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TO: Vice President W. Donald Cooke DATE: August 19, 1980
FROM: Sean Killeen, ^Exec..u ~Yt ,i ; v■  ei \  /D\i i rLiet ci .t1 o<-iy 
SUBJECT: CIS Annual Report, 1979-80
Attached is our annual report for 1979-80.
Highlights of the report include:
a) CIS instrumental in Cornell re-entering China.
b) New international studies programs established: International
Political Economy and International Education in Human Ecology,
c) Two Cornell students again nationally win Dorothy Danforth 
Compton minority Fellowships in International Affairs.
d) International studies programs provide financial support to 
more than 5% of graduate enrollment.
e) CIS addresses consciousness-raising and resource development 
for international studies.
cc M. Esman
Come!! Universu^ " 1 1 ^ Hall, Tower Road, Ithaca, New York 14853 Telephone: 607/256-617O
In response to Provost Kennedy’s request for the 1979-80 annual report of 
the Center for International Studies, I am pleased to submit the following.
The research and teaching activities of the Center for International Studies 
and its associated programs provided the campus with another year of productivity 
and enrichment. The development of new resources and challenging, intellectual 
opportunity for international studies was the focus of concerned activity by the 
Center. Major emphasis was given to expanding and improving programmatic resources 
in order to better meet the challenges of the new decade and to ensure the pro­
vision of the high caliber program for which Cornell is known.
The Center, as a university-wide structure, continued to provide an inter­
disciplinary facility in which faculty members and graduate students from the 
endowed and statutory colleges and schools are able to interact in exploring 
issues of international and comparative concern and in facilitating graduate and 
undergraduate teaching. Through the activities of the Center’s associated programs, 
a significant amount of productive, quality research and teaching occurred. All 
the international programs sponsored or co-sponsored seminar series which featured 
numerous visits to campus by leading specialists and well-known figures in inter­
national affairs. A number of conferences, international in theme and participation, 
were organized and numerous research publications and teaching texts were produced 
under the auspices of international studies programs. Opportunities to further 
enrich the cultural diversity and curricular breadth of a student’s experience at 
Cornell were encouraged by the Center through continuing support of these established 
activities and through the development of new opportunities as relevancies change 
and new avenues open.
The largest single achievement of the Center for International Studies this 
year on behalf of Cornell was the extraordinary progress made in establishing
reciprocal exchange relations with universities and research institutions in the 
Peoples1 Republic of China. Late last year, the Center's Rural Development 
Committee joined with the Program in International Agriculture and the Department 
of Agricultural Economics in sponsoring a major conference on "Agricultural and 
Rural Development in the Peoples' Republic of China." This conference spurred 
greater interest in China on the campus and a desire to re-establish educational 
relationships. Negotiations with Chinese officials continued through the fall in 
Ithaca, Washington, and Beijing. In November the Dean of the School of Hotel 
Administration visited China and concluded an agreement to provide a summer train­
ing program for Chinese hotel personnel. In March a six person delegation led by 
the Dean of the College of Agriculture visited China and re-established a scholarly 
exchange program with the Nanjing Agricultural College. Nearly fifty years ago 
Cornell had had an extensive collaborative relationship with Nanjing.
Cornell was visited by several delegations from Chinese institutions and 
nearly 20 Chinese scholars were in residence on the campus during the academic 
year. The culmination of CIS’s China initiative was the visit of a Cornell dele­
gation to China in July as the guests of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. The 
Cornell delegation of ten included the President, and Provost, and the Deans of 
Engineering, Arts and Sciences, and the Graduate School. The Director of CIS as 
well as faculty from Engineering, Arts and Sciences, and Human Ecology were also 
members of the delegation. During a three-week visit, the delegation met with 
Cornell alumni and with representatives of a dozen prestigeous PRC institutions 
and cemented exchange networks for scholars and students from China and Cornell.
