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program and selection agents, the Board of Foreign Scholarships,®* 

 and to its operating agency, the Committee on the International 

 Exchange of Persons (CIEP) of the Conference Board of Associated 

 Research Councils in the National Academy of Sciences."^ The CIEP 

 publishes lists of available openings and circulates them to schools 

 and universities. Applicants forward credentials to the CIEP which, 

 with the assistance of regional and subject-area review committees 

 (composed of distinguished Americans throughout the country), sub- 

 mits an approved list of candidates to the Board of Foreign Scholar- 

 ships (BFS). If the CIEP has not found suitable candidates for out- 

 standing vacancies, it recruits personnel. Upon completion of the 

 year's competition, the BFS and the Department of State submit 

 names of acceptable candidates to a binational commission in the host 

 country which makes the final choice of Fulbright scholars.^® 



ASSISTANCE PROVIDED BY PUBLIC ADVISORY BODIES 



Six public bodies, whose establishment was authorized by statute, 

 advise the Department of State in formulating policies for the mutual 

 educational and cultural exchange programs. Five of these provide 

 advice on the content of specific programs relating respectively to 

 the arts, athletics, UNESCO, book and library programs, and the 

 Center for Cultural and Technical Interchange Between East and 

 West. There is no public advisory body to assist explicitly in scientific 

 and technical exchanges. One of these bodies, the Advisory Commis- 

 sion on International Educational and Cultural Affairs, is charged 

 with advising the Department on all aspects of the exchange program.^'' 

 U.S. Advisory Commission on International Educational and Cul- 

 tural Afairs. — The U.S. Advisory Commission on International 

 Educational and Cultural Affau's was established under authority of 

 the Fulbright-Hays Act of 1962 during President Jolin F. Kennedy's 

 administration. It replaced the U.S. Advisory Commission on Educa- 

 tional Exchange, created in 1948 under the authority of the Smith- 

 Mundt Act. It is authorized to serve, in effect, as a board of trustees 

 for the educational exchange programs. 



The Commission consists of nine, nonpartisan, presidential appoint- 

 ees, primarily drawn from the academic world. They serve a three- 

 year term and require Senate approval. Secretariat for the Commis- 

 si The Board is composed of 12 members appointed by the President from academic and cultural institu- 

 tions and government agencies. It evaluates, nominates, and selects grantees; sets policies and procedures 

 for administration; and supervises the conduct of the program. "The intent of Congress," according to the 

 Board, "was to establish an impartial and nonofficial body which would assure the respect and cooperation 

 of the academic world for the educational exchange program . . . ." (Continuing the Commi'ment, op. cit., 

 p. 17.) 



" The CIEP was created in 1964. Its parent organization, the Conference Board of Associated Research 

 Councils, is the coordinating body for four major professional organizations of the American scholarly 

 world: the National Research Council, the American Council of Learned Societies, the Social Science 

 Research Council, and the American Council on Education. The CIEP administers its own exchange pro- 

 grams, and acting under contract between the National Academy of Sciences and the Department of State 

 assists in selection of American lecturers and research scholar candidates and in the day-to-day operation, 

 administration, and supervision of the exchange program for research scholars and lecturers from abroad. 

 Day-to-day activities are executed by the National Academy of Sciences' Office of Science Sc entific Per- 

 sonnel, an indepelndent office in the Academy- Research Council structure. Dr. Francis A. Young was stsiff 

 director of CIEP from its inception to June 1, 1969. He was succeeded by Dr. John L. Landgraf, current 

 director. 



56 International Educational Exchange; The Opening Decades, 194S to 1966, A Report of the Board of Foreign- 

 Scholarships to the Dtpirtmcnl of State, 1967, p. 15. 



5' U.S., Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, PoUcy Review and Coordina- 

 tion Staff, A Guide to U.S. Government Agencies Involved in International Educational and Cultural Activitiei, 

 September 1968, pp. 11-12. 



