RF Annual Report - 1935 - The Rockefeller Foundation

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Spelman Fund program provides both a means
for defining pressing problems in the administrative
field and a mechanism for bringing to the
attention of public officials the results of basic
research upon such problems.
American University
School of Public Affairs
Two grants totaling $28,000 were made during
the year 1935 to the American University in
Washington, D.C., toward the support over a
period from January 1935 to July 1938 of an
in-service training program for Federal
employees.
This program was launched with the full collaboration
of members of the United States Civil
Service Commission and the personnel officers
of the major Federal departments of government.
It appeared that training which could be
provided for government employees by an independent
academic agency in Washington would
aid in the important tasks of broadening the
areas providing career positions in the Federal
service and in improving the level of competence
of those who occupy such positions.
In the second semester of the academic year
1934-35 courses were offered in public personnel
management and Federal administrative statistics.
For the academic year 1935-36 these
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