Changes are occurring on campus which serve to accomodate this new relationship 
with China. A new course on Chinese agriculture in the Agricultural Economics 
Department was offered in the fall. Enrollments in the China-Japan Program sponsored 
courses were at an all-time high, with over seventy graduate students and twenty- 
seven undergraduates having a concentration in Chinese or Japanese Studies. The
China-Japan Program faculty expanded their membership to include faculty from 
the College of Agriculture and two new assistant professors in Chinese linguistics 
and Chinese Anthropology. Through an Office of Education Title IIC Asian library 
grant totaling $69,000, the Cornell University Library was able to acquire important 
Chinese materials including Tun-huang manuscripts in microfilm, Republic of China 
documents and British Foreign Office documents on China. A trip to the People’s 
Republic of China by two librarians in the fall acquired 300 volumes of books 
and periodicals from China, as well as an exchange agreement with Shanghai Normal 
University library, which allows Cornell to order books directly from Shanghai.
The Center for International Studies takes great pride in the substantial role it 
has played in facilitating the highly successful Cornell-China dialogue.
The Center for International Studies demonstrated its potential for innovation 
and capacity for growth this year with the nurture given to an evolving program 
and the founding of an entirely new program. Human Ecology’s International Education 
Program, in its first year, began negotiations for the establishment of reciprocal 
student exchange relations with the University of Haifa, Tel Aviv University, and 
the Universities of Puerto Rico and the West Indies. A new undergraduate course 
was established by the College with support by the International Education Program 
and the Career Center which is geared to preparing students for intercultural and 
international study exchanges. This year also saw the establishment of a new 
program at CIS. The International Political Economy Program will bring together 
faculty from across the campus to study the policies and processes underpinning 
international financial phenomena and monetary systems. After a year of negotiation 
the highly reputed journal, International Organization, will move to Cornell in the 
coming year. The journal will have its editorial offices with the Center for 
International Studies and provide more accessible publishing opportunity particularly 
for younger scholars. An agreement developed by the Latin American Program between 
the Program Interamericano de Linguistica y Ensenanza de Idiomas (PILEI) and the
Cornell Summer Session was reached to hold the Sixth Inter-American Linguistic 
Institute at Cornell next summer. The PILEI-Cornell Institute will give special 
attention to problems of bilingual, bicultural education.
Cornell’s international capabilities in the humanities, social sciences, 
agricultural sciences and professional fields which have been institutionalized 
over the past three decades continue to be highly regarded by both scholars and 
practitioners. One measure of this is the number and quality of visitors to the 
campus. Scholars and public figures of international repute and representatives 
of governmental agencies and private organizations with an international orientation 
acknowledged Cornell's excellence in international and comparative studies by 
frequent visits during the year. Another measure of Cornell's institutionalized 
capacity in international studies is the degree to which our activities are emulated 
and its experience drawn upon. One further measure of this is the number and 
variety of external grants provided by foundations and government agencies to 
Cornell's international studies programs.
The international programs hosted innumerable guests of wide acclaim during 
this past year. In February, with assistance from the Southeast Asia Program, the 
InterFraternity Council, and University Unions Programming Board, CIS sponsored a 
visit to Cornell by Prince Nordon Sihanouk of Cambodia. While here, Prince Sihanouk 
met with the President, faculty members, students and the press corps in a series 
of meetings and conferences. His whirlwind visit culminated in his speech to a 
near-capacity audience in Bailey Hall.
The Center for International Studies, through its affiliated programs, has 
been widely involved in expanding capability at other institutions of government 
and higher education as well as at Cornell through various avenues including the 
training of professionals, conferences and workshops centered around numerous topics, 
and extensive publication efforts. The International Legal Studies Program, which 
boasts a host of prestigious alumni including two of the last four Secretaries of
State, sponsored an international trade law conference in February entitled 
"Liberal Trade After the Tokyo Round"; the International Agriculture Program 
sponsored a workshop on Extension Education in June, attended by approximately 75 
participants representing 14 institutions from this country and abroad; the Inter­
national Studies in Planning Program is involved in professional training and 
institutional capacity building projects in Jordon, Tanzania and Venezuela; and 
Cornell University has been asked to participate with the University of Hawaii 
and AID in assisting the University of the South Pacific in Agriculture, Samoa, 
with the establishment of its agricultural development curriculum. The Latin 
American Studies Program sponsored a conference in the spring which examined 
"Latin America: A Heritage of Conquest." In February the South Asia Program
hosted a regional meeting in Ithaca and attracted nearly 75 South Asian specialists. 
