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Tuesday, August 8
Registration
TIES Pre-Conference Workshop
Wednesday, August 9
Registration & Networking Breakfast
Welcome
Christine A. Morfit, Executive Director,
Higher Education for Development
Barbara Hill
Conference Moderator
Remarks
Mark Silverman, Deputy Assistant Administrator
United States Agency for International Development (USAID)
Bureau for Latin America and the Caribbean
James T. Smith, Deputy Assistant Administrator
United States Agency for International Development (USAID)
Bureau for Economic Growth, Agriculture and Trade
Peter McPherson
President, National Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges
(NASULGC) and
Chair, Governing Board for Higher Education for Development
Opening Plenary
“Education and Global Citizenship: Opportunities for
University Partnerships”
Fernando Reimers
Ford Foundation Professor of International Education
Director International Education Policy Program
Harvard University
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SESSION I
Panel 1: Meeting USAID’s Strategic Priorities for Agricultural
Development
Moderator: John Thomas, USAID
“New Mexico-Chihuahua Partnership for the Sierra
Tarahumara—Binational Collaboration to Enhance Quality of Life”
Speakers:
Everett Egginton, New Mexico State University (USA)
Raúl Favela, Universidad Autónoma de Chihuahua (Mexico)
“Training the Next Generation of Extension in
Guanajuato: Technology Applications for Production Agriculture”
Speakers:
Manuel Collado, Universidad de Guanajuato (Mexico)
Bill Lamont, Pennsylvania State University (USA)
“Developing Market Opportunities Through Producer
Education”
Speakers:
Christina Albarrán Farías, Instituto Tecnológico
Agropecuario-Guerrero (Mexico)
Gregg Hadley, University of Wisconsin-River Falls (USA)
Discussants (listed by partnership):
Robert Blake, Cornell University (USA)
Guillermo Rios Arjona, Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán (Mexico)
José Luís García Ruiz, Universidad de Sonora (Mexico)
Alex Mayer, Michigan Technological University (USA)
Pedro Ortega Romero, Universidad de Sonora (Mexico)
Oval Myers, Southern Illinois University (USA)
John Russin, Southern Illinois University (USA)
Elizabeth Jeffery, University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign (USA)
Panel 2: Implementing Policies that Encourage Sound Natural
Resource Management
Moderator: Patrick Smith, USAID
“Research and Training for a Sustainable Environment”
Speakers:
Miguel Angel Romero, Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores
de Monterrey (Mexico)
George Nassos, Illinois Institute of Technology (USA)
“Community Forest Enterprises and Forest Ecosystem
Conservation in Mexico”
Speakers:
Camille Antinori, University of California at Berkeley (USA)
Alejandro Velázquez, Universidad Autónoma de México
(Mexico)
“Taking the Ecological Economics Approach in the
Management of the Antigua Watershed”
Speakers:
Dermot McCluskey, Universidad de Anahuac (Mexico)
Anjanette Merino, University of Vermont (USA)
Discussants (listed by partnership):
James Field, University of Arizona (USA)
Mariano Cebrián, Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados
(Mexico)
Francisco Rosado May, Universidad de Quintana Roo (Mexico)
Panel 3: Strengthening Human Resource Capacity and Health
Systems in HIV/AIDS and Tuberculosis
Moderator: Estelle Quain, USAID
"Toward Understanding the Economics of HIV/AIDS
and TB in Mexico: Capacity Building at INSP and UC Berkeley”
Speakers:
Sergio Bautista, Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública (Mexico)
Sandra Dratler, University of California-Berkeley (USA)
“A Cross-Border HIV/AIDS Prevention Training Program
in the Northwestern Mexican Border Region”
Speakers:
Adriana Carolina Vargas Ojeda, Universidad Autónoma de Baja California
(Mexico)
Steffanie Strathdee, University of California-San Diego (USA)
“Prevention, Diagnosis and Control of Tuberculosis and Related
Infectious Diseases: Training, Research and Community Outreach”
Speakers:
Laura Alvarez, University of Texas-El Paso (USA)
Hugo Staines, Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad
Juárez (Mexico)
“Impulsando Beneficios en la Salud para Texas
y Tamaulipas”/”Promoting Health Benefits for Texas and Tamaulipas”
Speakers:
Juan José González Cabriales, Universidad Autónoma
de Tamaulipas (Mexico)
Luís López Moreno, Consulate of Mexico (USA)
Paula Winkler, University of Texas Health Center at San Antonio (USA)
Discussants (listed by partnership):
Catalina A. Denman, El Colegio de Sonora (Mexico)
Douglas Taren, University of Arizona (USA)
Networking Lunch
SESSION II
Participants are welcome to attend either the workshop or the roundtable.
