Exchange programs continue
despite U.S.-Soviet relations
By Mike Sims
Of the Emerald
“I doubt that any other Russian program in
the country can make the claim that every (facul
ty) member has gone on a teaching exchange to
Russia.”
That’s the proud assertion of James Rice,
University associate professor of Russian folklore
and literature. And Rice says that faculty
members have undertaken these exchanges since
1981 — long after the beginning of the current
chill in East-West relations, and after negotiations
to renew an agreement arranging for educational
and cultural exchanges were broken off at the
governmental level.
Rice has made three teaching junkets to
Russia, the first being a six-month stay at Len
ingrad State University in 1962. Rice also spent
the summers of 1969 and 1981 at Moscow
University.
Students from the University have also been
frequent visitors to Russia. Through the Univer
sity’s Russian program, students can spend a
summer, semester or full academic year in
residence at Leningrad State University or
Pushkin Institute in Moscow. Students earn full
transfer credit for their work at the Soviet
institutions.
Rice believes that despite a recent speech by
Pres. Ronald Reagan, in which he indicated sup
port for expansion of such exchanges, the presi
dent and the government have little effect on ex
changes between educational institutions.
“Presidents don’t come in on cultural or
educational exchanges,” Rice says. “Those
things can be nicely exchanged between univer
sities without the State Department.”
Rice also says he views the president’s
remarks as mere political posturing. “Reagan is
making whatever kind of a political statement he
can at the moment,” says Rice. “He’s trying to
get some amount of political mileage out of the
situation.
Reagan made the speech in late June at the
Kennan Institute for Advanced Soviet Studies.
Despite Reagan’s remarks, which White
House aides termed “conciliatory,” Rice sees the
president’s role in educational exchanges bet
ween the two countries as negligible.
“I don’t think he can do anything to damage
or otherwise affect the (exchanges),” Rice says of
Reagan. “He’s simply not very important to their
maintenance.”
Most cultural and educational exchanges
with the Soviet Union have been cut off since
1979, mainly because of the Soviet invasion of
Afghanistan, Russian support for martial law in
Poland and the arrest of Soviet dissident Andrei
Sakharov.
Prior to 1979, many scientific and educa
tional exchanges had been arranged under an
“umbrella” agreement signed in 1958. The pact
expired in 1979 and was not renewed because of
the cold state of affairs between East and West.
Some exchanges, such as Fulbright lec
tureships and research missions for the
humanities and social sciences, have been made
since 1979 under a separate agreement between
the Soviet Academy of Sciences and the
American Council of Learned Societies.
Scholarly exchanges between universities
have been conducted for 25 years without govern
mental aid or intercession, Rice says. And he
notes that they’ve continued through the coldest
days of the Cold War in the early 1960s, the Viet
nam era and especially through the current state
of American-Soviet relations. “If university-to
university exhanges have lasted 25 years through
those (events), they’ll continue to exist.
“Through all our problems with diplomacy
at the governmental level, ‘diplomatic ex
changes’ on a scholarly level have never ceased,
which shows that both sides value them,” Rice
says.
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