Faculty and student body of the Institute of Education and Research, University of Dacca East Pakistan 1960-1961
Dr. Gaylord Morrison and his family in front of their home in Dacca. He was one of the “Chief-in Parties” who oversaw the project.
In 1963 Dr. Barton Kline, Director of the Institute, Mrs. Halima Khatun, a participant on the CSC campus, and Dr. Everett Van Maanen, a former faculty member of the Institute, examine one of the first copies of a Bengali pre-primer, the Crow and the Custard Apple.
Dr. Allan Elliot, Professor of Educational Psychology and Guidance at Colorado State College and a member of the Institute faculty, working with students in groups
The south wing of the new Institute of Education and Research building under construction in 1963
The completed IRE building
The East Pakistan Project was an enterprise undertaken by Colorado State College to develop an Institute of Education and Research (IER) in East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) at the University of Dhaka. The IER is a graduate school of teacher education and educational research developed cooperatively in 1959-1969 by Colorado State College, the U.S. Agency for International Development, the Government of Pakistan and East Pakistan, and the University of Dhaka. Four American professors served in the overseas project under the leadership of four Chiefs-of-Party, Drs. Gaylord Morrison, Burton Kline, Gilbert Hause, and Jack Shaw. During those ten years, over 1,300 teachers were trained at the IER and 56 East Pakistani students attended Colorado State College to earn graduate degrees in teacher education, administration, and research.