International Studies at Cornell University

Advances are gradually being made against this disease, but it remain, tiie most formidable crippler of livestock in South America ANNUAL REPORT Drs. Gillespie and Poppensiek visited the University of Buenos Aires ' M*y 1966 and also held preliminary discussions with leaders at San Marcos University in Lima, Peru. Five of the staff members of t iat pi ogressive institution hold advanced degrees from Cornell and tiey orm the nucleus of a group which is most enthusiastic about a cooperative exchange program with Cornell in the near future. International Studies at Cornell University 1966-1967 TABLE OF CONTENTS I. The Cornell University Center for International Studies 1 II. Area and Interdisciplinary Programs 9 China Program and the East Asia Center 9 Committee on African Studies 13 Committee on Soviet Studies 15 Comparative Studies of Cultural Change 18 International Agricultural Development Program 20 International Legal Studies 25 International Population Program 28 Latin American Program 32 London-Cornell Project 36 Modernization Workshop 40 Program on Structural Change and Modernization 41 Project on the International Relations of East Asia 44 South Asia Program 46 Southeast Asia Program 48 III. Departmental Activities 55 College of Architecture, Art, and Planning 55 Graduate School of Business and Public Administration 58 College of Engineering 62 New York State College of Home Economics 65 School of Hotel Administration 68 New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations 70 Department of Medicine 73 Division of Modern Languages 77 Graduate School of Nutrition 80 New York State Veterinary College 83 IV. Institutional Facilities 85 Center for Housing and Environmental Studies 85 Cornell University Libraries 87 V. Appendices 93 Directory of University Personnel With International Academic Interests 93 Publications in International Studies 106 THE CORNELL UNIVERSITY CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL STUDIES Staff Director, Mario Einaudi Associate Director, Douglas E. Ashford Executive Director, Richard V. Moore Executive Committee—1966-67 Chairman, Franklin A. Long, Vice President for Research and Ad vanced Study Appointed Members of the Faculty: Robert A. Anthony, Associate Professor of Law and Director of Inter national Legal Studies Marlin G. Cline, Professor of Soil Science and Plead of the Depart ment of Agronomy Walter LaFeber, Associate Professor of the Flistory of American Foreign Relations Henry A. Landsberger, Professor of Industrial and Labor Relations Robert S. Morison, Director of the Division of Biological Sciences Lauriston Sharp, Professor of Anthropology and Asian Studies and Director ol the Cornell Thailand Project Ex officio Members Stuart M. Brown, Jr., Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences William D. Carmichael, Dean of the School of Business and Public Administration W. Donald Cooke, Dean of the Graduate School Thomas W. Mackesey, Vice Provost David G. Moore, Dean of the School of Industrial and Labor Rela tions Steven Muller, Vice President for Public Affairs Royse P. Murphy, Dean of the University Faculty Charles E. Palm, Dean of the College of Agriculture Thomas R. Rogers, Coordinator of Research Robert L. Sproull, Vice President for Academic Affairs Kenneth L. Turk, Director of the International Agricultural Develop I. The Cornell University ment Program Director of the Center for International Studies Center for International Associate Director of the Center for International Studies Executive Director of the Center for International Studies Studies (rapporteur) The Center for International Studies was established at Cornell Uni versity in July 1961. Its primary functions are to coordinate and support the international activities of Cornell University faculty and students; to initiate and encourage significant research; to assist financially the in ternational studies within all parts of the University community; and to advise and assist the President and the University administration con cerning Cornell commitments abroad. International studies at Cornell take place within a remarkable variety of committee-run and departmental area and functional pro grams. The largest of these are the China Program, the International Agricultural Development Program, the Latin American Program, and the Southeast Asia Program. In addition, there are a number of smaller programs which have been active over the years, including the Com mittee on African Studies, Comparative Studies of Cultural Change, In ternational Legal Studies, the International Population Program, the London-Cornell Project, the Modern Indonesia Project, the South Asia Program, and the Committee on Soviet Studies. Several other new programs have been made possible by a recent Ford Foundation grant, including the European Studies Program, the Project on the Interna tional Relations of East Asia, and the Program on Structural Change and Modernization of Developing Nations. The increasing degree of cooperation and integration among these programs and, in particular, with the Center for International Studies is gratifying and will pay in creasingly important dividends in coming years. The Center for International Studies has no permanent faculty or,as yet, curriculum of its own. Its research and other programs depend upon effective interaction with the faculty of the University's existing schools, colleges, and departments. The offices of the Center are in Rand Hall. While the administrative salaries and expenses of the Center are drawn directly from the University budget, much of Cornell’s work in international studies has been supported by two major grants from the Ford Foundation, one awarded in 1962 and one in the spring of 1967. The offered throughout the University, copies of which are available upon 1962 grant, in addition to its financial support of the Center itself, pro request. vided long-term support to the University’s China Program, Interna The Executive Committee of the Center for International Studies con tional Agricultural Development Program, and Southeast Asia Pro tinued to meet under the chairmanship of the University Provost, Dale gram. A supplementary grant from the Ford Foundation in 1964 to the R. Corson, until February, when it was announced that Franklin A. University’s Latin American Program provided additional support. In Long, Vice President for Research and Advanced Studies, would replace 1965 the Ford Foundation provided still another grant to encourage him as chairman. Much of the year’s business centered around discus Latin American studies. This two-year grant was awarded to expand the sions on the pending Ford Foundation grant, the developments under the work of the International Agricultural Development Program of the International Education Act of 1966, and the structure and function of New York State College of Agriculture at Cornell in the applied agricul the Center committees. Another important agenda item was the execu tural sciences, with special emphasis on Latin America. In the spring of tive committee's attempt to identify formally the “constituency” of the 1967, the Ford Foundation awarded a $6.5 million grant to the Univer Center, i.e., faculty members with a fundamental, long-term commit sity which will substantially assist in supporting for another five years ment to international studies, broadly defined. the work of the Center and the numerous international studies programs Having identified such a body, the idea of establishing a CIS “mem and projects now active on the Ithaca campus and overseas. Specifically bership” with an initial list of about one hundred names was presented to $2.5 million of the grant will be used for the endowment of five faculty the executive committee and duly approved for implementation by the positions; $240,000 will go towards construction of Center offices in the Center in the fall of 1967. The identification of this initial group will proposed social sciences building; the International Agricultural Devel serve several purposes. A membership will, most importantly, enable a opment Program will receive $1.2 million, and the China Program will flow of information from the Center to its “constituency” and permit a receive $500,000 for sociopolitical, economic, and linguistic research on feedback of ideas and information to the Center. The various types of in China. The remainder of the grant, a little more than $2 million, will be formation that will emanate from the Center will include notices of in used to support the work of the various international programs including ternational visitors, grants made in international studies, conferences, the Latin American Program, the new Structural Change and Modern seminars, and research projects of special interest; publication an ization Program, and the Center for International Studies itself. nouncements; and news of the activities of the various area and func Cornell’s extensive commitments to Asian and Latin American studies tional programs. In addition, it may be possible to convene the member are further supported by the National Defense Education Act. Under the ship once or twice each year for special meetings and to invite them to NDEA, lour language and area training centers were established at open sessions of the Executive Committee of the Center. the University concentrating on East Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia, On the matter of Center committees, the executive committee dis and Latin America. cussed revising its own membership representation in hopes of achieving Most of

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