Title: European Studies/European Union Center Subject File, 1969-94

Series Number: 24/2/45

Acquired: 1/24/1983; 10/13/2000

Volume: 6.0 cubic feet

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Administrative History of Creating Unit

The Office of International Programs and Studies (OIPS) was established by the Board of Trustees on May 24, 1962; its Director was given general responsibilities to supervise and coordinate programs, encourage instruction and research, and disseminate information.¹ The office works with other administrative units, and through its own specialized units. As of 1984, OIPS administered seven units. The Center for International Comparative Studies was founded in 1964 to support faculty research "along cross-cultural... lines."² The Midwest Universities Consortium for International Activities, Inc. (MUCIA), an organization to help midwestern universities coordinate and fund overseas research, was established in 1964, and the Urbana office opened the same year.³ The OIPS Committee on Publications has sponsored the publication by the University of Illinois Press of monographs in fields of international studies since 1972.⁴ The Office of International Faculty and Staff Affairs has supervised the "sponsoring and employing of foreign visitors and staff" since November, 1980.⁵ The Office of Women in International Development was formed in 1980 to promote research and to disseminate information about that area of study.⁶ The Study Abroad Office provides information and counseling for students who wish to study abroad.⁷ It was established in 1969.⁸ The Foreign Visitors Office dates from 1963,⁹ and the Overseas Projects Office from 1969.¹⁰ The two offices were merged in 1975.¹¹ The Illinois Tehran Research Unit was organized in 1969 to coordinate research and exchange between the University of Illinois and the University of Tehran, Iran.¹² The Unit was abandoned after 1979.¹³

1. Board of Trustees Transactions, 51st Report, May 24, 1962, p. 1442-3; The Future--International Programs at the University of Illinois: A Ten-Year Glimpse. Report and recommendations of the Chancellor's Ad Hoc Committee on International Programs. May 1, 1968, p. 4. (RS: 24/2/802)

2. Ibid., p. 13.

3. International Programs and Studies, 1969-1970. University of Illinois, p. 78.

4. International Programs and Studies, 1981-84. University of Illinois, p. 106.

5. Ibid., p. 90.

6. Ibid., p. 113.

7. International Programs and Studies, 1974-1976. University of Illinois, p. 113.

8. Staff Directory, 1969/1970: University of Illinois/Urbana-Champaign Campus, p. 42.

9. Staff Directory, 1963/1964: University of Illinois/Departments in Urbana-Champaign, p. xxxv.

10. Staff Directory 1969/1970, p. 42.

11. Student-Staff Directory, 1975-76: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, p. 23.

12. International Programs and Studies, 1977-80. University of Illinois, p. 100.

13. It is absent from International Programs and Studies, 1981-84, despite large writeups in the previous three publications.

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European Studies/European Union Center Subject file contains announcements, applications, newsletters, notes programs, reports, reprints, resumés, vouchers and correspondence received from or sent to OIPS (Office of International Programs and Studies), members of the Executive Committee of OWES (Office of West European Studies),staff of the Committee for European Studies, Donald R. Hodgman (OWES director, 1973-75, CES director 1990-93), Larry Neal (OWES acting director, 1974, director 1978-79), Richard L. Merritt (OWES director, 1975-77), Hanns-Martin Schoenfeld (OWES director 1980-83), Karl Schoeps (OWES Director, 1984-1987), Roger Kanet (CES director 1993-94) with the Ford Foundation, the German Marshall Fund of the United States, American Council on Education, Commission of the European Communities, the Council for European Studies (Columbia University), the DAAD student exchange program (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst), NRC (National Resource Center) Fellowship applications (1986-87), the Volkswagen (VW) Foundation, Fulbright Scholar program, college departments, faculty, visitors and students, relating to the interdisciplinary activities of OWES (including research, teaching and services to scholars in the field of West European studies), funding, grant proposals, budgets, research projects, program proposals, guest speakers, seminars, vitae, travel, visitors, the OWES Four-Year report (1977), the OWES Performance report (1983), conference plans for the Environmental Policy Conference (1991-93), and conference plans for Population Movements Conference (1991).

This unit was named Office of West European Studies 1973-90, Committee for European Studies 1990-99, and European Union Center 1999- .

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