RF Annual Report - 1935 - The Rockefeller Foundation

THE SOCIAL SCIENCES 195
A. General Program
1. Institutional Centers for Research
and Advanced Training
The objective of the Foundation's support of
institutional centers was to stimulate general research
and training in the social sciences at universities
having national or regional importance.
The grants usually provided funds for research
placed at the disposal of a special committee
which the university constituted for the express
purpose of planning and initiating projects. In
1935 the institutions aided were the following:
a INSTITUTIONAL CENTERS RECEIVING SUPPORT DURING 1935
UNDER PREVIOUS APPROPRIATIONS!
United States
Brookings Institution, Washington, D.C. Research
program in the social sciences $37,500*
Columbia University, New York City. Council for Research
in the Social Sciences 70,000f
Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Research
fund for social sciences 75,000t
Leland Stanford, Jr., University, Palo Alto, California.
Research fund for sodal sciences
S5,000f
University of Chicago, Illinois
Division of the Social Sciences. Research facilities
and assistance
7S,OOOf
Division of the Social Sciences. Endowment for development
500,000$
Purchaseof basic documents in the social sciences... 100,000$
Faculty appointment in the social sciences (Interest «
on endowment grant) 4,475
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Institute
for Research in the Social Sciences 30,000||
University of Texas, Austin. Research fund for the social
sciences 25,000f
University of Virginia, Charlottesville. Institute for
Research in the Social Sciences 10,000t
Canada
McGill University, Montreal. Development of research
in the sodal sciences 25,000f
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