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Ford Foundation Annual Report 1983







GRANTS AND PROJECTS Approvals (Reductions) Payments (Refunds)
Lincoln University (Pa.) [$50,000—1981] 25,000
New Mexico, University of [$30,000—1981] 15,000
Phillips Academy (Andover, Mass.) [$316,400—1981] 75,000
Tuskegee Institute [$341,000—1981] 15,000
Xavier University (New Orleans) [$29,780—1981] (892) 13,998
Racial desegregation
Hartford, University of [$51,200—1980] 25,600
Institute for Services to Education (Silver Spring, Md.) [$600,000—1981] (300,000)
Vanderbilt University [$69,250—1981] 25,260
Ethnic studies
New York, City University of [$300,369—1981] 112,638
Leadership development
National Indian Training and Research Center (Tempe, Ariz.) [$300,000—1975] (47,800)
Whitney M. Young, Jr., Memorial Foundation (New York) [$50,161—1981] 5,000
SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT AND LEARNING RESEARCH
Board of Education of the City of New York [$149,750—1980-1981] 22,400
Bureau of Educational Evaluation (Garden City, N.Y.) [$92,730—1981] (61,930)
California, University of (San Diego) [$135,181—1980] 68,604
Delegated-authority project: small program actions [$300,000—1981] 16,867
Education Collaborative for Greater Boston (Brookline, Mass.) [$157,305—1981] 61,935
Memphis City Schools [$357,226—1981] 139,070
National Child Labor Committee (New York) [$60,000—1981] 22,500
National Coalition of Advocates for Students (Cleveland) [$75,000—1982] 38,000
Schoolwatch (Trenton, N.J.) [$60,000—1981] 10,000
Syracuse University [$10,000—1981] 10,000
Advanced training for school administrators and policy makers
Board of Education of the City of Chicago [$271,126—1981] 77,735
Education Commission of the States (Denver) [$725,000—1981] 208,595
National Institute for Applied Behavioral Science (Arlington, Va.) [$76,300—1981] 37,500
EQUAL OPPORTUNITY FOR WOMEN
Research, training, conferences, and publications
Council of Chief State School Officers (Washington, D.C.) [$300,000—1978] 101,067
Delegated-authority project: small program actions [$400,000—1981] 2,612
NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund (New York) [$200,000—1981] 164,000
Stanford University [$150,000—1978] 28,460
Women's studies programs
Arizona, University of [$235,000—1981] 78,000
Brown University [$233,624—1981] 54,561
California, University of (Berkeley) [$250,000—1980] 17,613
Duke University [$225,000—1981] 100,000
Memphis State University [$211,547—1981] 70,508
Michigan, University of [$93,785—1980] 39,397
New York, City University of [$57,000—1981] 25,999
Washington, University of [$126,592—1981] 49,584
Wisconsin, University of [$174,320—1979] 6,850
Career advancement and vocational opportunity
Center for Citizen Education (Hawaii) [$40,000—1981] 2,000
Institute for Educational Leadership (Washington, D.C.) [$657,464—1981] 182,464
National Council of Negro Women (Washington, D.C.) [$198,600—1981] 19,100
SCHOOL FINANCE REFORM
Citizens Council for Ohio Schools (Cleveland) [$128,000—1981] 14,500
Delegated-authority project: small program actions [$200,000—1981] (6,996) 7,453
Intercultural Development Research Association (San Antonio) [$150,000—1981] 48,000
Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law (Washington, D.C.) [$460,000—1980] 33,000
League of Women Voters Education Fund (Washington, D.C.) [$218,463—1979] 2,818
New Hampshire, University of [$100,300—1981] 25,000
Urban League of Greater New York [$100,500—1981] 16,100
HIGHER EDUCATION
Urban-oriented institutions
Center for the Study of Community Colleges (Los Angeles) [$180,000—1981] 30,000
College Board (New York) [$245,792—1981] 20,385
Jersey City State College [$50,414—1980] (14,331)
Financing and management of higher education
Academy for Educational Development (New York) [$50,000—1981] 18,750
American Association of State Colleges and Universities (Washington, D.C.) [$100,000—1981] 50,000
American Council on Education (Washington, D.C.) [$100,000—1981] 34,000
Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges (Washington, D.C.) [$99,242—1981] 39,242
Policy studies and conferences on higher education
American Association for Higher Education (Washington, D.C.) [$94,820—1981] 13,400
Association of American Colleges (Washington, D.C.) [$100,076—1981] 21,513
Minnesota Higher Education Coordinating Board (St. Paul) [$50,730—1981] 10,000
Private colleges: research and planning
National Institute of Independent Colleges and Universities (Washington, D.C.) [$90,000—1981] 25,000
New York University [$65,303—1981] 32,652
Experiments in curriculum
Elderhostel (Boston) [$100,000—1981] 30,000
Library improvement
Council on Library Resources (Washington, D.C.) [$2,500,000—1977] 349,319
Management education
Delegated-authority project: evaluation of European management education 8,249