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. , • • I 88. FINANCIAL CAMPAIGN t 89 . NAME OF A.U. C. 90 . ADJOURNMENT Executive Com . April 11 , 1960- p. 4. The proposed endowment campaign was discu8sed generally . Prospects for eecuring funds vere 1 . Capital funds tor buildings which probably can be secured troM the U.S.A. Government . 2 . Funds for current operations - probably troM bus iness firms . 3 . For permanent sustenance of an enlarged program permanent lunds must be secured trom private sources . Emphasis was placed on the necBssity ot deciding and concentrating on what the University can do well , how much should be on the graduate and how auch on the undereraduate level , what opportuni­ties can be explored 1n the field of extension work , e specially the "continui ng educati on" P08- sibilities (a field which is a new idea in Egypt and one in which we could reall y pioneer) , co­operation with American educational i nstitutions in granting degree!! , etc . These are some of the questions which will be raised during the Burvey and it would be helptul to the survey team it they had been thought through by A. U.C. in ad­van ce . Such intormatlon;ould be useful also in .otting tho goal and planning publi ci t y material tor the financ e canlpalgn . It was suggested that a group of the £acult~ be assignod to a study of those suggestions, carry­ing further the selt-etudy that has been 1n operation for five years , possibly taking three to four weeks to study the matter during a summer workshop , with perhaps two or three trustee8~ to meet with them. The Board would then have tangible , though tentative, targets or plans for the opel'ation of the University for the next tive , or pos8ibly ten , years . Dr. Har b i son made the suggestlonG merely as a matter tor thought , that at some time in the future it might be wise to change the name of the University from the American University at Cairo to I nternational University at Cairo . The meoting 4: )0 p. m. of the COMmittee adjourned o.t - ,r ~ '--I::Y' .. Anna Lister Secretar