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PART

IV

COMMITTEE RIXIOMMENDATIONS

Tart IV o( this report represents the revised version of a subcommittee report, ( amp us Priorities in Program and Organization^ prepared under the chairmanship of Vice Pn ident Eldon L. Johnson. Other subcommittee members were Daniel Alport, George K. Brinegar. Herbert E. Carter, and Royden Dangerfield. The revisions also include points raised during the Committee deliberations at the meetings of March 4 and March 25. 1968.

A. OBJECTIVES 1. Undergraduates

a. Every undergraduate should have a curricular opportunity, strongly supported by appropriate advisement, to include an international crosscultural component in his education, with some coherence and continuity in such exposure. This opportunity should be assured by suitable action of colleges and departments, with techniques of encouragement from the central administration. b. A special effort should be made to broaden the international dimension of appropriate courses, both general and professional, wherever qualified staff is available or can be obtained. Colleges should seriously consider building an overseas study opportunity into the undergraduate curriculum for selective student use wherever the achievement of specific educational goals can be greatly

facilitated thereby (with campus-wide or University-wide coordination

of ' ulting overseas facilities).

2. Graduate Training, Research, and Service

a. As an overriding campus objective, the determination and impetus

in international education should be graphically embodied in (1) one

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