University of Pennsylvania Wharton School of Finance and Commerce.

This article focuses on Wharton School of Finance and Commerce of University of Pennsylvania. The major research project in the Department of Industry is the "Racial Policies of American Industry" study, a three-year program sponsored by the Ford Foundation. It is directed by Herbert R. Northrup, chairman of the Department, and will continue through 1969. The first major study, "The Negro in the Automobile Industry" by Northrup, has been published by the Industrial Research Unit and is available from the University of Pennsylvania Press. Northrup is also working on studies in the aerospace, pulp and paper, and air transport industries, and is directing student studies in the petroleum refining, trucking, coal mining, and tobacco industries. In addition, he is supervising an in-depth investigation of coalition bargaining. Armand J. Thiebolt, Jr., instructor in industry, is making an investigation of the Negro and other minority groups in the banking industry. Charles R. Perry, assistant professor of industry, is engaged in a study of racial employment policies and practices in department stores in seventeen major urban areas, also a part of the Ford-sponsored research program.