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etroit businessman
William Davidson is
upping his support for a
New York-based program
to train Jewish educators.
The Jewish Theological Seminary
announced that Davidson, the chair-
man of Guardian Industries whose
interests include ownership of the
Detroit Pistons, would add $8 million
ro a $10 million gift he made in 1994.
The new gift, the Conservative
seminary said, will allow it to add fac-
ulty, staff and scholarship support so it
can double the 27 masters and doctor-
al students who enroll each year in its
William Davidson Graduate School of
Jewish Education.
The school already has the largest
fulltime enrollment of the four graduate -
schools and the half a dozen programs
at American universities that specifically
aim to prepare teachers and develop
curriculum for Jewish day and congre-
gational schools and related work in
adult education through Jewish corn-
munity centers and other institutions.
Jewish schools have long com-
plained that they cannot find enough
qualified teachers to meet the boom-
ing new demands for education in a
religious setting. Many Jews consider-
ing a teaching career choose public
school jobs, which generally offer
higher pay and often greater intellec-
tual stimulation than Jewish schools.
But Aryeh Davidson, the dean of
the Davidson school — and no kin to
the donor — said the students were a
self-selected" group of people whose
decision to enter Jewish education was
well-considered and "clearly not
because of the money.
He said the students had better scores
on standardized entrance tests than the
average for graduates in education.
An MA from the school, at 128th
and Broadway in New York City, would
cost about $60,000, including tuition
and living expenses over two years, the
dean said, but the Davidson gift allows
the school to subsidize two-thirds of the
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students. The new gift will permit mor—\
such scholarships as well as the hiring of
three additional professors, he said.
In 1994, William Davidson gave
the school 510 million outright and
pledged an additional 55 million on
his death. But recently, after JTS
Chancellor Ismar Schorsch told him
that the need for new teachers was
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growing, he agreed to make the $5
million bequest an outright gift and to
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The courtyard of the Davidson
Graduate School.
add an additional $3 million.
Dean Davidson said he believed the
philanthropist "saw the opportunity to
have national impact on the profession."
He said the gift has sparked other
donations, particularly in the areas of
technology and education. The school
is developing ways to prepare teachers
to work as consultants to local schools
that want to start using higher technol-
ogy opportunities to enrich their classes.
Dean Davidson said he became inter-
ested in videoconferencing for classes
after the donor showed him how
Guardian conducts many of its meetings
The school then developed additional C— \
proposals for "distance learning" through
televised sessions and the Internet and
attracted new gifts for those programs.
He has been talking with Detroit
Jewish education leaders about assist-
ing programs here with these tech-
nologies. I
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