Caption: Planning Report - Future of International Programs (1968)
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Rno and ApplM Arts Instituted Labor I Industrial Relations am la 1 rope I urop< Kast A ta South and South \ Latin Amej i a < Law l.ibran Europe Subject to faculty and college interests Not yet stated Physical Education ]ane Addams Graduate School of Social Work Veterinarj Medicine Not yet stated None Latin America None India The Colleges of Engineering and Fine and Applied Arts spoke of the difficulties of interesting significant proportions of their faculty in developing countries. A possible exception for the College of Fine and Applied Arts was stated as the application of industrial design to the improvement of the marketability and construction of indigenous arts and crafts in less developed countries and the techniques of teaching art. The College > Engineering spoke of considering, in the future, a program to train f American professional engineers specifically for service in developing countries. In comparing area studies center activities with overseas involvement of other units of the campus, it was generally agreed that the social sciences and humanities have not developed strengths in relation to the University's commitment in South Asia. For example, the College of Agriculwhether AID funding ture is saying South Asia is most important mimics or n o t the College has a long-term interest in Indian agriculture while the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences emphasizes East Asia. E. OVERSEAS INSTITUTION-BUILDING CONTRACTS Five colleges (Commerce and Business Administration, Veterinary Medicine, Education, Engineering, and Fine and Applied Arts) mention the po ible establishment of new overseas institution-building projects. The College of Commerce and Business Administration expects to complete n otiations in June 1968, with the Agency for International Development and the Government of Tunisia to set up management education and executive development programs in cooperation with the Tuni.m National Institute for Productivity and Management of Enterprises. A University of Illinois faculty member would then depart for assignment in Tunisia and, in the fall semester of 1968, approximately twelve Tunisian students would begin graduate work in the United States under University of Illinois supervision. The College has also held preliminan dis< iiv.iou with the Free I diversity of the Congo, Kisangani (Stanleyville), 35
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