FACULTY SEMINARS

Dartmouth faculty members who wish to increase their knowledge of foreign societies or foreign cultural achievements outside but related to their own fields of special competence will have that opportunity through seminars planned by the College's new Center for Comparative Studies. The Center hopes, through providing avenues for new perspectives to the faculty, that the students too will benefit through development and revision of course content.

Planning is underway to make possible three such seminars a year, involving: approximately twelve faculty members. Adjustments in teaching schedules will be made to free the instructors for the intensive work of the seminar. Similar arrangements will also be made to enable-teachers to pursue independent work for the Center, much of which will be the outcome of seminar participation and will be supported by the Center. If the faculty member's independent work involves foreign or domestic travel, the Center will grant supplementary funds. The operations of the Center for Comparative Studies are supported by a grant from the Ford Foundation.

Although not specifically part of the Center's program, the College this fall played host to a University and College Leaders' Conference of "Education and World Affairs" that concerned itself with many areas of international education of direct interest to the Center. President Dickey and Chancellor Herman B. Wells of the University of Indiana were cochairmen of the late October event that brought 32 representatives of New England colleges and universities to the campus.