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Ford will also double the research funds available to the Joint Center over the next three years. The Joint Center, which was established by Harvard and M.I.T. in 1950 with the help of Ford money, received a seven-year grant in 1966 of $1.4 million. The terms of this grant will be revised so that the Joint Center can expend it all by 1970 instead of by 1973. This change will raise the rate of expenditure of the Ford money for the next three academic years to $400,000 per year, rather than $200,000 per year. All other grants...
McGeorge Bundy, president of the Ford Foundation, said in a joint statement with the four university presidents that "mores first-rate scholars and scientists need to attack these urban problems in systematic and fundamental ways, and to enlist and train larger numbers of talented young people who can multiply their efforts...
James Q. Wilson, professor of Government and former director of the Joint Center, said Tuesday that "the new professorships will sustain our short-term research efforts, give them continuity, and relate more closely to action programs. Able people are scarce in this field; the Center has brought some, and this grant should attract more...
...Joint Center will continue to be a source of research funds and a center for seminars and research publications at the two universities...