The Western Societies Program sponsored a series of meetings in November concerned 
with "Absolutism," and sponsored nearly forty visiting speakers during the year. 
Additionally, the Western Societies Program with a $10,000 grant from the National 
Endowment for the Humanities and assistance from the History Department and Society 
for the Humanities hosted a major conference in April on "European Intellectual 
History." The papers presented at the Conference are being edited for publication. 
Faculty of the Peace Studies Program published two major volumes during the year.
The first is titled "Great Powers* Intervention in the Middle East" and the second 
volume which was assisted by a $90,000 Rockefeller Foundation award is an analysis 
of U.S. military weaponry systems. The Rural Development Committee now has more 
than forty titles in its monograph series with plans to add another twenty titles 
in the coming year. This series is extensively distributed to academic institutions 
and development agencies around the world.
Over the past decade, funding for general support of international studies 
from governmental and private foundation sources has virtually ceased, but at 
Cornell grant funds for specific projects have remained attainable because internal
university support has kept the international programs viable and thus in a position 
to respond to external opportunities. Under the comfortable conditions of guaranteed 
multi-year support, a number of the Center’s more recently established programs, 
most notably the Rural Development Committee, the Peace Studies Program, and the 
International Nutrition Program blossomed programmatically in 1979-80.
The Rural Development Committee completed its third year of a four year $1.5 
million award from the Agency for International Development for research concerned 
with rural development participation. This project, which experienced considerable 
growth in scope this year, supported substantial faculty and graduate student re­
search both on campus and overseas. Scholars working at field sites in Tunisia, 
Yemen, Botswana, Sri Lanka, Guatemala, Mali and Senegal, the Philippines, Costa Rica, 
Jamaica, Tanzania and the Dominican Republic are examining methods of encouraging 
democratic participation in rural development activities. Other integrally related 
issues in development, which need further definition and study are also being 
explored, and new funding relationships are being pursued. The Rural Development 
Committee has established itself as a unique stronghold of excellent and diversely 
talented researchers. The Rural Development Participation Review, a quarterly pub­
lication of the RDC begun only this year, has been exceptionally well received, 
swelling in circulation to over 1,000 subscribers.
The Peace Studies Program received Ford Foundation endowment funds in September 
1979 providing permanent support for the program’s activities. In concert with 
the $500,000 matching funds provided by Cornell, it is insured that the Program 
has the means to maintain its distinguished position in teaching and research on 
arms control and international security issues. The International Nutrition 
Program faculty have been highly successful in attracting research funding from 
a wide variety of sources. These include monies for the study of infant feeding, 
nutritional surveillance and technology choice in developing countries. In total, 
over $2.35 million in new funds for multi-year research were allocated to the
Program this past year including the signing of a Cooperative Agreement with AID, 
similar to the multi-year agreement now existing between AID and Cornell's Rural 
Development Committee.
With awards totaling nearly 3/4 million dollars, the U.S. Office of Education 
continued its support of (1) the Southeast Asia Program’s Language and Area Center, 
(2) the International Agriculture Program's Center for the Analysis of World Food 
Issues, and (3) as a result of proposals submitted by the Center’s five area 
studies programs, 45 NDEA foreign language and area studies (FLAS) fellowships 
were awarded to the Graduate School for support in 1979-80. A similar number of 
new awards will be made in 1980-81.
Through diligent efforts and fine reputations of the faculty in the various 
programs of the Center for International Studies, many research opportunities have 
been awarded to the benefit of the University and the individuals as well. Faculty 
in the Southeast Asia program continued their studies of U.S. relations with the 
Philippines, Vietnam and Indoniesia, and Thailand under a three-year grant of 
$71,000 from the Luce Foundation, and offered several courses, at both graduate 
and undergraduate levels, related to this research. Similar awards were made by 
the Luce Foundation to faculty in Agricultural Economics for research on China's 
impact on international grain markets, and to faculty in the Government Department 
for an examination of East Asian political economy. With assistance from CIS, 
faculty from the International Agriculture Program and the China-Japan Program 
have submitted three proposals to the final round of the Luce competition. Members 
of the International Population Program continued their NICHHD-sponsored research 
in Central America. The Program received a new grant from NSF for research in 
Kenya and Bangladesh and a renewal of a $100,000 grant from the U.S.-Spanish Joint 
Committee for Educational and Cultural Affairs for cooperative studies of population
in Spain.
