Show Pag 4 Student USU Lif Monday July 3 1978 Professor Emeritus Foreign aid should be for people says Roskelly "Typically we Americans go foid or agriculture into a country and say ‘We've look program there are some human got the answers boys Just "But said and answebe see'" Koskelley must that questions not just rice and pa idling red" said Hoskellej who has we discovered that someone says I wen involved in the instituaLso m planning for” someone else the He is an internationally recognPhilippines ganized work doesn't work Pakistan in and tion building which improved income ized rural ss tologi-- and profes"We made appointments with Bangladesh Southeast Asia and sor emeritus of x lology at I tah economic level of participants the village captains and asked Iran Koskelley was involved in se- them to tell us about their real veral projects in the 60’s and agricultural problems” said 70s to determine what causes Koskellev "Then we asked people to change their behavior them if they would be interested 0 more in trying to raise and how they learn He has been the recipient of sacks of rice per hectare" Interested captains were askawarLv for his work m- lowed H Watt-- director of many Mean of helping levs dev eloped ed to organize village meetings ( tutslanding I'tah Socioluilintl er-vand extension c community improve their agricullogist He was aLso recently ho- at which certain men would be es Colorado State I'niversitv received the tural proda-lionored selected as farmer-scholar- s by the Council on Foreign ti k note of the need for research attention of about 75 international New York City men were sent as emisThese Kclatlons in in breaking traditional harriers u tural program firettorsas Hunum institutions are really saries from their villages to to trie reastsi agricultural producthe gathered at Utah State just ideas about education" attend workshops to learn techtion ” t -- ivervtv lu't week Koskellev said "And after niques to improve production ' v'e arriia Hesear h must orferen e of the applied institutions we found They m turn would help train studying S to of I testtsland I'niversitv lemonstrded'ot ally I'vutioi! other farmers in their villages are concernall that institutions c I of of Hus hr effective final phase International Agri-'ire tors "We boiled down the necessifive ed abiut things leadership turul !r 'gram attracted s resea n h wfj h tea ts to wideties to those things we could aton members fmm all over spread adoption of new technology power getting money relationy ships with jwople and how to get teach in four days" said ts the extension function" Watts ::a ra a "It would have been unthings done ” van) hrui e M ndersofi director of After receiving tiai kin: from realistic to expect these farmers the i onsortum for International a private foundation Koskellev to stay away from their villages I I’SL succeeds at to to also Iarson the Vvelepmert pointed and his group of workers esta- longer than that We taught the haimumshap of the group for thousarvls of students from forblished themselves in a rural everything by showing no lect ar the cumin eign nations who attended of the Philippines in order tures The farmers learned by i ne part hooLs m the ikened States the st I'nited present praker to instituthese with experiment doing They repeated what they of tas improving agricultural as innovators of change u hen they tional factors had learned until they could return to their home countries prn tces m levs developed CounThe Scholar Farmer teach others" Program of to Amertn He that tries noted that some years as reaving involved 41 villages and few Koskelley said his term was ica s agricultural output so effec-tivelmany as 40ixi foreign students told to expect certain problems a coriplished since the come to I' S land-graschooLs ouLsulers "The whole idea was to shift namely that the farmers would earlv part of this lenturv to stud about 9H0 foreign stuVernon C Iaron direttor of dents have enrolled at L'SU this the responsibility of idea change not be smart enough to teach to local people” said Koskellev international agricultural pro-- g ear anyone eLse and that they would "We wanted to teach successful be likely to hoard the informarams at KansasState I'niversitv CSC President (Hen U Taggart was the lead' iff speaker in the who has broad experience m farmers to teach others After tion they had gained to give sevsions international education efforts all it's the system that in themselves advantage in proM st i hareLs not a both prior to comint! to CSC and in America beat many of our own duction haphazard phenomenon but instead the re- - his leadership of CSC's ov erseas agricultural problems like the "Although we did nothing boll weevil It's the idea behind specifically to counter these s'l't of planned premeditated was Thursday's experience ris r system of extension agents " possible problems we found that J' tane agents" he luru heon speaker and I'ar an ourKoskellev and his team identiof the recognition these men receithe umvenit 's overview phass fied 8 men in each village who s o h averts ha-- an ved both from us and from their : rt i' ‘ r le in effei ting Association chairman is John because of status were likely villages gave them great incen’hs iiurtr and aL hr MurJuk executive direi tor change agents They sought to tive" said Koskelley "Furtherwork through the existing power more these men received r "t'lbmed efforts these Midwest Cniversities Consortium 'orhelp r i ears in assisting the structures of the villages po-- t from their neighbors to keep for International Activities Ma1 1" v w r'd' he said lison W iv Foreign diJ program have greater success when they have greater concern for people arid Ko'-ketle- State University As one ev idence for the truth of his statement Kiwkelley offers the remarkable sucres of a Fanner Scholar ITogram he or- dramatical!) In any Anderson acceds to presidency of International Ag association s h ar a-- Ros-kelle- land-gran- v i i their farms going while they were gone That kind of tie hek ed too” The result of the program? Roskelley said "Within one year we could report the following: Whereas when we started 76 percent of the people in the villages were classified as poor a year later only 13 percent were so classified The middle class has increased from 23 percent to 51 percent of the population The upper class had jumped dramatically from 1 percent to 36 percent of the population The villages increased their agricultural productivity by 200 percent " Would such an institutional system work in other settings? "I'm convinced this system could apply to any place any tune any problem" said Involving people more in solving their own problems is the answer to getting the job y done” Roskelley joint'd the USU faculty m 1947 and served as head of the Department of Sociology Social Work and Anthropology from 1949 to 1965 From Roskelley was on leave from the university to serve as chief of the Agricultural Division of the Technical Cooperation Administration in Iran for the US Government Since his retirement Roskelley has continued his research on institutional modeLs 1951-5- 4 pro-tirar- n hce 6-- RAW COLOR NEED MONEY? Small loans from ‘5 00 to ??? NO WAITING WE LOAN ON ITEMS OF VALUE Buy sell p PHOTO Vi OBACHROME EKTACOLOR ILFORD BW OWN PHOTO ENLARGING TO VOUH -- MCIWCATIOW ww? 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