64 linear feet.
Prior written permission required from James W. Armsey.
Series outline and folder list.
Ford Foundation executive.
Ford Foundation Executive Committee and Board of Trustee dockets (1958-1977), budget papers (1969-1977), information and discussion papers (1960-1977), professional staff biographies, directory of personnel, and personnel reports (1958-1977), program reviews and reports (1965-1977); office files of the Special Program in Education (1958-1970), including correspondence, college and university profiles, visitation memoranda, dockets and review papers; office files of the Educational Television Project (1952-1973), including memoranda, reports of meetings, and papers by outside consultants, with some discussion of communication satellites; papers related to the Journalism Project (1961-1970), the Minority Higher Education Project (1951-1976), and Requests for Grant Action (1957-1976) documenting the Foundation's support of humanities and the arts, minority higher education, education and research, and national affairs, and the activities of the Foundation's International Division; with accounts of the history of the Foundation (1911-1956), Annual Reports (1956-1977), and Financial Statements (1949-1975); also papers documenting the career of Henry T. Heald, president of Illinois Institute of Technology (1940-1952), chancellor of New York University (1952-1956), and president/trustee of the Ford Foundation (1956-1965), for whom Armsey worked at each of these institutions; consisting of speeches written by Armsey and delivered by Heald, reports, proposals, and memoranda (1946-1958).
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