The Nation - News from Dec. 26, 1985
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The Ford Foundation announced plans to award grants totaling $4.75 million in the next two years to help 39 colleges and universities--of which seven are in California--recruit teachers and improve their undergraduate curricula. The foundation said it is acting partly in response to a spate of recent studies that have questioned the quality of undergraduate education.
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