Caption: Planning Report - Future of International Programs (1968)
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I Colli e of Education. The spring semester 1967 enrollment in these courses was 129 students. There are seven ult\ memto i whose teaching is wholl) or l.n ei y focused on Africa. Inothei rty-five facult) members have research experience and knowledge of Africa and a continuing interest in African studies. G. FUNCTIONAL CENTERS l ,IUMU; uul m {Ur Five units on the Urbana-Champaign campus are wholly or partly confined with promoting international research, instruction, and service activities. 1. Center for International Comparative Studies The allocation of nearly half a million dollars, part of a larger grant by the Ford Foundation to the University of Illinois, made possible the establishment of the Center for International Comparative Studies (CICS) in June 1964. Established as a unit of the Graduate College, the Center was created "to provide a framework within the University for stimulating and supporting faculty research of a functional and problem-oriented 1 nature along cross-cultural, cross-national, and cross-regional lines." Between 1965 and February of 1968 the CICS made forty-six grants totaling $149,709. Of these, thirty-nine grants were for the support of individual research projects, two provided support for committee and seminar activities (African Studies Committee and the Interdisciplinary Seminar on Economic Development and Comparative Research), and five grants were for support of field training of graduate students in comparative research. 2. Center for Psycholinguistics An administrative unit within the Institute of Communications Research, the Center for Psycholinguistics has conducted a cross-cultural investigation of meaning and attitude systems for the past five years in more than twenty foreign locations. An eventual result of this project will be a semantic atlas of the world. T h e Center, funded by grants from the National Science Foundation and the National Institute of Mental Health, has facilitated the visits of foreign researchers associated with the project to the University of Illinois as faculty members or graduate stuin several departments. A conference of the entire staff of the project was held in Tehran during August of 1967. A renewal grant for an additional five-year period is now being processed. 3. Tehran Research Unit Hie Tehran Research Unit ( T R U ) , beginning as a research station for 1 Sec Faculty Letter, Nos. 79 and 87, June 6, 1964, and December 18, 1964. 13
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