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1 Second edition (1989), vol. 29, p. 87.

2 Note that older German universities carry the founder’s name, e.g. Bonn’s formal name is Friedrich Wilhelm University while Göttingen is Georg Augustus University, the Georg in question, prince of Hanover, being better known to us as George II, king of England.

3 Both of these venerable institutions came into being in the first half of the thirteenth century, with considerable disagreement about any one year or years as the initial date.

4 Clifford S. Griffin, The University of Kansas: A History (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1974; hereafter Griffin, History), pp 37-38.

5 U.S. Statutes at Large, 12:505-504.

6 IIE required that each exchange student sponsored by it write two reports during the year, with copies to the president of their college or university. Extracts from Murphy’s reports from Göttingen may appear in Kansas Alumni in the near future.

7 Extensive extracts from Kate Hansen’s diaries and letters (held in the University Archives, hereafter UA), along with narratives relating to her long stay in Japan (1907-41 and 1947-51) are in Kate Hansen: The Grandest Mission on Earth: From Kansas to Japan, 1907-1951 (Lawrence: University of Kansas Division of Continuing Education, 2000), compiled and edited by her nephew Dane G. Bales and his wife Polly Roth Bales, with the assistance of Calvin E. Harbin.

8 The early years of the University of Kansas are fully related in Griffin, History, especially chapters 4 and 5.

9 The last name of this student does not appear on the list of students from abroad which the legislature required to be submitted each year: He had spent two or three semesters at Kansas State College in Manhattan and had filed “first papers” to indicate his intent to apply for citizenship. More on Arnold Emch is in G. Baley Price’s “History of the Department of Mathematics at the University of Kansas,” on file in the University Archives. The reporting requirement was for the names and place of birth of all students not born in the 48 states and who had not filed first papers. Fifty years later this list included a daughter of Chancellor Malott, born while the Malotts lived in Hawaii, then not yet a state.

10 In the Kennedy and Johnson administrations Talbot was assistant secretary of state, then ambassador to NATO. In later years he served as president of the Asia Society.

11 His years in China and in the Philippines had given Ravenholt a continuing interest in agriculture and land questions. In his retirement he became the operating owner of a successful winery in Washington state.

12 His years in China and in the Philippines resulted in Ravenholt having an intensive interest in agriculture and farming practices. In his retirement he became the operating owner of a successful vineyard in Washington state.

13 Public Law 584 (1946).

14 New York: Scribner’s, 1961 (Wayne Andrews ed.), p. 388.

15 While there, she met and married a young man from the principality of Liechtenstein. Although she frequently returns to the United States, she is a permanent resident of the small country between Switzerland and Austria, of which her husband was, for several years, the prime minister.

16 Conrad later was a member of the legislature, speaker of the House, KU’s director of university relations, the governor’s legislative liaison, executive director of the Board of Regents, and executive with a major firm handling student loan programs. He and his wife still return to France every second or third year.

17 The Burzles had no children and left their substantial estate, including their home two block west of the campus and their art collection, to the University.

18 This, the formal title, appears on the dean’s stationary and on his office door. All other comparable units on the Lawrence campus bear the title “school.” Hence on that campus, “College” always means “Liberal Arts and Sciences.” More recently the acronym “CLAS” has been introduced. It would be unfamiliar to older readers and will therefore not be used in this narrative.

19 His successor, Clarke Wescoe, likewise chaired the AUFS board throughout his years as KU chancellor.

20 Later founder and long-time president of the reformist organization “Common Cause,” and secretary of health, education and welfare in the Lyndon Johnson administration.

21 Charles Stansifer and Maria Eugenia Bozzoli documented (in “The University of Kansas and the Universidad de Costa Rica: Origins of an Exchange Relationship,” UA RG 12/0 - International Programs - Artificial Files - Box 2 - Costa Rica) still earlier contacts between Costa Rica and Kansas, especially among biologists. A Spanish language version of this paper was published in Costa Rica in 2000. As Hall’s initiative and Malott’s reaction indicate, none of these contacts took on institutional dimensions.

22 UA RG 12/0 - International Relations - Artificial Files - Box 2 - Malott to Baudrit, June 9, 1947.

23 UA, RG 12/0 - International Programs - Costa Rica - 1959-60: Letter, Murphy to Facio, May 29, 1959.

24 The “Costa Rica faculty project” is more fully described below.

25 There was only one other associate dean on the campus, my good friend William Argersinger who had been given that title in the Graduate School at the same time that I was so designated in the College. He and I worked closely together for the next fifteen years.

26 The only area program subsequently added was African and African-American Studies but its genesis was reflected in the second part of its title.

27 John A. Garraty and Walter Adams, From Main Street to Left Bank: Students and Scholars Abroad (East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 1959). Garraty, a historian, later served for a number of years at Columbia University; Adams, an economist, spent the remainder of his career at Michigan State.

28 The only exception was the University of Maryland which, under a contract with the army, offered college-level courses at several sites where American troops were stationed in Europe. The instructors were mostly Europeans, frequently persons with prior teaching experience who had been displaced from their homes by or after the war. Credit was given by the University of Maryland but the students had no other ties to that university.

29 Under Kansas law the governor has no part in the selection or appointment of the heads of the institutions under the Board of Regents. For a variety of reasons, not all of them pertaining to the university, Governor George Docking and Chancellor Murphy had become increasingly hostile to one another.

