Repository: UIHistories Project: Planning Report - Future of International Programs (1968) [PAGE 39]

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graduate students at the mastei s level foi bu in< imim i,.,t fhe Center for International Education and Research in A mtii h considerini a project to provide consultation and dm l \A] j( , {hc reorganization of the business school at the 1 nivei ity of Si 1 P Brazil, The Colle : has also encouraged fa< ultj m mbei who are inir-i < ested to participate in the Midwest Consortium foi International Activities, [nc.-National Institute for Development Administration proj( t ii rhailand. The College of Veterinary Medicine plans an expansion of its United States Agency (ov International Development contr, t with \'\ \ U and [NAU in India to continue the work of providing technical advisers in vet urinary medicine. In addition it is proposed 1 tablish a veterinary ublic health and medicine program in Latin America (Peru and Venezuela) which, like the India projects, would involve graduate training. The College of Education is presently discussing with the Government f Bolivia, All), and the Ford Foundation the possibilities of establishing an Institute for the Study of Education in Bolivia. The proposed Institute would engage in instruction, research, and dissemination of information activities as a practical experiment in institution building. The College of Engineering has proposed project STRIDE (Social and Technological Realization by International Development of Education in collaboration with the University of the Ancles. University of Illinois faculty and graduate students would combine with counterparts from the host institution to utilize the study and solution of current engineering problems of the host country as a pedagogical tool. In this manner it is planned to build a graduate engineering educational program in the host institution and a competence among the participating American students to approach problems in a new and initially unfamiliar environment. The solution of these engineering problems is not the end objective. The purpose is the development of professionals and professionally oriented graduate engineering programs at the master's level. The Bureau of Community Planning of the ( ollege of Fine and Applied Arts is exploring the possibility of a joint training/research project

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with the National University of the Northeast, Resistencia, Ai entin T h i s project would i n v o k e the cooperation of the D e p a r t m e n t s of Ge< phy [Colli e of Liberal Arts and Sciences) a n d U r b a n Planning (Colli of Fine and Applied A r t s ) .

F. OTHER OVERSEAS CONTRACTS

Tl Colh ol Education plans to send 1,.in facult) members to Njala University ( >lleg< during the summei of 1968 to 1 ondu< 1 an experimental ,j r ining program for l.>() Peace Corps volunteers who expect b heeonm prin /y and - ondary 1 hool t a hers in Sierra I eone foi two yeai < < Hie

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