Even though the Center was unable to continue to support its annual Small 
Grants Competition for Graduate Student Research, there continues to be numerous 
opportunities for student participation and support in the above-mentioned research 
projects. Several other opportunities specifically aimed at student research support 
have also been made available through program grants. The International Agriculture 
Program received a $100,000 Title XII Strengthening Grant in part for the support 
of overseas dissertation work in developing countries. The Latin American Program 
received a small grant from the Morelos Foundation which enabled support for three 
summer pre-dissertation research fellowships in Latin America. The three-year 
Scott Paper Company grant which was awarded the Latin American Studies Program 
two years ago provided support for four additional studies in Mexico. The pres­
tigious Dorothy Danforth Compton Fellowships in International Affairs for minority 
students awarded to two Cornell students last year through CIS efforts were renewed. 
Through a grant by CIS Director Emeritus, Mario Einandi, a series of European 
Studies Fellowships for dissertation support were established by the Western Societies 
Program. The Rural Development Participation Project provided field research support 
to more than ten students, and assisted more than 25 students on campus. Many 
other students associated with international studies have also been successful in 
their applications for external grants and research contracts, aided, at least in 
part, by the excellent credentials afforded to them through their participation in 
the International Studies Programs at Cornell.
The Center and its member programs continued to contribute to the intellectual 
environment of the Campus through the input of the Visiting Fellows in residence 
at the Center. More than a dozen Fellows pursued their research here this past 
year, also interacting with Cornell faculty and students, and contributing to 
courses, seminars and student guidance.
All the programs associated with the Center for International Studies are 
engaged in the support of teaching activities, often in a cross-disciplinary mode.
The Program in International Agriculture, through its Center for the Analysis of 
World Food Issues, in cooperation with the Rural Development Committee again this 
spring offered a graduate level course on the administration of agricultural and 
rural development. Over 50 students from many fields enrolled, receiving cr ' 
from the College of Agriculture, Business and Public Administration, or Arts and 
Sciences. Undergraduate course offerings in many departments were enriched by 
conference participants and guest speakers invited to campus. Film series and 
art exhibits supported by the Soviet Studies Committee, the South Asia Program, 
China-Japan Program, Southeast Asia Program, Latin-American Studies and Western 
Societies Programs further added to the opportunities available to undergraduates 
at Cornell.
The Masters of Professional Studies in International Development (MPS (ID)) is 
a graduate level program, now in its seventh year, sponsored by the CIS and 
intellectually supported by the Center’s associated programs. The degree program 
provides specialized education through course work and research projects in inter­
national development for practicing professionals from developing nations as well 
as for staff officers in international development and assistance agencies. Thirty- 
five MPS degrees in International Development have been awarded, and 15 new and 
continuing students will be in residence during the Fall term, 1980. The MPS (ID) 
program is coordinated closely with the MPS in International Agriculture and Rural 
Development sponsored by the College of Agriculture. A new graduate program in 
Demography and Rural Development is being jointly developed by the Fields of 
Sociology and Development Sociology through the efforts of International Population 
Program faculty.
In addition to continuing support of traditional teaching and research related 
activities the Center for International Studies and its affiliated programs look 
ahead to a number of specific opportunities. The opening of China for Cornell offers
considerable challenge which could be rapidly accelerated if external resources, 
particularly at the federal level, would materialize. Activity will need to be 
redoubled with federal and private funding sources in order to refuel support for 
international studies and enable the recommendations of the Presidential Commissions 
on World Hunger, and on Foreign Languages and International Studies to be deliberated. 
CIS as it enters this new decade will vigorously pursue new resource development 
not only for the opportunities which China presents but also to persuade various 
publics of the importance of international studies as an integral component of 
every curriculum which seeks to responsibly prepare today’s students and those of 
tomorrow for their leadership roles in the decades ahead.