Word: heald
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...goes into improving curriculums, notably for new programs (at Case, U.C.L.A.) that concentrate on design as a basic engineering discipline. Biggest beneficiary: M.I.T. ($9,275,000), now developing a curriculum focused on science-core courses that cut across traditional departmental lines. Ford thus hopes, explained Foundation President Henry T. Heald, to encourage engineering schools to impart "a thorough understanding of science and mathematics, their frontiers, and how they may be applied to the needs of mankind...
...teachers, all too often, are trained in schools that offer substandard instruction, skimp courses in academic subjects in favor of courses on teaching method, give far too little practice teaching in actual classrooms. Ticking off these familiar failings this week, the Ford Foundation's President Henry Heald, sometime (1952-56) chancellor of New York University and an old teacher himself (during the '30s he was a professor of civil engineering at Chicago's Armour Institute of Technology), announced an impressive new foundation gift aimed at achieving "a breakthrough in teacher education.'' The donation...
...Henry Heald, President of the Foundation, recently said that the grants aim at a "breakthrough" in the development of new training procedures for teachers. The Foundation is particularly anxious to help the teacher apprenticing programs...
...lawyer - is primarily a money-getter. Even for a relatively wealthy ($50 million) school such as Oberlin, money-getting must color almost all public pronouncements. It is no accident that at last week's 125th anniversary convocation, three of four outside speakers - the Ford Foundation's Henry Heald, the Carnegie Foundation's John Gardner and Standard Oil of New Jersey's retired Board Chairman Frank Whittemore Abrams - were close to the strings of huge corporate purses...
Bank. Gaither, who helped give the foundation its present shape and direction, announced last May that he would return to his San Francisco law practice. Still in office as the foundation's guiding force and chief executive: able President Henry Heald...