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Ford Foundation Annual Report 1973







GRANTS AND PROJECTS—EDUCATION AND RESEARCH Approvals (Reductions) Payments (Refunds)
Research on educational costs
Association of American Universities [$22,000—1971] (9,662) (4,662)
Brookings Institution [$53,720—1972] 24,920
Committee for Economic Development [$75,000—1971] 25,000
National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges 49,375
Wooster, College of (Ohio) 25,000 25,000
Research and evaluation for new programs in higher education
Foundation-managed project: consultants [$150,000—1971] (52,888) 44,550
Student-loan options
Foundation-managed project: studies and experiments 20,646 5,119
Studies on academic goals and governance
California, University of (Berkeley) [$500,000—1968] 7,334
Massachusetts, University of [$50,000—1971] 25,000
Princeton University [$75,000—1971] 14,000
Stanford University [$1,000,000—1968] 105,778
INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH AND EXCHANGE
Advanced studies and scholarly exchange
Austrian Institute for Economic Research [$250,000—1970] 110,503
Naples, University of (Italy) [$150,000—1967] 30,947
New York University 25,000 10,000
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (Paris) [$1,000,000—1968] 3,200 260,277
Queens College (Oxford) [$280,000—1967] 8,000
Business and economics studies and conferences
Columbia University [$100,000—1970] 19,879
Harvard University [$382,000—1970, 1971] 77,097
International Economic Association (Paris) [$250,000—1968] 14,162
Japan Economic Research Center [$140,000—1967] 8,000
United States Educational Foundation in Greece [$70,000—1969] (1,786)
Cross-national studies and conferences on higher education
American Academy of Arts and Sciences [$55,000—1970] 31,000
Association of American Universities 9,312 9,312
New York University 18,876 18,876
Educational reform in Spain
Foundation-managed project: consultants [$94,468—1971] 33,763
Management education, research, and exchange
Cambridge, University of (England) [$93,000—1968] 61,254
Catholic University of Louvain (Belgium) [$25,300—1969] 25,300
Center for Education in International Management (Geneva) [$250,000—1972] 103,000
Center for Social and Industrial Research (Turin) [$150,000—1969] 60,000
Conferences, studies, fellowships, and visits of European management education specialists: Foundation-managed project [$1,000,000—1969, 1970, 1971] 264,050
Doctoral fellowships for Europeans: Foundation-managed project [$400,000—1972] 300,000 342,028
European Foundation for Management Development (Belgium) [$86,000—1972] 26,000
European Institute for Advanced Study in Management (Brussels) [$1,300,000—1971, 1972] 384,500
Harvard University [$300,000—1971] 43,600 83,865
International Institute for the Management of Technology (Milan) 100,000
London Business School Charitable Trust [$300,000—1969] 80,149
Manchester, University of (England) [$300,000—1969] 68,970
Massachusetts Institute of Technology [$125,000—1970] 42,473
Stockholm School of Economics [$75,000—1971] 14,000
Technical University of Berlin [$125,000—1970] 43,750
Vanderbilt University [$150,000—1970] 67,500
Visiting faculty at Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciale and Industry-University Foundation (Belgium): Foundation-managed project [$300,000—1968] (25,000)
Warwick, University of (England) [$250,000—1968] 32,920
York University (Toronto) [$500,000—1969] 100,000
Social science research and training
Association for the History of Civilization—Marc Bloch Association (Paris) [$290,000—1967, 1969] 41,500


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the Common Fund for Non-Profit Organizations, which provides professional management for the endowment funds of colleges, universities, and independent schools, each of which may deposit up to $10 million in the pool. There now are 275 members with deposits of more than $200 million. The Foundation this year made the final payment on an initial commitment of $2.8 million for the fund's costs, research, and publications. For the investment of short-term funds that institutions use for annual or special operating costs, Common Fund II is being established.

Financial concerns also underscore questions about the purposes of colleges and universities. Over the last several years, the Foundation has supported the efforts of several universities (including California [Berkeley], Massachusetts, Princeton, and Stanford) to re-examine their goals and purposes and propose curricular and management reforms. This year a grant was made to the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education (WICHE) for a study of the results of higher education—knowledge, skills, and leadership abilities, for example. WICHE expects to help institutions develop criteria for determining the relation between these outcomes of education and under-graduate courses and programs.

PUBLIC POLICY AND SOCIAL ORGANIZATION

Virtually all the Foundation's activities include a concern with the extent to which public policies and programs deal with societal issues. In order to concentrate more directly on research on these issues and on the training of public administrators to work on them, the Foundation this year established an Office of Public Policy and Social Organization. Its agenda includes studies of the ways in which important legal, governmental, and social institutions operate and change; efforts to define new institutional forms, and explorations of the nature, formation, and operation of attitudes and values in American society.

Eight institutions received grants totaling $2,550,000 to train public policy analysts and managers—the Rand Corporation, the Universities of California (Berkeley),