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The American Universities Field Staff (AUFS) program was established by Walter Rogers in 1951, as a partner organization of the Institute of Current World Affairs.  The AUFS, later re-named the Universities Field Staff International (UFSI), was a membership organization supported by fees from as many as 20 American universities and grants from the Ford and Rockefeller Foundations, and governed by top representatives of the member schools. The main purpose of the AUFS was to supply teaching personnel in international affairs at the member colleges from its pool of “Associates”  — scholars living and studying abroad in their regions of specialization. Many of the original Associates of AUFS were former ICWA Fellows.

A number of AUFS and UFSI reports can be found with Institute of Current World Affairs newsletters.

From the Archive


Trying out loungers at Beijing’s IKEA, 2004


“At first glance, this group may not look so impressive with its collective rear end sinking into the cushions. However, according to political scientists as well as some of my own (middle class) Chinese friends, these are the people who will quite likely determine the future of the country’s political system, and thus, the direction of China as a whole. The basic idea here is that an increasingly wealthy middle class focused on safeguarding its property will be more likely than any other force to push for democratic and legal reforms; you need a bourgeois class before you can have a bourgeois ‘revolution’.” [read newsletter]


—Alexander Brenner

China

ICWA Fellow (2003-2005)