University of Virginia Library

Shannon Selected
For Special Grant
To Further Study

Edgar F. Shannon, Jr., President
of the University, has been selected
as one of twenty top administrators
to receive a special grant under a
new program of the Danforth
Foundation.

Mr. Shannon will use his grant
in late 1969, after the University's
Sesquicentennial events, for several
weeks of travel and independent
study abroad.

Merrimon Cuninggim,
foundation president, said in
announcing the new program that
the grants are being provided to
offer college and university
administrators opportunities to
enlarge their perspectives of current
and future educational issues and to
renew their inner resources for
continued leadership in higher
education.

Mr. Cuninggim said that 20
college and university
administrators in the nation had
been selected to receive the first
grants under the new program.

Mr. Shannon is a Professor of
English at the University whose
field of study is 19th Century
English literature.

He is a former president
(1965-1966) and chairman of the
executive committee (1966-1967)
of the National Association of State
Universities and Land-Grant
Colleges; former president of the
Council of Southern Universities,
former president of the State
Universities Association and former
chairman of the Council of
Presidents of State Institutions of
Higher Education in Virginia.

Mr. Shannon received his A.B.
degree from Washington and Lee
University; master's degrees from
Duke University and Harvard
University, and Ph.D. from Oxford
University where he was a Rhodes
Scholar.