ASIAN STUDIES CENTER

A grant of $25,000 under the National Defense Education Act has enabled the College to establish a Language and Area Center for East Asia, a coordinated program of courses in the history, culture, and languages of the Far East, beginning next fall.

Francis W. Gramlich, Stone Professor of Intellectual and Moral Philosophy and co-director of Dartmouth's Comparative Studies Center, will direct the new program. Ernest P. Young, assistant professor of history, will be assistant director.

The program of undergraduate courses in comparative literature, philosophy, religion, government, history, and Chinese language will operate coordinately with the programs of the Comparative Studies Center, which was established in 1963 to support study and research by faculty members in non-Western cultures and history. The aim of both programs is to introduce non-Western materials and courses into the Dartmouth curriculum on a comparative basis.

The NDEA grant, made under Title VI of the act, is a new departure for the federal program of educational assistance. NDEA support has previously been given only at the graduate level, and will be available at the undergraduate level, at Dartmouth and many other colleges, for the first time next year. The grant to Dartmouth will support instructional costs, travel to the Far East by individual faculty members, and library expansion.