Milford chronicle., 1961-01-13

catiOnal competence at all levers
is indispensable and overdue"
The Committee recommends the
following steps:
/. In the Department of State,
enhancement of the prestige and
functions of the Special Assistant
to the Secretary for the Coordin-
alton of International Educational
and Cultural Relations.
2. Upgrading the prestige, auth
ority and competence of the Office
of Education in the field of sup
port to American higher educa-
ton in world affairs.
g. Designation by the President
of the field of higher education
and world affairs as an area of
special concern for one of his
Assistants and as an area requir-
ing special arrangement for coor-
dination among the Cabinet Off
GERS concerned-such as the Sec
retary of State and the Secretary of
Health, Education and Welfare
the Director of the Bureau of the
Budget, and the head of the Inter-
national Cooperation Administered
ion or any successor agency.
Spelling out what American un-
iyersities and colleges can do to
strengthen their work in world
affairs, the report says, in part.
1. All American institutions of
higher learning should make stu
dies of world affairs an impor-
tant and permanent dimension of
their undergraduate programs.
2. Many universities (more than
at presently should become diver
sified centers of strength to train
Americans for careers in world
affairs and to help train the lead
ers and strengthen the education
al institutions of other countries.
8. Most universities and COL
leges have students and scholars
from other countries. These in
stitutions need to develop special
educational programs fitting the
needs of their foreign guests.
In analyzing the role of govern
ment, the Committee on the Uni
versity and World Affairs includ-
es the following points:
l.. The Congress and the Execu-
tive should support, onf a contin-
uing and flexible basis, university
and college programs to improve
the education of Americans in
world affairs.
2. The Congress and Executive
should give much more emphas-
is to education in programs of
foreign assistance. These
services. take up only a tiny frac-
tion of the foreign aid budget.
8. The provisions of Title VI of
the National Defense Education
Act for the support of language
and area studies in American uni
versities are now the principal
source of federal funds to build
centers of strength for these act
ivities in the universities. The
scope of the Act should be great
ly expanded to provide further
support for the world affairs act
ivities of universities, including
institutional grants to develop
needed resources.
AS to the role of the individual
states in this country, the report
says. Estate support for the wor-
Id affairs activities of state uni
versities and colleges is approp-
riate and necessary" Due atten-
ton to world affairs is necessary
in any university worthy of the
name, and state universities need
the understanding, support, and
funds from state legislatures to
carry out their educational func-
tiOns.
anthropic foundations might play,
the Committee suggests,
University activities in world
affairs offer increasing and chal-
lenging new opportunities for fou
ndation support. Foundations,
should exercise their freedom to
make exploratory, experiment.
al grants and should not hesitate
to invest large resources in in
dividuaI institutions over re atively,
long time-periods. Smaller foun-
dations should be increasingly in
volved in world affairs programs.
AS for private business con-
Germs, the report says,
Like American education, AM
erican private business enterprise,
has a great and growing stake in
international matters In 'educat-
ing Americans to understand wor-