Education School Given Ford Foundation Grant

The Ford Foundation gave $2.8 million to the School of Education recently. About $1 million of it will be used for fellowships, while another $1 million will finance studies in education.

Labelling the Ford grant "a dramatic action," Francis Keppel, Dean of the School of Education said that the grant's size would make possible long-range planning. He stressed the need for "more imagination in the recruitment, training and use of the ablest persons for work in the schools."

The gift, to extend over an eight year period, will help the School of Education develop some of its new teacher training programs. One of these is an apprentice arrangement, whereby college graduates work part-time as teachers in neighboring schools while pursuing their studies in the University.

Eight other colleges also received Ford gifts for developing new teacher training methods. Among these were Barnard College, the Universities of Chicago and Wisconsin, Stanford, Brown and Duke Universities. The grants totaled over $9.1 million.

Aim at "Breakthrough"

Henry Heald, President of the Foundation, recently said that the grants aim at a "breakthrough" in the development of new training procedures for teachers. The Foundation is particularly anxious to help the teacher apprenticing programs.

The University also received recently a gift of $200,000 in the will of Daisy M. Smith, who died Jan. 2. She put her estate in the trust of the University, asking that the income be used to finance medical research.

The B. F. Goodrich Company granted $10,000 to the University recently. The gift was unrestricted.