Workshop: Monitoring Activities
and Reporting Results for HED and the US Government
Speaker:
Jane Gore, Higher Education for Development
Roundtable 1: Supporting India’s
“Evergreen” Revolution in Agriculture
Chair: Bobby Moser, The Ohio State University
Invited participants from US-India Partnerships (listed by partnership):
P.G. Chengappa, University of Agricultural Sciences-Bangalore (India)
Ramesh S. Kanwar, Iowa State University (USA)
Nagaraj Nareppa, University of Agricultural Sciences-Bangalore (India)
Gulzar Singh Chahal, Punjab Agricultural University (India)
David Hansen, The Ohio State University (USA)
Avtar Krishan Handa, Purdue University (USA)
Doddananjappa Theertha Prasad, University of Agricultural Sciences-Bangalore
(India)
K. G. Raghothama, Purdue University (USA)
Besagarahally Raju, University of Agricultural Sciences-Bangalore (India)
Bruce Grogan, University of California-Davis (USA)
James Hill, University of California-Davis (USA)
Paul Marcotte, University of California-Davis (USA)
R. Viswanathan, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University (India)
SESSION III
Participants are welcome to attend either of the two roundtables.
Roundtable 2: Cost-Effective Models for Long-Term Training
Chair: John Thomas, USAID
Invited participants from US-Africa Partnerships (listed by partnership)
Florence Dunkel, Montana State University (USA)
Kadiatou Troure Gamby, l’Institut d’Economie Rurale (Mali)
Fafre Samako, l’Institut Polytechnique Rurale et de Recherche Appliquée
(Mali)
Mamoudou Traore, l’Institut Polytechnique Rurale et de Recherche
Appliquée (Mali)
Eric Crawford, Michigan State University (USA)
J. Mark Erbaugh, The Ohio State University (USA)
Francis Itulya, Egerton University (Kenya)
Ntengua Mdoe, Sokoine University (Tanzania)
Denis Mpairwe, Makerere University (Uganda)
Roundtable 3: Strengthening Higher
Education Capacity in the Middle East through Partnerships
Chair: Crystal Meriwether, U.S. State Department
Speakers:
Abdulasalam Al-Za’abi, United Arab Emirates University (UAE)
Brian Bailey, Yale University (USA)
Salah Issan, Sultan Qaboos University (Oman)
Elaine Jarchow, Northern Kentucky University (USA)
Otherine Neisler, Saint Joseph College (USA)
Invited participants from the Middle East Partnership Initiative (MEPI)
(listed by partnership)
Catherine Cassara, Bowling Green State University (USA)
Hamida El Bour, Université de la Menouba (Tunisia)
Mohamed Kembi, Université de la Menouba (Tunisia)
Radwan H. Abdel-Hamid, Helwan University (Egypt)
Mostafa Khattab, Colorado State University (USA)
Marianne Hassan Risley, Duke University (USA)
Jonathan Swift, Madonna University (USA)
Yvonne Rudman, Montana State University (USA)
Kevin Smith, Al Akhawayn University-Ifrane (Morocco)
Khaled Al-Ruwaihi, University of Bahrain (Bahrain)
Michael Morgan, Murray State University (USA)
Tawfiq Yousef, University of Jordan (Jordan)
Fadwa Al-Labadi, Al-Quds University (West Bank/Gaza)
Sriya Shrestha, University of Michigan-Dearborn (USA)
Bogdan Leja, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill (USA)
Yasser Hanafy, Arab Academy for Science and Technology (Egypt)
Sedki Riad, Virginia Tech (USA)
Reception
Sponsored by the American Council on Education
Welcoming Remarks
Benjamin F. Quillian, Senior Vice President
American Council on Education
Thursday, August 10
Networking Breakfast
SESSION IV
Participants are welcome to attend either of the two panels.
