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Title: International Studies and Overseas Programs. Nigeria Program. Administrative files.
Date (inclusive): 1961-1974.
Record Series number: 48
Creator:
International Studies and Overseas Programs. Nigeria Program.
Extent:
1 box (0.4 linear feet)
Abstract: Record Series 48 contains contracts, reports, financial records, and photographs regarding the Nigeria Program.
Language: Finding aid is written in
English.
Language of the Material:
Materials are in English.
Repository:
University of California, Los Angeles. University Archives.
Los Angeles, California 90095-1575
Physical location: Stored off-site at SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact UCLA Library Special Collections
for paging information.
Open for research. STORED OFF-SITE AT SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact UCLA Library
Special Collections for paging information.
Copyright of portions of this collection has been assigned to The Regents of the University of California. The UCLA University
Archives can grant permission to publish for materials to which it holds the copyright. All requests for permission to publish
or quote must be submitted in writing to the UCLA University Archivist.
[Identification of item], International Studies and Overseas Programs. Nigeria Program. Administrative files. (Record Series
Number 48). UCLA Library Special Collections, University Archives, Charles E. Young Research Library, UCLA.
UCLA's International Studies and Overseas Program (ISOP) began in 1958. Formerly known as the Institute of International and
Foreign Studies (IIFP), ISOP's founding functions were to promote international interdisciplinary studies and to serve as
a liaison for government, international agencies, and international dignitaries and visitors to the university.
At its founding, ISOP was composed of five study centers: African Studies, Latin American Studies, Near Eastern Studies, Russian
and East European Studies, and Studies in Comparative Folklore and Mythology.
Established in 1961, the Nigeria Program was the first Peace Corps Program at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).
The Peace Corps Program at UCLA began shortly after the creation of the Peace Corps itself in 1961. On August 30, 1961 UCLA
announced that it would become the eighth Peace Corps training center.
The Nigeria Program began with a ten week training course for 100 volunteers. The volunteers were to teach math, physics,
agriculture, home economics, general science, chemistry, biology, geography, and languages in Nigerian secondary schools.
This series contains the administrative files of the 1961-1974 Nigeria Program at UCLA. Materials include annual reports,
the U.S. federal government contract for the program, financial records, and photographs of students.
This is an inactive record series; no additional University records are expected to be added.