4. NIH research fellowship program (FS), (C)

Total cost of extramural research fellowship program, by year

Level: To qualified persons with a B.S. degree or equivalent training, Stipend: First year, $1,800, plus $500 for each dependent; second year, $2,000 plus $500 for each dependent; third year, $2,200 plus, $500 for each dependent.

Duration: 1 academic year, renewable.

Authority: Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. Ch. 6A).

Postdoctoral research fellowships

Level: To qualified persons with an M.D., Ph. D., D.D.S. or other equivalent degree.

Stipend: First year, $4,500, plus $500 for each dependent; second year, $5,000, plus $500 for each dependent; third year, $5,500, plus $500 for each dependent.

Duration: 1 academic year, may carry up to 2 additional years. Authority: Same as above.

Special research fellowships

Level: To research scientists beyond the postdoctoral level who desire specialized training for a specific scientific problem.

Stipend: Established by reviewing boards and the PHS Surgeon General, ordinarily equivalent with recipient's salary.

(b) Senior research fellowships

Level: Postdoctoral, for investigators in the preclinical science departments of schools of medicine, dentistry, and public health in the period between completion of their postdoctoral research training and their eligibility for permanent higher academic appointments. Stipend: Equivalent to salary at grantee institution. Duration: Awarded for 5-year periods and renewable. Authority: Same as above.

(c) Student part-time research fellowships

Level: Predoctoral, to students in schools of medicine, osteopathy, nursing, dentistry, and public health for work experience in an approved research laboratory during vacation or free time.

Stipend: $600.

Duration: Part time during the academic year, or full time during summer term.

Authority: Same as above.

(d) Postsophomore research fellowships

Level: Predoctoral, to students in schools of medicine or dentistry seeking a full year of research training prior to completion of their M.D. or other professional degree.

Stipend: Not to exceed $3,200 per year, plus $350 for each dependent.

Duration: Full calendar year.

Authority: Same as above.

(e) Foreign research fellowships

Level: Postdoctoral, to foreign nationals for work in medical and biological laboratories in the United States.

Stipend: $4,500, plus $500 for each dependent.

Duration: Usually 1 year, renewable.

Authority: Same as above.

For further information write Research Fellowships Review Branch, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Md.

III. FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION

Inservice training programs for employees (J)

Level: Undergraduate and graduate.

Number: 266 trainees participated in fiscal year 1959.
Cost: In fiscal year 1959, $455,000.

Authority: Public Law 85-507, annual appropriation act.

IV. OFFICE OF VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION

To enlarge the supply of trained personnel and improve skills of personnel already engaged in the rehabilitation of physically or mentally handicapped persons.

1. Vocational rehabilitation training program (C) (J)

Level: Undergraduate and graduate.

Number: Not yet available.

Cost: $3,971,000 in 1959, $5,297,000 in 1960.

Authority: 29 U.S.C. 4.

2. Short-term training and rehabilitation research fellowships (FS) Level: Undergraduate and graduate.

Number: 2,270 trainees, 1,025 fellowships.

Cost: $828,000 for fiscal year 1959, $903,000 for fiscal year 1960. Authority: 29 U.S.C. 4.

For further information write: Assistant Director, Program Planning and Development, Office of Vocational Rehabilitation, Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Washington 25, D.C.

V. SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION

1. Bureau of Public Assistance (J)

Inservice training and regional meetings, institutes, seminars for personnel in the field of public welfare.

Level: College and graduate.

Number: Not yet available.

Cost: $668,945 for fiscal 1959.

Authority: Social Security Act as amended, titles I, IV, X, XIV, annual appropriations act.

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2. U.S. Children's Bureau (C) (J)

Short-term institutes, long-term academic training for specialists in the Bureau.

Level: Postgraduate.

Number: Not yet available.

Cost: $1,500,000 for both 1959, 1960; $1,133,327 in fiscal 1959 in addition to above.

Authority: Social Security Act, as amended.

Total cost of program: Not given.

students..

Authority: Annual appropriation act: 24 U.S.C. 161, 221.

For further information write: St. Elizabeths Hospital, Washington 25, D.C.

DEPARTMENT OF STATE

To promote understanding between the United States and other nations, the Department of State has engaged in a number of activities related to higher education, including the exchange of students, teachers, advanced research scholars, and other personnel; aiding Americansponsored schools abroad; training of State Department employees and Foreign Service officers who are sent abroad; and, the exchange of technical information and personnel through its technical assistance programs.

