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Ford Foundation Annual Report 1998







Education, Knowledge and Religion Approved Grants and Projects, Fiscal Year 1998

United States and Worldwide Programs

Teaching and scholarship
  • American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (Washington, D.C.)
    $800,000
    To increase the number of accredited teacher-education institutions.

  • American Council of Learned Societies Devoted to Humanistic Studies (New York)
    $4,000,000
    For a fellowship program.

  • California, University of (Berkeley)
    $400,000
    To strengthen the Berkeley workshop in environmental politics and start a culture and environment forum.

  • California, University of (Berkeley)
    $225,000
    For the Center for Theater Arts.

  • Colorado Foundation, University of (Boulder)
    $75,000
    For a culture, environment and social justice initiative by the Center of the American West.

  • Columbia University
    $62,000
    For a research and study group on jazz in American culture.

  • Dartmouth College
    $40,000
    For essays on contemporary African-American theater.

  • Educators for Social Responsibility (Cambridge, Mass.)
    $150,000
    For a graduate program in conflict resolution.

  • Fordham University
    $210,000
    For a professional development program for school superintendents.

  • Harvard University
    $500,000
    For the Women's Studies in Religion Program at the divinity school.

  • Latin American Studies Association (Pittsburgh)
    $90,000
    For the participation of Latin-American scholars in the association's 1998 international congress.

  • Los Angeles Annenberg Metropolitan Project
    $1,857,000
    To promote teacher development.

  • National Association of Secondary School Principals (Reston, Va.)
    $75,000
    For a training program.

  • National Association of State Boards of Education (Alexandria, Va.)
    $13,000
    For two study groups on teacher development, supply and demand, and school leadership.

  • National School Boards Association Foundation (Alexandria, Va.)
    $100,000
    To increase the effectiveness of school board members in promoting school reform.

  • New York, State University of (Albany)
    $250,000
    For a master's degree program in women's studies.

  • Social Science Research Council (New York)
    $2,786,000
    For international programs administered with the American Council of Learned Societies.

  • Wellesley College
    $250,000
    For an endowment challenge for the college's Centers for Women.

  • Wisconsin, University of (Madison)
    $45,000
    To make historical photographs of the Philippine environment available on the Internet and on CD-ROM's for educational purposes.

  • Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (Washington, D.C.)
    $225,000
    For a training program for junior Latin-American scholars.

  • To strengthen graduate training in African studies, eight grants:

    • Boston University
      $110,000

    • California, University of (Berkeley)
      $150,000

    • Florida, University of (Gainesville)
      $148,000

    • Illinois, University of (Urbana)
      $50,000

    • Indiana University
      $150,000

    • Michigan State University
      $150,000

    • Michigan, University of (Ann Arbor)
      $150,000

    • Pennsylvania, University of
      $148,000

Access and equity
  • American Council on Education (Washington, D.C.)
    $75,000
    To promote access and student diversity in postsecondary education.

  • American Jewish Committee (New York)
    $30,000
    To publish a special issue of Common Quest magazine.

  • American Sociological Association (Washington, D.C.)
    $485,000
    To encourage minority students to pursue teaching careers.

  • Appalshop (Whitesburg, Ky.)
    $50,000
    To publish the results from the Campus Diversity/Cultural Resource Initiative.

  • Association of American Colleges and Universities (Washington, D.C.)
    $959,000
    For a series of campus-community discussions on diversity education.

  • Association of American Colleges and Universities (Washington, D.C.)
    $432,000
    For a fellowship on campus diversity.

  • Association of American Colleges and Universities (Washington, D.C.)
    $317,000
    For conferences on campus diversity.

  • Association of American Colleges and Universities (Washington, D.C.)
    $292,000
    For the campus diversity newsletter Diversity Digest.

  • Association of American Colleges and Universities (Washington, D.C.)
    $180,000
    For Diversity Works, a set of communications strategies about campus diversity.

  • Barnard College
    $175,000
    To study higher education policies and their relation to economic growth and inequality.

  • Barry University
    $128,500
    For a diversity program involving a regional coalition of higher education institutions.