Thursday, March 22. 1979
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Women's Studies gets Ford grant
The seven-year-old KU Women's Studies program received a $100,000 grant from the Ford Foundation yesterday. Shirley Harkess, coordinator of the program said.
The program received only $6,000 from KU to operate with this year, Harkass said.
"We are very happy to receive outside money for a program that gets so little money from the University," she said. "It is much time it has received any outside funds."
The grant came from the division of education and research of the Ford Foundation, which in the past four years has supported numerous women's studies programs across the country.
The bulk of the grant will be used for a 1980 Summer Research Institute on "Women's Public Lives" to be at KU, Harkess said.
A smaller portion of the grant will be used to support three sessions on "Research on Women's Studies in Education" at the National Women's Studies Association convention to be May 30 through June 3, 1979 at KU.
"WE are hoping that this will produce greater support from KU," she said.
According to Mariam K. Chamberlin in New York City, who is program officer with the division of education and research for the Ford Foundation, KU's grant for the Ford Foundation was given a "one-shot" effort as part of a series of grants given over the last three years.
The institute, according to Harkess, will involve 20 faculty or graduate student researchers in women's studies from various U.S. institutions.
"All of these are part of a general effort to establish women's research programs."
of women and their activities, particularly Midwestern women during the 19th and 20th
The focus of the institute will be the study
CHAMBERLAIN SAID the Ford Foundation awarded KU's program the grant because of its extensive library collection of materials and resources nationally-known Gerritt Collection of
early suffragette literature in Spencer Library.
The Women's Studies program at KU is an undergraduate program that was established in 1972 as a special studies major. It was approved as a regular major, a graduate or bachelor of general studies degrees, by the Kansas Board of Regents in 1977.
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