Holdings Chancellor's Office International Programs and ... Soviet Interview Project Files Finding Aid Holdings Chancellor's Office International Programs and ... Soviet Interview Project Files Finding Aid Title: Soviet Interview Project Files, 1979-88
ID: 24/2/50
Primary Creator: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Office of International Programs and Studies
Extent: 21.3 cubic feet
Arrangement: alphabetical by subject and chronological thereunder
Subjects: Emigration, Interuniversity Consortium for Political and Social Research, Jewish Refugees, National Council for Soviet and East European Research, National Opinion Research Center, Research Methodology, Russian Emigres, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics - Art and Literature, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics - Business and Industry, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics - Politics and Government, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics - Religion and Sociology, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics - Science and Technology
Formats/Genres: Papers
Languages: English
Soviet Interview Project Files relating to the systematic interviewing of a 2750 person sample of emigres from the USSR (1979-81) including contracts with the National Council for Soviet & East European Research & modifications (1979-88); correspondence with research team members, administrators and staff (1980-88); design, coding & validation of questionnaires G-1, G-2 & military experience questions (1982-86); coding manual; recruitment, language skills, & training of interviewers by the National Opinion Research Center; meetings with subcontractors, consultants & interested parties; Airlie conferences (1985-86); budgets (1980-84); progress reports, specialized projects concerning ethnic factors, emigration policy, Jewish studies, media & arts, food, women, computers, health and mortality, construction industry, justice system, librarians & science & technology; data analysis & sampling at the Interuniversity Consortium for Political & Social Research (1983-88); research team & staff meetings (1979-85); conference papers & publications; publicity (1982-87) microfilming, security & archival procedures; specialized projects; & emigre interview projects at Harvard (1953) & in Germany (1983-87).
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.
Emigration
Interuniversity Consortium for Political and Social Research
Jewish Refugees
National Council for Soviet and East European Research
National Opinion Research Center
Research Methodology
Russian Emigres
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics - Art and Literature
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics - Business and Industry
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics - Politics and Government
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics - Religion and Sociology
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics - Science and Technology
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