ABSTRACT
US national interest at the beginning of the twenty-first century demands greater development momentum abroad and understanding of world affairs among our future leaders. Universities and other institutions of higher education are an essential component of foreign aid. In 1966, at the height of the Vietnam War, and four years after the Michigan State University (MSU) project ended, a left-wing magazine, Ramparts, published an article revealing the extent to which MSU had become involved in supporting South Vietnam. MSU assisted Pakistan in building two rural development academies, such as Peshawar, Comilla. The Green Revolution was a direct result of the new technology coming out of years of research supported largely by the Ford and Rockefeller foundations and introduced in the field abroad through grants from Ford and USAID. During the 1950s, the International Cooperation Administration (ICA) had begun to extensively give aid contracts to US universities, the first being awarded in 1951.
