Repository: UIHistories Project: Planning Report - Future of International Programs (1968) [PAGE 13]

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Foreign Student Affairs (1967 budget: $54,070) which provides ;uademi< and administrative services to foreign students. \Lmv departments and colleges encourage and make financial provision for visiting faculty from abroad. Virtually every department and

unit oi the University has regular stall' who periodically attend international conferences, conduct research, consult, or teach abroad for some per iod of time. Exchanges of students and faculty provide one of the most effective means oi developing sound, long-term avenues for interchange and mutual understanding between different cultural groups and provide the opportunity for cooperative work on mutual problems. However, the "exchanges" of students and faculty from the Urbana campus with overseas areas arc not usually on a regular, formal, one-for-one basis, but result from individual interest and availability. Exceptions might be the University's participation in the Latin-American Scholarships Program of American Universities ( L A S P A U ) , which has brought a dozen select, advanced undergraduate students to the University of Illinois from Latin America. T h e College of Engineering concluded an agreement in 1968 with the Higher Technical School of Munich for a three-year experiment to exchange an undergraduate student annually beginning in 1968-1969. In addition, the University of Illinois is a chartered member of the Universities Council on Water Resources ( U C O W R ) , which cooperates with the United States National Committee for the International Hydrological Decade ( I H D ) in coordinating graduate fellowships and assistantships in the United States for foreign students interested in hydrology and related fields. This U C O W R / I H D Fellowship and Assistantship Program was started at the University in the summer of 1967 and already the Department of Civil Engineering has received a large number of applications. In 1965 the University of Illinois Symphony Orchestra toured Central and South America under State Department auspices. Other University of Illinois performing groups traveling abroad have included the Varsity Men's Glee Club which visited Europe in 1958, 1961, and 1965: the Concert Choir in 1963 and 1967, when it performed at the European Festival in Xamur, Belgium; and the Contemporary Chamber Players in 1966, when they visited Poland and other European countries.

D. PROGRAMS OF WORK-STUDY ABROAD

Three colleges, Liberal Arts and Sciences, Fine and Applied Arts, and Engineering, provide regular, organized programs for students to work a n d / o r study abroad.

1. Liberal Arts a n d Sciences

From 1962 to 1966 the Dcpaitmrnt of Anthiopolo'-x of the College of

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