National Institute of Education Appointment of Gladys Chang Hardy as Deputy Director.

The President today announced his intention to appoint Gladys Chang Hardy, of Arlington, Va., to be Deputy Director of the National Institute of Education (NIE) a new position. Hardy was Deputy Director of NIE under the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare from 1977 until the establishment of the Department of Education earlier this month.

She was born February 12, 1929, in Shanghai, China. She received a B.A. from Sarah Lawrence College in 1950.

Hardy was a reporter and writer with NBC from 1949 to 1951 and with CBS from 1951 to 1953. From 1953 to 1955, she was a Foreign Area Fellow of the Ford Foundation, and from 1955 to 1956, she was chief researcher at NBC. From 1956 to 1957, she was coproducer and manager of "Living Future" for Time, Inc.

From 1957 to 1960, Hardy was research assistant to the president of the Ford Foundation's Fund for the Advancement of Education. From 1959 to 1966, she was a program associate at the Ford Foundation.

From 1966 to 1967, Hardy was Director of the Office of Planning and Analysis at the National Endowment for the Humanities. From 1967 to 1972, she was special assistant to the president and director of the office of institutional research and planning at Boston University.

From 1972 to 1973, Hardy was undersecretary of educational affairs of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. From 1974 to 1977, she was secretary of the University of Massachusetts and secretary to the board of trustees.