Program

Education Programs: Institutes for Higher Education Faculty

Period of Performance

7/7/1978 - 6/30/1979

Funding Totals

$13,455.40 (approved)
$13,455.40 (awarded)


TVA Seminar: More Than 40 Years at the Grassroots

FAIN: EH-*0687-78

Vanderbilt University (Nashville, TN 37203-2416)
Richard A. Couto (Project Director: November 1977 to October 1990)

To support study of the TVA by journalists, humanists, scientists and students with a focus on values and issues of environmental and energy policy.

To bring together journalists, humanists, scientists and students to study the Tennessee Valley Authority. Focus would be values: what value does development serve, what are some of its faces as it affects people or a region. Purpose of course is to encourage graduate and advanced undergraduate students to learn about issues of environmental and energy policy and to undertake their own independent research on such issues.