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Caption: Planning Report - Future of International Programs (1968)
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Oversc Traineeshipa are provided through the University's cooperation with the [international Association for the Exchan • of Students for technical Experience (IAESTE), a private, nonprofit organization. This roup arranges for students of engineering and the sciences to obtain onthe-job training in a foreign country for eight to twelve weeks dining the summer vacation. Long-term training of three to twelve months can also be arranged. Over the past four years twenty-four students (fifteen in the summer of 1967) from the College of Engineering have obtained practical experience in foreign firms in Japan, the Sudan, South Africa, and countries of Europe, South America, and the Middle East. E. RESEARCH Most colleges and other units reported a number of individual faculty research projects with an international dimension. Area studies centers have encouraged faculty research in their respective geographic areas and the Center for International Comparative Studies (CICS) and the Midwest Universities Consortium for International Activities ( M U C I A ) have funded individual faculty requests for grants for international research. In addition, some colleges have made a concerted effort to support international research. For example, the College of Agriculture reported that during 1967 almost $500,000 was expended for research projects in foreign agriculture — about half through A I D contracts in India and Sierra Leone and the remainder by the University of Illinois Agricultural Experiment Station. F. AREA STUDIES CENTERS The three area studies centers (Latin-American, Asian, Russian"!, administered within the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, represent an effort to organize courses, faculty, and library resources, across departmental lines, into a coordinated internationally-oriented academic program. While a Latin-American Studies instructional program began in 1942 and offered an undergraduate major and minor beginning in 1948. the Center for Latin-American Studies and the Center for Russian Language and Area Studies date from 1959, and the Center for Asian Studies from 1964. Despite the earlier establishment of the Center for LatinAmerican Studies, no faculty member (outside the Department of Anthropology) with a clear research and teaching commitment to Latin America was hired in the social sciences or fine and performing arts in the decade prior to 1964. However, about this time, the College of Liberal Arts and Scieno b fan to make a clear commitment to the development of area studi< and in 1964-1965 the Coll je allocated funds to the Centers for the appointment of faculty, and the Library allocated new funds for acquisitions.
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