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Better Information About Openings. — Binational commissions should 

 «,lso provide U.S. candidates with better information about the 

 •opemngs : 



. . . The Committee receives some requests for lecturers which do little more 

 than identify the subject and the host institution. [Commissions should] give a 

 clear picture of the status of the subject in the host university, the significance 

 of the assignment, the reasons for requesting a foreign lecturer, or the opportunities 

 for research or other forms of professional growth."" 



CIEP recommended to the BFS that the binational commissions 

 should require that: 



Requests for lecturers . . . originate within the faculty of the host institutions 

 and be described by the faculty member concerned . . . ; 



Assignment descriptions ... be written or reviewed b}'^ subject specialists and 

 should emphasize the professional aspects which are meaningful and challenging 

 to scholars; 



Assignments . . . encompass a wide diversity of grantee roles in addition to 

 classroom teaching such as participation in faculty seminars, consulting on 

 problems of educational development, advising on long-range program develop- 

 ment, and preparing teaching materials; 



Lectureship . . . include a research component, . . . opportunity to give a 

 research seminar, or extension of the award period to provide additional research 

 opportunities; and 



Requests ... be submitted in ample time to permit extensive publicity and 

 recruitment . . . ."' 



Tenure. — Frequently an American professor who goes abroad for 

 foreign service jeopardizes his career because his university dis- 

 criminates against overseas ser\'ice in evaluating promotion applica- 

 tions."^ To meet this problem, the CIEP has recommended that: 



Experiments ... be tried . . . using Fulbright awards to support inter- 

 institutional exchange programs and inviting colleges and universities to accept 

 responsibility for recruiting for certain continuing lectureships in the less de- 

 veloped countries. [More] use [should be made] of short term awards. . . . The 

 awards offered in the less developed countries must be distributed more evenly 

 over the various principal disciplines so as tb bring the overseas demand for 

 American professors into closer relation to the domestic supply."^ 



Science and Technology Exchange Apparatus. — The CIEP has made 

 no special recommendations for improving arrangements for exchanges 

 •of scientific and technical personnel. Special arrangements were 

 made to secure scientific applicants for a cooperative science education 

 project in the United Arab Republic in 1960. The mechanism estab- 

 lished for this program might serve as a guide to improve recruitment 

 in the LDC's. In brief, this program incorporated the following 

 elements: (paraphrase) 



— provision for a maintenance allowance and a dollar supple- 

 ment to attract scientists and a supplement to attract scientists 

 in the higher income brackets ; 



— travel for at least one dependent ; 



— pro\asion for compilation of detailed backgi'ound informa- 

 tion on the state of science in the UAR, from a specially under- 

 taken survey; 



"0 "Annual Report, CIEP to BFS, 1967-1968", op. cit., p. 7. 



1" "Annual Report, CIEP to BFS, 1963-1967", op. cit., pp. 7-8 and p. 38. 



»' See C. Easton Rothwell, "Education, Foreign Policy, and International Relations," In American 

 Assembly, Cultural A^airs and Foreign Relations (Washington, D.C.: Columbia BooliS, Publisliers, 1968) 

 p. 124, and Coombs, The Past and Future in Perspective, op. cit., pp. 160-161. 



»" "Annual Report, CIEP to BFS, 1966-1967," op. cit., pp. 27, 38-39. 



