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The number of foreign students, faculty members and scholars in the United States on educational assignment reached a new high last year. These are the findings of the annual census just released by the Institute of International Education in its publication. Open Doors 1962.
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The report also reveals that an unprecedented number of U.S. students, and a substantially increased number of U.S. faculty members, were abroad for educational purposes.
Open Doors is based on five surveys conducted by the Institute of International Education.
It reports that a total of 72,113 foreign persons were in this country during 1961-62 for study, training or teaching, an 8.15% increase this year. The number of U.S. citizens abroad was 22,263, or 27% greater than the number reported last year.
EVERY MAJOR geographical and political area of the world showed an increase in the number of its students and scholars here, but Africa again had the greatest proportionate increase.
As last year, the largest number of foreign nationals in the U.S. for the academic year 1961-62 were from the Far East; 26,522 or 37% of the total. Seventeen per cent were from Latin America; 15% from Europe; 14% from the Near and Middle East; and 11% from North America (Canada and Bermuda).
There were 58,086 foreign students from 149 countries enrolled at 1,798 institutions of higher learning in the U.S. This represents a $10\%$ increase over last year, continuing the steady climb of each successive year since 1952.
Of these students, 21,568 came from the Far East, 9,915 from Latin America, 8,277 from the Near and Middle East, 6,833 from Europe, and 6,639 from North America. Although the 3,930 African students reported are only $7\%$ of the total number of foreign students, their number has increased 39% since 1960-61.
For the first time, Hong Kong, Cuba and Israel sent more than 1,000 students to the U.S. Heretofore, students from Hong Kong had been included in the Republic of China total, but this year a separate total of 1,597 was recorded for the area. Israel had 1,013 students in the U.S.
FOR THE PAST several years, more students came to the U.S. from Canada than from any other country. This was again the case, with 6.571 students representing $11\%$ of the total foreign student population here (8% increase).
India occupies second place with 5,621 students (16% increase), and the Republic of China is third with 4,735 students.
Most of the other countries were represented by approximately the same number of students this year as last, with the exception of Nigeria and Kenya, which, together, comprised almost a third of all African students. Nigeria, with 552, and Kenya, with 543, more than doubled their number of last year's students.
ENGINEERING IS still the most popular course of study; 22% of the enrolled foreign students were in this field. As last year, the humanities are next, with 19%; the natural and physical sciences follow with 16% and social sciences with 14% of the total. Other major fields were business administration, medicine, education and agriculture.
The 1,789 institutions that reported foreign students were in the 50 states, the Canal Zone, the District of Columbia, Guam and Puerto Rico. The $7.9\%$ increase in the number of U.S. institutions reporting foreign students on their campuses reflects the growing interest of U.S. higher education in exchange programs.
As in previous years, one-quarter of all foreign students were concentrated in New York and California. California recaptured from New
York the distinction of being the state with the largest number of foreign students.
The 256-page work deals with speech communications for adults and is based on the premise that good oral communication is essential in a smoothly functioning, democratic society. Wadsworth of Belmont, Calif., is the publisher.
Friday, June 29, 1962
Frank E. X. Dance, assistant professor of speech and drama at the University of Kansas, is the author of a book, "The Citizen Speaks," to be published July 1.
For the fifth consecutive year, the University of California had the largest number of foreign students (2.534). For the second consecutive year, Howard University had the highest percentage of foreign students in relation to its total enrollment.
THIS YEAR, as last year, more foreign students received financial support from private sources than from any other; 21,819 or $37%. While the total number of self-supporting students increased this year over last (from 15,890 to 17,534), the percentage of those paying their own way remained at $30%.
Prof. Dance joined the KU faculty in 1960. He is the author of articles in scholarly journals and the editor of "The Journal of Communication," a national quarterly published by the National Society for the Study of Communication.
All types of grants to students increased this year; U.S. government grants, U.S. government grants combined with private organization funds. Only a little more than 9% (5,455) of the total foreign student population reported U.S. government aid as their source of support.
Prof. Dance Writes Book
Speech Educators To Open Series
Two noted speech educators will launch the first of KU's summer lecture series next Thursday and Friday in the Forum Room of the Kansas Union.
Robert T. Oliver, professor and chairman since 1949 of the speech department at Pennsylvania State University, will speak at 4 p.m. Thursday on "American Foreign Policy: A Problem in Public Relations." The lecture series is open to the public.
CHARLOTTE I. LEE, professor of interpretation and acting chairman of the department in the school of speech at Northwestern University, will speak at 4 p.m. Friday on the topic: "In Other Words; Selected Prose and Poetry From Contemporary Writers."
The educators will also lead a KU workshop and conference for about
50 high school speech teachers of Kansas and Missouri.
Prof. Oliver, chairman of the Pennsylvania State University speech department and author of 18 books on speech and international affairs, will speak on "Educating the High School Speech Student in Political Responsibility." Miss Lee will address the group on "Oral Interpretation in the High School: Courses and Contests."
ABOUT 50 high school speech teachers from Kansas and Missouri will attend the conference and workshop sponsored by the KU speech and drama department. Besides hearing lectures and panel discussions the teachers will visit KU theater productions.
Soviet Economist Will Be KU Rose Morgan Professor in Fall
Frank E. X. Dance, assistant professor of speech and drama, is director of the conference.
