KU to Boost Sciences In Venezuelan School
KU has agreed to help develop a school of basic sciences at the experimental University of Oriente in eastern Venezuela.
The Ford Foundation is supporting the program with a two-year grant of $400,000 and Oriente is providing $302,600.
KU 15 SUPPLYING five senior faculty advisers for two years each, eight visiting graduate student instructors, and assisting with fellowships for 16 Oriente faculty at KU or other U.S. institutions. The advisers help with curriculum, text and library materials, scientific equipment, training methods, and research in mathematics, chemistry, physics, and biology.
The two-year program may be extended after the initial period. It is the latest of a series of carefully chosen, long-range projects of cooperation with Latin and Central American universities KU has undertaken since 1959.
"The physical science program at Oriente is unique because the university was deliberately created by the Venezuelan government to set a new pattern in Latin American education," explains George R. Waggoner, dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
"THE UNIVERSITY of Oriente attracted the interest of international agencies and the Ford Foundation because of its promise and its vigorous support by the Venezuelan government."
The innovations in Latin American higher education taking place at Oriente are its location away from a capital city, the introduction of professions directed specifically to regional needs, the development of full-time faculty with competence in subject matter specialties, and the requirement of general education for all students.
One aspect of the program which particularly attracted the interest of KU, Dean Waggoner says, is that rather than the usual technical assistance aimed at by most U.S. agencies, this program devoted its energies to the highest academic levels.
"THE GREAT advantage of the Oriente exchange," he says, "is that its scientific emphasis complements our new program in the social sciences and humanities with five Central American universities and thus covers all areas of the arts and sciences in exchanges with superior South and Central American universities."
The Central American program in Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica is supported by the Agency for International Development.
The Oriente project got a head start when eight Oriente faculty members spent last summer at KU for orientation and intensive
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English training prior to enrolling in regular classes this fall. A. Byron Leonard, professor of zoology and coordinator of the project in Oriente, began his work in Venezuela last summer recruiting faculty and consulting with university administrators.
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OTHER KU faculty who are spending two years at Oriente as advisors are Profs. Clark Peters, chemistry; Andrew M. Torres, botany; and Philip Montgomery, mathematics, Gordon Wiseman of the physics department also spent six weeks there this summer. The permanent KU coordinator of the project is Daniel Janzen, also assistant professor of entomology, who arrived this fall from the Organization of Tropical Studies, an organization which KU helped found, at the University of Costa Rica.
Negotiations for the exchange began early last year. Representatives of Oriente and the Ford Foundation visited Pennsylvania State University, Iowa State University and the University of
Texas before selecting KU for the project.
EDUARDO GONZALEZ, director of academic affairs at Oriente, said he had been impressed first with KU's science program and interest in Latin American education when he attended an annual Seminar on Higher Education in the Americas, which has been directed at Lawrence by Dean Waggoner for the past three years.
During last year's seminar Luis M. Penalver, rector of the University of Oriente, and Anibal J. Nunez Antonetti, permanent secretary of the National Council of Universities, Venezuelan Ministry of Education, worked out details of the KU backstop program with Dean Waggoner.
The first phase of the project involved four KU professors, who spent two weeks at Oriente last March setting up the exchange program: Byron Leonard, zoology; Jacob Kleinberg, chemistry; G. Baley Price, mathematics; and David A. Beard, physics.
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