Caption: Planning Report - Future of International Programs (1968)
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4. Library acquisitions in relevant arras should I - CI'.M-K relat, ! i 0 | Sup] rti\e of, the intcm.ition.il |)i« rains, | 5. The development of languages as tools and as avenues lo understanding other cultures should closely parallel the needs creal ! by area studie by graduate career preparation, and by the University's ]< <;>M)I and overseas service interests, with study opportunities also mad- available on an intensive and summer-time basis, This parallelism, as an implementing device, is proposed as a tight-fitting, restrained, closely relevant relationship — quite unrelated to lai e development and emphasis in any other context. 6. A special committee, drawn from colleges with lai foreign Student enrollment and from appropriate administrative offices, should: a. Make a study of the educational significance of the presence of foreign students on the campus and the unreali/ for foreign students and for other students. 1 potentialities both b. Recommend desirable new means, both in the formal educational process and outside it, of making sure (1) that foreign students derive maximum benefit personally, professionally, and in terms of the needs of their own countries, and (2) that other students derive maximum benefit from the presence of the foreign students. 7. T h e coordination of offices, programs, centers, and activities in the international field should be further encouraged by housing their officers in close proximity, wherever colleges and central administration agree on the merits of such an arrangement, with the eventual possibility of the construction of an appropriate building identified with international programs. C. ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE 1. Each college should consider the explicit designation of a single officer (whether present or new, full-time or p a r t - t i m e ) , aided by an appropriate committee, for the planning and development of international programs COOi programs. 2. A .pus-wide officer (to be called the Director of International Prograi md Studies), to he assisted and advised by an appropriate commit! of dean* (and other appropriate committees), should b< named b) the CI ncellor to exerci responsibility for campus-wide coordination of tin planning and promotion of international pr< am and for assis- ice in seeking funds (from state, foundation, the federal government I private SOUK es to finance su< h pi- i ims and such other matters as ne Oil »j oi « ommittee d m appropi iate. AA
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