Jan 01 1964The Foundation grants $3.5 million to strengthen three black colleges: Fisk University for across-the-board development, Atlanta University for library and faculty development, and the Tuskegee Institute for academic development.
Jan 01 1963The Foundation launches its 20-year University Development (later Education for Development) program, designed to create new leadership in developing countries by aiding a few selected universities. The $125 million program emphasizes departments of agriculture, public health, medicine and social sciences. Universities are aided in Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Indonesia, Nigeria, Sudan, Thailand, the Philippines and Zaire. The total Foundation commitment comes to $550 million in current dollars.
Jan 01 1963Now in its 50th year, the Foundation reorganizes its programs under five headings: Conquest of Hunger; Population and Health; Education for Development; Equal Opportunity; and Arts, Humanities and Cultural Values.
Jan 01 1963Grants eventually totaling $85.5 million are made to: (1) recruit black students for college, including a program to enable leading private Southern universities to recruit black students for the first time in their history; (2) improve the quality of education at several black colleges; and (3) mount summer programs at Princeton, Dartmouth and Oberlin to enlarge the pool of well-prepared black college candidates.
Jan 01 1961The Foundation makes a $250,000 grant to the Southern Regional Council “because of the special urgency of problems in race relations in the United States.”
Jan 01 1960The International Rice Research Institute, the first of what will become a system of 16 international agricultural centers, is established in the Philippines.
Jan 01 1960Support to a consortium of university presses underwrites the cost of translating into English notable Latin American writers, including Carlos Fuentes, Jorge Luis Borges and Octavio Paz.
