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The International Relations Department plans and directs trade and travel missions which have
proved most useful to business and professional people. To date, 44 trade missions have traveled to every Latin
American country, to several European countries, to Asia and behind the Iron Curtain. Participants on these missions
have been received by presidents, ambassadors, ministers of state and other high-ranking governmental officials in the
countries visited.
The department conducts a student and teacher exchange program with Central and South American countries which each year places Latin American students in colleges and universities all over the United States and assists U.S. students to study in Latin American centers of learning. International House administers the Cordell Hull Foundation, a private, non-profit corporation to assist worthy students from Central and South American countries in attending colleges and universities in the United States. Since the Foundation has been in operation, many Latin American students have been able to pursue courses of study in this country which may not be available in their own countries, particularly in the fields of medicine and engineering.   |