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ties.
The foundation will rely upon
| the recommendations of a special
advisory committee in the final Sc
: lection and the percentages granted
will vary widely. The schools to
which grant offers are made will
have to match the gift with funds
from other sources under varying
rat os of matching"
Specific standards of require
ments will be established by the
! advisory committee and final plac-
ing of grants under the program
are expected to be completed by
the end of 1857.
Included in the group which may
qualify to receive aid from the
grant are some thirty or more Ne
gro colleges and universities whose
status las already been established
by membership in the United Ne
\ gro College Fund. This group in
! cludes Hampton Institute in Vir-
ginia, Tuskegee and Talladega in
Alabama, Fisk and lie Moyne in
Tennessee, Atlanta University and
Morehouse in Georgia, Wiley Col
lege in Texas, and. Tougaloo Col
lege in Mississippi.
Fundamentally the purpose of
the grants is to raise the salaries
4, of college and university teachers
! in order to make their profession
more attractive and in order to
maintain high level of education
and if possible to lift it.
Mr.. Ford said in the announce
7, ment that nowhere are the needs
! of the private college more appar-
ent than in the matter of faculty
salaries. Merely to restore profess
SorS' salaries to their 1899 pur-
j chasing power would require an
average increase of at least 20 per
cent"
I Reports indicated that there are
about 100000 faculty members of
private institutions of higher
learning and about half of these
are employed full time. Their pay
ranges from $4,000 to $4,000 an
nualy, with the figure for full
professors likely to be from $4,000
to $4,000
1t is expected that under present
plans that if it is feasible schools
will be permitted to put grants in
endowment funds and that it will
not be necessary to spend total
amounts Immediately for faculty
pay increases. However, the
schools will not be permitted to
divert the grants for other educa-
tional purposes.
Mr.. Ford indicated he was anx-
ious to get on with the program
for he said that teachers have not
begun to share the benefits of the
expanded productive power of this
nation, and the whole educational
system suffers from this fact.
: Enrolment Rise
industry, commerce, govern
ment, the arts, the sciences, and
the professions-indeed our whole
way of life-depends heavily upon
the quality of our education" he
said. Recognizing this fact, the
trustees of the Ford Foundation
want to do everything they can to
emphasize the cardinal Importance
of the college teacher to our So
ciety."
Mr.. Ford's announcement point
ed out that students attending
American colleges and UNIVERSE
ties are expected to number about
100000 by 1875, nearly double
today's total.
"On the basis of number alone"
the report stated, "our private in
situations of higher learning will
therefore face great and complex
problems in the next decade. While
this is also true of unsupported
| colleges and universities, their re-
sources are potentially greater
than those of privately controlled
| institutions.
Deadline Set 1857
The announcement said:
1.-THE trustees of the Ford Foun-
dation have appropriated $50,O0O,-
600 to help accredited private col
leges and universities in the United
States raise their faculty salaries.
Selection of the institutions to
be offered grants from this appro-
priation will come only after analy-
sis of up-to-date information to be
gathered from all accredited, four
year private colleges and universe
ties in the United States. In the