Finding Aid for Overseas Project Director's Subject File, 1959-80 | University of Illinois Archives

Title: Overseas Project Director's Subject File, 1959-80

ID: 24/2/9

Primary Creator: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Office of International Programs and Studies

Extent: 7.0 cubic feet

Arrangement: by major area (administrative and continent) and alphabetical by subject or country thereunder.

Subjects: Agency for International Development, Agricultural Programs, International, Council of US Univs for Rural Development in India (CUSURDI), Ford Foundation, International Programs, Midwest Universities Consortium International Activities Mucia, Music -- India - Agriculture and Natural Resources, Rural Development, Thailand - Education

Formats/Genres: Papers

Languages: English

Overseas Project Director's subject files from the offices of the director and assistant director of the overseas project containing correspondence, budget reports, project reports, personnel agreements, staff contracts, grant applications and notifications of grant approvals. CUSURDI (Council of U.S. Universities for Rural Development in India) and MUCIA, (Midwest Universities Consortium Activities) are the two agencies responsible for the projects. Agricultural programs, long range agricultural planning, a cooperative Ph.D. program between the U. S. and participating countries, exchange of foreign and U.S. faculty, study of tropical veterinary medicine, U.S. graduate student exchange in India and African and South American counties. Faculty salary contracts, itineraries, travel vouchers, appointment notices, moving and storage bills, memorandum, trip reports and final reports are listed. Mr. W. D. Buddemeier was the project director, Mr. Thomas A. McGowen was the assistant director. The Ford and Rockefeller Foundations participated in the program.

The Office of International Programs and Studies (OIPS) was established by the Board of Trustees on May 24, 1962; its Director was given general responsibilities to supervise and coordinate programs, encourage instruction and research, and disseminate information.¹ The office works with other administrative units, and through its own specialized units. As of 1984, OIPS administered seven units. The Center for International Comparative Studies was founded in 1964 to support faculty research "along cross-cultural... lines."² The Midwest Universities Consortium for International Activities, Inc. (MUCIA), an organization to help midwestern universities coordinate and fund overseas research, was established in 1964, and the Urbana office opened the same year.³ The OIPS Committee on Publications has sponsored the publication by the University of Illinois Press of monographs in fields of international studies since 1972.⁴ The Office of International Faculty and Staff Affairs has supervised the "sponsoring and employing of foreign visitors and staff" since November, 1980.⁵ The Office of Women in International Development was formed in 1980 to promote research and to disseminate information about that area of study.⁶ The Study Abroad Office provides information and counseling for students who wish to study abroad.⁷ It was established in 1969.⁸ The Foreign Visitors Office dates from 1963,⁹ and the Overseas Projects Office from 1969.¹⁰ The two offices were merged in 1975.¹¹ The Illinois Tehran Research Unit was organized in 1969 to coordinate research and exchange between the University of Illinois and the University of Tehran, Iran.¹² The Unit was abandoned after 1979.¹³

1. Board of Trustees Transactions, 51st Report, May 24, 1962, p. 1442-3; The Future--International Programs at the University of Illinois: A Ten-Year Glimpse. Report and recommendations of the Chancellor's Ad Hoc Committee on International Programs. May 1, 1968, p. 4. (RS: 24/2/802)

2. Ibid., p. 13.

3. International Programs and Studies, 1969-1970. University of Illinois, p. 78.

4. International Programs and Studies, 1981-84. University of Illinois, p. 106.

5. Ibid., p. 90.

6. Ibid., p. 113.

7. International Programs and Studies, 1974-1976. University of Illinois, p. 113.

8. Staff Directory, 1969/1970: University of Illinois/Urbana-Champaign Campus, p. 42.

9. Staff Directory, 1963/1964: University of Illinois/Departments in Urbana-Champaign, p. xxxv.

10. Staff Directory 1969/1970, p. 42.

11. Student-Staff Directory, 1975-76: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, p. 23.

12. International Programs and Studies, 1977-80. University of Illinois, p. 100.

13. It is absent from International Programs and Studies, 1981-84, despite large writeups in the previous three publications.

Agency for International Development
Agricultural Programs, International
Council of US Univs for Rural Development in India (CUSURDI)
Ford Foundation
International Programs
Midwest Universities Consortium International Activities Mucia
Music -- India - Agriculture and Natural Resources
Rural Development
Thailand - Education

Repository: University of Illinois Archives

Accruals: 6/29/1979

Other Note: 6 Pages

URL: https://files.archon.library.illinois.edu/uasfa/2402009.pdf

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