Yale University has received and additional grant of $100,000 from the Ford Foundation. The new grant will finance the last two undergraduate years for present Ford Plan students.
The award, financed by the Ford Foundation's Fund for the Advancement of Education, follows a recent University refusal to admit future groups of Ford scholars. Yale said its applications have increased so greatly that it can no longer reserve for the Ford group the fifty places in the enrollment which it is requesting.
There are 100 students at Yale now who entered under the original grant. The money is awarded to students who enter college at 16 1/2 years or less and who can meet all the entrance requirements. Unlike the first grant, the second will only he awarded in situations of financial need.
The Ford Plan was instituted when an 18-year-old draft was expected, so it was assumed that the last two years would be financed by the G.I. Bill.
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