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From its headquarters in White Plains, N.Y., the Fund for Adult Education (director: C. Scott Fletcher) runs a major campaign to give adults a chance at liberal education. Among other things, it has spent $10 million on educational TV, started thousands of Americans on the Great Books trail, financed part-time liberal-arts courses for businessmen, now hopes to get 12 to 15 universities to set up adult liberal-arts programs...
...Feel Free!" Though both these satellites are entirely independent corporations with their own trustees, Ford Foundation officials are apt to go out of their way to emphasize the complete autonomy of the Fund for the Republic. It is literally, says Robert Hutchins, its present head, "a completely disowned subsidiary of the foundation," and when it has spent its $15 million, it can expect to get no more. Its motto, according to Hutchins, is "Feel Free." Its province: the turbulent area of civil liberties...
...fund commissioned Commonweal Executive Editor John Cogley to write a report on blacklisting in the entertainment industry. Unfortunately, the whole study appeared to be so opinionated, even to objective critics, that it lost much of the impact it might have had with the general public. On the other hand, the fund-supported Bibliography of the Communist Problem in the United States, compiled by Cornell Historian Clinton Rossiter, Georgetown Law Professor Joseph Snee, S.J. and Harvard Law Professor Arthur Sutherland, was a valiant if incomplete attempt to do a much-needed job. The investigation of security procedures and firings, made under...
...fund's unhappy reputation, however undeserved, has been firmly established. It found itself in deep trouble with Congress. Representative Francis Walter wondered out loud whether "it was a friend or foe of America in the struggle against the Communist conspiracy...
...months he has been president, the Ford Foundation has already felt his touch. To consolidate the educational work of the foundation and the Fund for the Advancement of Education, he drew up plans to merge the two, appointed the fund's respected Clarence Faust a foundation vice president. He also made clear that he thought the Program Committee, which reviewed all projects and managed to satisfy no one, should be eliminated. "When?" someone asked him. "Now," said Heald...