Word: forded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Financing the Center for International Affairs is a big and complicated business. The main burden is borne by the Ford Foundation, which gave Harvard $12.5 million in 1964 for general support of international programs. It was the largest single gift in the University's history...
...grant converted what had been a departmental relation to the Ford Foundation to a University approach to Ford, but it has not brought and closer relations between the departments and centers," says Schelling...
What the $12.5 million Ford grant did, however, was to assure a continuity of programs without financial pressure until 1970. "We are getting almost as much money from Ford as we did before," Schelling observes. "The grant merely served to perpetuate for five more years the programs we began...
...question is whether or not the grant will result in departmental co-ordination in the long run. Indirectly, Schelling thinks the Ford grant will somewhat integrate the various centers through the nine professorships. It ties the University together more, he says, because these professors, split between various departments, can remind each other what is going on elsewhere. Four of these professorships went to the Law School, one to the School of Education, and four to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and the School of Public Administration. So far the grant has provided professorships, or split professorships, to Lipset, Richard...
...still less than half of the professorships have been designated, and the international studies building is not under construction. Therefore the Ford grant has had little chance to co-ordinate the different departments and centers in international studies...