U. of Alaska Prof
•To Study Abroad On
Ford Fellowship Grant
Professor Richard H. Byrns of
the University of Alaska faculty
has been named the recipient of
a Ford Foundation Fellowship,
Dr. Terris Moore, president of the
university, announced today.
The Fellowship, one of those
established recently by the Fund
for the Advancement of Educa
tion, is part of a nationwide pro
gram aimed at reducing the shock
of mobilization to college and uni
versity faculties. According to
Clarence H. Faust, president of
the Fund, the program has two
principal objectives:
First, it is aimed at making con
structive use of the present emer
gency period by enabling a large
number of teachers to increase
their competence in undergradu
ate fields.
Second, it is aimed at assisting
colleges to keep a substantial
number of promising young
teachers who might otherwise be
♦lost to academic life because of
the potential curtailment of col
lege operations by mobilization.
Professor Byrns will continue
his academic work at the Univer
sity of Edinburgh. Edinburgh,
Scotland, where, in addition to
the study of Nineteenth Century
Literature, he will concentrate on
the teaching methods and organ
izational techniques of foreign
universities. He plans to leave
Alaska during the latter part of
August. The university has grant
ed him a leave of absence in or
der that he might have opportun
ity to study abroad under the
Fellowship.
Byrns first came to Alaska in
1942, teaching for four years at
Juneau High School. He has been
connected with the university
since 1947, as an associate profes
sor of English and this last year
also as director of the military
branches.
“I am deeply appreciative o1
this opportunity to broaden my
educational background,” Byrn;
said. ‘‘.I feel that time spent in £
foreign university will be highly
beneficial in that it will provide
new ideas that can be used tc
advantage upon my return here
to the University of Alaska.”
“This past year I have been in
terested in the night program foi
the education of men in the Ser
ices. This study abroad will alsc
give me a chance to observe how
other universities handle theii
military branches since the Uni
versity of Maryland especially
has made wide progress in pre
senting courses to servicemen ir
the European theatre,” Byrrn
said.
According to President Moore
the Fellowships set up by the
Fund for the Advancement oJ
Education fill a gap in the pres
ent college structure.
“The next few years will be
critical ones in the academic
world,” Dr. Moore said; “the pres
ent emergency has caused many
instructors to leave colleges anc
universities and has made a sharp
drop in enrollment in most insti
tutions in the States At present
the University of Alaska is ar
exception in that oup anticipatec
fall enrollment is as high as usual
but many competent instructor:
might easily be lost to the teach
ing profession unless positions arc
available to them.”
“The Fund for the Advance
ment of Education has made <
live contribution in providing ad
ditional openings by enabling, a
the same time, faculty member!
v.ho are already in universitie:
and colleges an opportunity tc
continue their education,” Dr
Moore said.
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Last week the Senate Commit
tee on Appropriations restored
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House Committee from the 1951
’52 budget request for research
on agricultural problems of Alas
ka, but recommendations were
still $40,000 short of the requested
1 amount.
The Alaska Agricultural Ex
periment Station, with headquar
ters in Palmer, may thus be ob
liged to cut back its long range
research program just at the time
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ment Station.
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mended $56,100 for Extension
Service in Alaska. How other
agricultural agencies in Alaska
will fare with their budget re
quests will not be known until
the Department of Agriculture
appropriation bill finally clears
Congress and is signed by the
president. Action so far taken in
both houses on this appropriation
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in all agency requests for funds.
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in Alaska amounted to $110,000
for the Soil Conservation Serv
ice; $36,051 for the school lunch
program and payments to farm
ers under the conservation and
use of agricultural land resources
program: $175,000 for loans un
der the Farmers Home Adminis
tration program; and $4 million
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