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"The 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."
"The grant is not being used as an administrative weapon to integrate each department," Schelling asserts. "It would be easy for the committee to use the budgetary process to manipulate its own ideas, but it has resisted that temptation."
But the 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...
Now, less than half the International Affairs people operate from 6 Divinity Avenue. The rest are scattered in the ROTC Building, at 1737 Cambridge Street, and on Sumner Road. "The new building will be more important for having the entire International Affairs Center together than for having us near the...