30 Wescoe’s wife Barbara was a Kansan, daughter of a state judge who was also an influential leader of the state Republican party; she had attended the University of Kansas for two years.

31 UA, International Programs – artificial files – Box 2 – Ford Foundation –”International Education at the University of Kansas: A Prospectus for future Development” (September 1962).

32 Formally the Kansas University Endowment Association often referred to by the acronym KUEA. The University’s legal name is, of course “The University of Kansas.” Over the years chancellors have sought to persuade KUEA to change its name to conform with the university’s legal name but always in vain. The fact that the local newspaper mandates in its stylebook that “University of Kansas” must always be changed to “Kansas University” is sometimes cited by KUEA as justification of its position.

33 She continued many of the activities she had shared with George after he became disabled and eventually died. The University directory continues to list her as an adjunct research associate in Latin American Studies.

34 (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1971).

35 Andrew M. Torres, “Plan KUUDO: An Experiment in a New Dimension of University Responsibility,” AAUP Bulletin, vol. 54, no. 1, pp. 83-89 (1968). Professor Torres, a botanist, spent eighteen months in Cumanà as a senior adviser to the biology department. A copy of his article is in UA, RG 12/0 - International Programs - artificial files - Box 2 - Cumanà.

36 UA, RG 12/0 - International Programs - artificial files - CSUCA (eight files).

37 Thus in 1954 I was invited by the University of Illinois to go to Japan where Illinois was obligated by a contract with the State De-apartment to provide each year a faculty member to teach at the University of Kyoto a course on constitutionalism and one on the American Constitution. I was unable to ac-kept and in the end Illinois, much to Kyoto’s dismay and the State Department’s dissatisfy-faction, sent a graduate student instructor to Kyoto.

38 Related to the author by Dean Argersinger.

39 UA, RG 12/0 International Programs - artificial files - Latin America 1962-63. Raymond Nichols, eventually to be briefly chancellor of the university, was clearly a key (some would say, the) key person in the university administration, having served there since 1928.

40 In the end, only two engineering schools were prepared to take part and external support did not materialize.

41 House Resolution 12452, 89th Congress, 2d Session.

42 See James W. Drury, The Government of Kansas, 5th edition (Topeka: University of Kansas Capitol Center, 1997), pp 31-33; Marvin Harder and Carolyn Rampey, The Kansas Legislature: Procedures, Personalities, and Problems (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1972) , pp. 18-28 and chap. 7; Francis H. Heller, The Kansas State Con-situation: A Reference Guide (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1992). pp. 25-34. The two major decisions establishing the “one person, one vote” principle were Baker v. Carr, 369 U.S. 186 (1962) and Reynolds v. Sims, 377 U.S. 533 (1964).

43 Robert P.Cobb, Waggoner’s successor as dean, at the memorial service for Waggoner. UA - Waggoner, George R. - artificial files- box 12

44 Though of somewhat later date, the arguments can be found in a recent issue of the Social Science Research Council’s quarterly publication: “Roundtable on Rethinking Inter-national Studies in a Changing Global Con-text,” Items and Issues, vol.3, no. 3-4 (summer/fall 2002).

45 The position of provost, established by Wescoe in 1964, was eliminated by Chancellor Chalmers in 1970. It was reestablished, under the title of “executive vice chancellor” by Chancellor Dykes in 1973.

46 Based on "Defining and Implementing an International Experience," by Anne Merydith-Wolf, in Horizons (quarterly publication of the Office of International Programs), vol. 16, no. 2 (spring 2002).

POST SCRIPT

Dean Diana Carlin appointed the Ad Hoc Committee for Certification of the Undergraduate International Experience to address the Provost’s charge. The charge of this committee originated in the work of the Task Force on Internationalization, which completed its assignment in August 2001. The challenge was to devise a program that would enable students who remained on campus for their entire academic career to have an educational international experience. The committee recommended that the international experience be substantial, certifiable, and accessible.
With those goals in mind, the group developed the Global Proficiency Certification Program (GPCP). GPCP consists of three components: international experience, academic coursework, and co-curricular international activities. In order to be certified, a student must complete two out of three components. Completion of the program will be reflected on the student’s transcript. The Global Proficiency Certification Program (GPCP) was unanimously approved by the Ad Hoc Committee on Global Proficiency Certification in May 2003 and presented to the Provost and Deans. As of August 2003, it is awaiting endorsement from faculty governance.
On May 16, 2001, KU student Shannon Martin was killed during a weeklong research trip to Golfito, Costa Rica. While she was not participating in a study abroad program, safety issues for KU students were raised. As part of the ongoing work of the International Programs task force, a committee was formed to explore ways to increase the focus on safety. In July 2002 KU announced that it would close its undergraduate Study Abroad instructional program with the Institute of Tropical Studies in Golfito in order to concentrate on other programs in Costa Rica.
In response to the Martin tragedy, Dean Diana Carlin appointed an implementation committee to help students and faculty better utilize the information in the Study Abroad Student Handbook. The committee recommended that student orientations address cultural differences between the United States and specific countries. Other committee recommendations included: orientation for GTAs regarding their roles and responsibilities as instructors in a Study Abroad program, and faculty members’ duties to students in university programs regarding student activities, especially health and safety concerns. In addition to pre-departure student orientation, students would attend an on-site orientation.

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