April 02, 1973
UA President goes to South Vietnam to meet with educators
Release date: 4-02-73
FAIRBANKS-- Dr. William R. Wood, president of the University of ÐÓ°ÉÔ°æ, flew to South
Vietnam Saturday on another educational consulting assignment for the U.S. Agency
for International Development.
This is Wood's third trip to South Vietnam in the past year and a half to assist the
nation in upgrading its institutions of higher learning.
The educator has undertaken a number of assignments of this nature in the past, the
first of which took him to Libya in 1955. He is a vice president of the International
Association of University Presidents which met in Liberia in 1971 to lend assistance
to developing nations of mid-Africa.
In South Vietnam, Wood is expected to consult with the minister of education and his
staff and educators.
He plans to return to ÐÓ°ÉÔ°æ on April 28.
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