Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...million Ford Foundation grant for urban studies announced last week prompted the attack, Rollins said...
Black self-help agencies in Boston have declared a boycott of the Harvard-M.I.T. Joint Center for Urban Studies...
...scored the "ivory tower," saying that the chairs in urban studies to be supported by the grant should be "used for black people from this community to provide special expertise regardless of their doctoral qualifications...
...schools have already had a number of social scientists and doctors involved in teaching urbanrelated courses, guiding research projects, and organizing action programs in Cambridge and the Boston community. But the Ford grant last week, by creating professorships, will add a new degree of continuity and coherence to urban studies. And the foundation has indicated that this grant--of almost $11 million to Harvard, M.I.T., Chicago, and Columbia--is just the first step. Ford began the same kind of massive assistance seven years ago to increase studies in international affairs. The result at Harvard has been a prolific interdisciplinary increase...
...chairs will have long-ranged influence on urban studies and solutions, but there still remain the immediate ills in cities. Ford has not neglected to attack the present problems: in addition to the $11 million for endowment, Ford has pumped more than $13 million into urban research and action programs during the past year. But at a time when the United States Congress has relegated urban programs to a low priority when handing out funds, large foundations like Ford must assume even more responsibility in financing short-term efforts. City and state governments, even if they do have available funds...