Introduction
Holcomb, Michael
In this issue we concentrate on the dynamics of a single institution, the Institute of International Education. We first ran across the IIE while researching non-profit organizations, such as the...
...Her husband is head of the Rubicon Foundation...
...Other articles describe a computerized intelligence roster of corporate personnel around the worlu and an intent to mold Latin American universities into knowledge factories...
...To understand the IIE we must examine the wider context in which it operates...
...corporate presence overseas...
...The IIE is the crucial the Government, corporations and poThe IIE is the administrative coordinator for a huge array of cultural-educational programs...
...The series begins with a discussion of the political content of student exchange itself and closes with an analysis of the IIE trustees, people typical of the elite that benefits from what the IIE does...
...Another trustee is Mrs...
...The article about Michigan State University's overseas involvement details a great variety of programs...
...Arthur A. Houghton, Jr., whose husband is president of the Foundation for Youth and Student Affairs (FYSA), principal conduit for CIA funds to the National Student Association...
...are also necessary because of their contacted two-way linl between students, universities, tential markets and sources of raw materialE the native culture -- language, mores Skilled indigenous managerial elites s and experience...
...In the last decade, U.S...
...The IIE is an integral part of the U.S...
...The expansion of the Urnted States' expire is directly a function of this economy's need for markets to absorb excess production and its needs for supplies of strategic raJ materials...
...In this series of articles we have tried to illustrate the political ends of the IIE by describing some of the programs it administers and the political implications of those specific programs...
...It also illustrates the merger of public and private ana lack of distinction between government and large foundation sponsorship by showing some of the links between the Ford Foundation and the Agency for International Development (AID...
...WIhen we obtained the IIE's promotional material, we realized the importance of doing this analysis...
...It emphasizes student exchange because the lIE administrators recognize the political nature of education and are clear about the political intent of the IIE...
...Morris Hadley is an IIE trustee...
...They recognize -- abroad as well as at home -- that education offers the best means for stimulating purchasing power, encouraging political stability, and most important of all, developing a resevoir or the trained manpow.er so necessary to their overseas operations...
...To efficiently administer an empire, the United States needs adinistraNACLA -. 1494SLETTER-- 2 tors...
...officials who are proficient in history -- must be posted around the world...
...corora".ons have expanded their direct foreign investments by 60 per cent -- to $40 billion at the end of 1963...
...We first ran across the IIE while researching non-profit organizations, such as the Rubicon Foundation, that are conduits for CIA money...
...Our economic system, especially after World War II, must produce more than can be consumed domestically in order to sustain profits and maintain high employment...
...In a promotional pamhlet "Services for the International Corporation", the IIE explains its usefulness to the corporate elite...
...With programs that extend to dozens of countries, the IIE is one of the prototypes of US cultural imperialism...
...We discovered that Mrs...
Vol. 1 • December 1967 • No. 9
