Word: forded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Dean Ford will announce to the Faculty today the names of 16 Faculty members who have accepted positions on the Student-Faculty Advisory Council...
...Ford said yesterday he hopes the Advisory Council will hold its first meeting on Dec. 15. All 21 student representatives will be elected by Dec. 11. Ford will chair the Council until it chooses a leader...
...Dean Ford said two weeks ago that students on probation will not be permitted to serve on the Council. Ford explained yesterday that any House which elects a student whom he refuses to certify may hold another election or simply have no representative. "I hope no House chooses the latter course," he said...
Most of Harvard's schools have already had a number of social scientists and doctors involved in teaching urbanrelated courses, guiding research projects, and organizing action programs in Cambridge and the Boston community. But the Ford grant last week, by creating professorships, will add a new degree of continuity and coherence to urban studies. And the foundation has indicated that this grant--of almost $11 million to Harvard, M.I.T., Chicago, and Columbia--is just the first step. Ford began the same kind of massive assistance seven years ago to increase studies in international affairs. The result at Harvard has been...
...chairs will have long-ranged influence on urban studies and solutions, but there still remain the immediate ills in cities. Ford has not neglected to attack the present problems: in addition to the $11 million for endowment, Ford has pumped more than $13 million into urban research and action programs during the past year. But at a time when the United States Congress has relegated urban programs to a low priority when handing out funds, large foundations like Ford must assume even more responsibility in financing short-term efforts. City and state governments, even if they do have available funds...