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Juliet García Joins Ford Foundation Board of Trustees

New York, N.Y., February 24, 2003- The election of Dr. Juliet V. García to the Ford Foundation Board of Trustees was announced by Paul A. Allaire, chairman of the Board. Dr. García, who will join the Board at its May 2003 meeting, is President of the University of Texas at Brownsville. As President of UTB, Dr. García has led the development of a highly successful partnership with Texas Southmost College to improve higher education opportunities for people of the Lower Rio Grande Valley in south Texas. Prior to assuming the presidency of UTB in 1992, Dr. Garcia served six years as president of Texas Southmost College. Dr. García received her Ph.D. in Communication and Linguistics from The University of Texas at Austin and her M.A. and B.A. in Speech and English from the University of Houston. She served on the Presidential Advisory Council on Institutional Quality and Effectiveness and as a Commissioner on the White House Advisory Commission on Educational Excellence for Hispanic Americans. Dr. García is a member of the Board of Directors of the Public Welfare Foundation and the Kennedy Memorial Foundation and Vice Chair of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. Most recently, she completed a six-year term as Chair of the Advisory Committee to Congress on Student Financial Assistance. The Ford Foundation, established in 1936, is a private, nonprofit institution that serves as a resource for innovative people and institutions worldwide. Its goals are to strengthen democratic values, reduce poverty and injustice, promote international cooperation, and advance human achievement. A national and international philanthropy, the Foundation has provided over $12 billion in grants and loans worldwide and has current assets of about $9 billion. The Foundation maintains headquarters in New York and offices in Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Latin America and Russia.

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The Ford Foundation is an independent, nonprofit grant-making organization. For more than half a century it has been a resource for innovative people and institutions worldwide, guided by its goals of strengthening democratic values, reducing poverty and injustice, promoting international cooperation and advancing human achievement. With headquarters in New York, the foundation has offices in Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Latin America, and Russia.