Word: metu
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Washington, U.S. Ambassador William Attwood broke off the talks. To save the lives of the hostages, the 600 men of Belgium's crack Regiment Para-Commando, led by a stocky, balding Africa hand, Colonel Charles Laurent, 51, would have to live up to their motto: Nee lactantia Nee Metu (Neither Boasting nor Fearing). They...
...METU is the result of high dreams and hard work. At dinner one night in Ankara five years ago, Charles Abrams, a U.S. housing expert on a United Nations mission, commiserated with Vecdi Diker, at that time Turkey's highway director, over the state of Turkish education. Both agreed that what Turkey needed most was a technical college. While Diker sold the idea to his government, Abrams sold it to the U.N. The U.N. chipped in $1.500,000, its largest contribution to date to any educational institution, to help start the school, and by the fall...
Knowledge That Works. Plans are for METU to serve not just Turkey but the entire Middle East. Though this year's graduates are all Turkish, about 12% of the school's 515 students come from other countries in the area, and the figure will rise to as much as 20%. Most of the students are still from upper-class backgrounds; since English is the modern world's technical lingua franca, all studies are conducted in English, and only the best-educated students are equipped to understand the texts. But in time, President Burdell expects his enrollment...
Academic Freedom. Though Turkey pays the biggest share of the school's annual budget ($2,400,000 this year), METU also gets about $600,000 annually from many international sources. It has more autonomy than most other higher-educational institutions in the Middle East. Though the Minister of Education has a voice in financial matters, the president and his trustees make the policies. Turkey's recent military coup caused some anxious moments, and Burdell expects that he will have to justify some of the schemes decided upon during the Menderes regime. "We can only go as fast...
...government will continue to support is a vast expansion starting late next year. The plans are to start work on a handsome permanent campus on a 12,000-acre plot that was donated by the Menderes government. The land is now filled with wheat and grazing sheep. But METU's visionaries expect it to be the seat of a great university city with a student population of 12,000 and an overall population of 20,000. And they look on it as the model for a succession of similar schools that will some day rise throughout the Middle East...