Alec Nove, recognized as the Western world's leading student of Soviet economics, will be the Rose Morgan visiting professor in the fall semester of the 1962-63 academic year at the University of Kansas.
Prof. Nove, who teaches in the London School of Economics, will join the economics department faculty at KU in September. He will teach a course on the Soviet economy and a seminar in "Soviet politics and economics, and underdeveloped countries."
A former administrative civil servant in the British government, he has made several extended visits to the USSR. He is the author of numerous scholarly articles and two books, including "The Soviet Economy: An Introduction" published in 1961. Currently he is writing another book, "Economic Development and the Communist Challenge."
Prof. Nove is being brought to KU by the Slavic and Soviet Area Studies program and the economics department. As recipient of the Rose Morgan professorship, he will live in the residence willed by the late KU English teacher to the KU Endowment Association. The association in turn made the home available as a residence for visiting professors.
Oil's Not Well in Cuba
NEW YORK - (UPI) - Oil Facts magazine says since Castro's Cuba confiscated private oil facilities in late 1960, the government has drilled only 15 oil wells and none is commercially successful.
From Army to Vice Chancellor
It also said thousands of Cuban vehicles are out of service because of a lack of spare parts, and lubricants and erratic supply of quality gasoline.
Dean of the University George Smith will change status twice over the weekend.
Tomorrow he retires from the United States Army Reserve and Sunday July 1 he assumes his new position as vice chancellor for institutional planning with responsibility for summer sessions, institutional research, planning council extensions and military affairs.
THERE WILL be an honor retirement ceremony for Dean Smith at 11 a.m. tomorrow in the Camp Forsyth area of Ft. Riley. The ceremony will be conducted by the 1st Infantry Division's 8th Infantry.
Dean Smith received his Army Reserve commission in 1929. From 1942-46 he was on military leave from the University and saw combat duty with the 15th Army in Europe in 1944-45.
He served as dean of the School of Education for 11 years before becoming dean of the university on Oct. 31, 1952.
Chancellor Wescoe Back From Chicago
Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe returned yesterday from Chicago where he attended a meeting of the American Medical Association. Chancellor Wescoe is a member of the Committee on Medical Education and Hospitals which met during the Association's conference.
"I Need It For My Mortgage"
CHICAGO — (UPI)— Bandits who robbed the Oak Park Savings & Loan Association of nearly $3,000 recently also relieved Louis W. Turner of $100.
"You can't do that, that's my mortgage money," Turner protested. "I just came in to make a payment." He got the money back.
Students Halfway Through $9,000 Silver Design Project
After four months of rubbing and working small pieces of rough sterling silver into altar pieces for a shrine, two KU students have passed the halfway mark in their $9,000 project.
Last Sunday, Mrs. Ann Wiley, Hutchinson graduate student took the work to Belleville, Ill., to be placed in the Shrine of Our Lady of the Snows, a Catholic national shrine. Her co-worker, Condon Kuhl, Beloit graduate student had planned to also make the trip, but was unable to go.
In March, the two were commissioned to design and forge the pieces for the shrine. Working a heavy schedule to put on the finishing touches, they are ready to deliver six candlesticks, two wall bracket lamps, a crucifix and two seven-branch
candelabra. The main piece, a 23-inch high monstrance used for perpetual adoration, will be delivered in September.
The pieces will be placed on a polished black marble altar, and will be put into use right away.
Both students are working toward masters degrees in jewelry and silversmithing at KU. Kuhl, who received the bachelor of fine arts degree in jewelry and silversmithing at KU in 1956, returned to KU last September after working for a silversmithing firm in Cleveland, Ohio.
Mrs. Wiley received the bachelor's degree in jewelry and silversmithing at KU in 1961. She spent her junior year studying at Mexico City College.
AIA Grants To Six Students
Scholarships totaling $3,200 have been received from the American Institute of Architects and the A.I.A. Foundation's annual national award program for six University of Kansas students, according to Prof. George M. Beal, chairman of the department.
Some of the scholarships for the 1962-63 school year were presented during the meeting of the Kansas Chapter of the A.I.A. Saturday in Manhattan and the remainder will be made Tuesday during the meeting of the Kansas City Chapter of the A.I.A.
The national scholarships are derived from special funds established by bequest or grant to assist worthy students of architecture in furtherance of their education or research. Applications of the KU students were evaluated in comparison with students from all other accredited schools and departments of architecture.
- David G. DeLong, Emporia. $1,000 for graduate study; and Frederick Stephenson, study, both awards from the A.I.A. Waid Education Fund.
- The awards presented in Manhattan were;
- Gary D. Ulitican, 5th year student,
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- Donald E. Hunter, 5th year student,
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- John Rollin Allen, 5th year student,
National Board of Fire Underwriters Fund.
At Kansas City the presentation will be to Suvv Howell, 5th year student, Clinton. Mo., $500 from the A.I.A.F. Blumcraft of Pittsburgh Fund.
Books More Colorful
NEW YORK - (UPI) - Books, even religious ones, are getting more colorful according to J. F. Tapley Co., New York book manufacturers. The firm says more and more firms are finding that giving books individuality and color produces a favorable effect on sales.