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In the early 1960s, women educators from nine African nations visited what was then referred to as the College of Home Economics on a trip sponsored by the United States Agency for International Development. The women—from Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Kenya, Ghana, Tanganyika and Zanzibar (now Tanzania), Nyasaland (now Malawi), Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), and Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia)—learned about the college’s approach to domestic science and other matters of the home and how to replicate similar teaching, research, and extension programs in their own countries. In the preceding two decades, the number of international visitors to the college grew steadily, especially with the reconstruction of Europe and Japan following World War II. College faculty members also visited foreign countries on teaching, research, and engagement assignments, with about 20 percent having gone overseas by 1965. Photo courtesy of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library