The Harvard Education Project has received a $5500 grant for a series of seminars next year criticizing the University.

Jeffrey L. Elman '69, HEP director, stated yesterday that he had received the gift from the Stern Family Foundation of Washington, D.C. He said that $1500 of the grant was allotted to Project-related research he is doing this summer, and the remainder will be used to pay salaries to section men in the seminars. There might be some money left over, which would be used next spring to finance the writing of preliminary reports for the HEP, Elman added.

Elman announced the seminars last week, before he had any money. If the grant had not come through, he explained yesterday; "we would have gone ahead with it, hoping to get section men to work for no money."

'Radical Critiques'

The seminars next semester, structured under the title, "Radical Critiques of the University," will include a course on the University and Society taught by Tracy Strong, teaching fellow in Social Studies and Government.

Other faculty members who have expressed interest in the course are Robert Coles '50, research psychiatrist at UHS; Joseph L. Featherstone '62, graduate student in history and associate editor of the New Republic; Barbara N. Cohn, lecturer in General Education; and Paul Potter, a founder of SDS and instructor in philosophy at M.I.T.

Students will be able to get credits for the seminars as Independent Study, Elman said.

The HEP is aiming toward a comprehensive report on the university--its relation to society, the way it is governed, finances, and its academic offerings.