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• We dnesday 11 :00 A.l1 . Attending: 7\Cl} lLlaC ANT> IlliSEARCH COMl1ITTEE OF THE. BOll' )) OF TRUSTEES OF ']"]{[ Jl~~1Fl:i, 71.1'1 UNIVERS I TY IN CA I RO October 27, 1982 The River Club Nr ~ . Se.ge. I I'" . 1:ll 0 \ ','11, l"u: . El l t s , lVrr . Reed, Mr. Winder J Mr. Hyde, Mr . Pede"p,cn TIl E' agerid", o f t h i~, !"'., ~ i 1)9 wc:..!:: apl 'l'C'VC::J, Tile minutes of tI le May 1982 meetin g A r epor t \,'i.iS T" '.1t 0;. t. h stdt us ci the 'l'esting Project and wor k with the Edu­cational Testing Servi ce (ETS ) of Princeton . Mrs. Sage a nd Mr. Lamont met recently with ETS p ersonne l, and it appears that the inte rnational scholastic aptitude tests will be developed separately on a regional/linguistic basis rather than centrally through ETS, because of the many cultural differences among the world's regions that will prevent q~estions on one culture's classics, for example, being understood by students of another culture. ETS will still develop "anchor questions" annually, as guidelines for the regional tests. AUC used its own test again this year experimentally, and expects to • admit 10 students in Spring 1983 as a result of their scores on this test. • A gift of $125,000 has been made by a Saudi donor for the Desert Development Project, including $75,000 for a project librarY1 and another donation of $50,000 has been made for e q uipment for this project. The se donations are an indication that some of t he donations resulting from the Campaign will have to be allocate d to the Desert Proje ct, which means that we will have to raise our Campaign goal beyond the origina lly planned $22 million, because our original inte ntion was that no ne o f the Campaign donations would go to the Desert De ve lopment Project . Also i n r e gard to the Desert Development Project, President Pedersen reported that he has discussed the Albert Einstein Founda­tion proposa l with the Deputy Fore ign Minister and the Minister of Agriculture. The latter expressed conside rable interest and recommended that the work be carried out on AUC land, but sinc e those discussions, the crisis in Lebanon worsened, so that it appears that for the time being no further steps can be taken on this proposa l because o f the Foundation's long involvement with Israel and the proposal's ultimate goa l of Egyptian/Israeli cooperation. On another topic, AUC and Mr. Goelet are continuing to explore ways tha