News from Ford

After months of public guessing about how it would spend its $492 millions "for the public welfare," the Ford Foundation started to move. It gave $150,000 to the newly organized International Press Institute (the Rockefeller Foundation is chipping in $120,000). The institute, comprising 34 editors from 15 nations headed by Lester Markel, Sunday editor of the New York Times, will work for freer exchange of information among the world's journalists. Further grants announced last week by Ford Foundation President Paul Hoffman:

The Fund for Adult Education ($3,000,000), headed by C. Scott Fletcher, former president of Encyclopedia Britannica Films, which will support nonacademic projects outside the school system --educational movies, radio and TV programs, community discussion groups. The fund's purpose, as defined by Hoffman: "[To] assist persons to develop a satisfactory personal philosophy and sense of values ... to grow in ability to analyze problems and arrive at thoughtful conclusions . . ."

The Fund for the Advancement of Education ($7,000,000), headed by Clarence H. Faust, former dean of humanities and sciences at Stanford University, which will help only schools and colleges. Its purpose: experiments in educational methods, "basic studies" of education's goals, assistance to the U.S. school system during its mobilization troubles. The fund's first experimental project: a $1,200,000 a year scholarship program at Yale, Columbia, Wisconsin and Chicago which, starting next fall, will take 200 high-school boys, under 16 1/2 and send them to college. The boys will be accepted on the basis of school records and the standard College Board exams. In addition to their tuition they will get "extras" up to $1,000, according to need. The program's purpose: to give the boys at least two years of a liberal education before they enter the Army, lead them, in the words of Columbia Dean Lawrence Chamberlain, "to the exercise of wisdom in adult life."

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