Finding Aid for AID Projects Office File, 1951-80 | University of Illinois Archives

Title: AID Projects Office File, 1951-80

ID: 24/2/1

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

Extent: 7.6 cubic feet

Arrangement: by type of material and chronologically or alphabetically thereunder

Subjects: Agency for International Development, Agriculture, International, International Development, Music -- India - Agriculture and Natural Resources, Njala University College, Peace Corps, Philippines - Education, Uttar Pradesh Agricultural University

Formats/Genres: Papers

Languages: English

Files of the Agency for International Development Projects Office, including correspondence, contracts, budgets, reports, minutes, draft manuscripts and itineraries relating to campus coordinators and international programs conferences, negotiating and executing AID contracts, contract problems and project difficulties (especially in India), training of Peace Corps workers for India, preparation of the manuscripts "Resource Book for Agricultural Universities in Developing Countries" and "The Legal Base for Universities in Developing Countries" by Harold W. Hannah and a proposed technical training contract with the Philippines.

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
Agriculture, International
International Development
Music -- India - Agriculture and Natural Resources
Njala University College
Peace Corps
Philippines - Education
Uttar Pradesh Agricultural University

Repository: University of Illinois Archives

Accruals: 4/21/1969; 7/29/76; 6/29/79; 8/8/80

Other Note: 6 Pages

URL: https://files.archon.library.illinois.edu/uasfa/2402001.pdf

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