Word: forded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Faculty of Arts and Sciences budget is tight right now--Dean Ford has predicted a $2.4 million deficit for 1968-69--and Ford confirmed yesterday that the higher salary schedule that goes with the Dunlop Committee plan would probably reduce the number of appointments each department can make...
...Ford Foundation money has eased the burden of these cuts by suporting all the GSAS Graduate Prize fellows. Funds from the Faculty and from other outside endowments are therefore available for regular Harvard Fellowships...
Ironically it was the Ford Foundation which caused large cutbacks in other available fellowships. Last fall the Foundation refused to renew its annual $5 million grant to the Woodrow Wilson Fellowship Fund, which was dependent on Ford for 95 per cent of its revenue...
Meanwhile, the Ford Foundation decided to test the I.S. 201 formula. In July 1967, Ford gave the City money for three trial districts--one around I.S. 201, one in Manhattan's lower east side, and the third in Ocean Hill-Brownsville. All the districts were to remain within the school system, but local governing boards, elected by the school communities, gained almost complete control over their district's schools...
...Lindsay's plan had succeeded, the three Ford districts would probably have dropped from sight, submerged in a city-wide wave of reform. The legislature, however, succumbed to intense pressure from New York's United Federation of Teachers and from New York school administrators, and emasculated Lindsay's legislation. Their hopes shattered, ghetto communities concluded that the political process offered no chance for effective change, and moved on to a confrontation of raw power in the city streets. Ocean Hill-Brownsville offered the first opportunity...