Other members of the foundation's board include Eleanor S. Arthur Levine, president of Teachers College, is associate chairman, and Kheel serves as president and CEO. Rawlings is serving as chairman of the foundation. Kheel, chairman of the Foundation House Coordinating Council.
The announcement of the new foundation, to be called the Cornell/Foundation House Experiments in Distance Learning Inc., was made today, May 22, by Cornell President Hunter Rawlings and New York City attorney Theodore W. "May we always need our public libraries, but the urgent need right now is the library of the new century the computer/Internet learning/interactive center."
"I see in this venture the possibility to do something no less grand for the 21st century than what Andrew Carnegie did for the early 20th century," said Walter Cronkite, who serves as a special adviser to the new foundation. The aim is to ascertain how best to use the latest interactive communications technologies to provide students at all levels with quality education at affordable costs. Cornell and Foundation House in New York City, in association with Teachers College of Columbia University, have created a new foundation to conduct experiments in distance learning and related purposes.
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