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The O’Meally, Smith Report Contents The Report Introduction General Assessments Site Visits and Observations Cornell University Harvard University Indiana University Michigan State University University of California, Berkeley University of California, Los Angeles University of Michigan University of Pennsylvania University of Wisconsin Yale University Summary and Recommendations Notes
Introduction Beginning in fiscal year 1988, the Education and Culture Program of the Ford Foundation awarded three-year grants to leading departments, programs, and centers of African American Studies. Ford’s stated goals were to encourage the next generation of scholars, to support research projects, and to disseminate the field’s best new scholarship. From January until June 1993, we visited the institutions that received these grants—UC Berkeley, Cornell, Harvard, Indiana, Michigan, Michigan State, Pennsylvania, UCLA, Wisconsin,andYale—to assess the uses to which Ford funding had been put. In each instance, we were favorably impressed by the ways in which the academic units 1 had developed programming that suited the needs and strengths of their institutions and communities. The range of initiatives that Ford funding has supported testifies to the vibrancy and diversity of African American pedagogy and research at this point in history, clearly justifying future funding in the area. With the enterprises of scholarship, teaching and outreach deeply linked, the comments that follow describe the highlights of each unit. At such public institutions as Indiana, UCLA, and Wisconsin, funds helped to offset shrinking resources during a time of economic crisis.At each of these schools,some of the grant money was earmarked to enhance the professional development of graduate students and nontenured faculty by supporting research travel, faculty-student mentorships, and conferences. At Wisconsin, Ford funds were used to support a major national conference on 125
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