I. FOREIGN SERVICE INSTITUTE (GS) (C)

For the orientation of State Department employees and the training of home and Foreign Service officers in the field of foreign affairs. Level: Generally postgraduate university level. Number:

Federal civilian and Foreign Service employees (1959).

Armed Forces officers.

3, 375

Foreign Service officers at other universities 1 and at armed services colleges.

615

91

Total in 1959___

4, 081

The U.S. State Department contracts with 18 leading universities, including Harvard, Yale, Oxford, and Cambridge University, Johns Hopkins, Princeton, and the Fletcher School of Diplomacy.

Duration: Courses generally short term to a year in length.
Cost in fiscal 1959:

Operating costs...
Administrative costs.

Total...

$4,648, 490 196, 431

4, 648, 921

Authority: Public Law 724, 79th Congress, title VII, sections 701 and 705, approved August 13, 1946.

For further information write: Foreign Service Institute, U.S. Department of State, Washington 25, D.Č.

II. BUREAU OF EDUCATION AND CULTURAL AFFAIRS

1. International educational exchange program (F) (C) (GS) (M) First authorized in 1946, this program is intended to promote mutual understanding and good will between the United States and foreign nations by bringing key personnel from over 90 countries to the United States for study, teaching, research, or observation.

Level: College graduate and undergraduate; primary- and secondaryschool teachers; university lecturers and advanced research scholars; some senior high school students.

Cost: $26,590,482 in fiscal 1959; $29,348,051 in fiscal 1960. Authority: Convention for the Promotion of Inter-American Cultural Relations, December 23, 1936, Convention of 1954; Public Law 355, 76th Congress; Public Law 584, 79th Congress; Public Law 402, 80th Congress; Public Law 265, 81st Congress; Public Law 48, 82d Congress; Public Law 480, 83d Congress, as amended; Public Law 665, 83d Congress.

2. Exchanges with countries of the Soviet bloc (F) (C) (FS)

By agreement with the Soviet Union in 1958, the United States and Soviet bloc countries of Eastern Europe have exchanged academic and professional personnel in many fields with a view to pooling scientific and medical information for the benefit of all nations and ultimately lessen the tensions between East and West.

Level: University graduate and undergraduate.

Number in 1959: 1

Americans...

Soviet bloc citizens

1, 488

1, 859

Total...

3, 347

122 American graduate students studying in 2 Soviet universities (FS); 17 were Soviet students in 5 U.S. universities (FS).

Cost: Mostly supported and sponsored by non-Federal organizations, $175,101 was spent by the State Department in fiscal 1959. Authority: Public Law 402, 80th Congress; Public Law 860, 84th Congress.

For further information write: Bureau of Education and Cultural Affairs, U.S. Department of State, Washington 25, D.C.

III. AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT (FORMERLY INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION ADMINISTRATION)

"This program provides technical assistance to educational systems and institutions in cooperating countries in the Far East, Near East, South Asia, Europe, Africa, and Latin America and involves elementary and secondary schools, literacy training institutions, vocational schools, teacher training institutions, and higher educational institutions. Assistance is rendered through specific project agreements and normally includes several of the following elements: (1) training of host country personnel in the United States, (2) provision of U.S. technical advisers to the projects, (3) provision of demonstration supplies or equipment, (4) provision of contract services, and (5) partial financing of local costs. The program is concerned with such matters as improving curriculum, school administration, finance."

1. AID participant training program (F) (GS) (C)

Level: college undergraduate and graduate.

Number: Participants sent for study in a country other than the United States 1,934 in fiscal 1959.

Duration: Courses vary from 1 or 2 months to a full academic year. Cost: $24,996,000 in fiscal 1959.

Authority: Mutual Security Act of 1954, as amended (22 U.S.C. 1892).

2. Staff development and training program (J)

To prepare U.S. employees going overseas with languages, skills, and psychological understanding of the nationals in the countries to which they are sent.

Level: Generally graduate.

Number: Approximately 1,000 per year.

Cost, fiscal year 1959:

Authority: Foreign Service Act of 1946, as implemented for AID by the Mutual Security Act and supporting Executive orders. Public Law 85-507.

3. University contracts (C)(F)

To carry out the technical cooperation program, AID negotiates contracts between individual universities within the United States and those of foreign countries for training of undergraduate and graduate students.