News from Ford (Cont'd)

The Ford Foundation added another specific to its broad-gauge plans for assisting U.S. schools and colleges. On top of the $1,200,000 college scholarship program for 16 1/2-year-olds (TIME, April 30), the foundation's Fund for the Advancement of Education announced last week a new $2,280,000 fellowship program for young college teachers. Purpose of the program: to help young instructors pay for extra training, at the same time help small colleges keep young teachers on their staffs whom they might not otherwise be able to afford.

To win a fellowship (salary plus travel expenses and tuition), a teacher must have more on his mind than merely earning his Ph.D. He must submit a plan of study for improving his teaching and for exploring the aims and methods of college courses. The big hope behind the program, says Clarence H. Faust, former Stanford University dean and president of the new fund, is not only to help the colleges financially, but to be "of long-term service to them in the improvement of undergraduate teaching."

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