Caption: Planning Report - Future of International Programs (1968)
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the cross-cultural psycholini<uistics project described al haj , w \H> come formal!) a joint activity of th< Universitii oi Nlim ind Tehi y\]r yuu 0f the I nit is to facilitate n ir< h on [ran b both Ameri< i and [ranians and to serve as a medium foi the inir,change of facult) >nd ideas, several University of Illinois faculty meml rs—-from tl Institute of ( mmunications Resear< h, the Department of Psychology,and the School of Music have completed projects with assistan from the 1 rut and one doctoral candidate is completing his dissertation on re. search me through it. The School o( Music (College of Fine and Applied Aits is currentlj tttempting to dc\ is<- a pemanent form of ((.operation with the Department o( Music of the University of Tehran. At present the staff of the University <f Illinois in [ran consists of on< > anthropologist (the Director) and one computer programmer. The Unit is supported by both universities, hut additional and relatively permanent financial support is being sought from other sources. It is hoped the Unit can operate for an indefinite period. 4. Center for International Education a n d Research in Accounting T h e Center, established in 1962, was designed to encourage the international development of accounting education, and to provide a base for the international exchange of ideas, students, faculty, and materials related to accounting education. The Center administratively is part of the Department of Accountancy (College of Commerce and Business Administration). In addition to inviting a large number of foreign professors and graduate students to visit the University, the Center, in 1965. undertook the training of thirty senior foreign accounting personnel of AID representing twenty-nine countries in an intensive eight-week program. T h e Center has also sponsored three seminars, in 1962, 1961. and 1967, on contemporary problems in international accounting. T h e Center also edits a semiannual publication and a monograph series. 5. Krannert Art Museum The exhibition and acquisition policies of the Krannert Art Museum are international in scope. An example is the $150,000 Fred Olsen collection of Pre-Columbian Permian art acquired with the support of the Center for Latin-American Studies, the University Foundation, and other interested groups in a community-wide fund raising campaign. This collection consists of six hundred artifacts and will undoubtedly he a major object of r irch in ) tl I to come. H. GOVERNMENT AND FOUNDATION FUNDED OVERSEAS RELATED CONTRACTS The i niveriity of Illinois b in international con trad programs overseas M
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