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Explaining the reasons for expansion, Keppel stated in 1948 that the "study of fundamental problems of education in our society would benefit from the addition of greater contributions from the systems of analysis and the findings of anthropology, clinical and social psychology, economics, intellectual and social history, political science, philosophy, and sociology . . . The focus of the School's interest must remain steadily upon the educational system of our society...
...School's new expansion program has gotten off to a good start by gifts and grants totaling over one million dollars. This sum has come primarily from the Ford Foundation, the Carnegie Corporation, the Kellogg Foundation, and the Rockefeller Foundation. Keppel decided early in the planning that the School should try to carry out the new program over at least a six-year period, and that new support should simultaneously be sought to continue the activities after that time. Approximately four million dollars, it was estimated, would be needed to provide for new professorships and more scholarships, while estimates...
...academic year of 1947-48, the Graduate School of Education had an all-inclusive budget of $220,000. Dean Keppel estimates next year's budget to be about $600,000. Thus in the five years Keppel has been Dean, the budget has been expanded almost 300 percent...
According to Keppel, "the School has grown apace. I feel that we're really beginning to go places now," he added. With regard to the size of the School, there have been no basic changes in policy. The Faculty still wishes to maintain a small student enrollment and, so far as possible, to have a student body carefully selected as to personality, interest academic promise, and geographical distribution...
...This equal emphasis on competence in teaching and on understanding of the subject-matter field," Keppel declares, "presupposes a unity of purpose within the University for the preparation of teachers. The courses in the Faculty of Education are designed with this unity in mind and . . . the policies for the degree are established through the active cooperation of scholars in the field of Education and in the academic disciplines...