Curriculum Centers were designed immediately after the events of 1989
as on-site resource centers to assist university social science faculties
in their efforts to revitalize teaching and scholarship and to restore
scholarly ties with the academic world at large. The Centers, coordinated
by a university-affiliated professor originally in seven countries of the
region, performed very specific tasks: distributing curriculum materials,
arranging curriculum/bibliographic workshops by visiting Program Fellows,
and serving as liaison between faculty, university libraries, and ECEP
in the selection of books and journals needed in the development of new
curricula. As a natural progression of these Centers, ECEP created several
new initiatives that fall under the heading Curriculum Activities.
These projects include the system of Collaborative
Courses and Democracy and Diversity: Summer Graduate
Institute in Cracow, Poland.