Education School Sets Long-Range Fund Drive

A long range $6,000,000 endowment drive forth Graduate School of Education will swing into motion Monday, Dean Francis Keppel '38 announced yesterday.

Keppel indicated that unless the school receives $4,500,000 to support its enlarged teaching program, it will have, to either out its program or dip into capital. Education has financed its expanded instruction and research largely through a 1948 Carnegie corporation grant of $300,000. But this gift will be completely spent by June.

Only Alternative

According to Keppel, if the school does not receive enough endowment money to finance it, he will have to draw from the $300,000 endowment provided by the Corporation at the time of the Carnegie grant.

The remaining $1,500,000 solicited will, go toward the construction of a new building for Education, Keppel said.

At the present time, the school is split into four separate buildings, spread, throughout the University. Keppel hopes, with a new school, to put all of his projects and classes under one roof.

At the moment, Education has an endowment income of $128,000, paying for only 25 percent of its expenses. But the school has enlarged its faculty, from 28 to 82, and its student body, from 252 to 321, during the past five years, through its gifts for immediate use.

"Now that we have grown to this size," Keppel stated, "it's time we put the school on a firm financial foundations."

To publicize its drive, the School of Education has published a glossy 32-page brochure, prefaced by a statement from President Conant out of his forthcoming book, "Education and Liberty."

The booklet describes the school's program, its faculty and student body. Then it outlines the future goals of graduate education in the University.