RF Annual Report - 1935 - The Rockefeller Foundation

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cine, Jaw, and business, a professional curriculum
for administration might be organized. Classroom
work has been supplemented with apprenticeship
experience with public or quasipublic
agencies, and a large percentage of the
school's graduates have found public service
employment. Many of these graduates have
risen to positions of importance within a surprisingly
short period.
Since there is general agreement that a twelvemonth
period is too short for adequate training
of the type attempted, the current grant was
made to permit expansion to a two-year basis.
The past record of accomplishment appeared to
warrant a fair trial at Syracuse University for the
focused, professional type of training, in contrast
to the broader, more generalized training offered
at Harvard and elsewhere. With its expanded opportunities
the program of the School of Citizenship
and Public Affairs should afford a fair test
of the relative worth of this procedure as compared
with those which attempt to promote the
same ends through other methods.
National Institute of Public Affairs
Within the year, 380,000 was appropriated to
enable the National Institute of Public Affairs,
during the three-year period from October 1,
1935, to September 30, 1938, to act as a liai-
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