Repository: UIHistories Project: Planning Report - Future of International Programs (1968) [PAGE 20]

EXTRACTED TEXT FROM PAGE:

proj is ,.. underwa) i id h ' «lj,i' r md equipn m at t|uired < PAI ii ii ih. r d hy^d , m « il .md iu| M< *ican whr.it v a i hhl , I lM t r s ( land mil an Hfc< tivc extcn n pi rn in ihoi farm how lo int : I pn lu< ti i

n

n

2. Jawahcirlcil Nehru A g r i c u l t u r a l University (1968 budget:

$404,674)

\ > primaril) I > < H \ ulturc n ponsibilit (with par ti< ipation r t | u . t ,||( \i \AW M« lit inc tl \ 11 > liiian I proj t

to A{

h in Jal

IpUT, India, i

rntiall) tin

-an

>al

i the UPA1

pn i |M the Stat- of Madhya Pradesh turned » ihe pi al facilil taff, bud I tea* bin] tnd n irch of < \\\ state >II» t t< [awaha I Nehru \ a ultural Universit) (JNA1 Appi dmately tl hundi I a. Icmic stal mem LIT) on this vast undertaking. I •. I ni\ lit) of 111 i11 facult) memh i h a \ r assisted in teach ini' research md ex i, and thirt) JNA1 itaff meml have come t the I ni\ sit) of Mlini f atl\ an< d training < Tht [NA1 has about 1,600 undergraduate and I »o graduate students rhe teachers are introducing I hniques which requirt student learn In thinking MM\ d ng rathei than hv rote memorization- I i - StatG uncut has transferred all rei irch staff and pi rams in .1 ulturc and related fields to the new university. Much pi s h been i in organizing i earch projei ts oriented to pi Mem solving.

3. N j a l a University College (1968 budget: $839,165)

Similar to the two Indian projects in objectives, the Universit) of Illinois has I) ;ting in the development of Njala I'niveraity Colli NIC), n ricultural college with a teacher training mponent, 1 ated in « Si( I V ( Africa. A tin, it has been principally the I >ll e V 1 v ire which ha been m< I heavily Involved, although the I Il < I lu tion and the Colle of Liberal Arts and Sciences (Ei lish

* id 1 ai ) have also supplied overseas stair and have trained

o* )

l,(

to train participants on campus,

v persons enr»a

Senior staff includes ap

proximate!;

«d in a i ordinated program oi teaching

»• h , and extension. The Univei t) ol Illinois provides a stall' of thirteen advi • i plu icveral ailtants each \< ar. ( Nl has 3,060 aea< with one hundred lilts classrooms, laboratories, °m ,H hou s with a student enrollment of more than three hundred. An Experimental Primai) School erves five hundred hildren. Improvements include more adequate medical facilities, ele» il "id watei upplies, .md an "International School," More than •0,000 v nh ol equipment, suppli< and U ks have been purclui I undt i provi .1 the i mi i.

14