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In recent years, a great deal has been said and written about the need to improve teaching in the academy, especially in large research universities. College presidents, national associations representing higher education, private foundations, and individual faculty scholars all have challenged faculty, chairs, deans, campus administrators, and faculty developers to work together to improve support for undergraduate teaching and learning (Bok. Despite such calls for collaborative efforts to improve undergraduate education, faculty developers still often feel alone in a milieu that does not value teaching and frequently perceive a lack of support from academic leaders, particularly the central administration. Administrators, on the other hand, often recognize the need to improve institutional support for teaching, but are at a loss as to how to effectively intervene to change the environment.

THE Latin Aiiicricaii Free Track Associatioii (LAFTA) aiid thc Central Aiiicricaii Coiiiiiioii Mnrkct ( C A C M ) were botli foriiicd for thc primary piirposc of stiniulatiiig tlic ccoiioiiiic development of thc nicriibc.r states tlirougli the proccss of ccononiic iiitcgratioii. Vicwing the iiitcriiatioiial trading position of lcss dcvclopcd couiitrics (LDCs) as oiic of structural clisccluilibriuni, a iiuiiibcr of ecoiiomists have argucd that iiicreascs iii tradc rcsultiiig from iiircgratioii caii provide an i i nportaint stiiiiulus to tlic dcvclopniciit process of LDCs,I regardless of whcdicr the additioiial trade rcsiilts froiii track creation o r trade ti iversioii .? Thc prcsciit study ciiiploys ;i vnriiiiit of die cross-scctioiinl tradc flow iiiodcl developed by I-lniis Liiiiic~ii;iiiii~ and Jail Tiiibcrgeiil to test for the csistciicc of a statistically significaiit cKcct by CACM and LAFTA oil iiiciii1)cr couiitry track. Ijy using diuiiniy variables to rcpresciit the tradc prcfcrcii~c bctwccii partiicrs of tlic rcspcctivc trading coiiiinuiiitics and by calculatiiig a cross-scctioiial cquatioii for Latiii Aiiicricaii tradc for each ycar of the pcriod :955-67, the study is ablc to trace the cuiiiuliitive track c ' f i * c~ of CACM aiitl LAFTA througli 1967. For each year of thc rcspcctivc iiitcgratioii periods, tile crossscctioii rcgrcssioii rcsults arc i i i turii used t o cstiniatc tlic dollar valuc * Uiiivci\ity o t M . i , d i u t c t t , ,111J (~c i i t r~l Chinccticiit StJte College. The autiiois wish to tiiank

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