The Spencer Foundation was established in 1962 by Lyle M. Spencer. This foundation makes grants to support research in areas of education that are widely construed. It is currently led by its president, Na'ilah Suad Nasir. Lyle M. Spencer was the founder of The Spencer Foundation. Spencer grew up in Appleton, Wisconsin, and attended college in the Pacific Northwest. He received both an undergraduate degree and a master's degree in sociology from the University of Washington in Seattle. Lyle Spencer's father served as president at said university from 1927 to 1933. Spencer continued graduate work in sociology at the University of Chicago. He also served as the co-founder of a different association, Science Research Associates, also known as SRA. Spencer also participated on the trustees' board of three universities, he was a director of what is now the United Negro College Fund, and actively sat on the committees for education at Harvard University and the University of Chicago. During his graduate studies in 1938 at the University of Chicago he first founded Science Research Associates (SRA), an educational publishing firm. From SRA he obtained the wealth that enabled the creation of the Spencer Foundation. More information...
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