Internationalization and institutionalization of academics in Latin America. The emergence of peripheral centers

BEIGEL, FERNANDA

The politics of academic autonomy in Latin America

Ashgate

Lugar: Londres; Año: 2012; p. 31 - 45

not only international organizations like OAS and UNESCO as well as US public agencies, like ICA and US-AID, played a key role in the development of Latin America’s scientific field. Also noteworthy were other scientific cooperation public programs, such as the Fulbright Program, and European initiatives, like the International Development Research Cooperation (Canada’s IDRC), the Swedish Agency for Research Cooperation (SAREC), NOVIB-CEBEMO (Holland), and France’s CNRS-CCFD. Private foundations also weighed in heavily, including Ford, Carnegie and Rockefeller foundations in the US; Germany’s Misereor, Adveniat and Konrad Adenauer Foundation. A significant share of these private funds were intended for “university development,” encompassing investments on infrastructure, bibliography and technological equipment. This foreign aid, drove, in its early days, a number of Latin American students to graduate programs in North America and Europe, a trend that was partially reverted when, in the 1960s, “peripheral academic centers” consolidated, and started to fuel a growing intra-regional mobility.