Programs, Correspondence, 1968, January-July (1968)

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- 24 . and internationally. The^Peace Corps, AID, 0E0 and other agencies use colleges and universities all over the country to educate teachers, administrators, technicians, artists, public relations personnel and others in the meanings and use of educational communications. In many instances the trainees spend time at several universities: one for language; another for political-social-economic concepts of the given country; another for communications. It is estimated that the federal government spent about $20 million in 1966 for the production of film, audio visual, television and.radio materials. Government agencies also spend considerable amounts of money for workshops, research, trailing on undergraduate and graduate levels, and conferences in the communications field. In addition, the work of the President's Task Force on Telecommunications, the Public Broadcasting Act, including the establishment of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and other such activities, suggest the need for a multi-resource' center. State and local governments have also made increased use of communications to provide educational and municipal-services. There is the lack of a cadre in this field, and there is sometimes prohibitive expense in procuring and maintaining high calibre personnel in such positions. Much state and local work is liaison with the federal govern¬ ment. There is at the present time no central source to which state and local governments may go for such a service in the field of communications. Nongovernmental Organizations, such as the Public Broadcasting Laboratory,.EDUCOM, and the National Citizens Committee for Public