The Cornell University Southeast Asia Program will host the visit of a delegation of Vietnamese academic administrators to upstate New York, March 21-23. The delegation is in the United States to explore research methodologies and trends in the social sciences and humanities.

The primary focus of the delegation's visit will be the examination of issues related to the financing and management of research projects, the use of research products, library management and resources and the relationship between teaching and research in the United States. The visitors also are interested in the identification of potential international cooperative opportunities in research and training. Their upstate visit is part of a national tour of U.S. institutions coordinated by the American Council of Learned Societies and funded by the Ford Foundation.

During their visit to Cornell, delegation members will meet with Professor Keith Taylor, chair of the Cornell Department of Asian Studies, Professor Thak Chaloemtiarana, director of the Southeast Asia Program, and graduate students in the program. They will tour the Echols Collection on Southeast Asia at Cornell's Kroch Library and the Asian collections and research and teaching facilities at Cornell's Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art.

The delegation also will travel to Corning to tour the facilities of the Corning Museum of Glass, and they will visit a local dairy farm.

Members of the delegation, from Vietnam's National Center for Social Sciences and Humanities, will include Professor Quy D. Nguyen, the center's president; Professor Duc M. Ha, director, Institute of Vietnamese Literature; Professor Dien Khong, director, Institute of Ethnology; Professor Nguyen T. Nghaia, director, Institute of Social Sciences, Ho Chi Minh City; Professor Trinh Duy Luan, director, Institute of Sociology; and Professor Thong D. Nguyen, director, Department of International Cooperation.

Accompanying the delegation and coordinating its visit will be Thaddeus Hostetler, program officer, American Council of Learned Societies ' Center for Educational Exchange with Vietnam , and Neil Jamieson, Center for Educational Exchange, consultant to the American Council for Learned Societies.

For more information about the delegation's visit, contact Penny Dietrich at the Southeast Asia Program's Office of Outreach, (607) 275-9452, or Nancy Stage at the program's administrative office, (607) 255-8902.