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Part of the Ford Foundation's core mission is to share lessons learned from our grant-making activities. We assess projects and more comprehensive initiatives in a variety of ways, typically including using standard evidence-based methodologies and evaluation techiques drawn from the social sciences. On occasion, we also ask distinguished scholars, policy experts, seasoned practitoners and community-based activists to review a body of work and provide commentaries on what they think has been accomplished and what challenges remain.

In the past 25 years, no area of scholarship in higher education grant making has received more sustained attention from the foundation than African American Studies. Now, for the first time, we are making four distinguished reports on our African American Studies grant making available in a single volume. Professor Farah Jasmine Griffin of Columbia University, who represents the first generation of scholars who were thoroughly exposed to, grew up with and became committed to African American Studies as a significant interdisciplinary field, provides introductions and contemporary insights into the reports.

Preface / Alison R. Bernstein, Janice Petrovich, Margaret Wilkerson

Introduction (2006) / Farah Jasmine Griffin

Part 1. The American university in crisis and transition : the Huggins Report

Afro-American studies : a report to the Ford Foundation (1982, 1985) / Nathan I. Huggins

Part 2. African American studies from implementation to institutionalization : the Harris, Hine, McKay Report

Three essays : Black studies in the United States report to the Ford Foundation (1990) / Robert L. Harris, Jr., Darlene Clark Hine, and Nellie McKay

Part 3. Funding change : the O'Meally, Smith Report

Evaluation of Ford-funded African American studies departments, centers, and institutes (1994) / Robert G. O'Meally and Valerie Smith

Part 4. A changing political context : the Pinderhughes, Yarborough Report

A review of Ford Foundation-funded African American studies programs (2000) / Dianne M. Pinderhughes and Richard Yarborough

Part 5. Epilogue : continuing challenges (2006) / Farah Jasmine Griffin

Appendix A: Black studies programs funded by the Ford Foundation.

Ford Foundation > Research grants > History.

African Americans > Study and teaching.

Black people > Study and teaching > United States.

African Americans > Study and teaching.

Black people > Study and teaching.