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In the spirit of intellectual cooperation and international understanding,
we the undersigned agree to establish regular contacts and develop a
program of academic exchange activities between the Universiteit Utrecht
(UU) and the University of
California, Los
Angeles (UCLA).
I. OBJECTIVES OF THE AGREEMENT
The broad objectives of this agreement are to promote cooperation
in teaching and research, to facilitate the international exchange of
ideas and to enhance the scholarly efforts of the participating persons
and the partner institutions.
II. MODES OF COLLABORATION
- Modes of collaboration may include
the exchange of faculty, students and scholarly publications; the
organization of joint colloquia, seminars and conferences, and the
development of joint research projects.
- All disciplines within the field
of Humanities and Social Sciences represented at the two universities
may be involved in the exchange activities.
III. INITIAL EXCHANGE ACTIVITIES
Initial exchange activities are being organized in the Faculty
of Arts, especially the Research Institute for History and Culture (OGC)
of the Universeit Utrecht and the College
of Letters and
Science of UCLA.
FACULTY EXCHANGE
- Both universities agree on a
basic facilitating UCLA-UU exchange that allows for faculty, including
post-doctoral fellows, from either university to visit and to teach
with the home institution paying salary as if the person were at home.
- The number of faculty that will
be exchanged is presumably one or two a year, but seen as open-ended.
- Post-doctoral fellows will be
assumed to be in residence for research purposes, when wanted or needed.
They can also be engaged in teaching.
- The OGC will pay for their Utrecht faculty travel and the College of Letters
and Arts will do the same for their faculty travel.
- Both parties take upon themselves
to provide housing for individual faculty who are teaching at no cost
to the host university. Cost of rentals in both places is comparable.
- Connections with OCG-UU will
also be connections with the major Dutch national graduate schools
in History, Art History, Literature, Women's Studies and Indonesian
Studies.
- Visiting faculty members will
arrange to continue health insurance coverage through their home university
or arrange for such coverage through the host institution in accord
with the practices prevailing there.
(UNDER)GRADUATE STUDENT EXCHANGE
- Both parties agree on a basic
facilitating UCLA-UU exchange that allows for faculty, including post-doctoral
fellows, from either university to visit and to teach with the home
institution paying stipends as if the person were at home.
- The number of graduate students
that will be exchanged is presumably one or two a year, but seen as
open-ended.
- The UU-UCLA cooperation will
mainly provide for graduate student exchange. For especially
gifted undergraduates and exchange will be possible to either campus
with the English language Utrecht University College (UUG) being able
to receive UCLA undergraduates on a selective basis.
- The exchange of graduate students
will be undertake on the basis of prevailing university regulations,
including consideration of the students' academic qualifications,
as well as competence in English or Dutch.
- The OGC will [ay for their Utrecht graduate student travel and the College of Letters and Arts will do the same
for their graduate student travel.
- While the visiting graduate
student is responsible for housing payments, the host university will
make reasonable efforts to assist in finding adequate housing.
- A faculty mentor will be identified
at the host university, who will assist the exchange student with
orientation and provide academic advice.
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