columbia University) 22,400 22,400
Texas, University of (Austin) 15,310
Washington, University of 29,173 29,173
Wisconsin, University of [$14,700-1970] 43,385 58,085
Yale University 30,913 30,913
Institute for Religion and Social Change
Studies of religious consciousness among youth 137,500
Research by senior scholars
Chicago, University of 82,500 16,500
Colorado, University of [$35,000-1969] 7,000
Harvard University [$232,462-1969, 1970] 43,152
Michigan, University of 46,500
Stanford University [$62,100-1970] 31,050
Yale University [$28,000-1970] 39,600 22,134


Europe's leading center for training business managers.

The Brussels institute combines European and American methods in training advanced students for careers in management teaching and research. It offers research and educational programs for resident scholars, who spend from three months to two years at the institute, and for associate scholars who attend periodic seminars.

INSEAD, which enrolls students from fifty countries, is designed to help meet the need in Europe for more professional education for business. It will use its grant to integrate its curriculum for business practitioners with the programs of other management centers and for an applied research and documentation program.

Exchanges of economists and management education specialists between the United States and Western Europe, Eastern Europe, and Japan were assisted. The purpose is to provide comparative analysis in management training techniques and multinational enterprise.

A fourth annual series of doctoral fellowships in management was awarded, enabling nineteen European graduate students to study in the United States.

PUBLIC EDUCATION

At precollegiate levels of learning, the Foundation, in addition to its concern with students from minority groups, supports and expects to continue to support experiments and promising pilot programs in improved patterns of instruction in a variety of settings, promising approaches to better staffing and financing of schools, and international contacts that may have something to offer for the advancement of American education.

Alternatives in Learning.

The Foundation supported several efforts at more "open," or informal, modes of elementary and secondary education. The aim is to improve learning by stimulating student interest and increasing individual responsibility.

The Berkeley, California, public schools received a $250,000 grant for a program that offers students a choice among several distinct