Panel 4: Ensuring Environmental Sustainability
Moderator: Dan Evans, USAID/Mexico
“An Integrated Partnership for Improving the
Management of Parks and Protected Areas in Chiapas and Oaxaca, Mexico”
Speakers:
Jorge Macias-Samano, Colegio de Frontera Sur (Mexico)
George Wallace, Colorado State University (USA)
“Healthy Watersheds and Sustainable Livelihoods
for Conserving Ecosystems and Biological Resources”
Speakers:
Edgardo Hernández-Vázquez, Universidad Autónoma de
Chapingo (Mexico)
Brian Kermath, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point (USA)
"Greenhouse Technology Development for Small Rural Producers: Environmental
and Economic Sustainability”
Speakers:
Rodrigo Castaneda, Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro (Mexico)
Victor Mucino, West Virginia University (USA)
Discussants (listed by partnership):
Linda Oviedo, Instituto Tecnológico de Sonora (Mexico)
David Pijawka, Arizona State University (USA)
J. Antonio Hinojosa, Texas A&M University-Kingsville (USA)
Juan Vega, Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey
(Mexico)
Panel 5: Expanding Rural Finance
Moderator: Thomas Kennedy, USAID
“Building Rural and Microfinance Capacity in Mexico”
Speakers:
Gustavo del Angel Mobarak, Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económica
(Mexico)
Claudio González-Vega, The Ohio State University (USA)
“Bridging the Digital Divide and Reducing Poverty in Rural Mexico:
Expanding the Telecommunications Options in Rural Migrant Communities
in Oaxaca”
Speakers:
Arturo Serrano, Centro de Investigación Cientifica y de Educación
(Mexico)
Christopher Woodruff, University of California-San Diego (USA)
Discussants (listed by partnership):
Andrea Siebenmann, Community Colleges for International
Development (USA)
Adrián de León Arias, Universidad de Guadalajara (Mexico)
Juan Rivera, University of Notre Dame (USA)
SESSION V
Participants are welcome to attend either of the two roundtables.
Roundtable 4: Science and Technology:
Supporting Research Applications in Development
Co-Chairs:
Hesham El-Rewini, Southern Methodist University (USA)
Juan Nolazco Flores, Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores
de Monterrey (Mexico)
Invited Participants (listed by partnership and/or affiliation):
Neale Smith, Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de
Monterrey (Mexico)
Rene Villalobos, Arizona State University (USA)
Jeffery Musser, Texas A&M University (USA)
Kevin Fitzsimmons, University of Arizona (USA)
Roundtable 5: Including the Private
Sector in Higher Education Partnerships
Co-chairs:
David Cocke, Lamar University (USA)
José Parga Torres, Instituto Tecnológico de Saltillo (Mexico)
Invited Participants (listed by partnership):
Yoko Hikida, Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports,
Science and Technology (Japan)
Sergio Arias Negrete, Universidad de Guanajuato (Mexico)
Meredith Reynolds, Southern Oregon University (USA)
Veronica Murillo, Universidad Tecnológica de Coahuila (Mexico)
Mark Hagen, Alamo Community College District (USA)
David Beveridge, Western Illinois University (USA)
Fernando Valencia, Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro-Centro
Universitario (Mexico)
Networking Lunch
SESSION VI
Participants are welcome to attend either of two roundtables or the regional
session
Roundtable 6: Capacity Building for
Good Governance
Chair: Glen Sparrow, San Diego State University (USA)
Invited Participants (listed by partnership):
Kathi Marshall, University of Chicago (USA)
Gabriela Pérez-Yarahuan, Universidad Iberoamericana (Mexico)
Alberto Hernández, Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores
de Monterrey (Mexico)
Steven Smith, University of Texas-Austin (USA)
Luís Manuel Martínez, Universidad de Guadalajara (Mexico)
Paul Zedler, University of Wisconsin-Madison (USA)
Roundtable 7: Broad-Based Economic
Growth in Mexico
Chair: Dan Evans, USAID/Mexico
Invited Participants (listed by partnership):
Nolan Hartwig, Iowa State University (USA)
Renato González, Universidad de Colima (Mexico)
Mauricio Carrillo García, Universidad Autónoma de Chapingo
(Mexico)
Donald Slack, University of Arizona (USA)
Martha Allexsaht-Snider, University of Georgia (USA)
Ernesto Rodríguez Luna, Universidad Veracruzana (Mexico)
Robert McKinley, University of Texas-San Antonio (USA)
José Morales González, Universidad Autónoma de Guadalajara
(Mexico)
Kenneth Shapiro, University of Wisconsin-Madison (USA)
REGIONAL SESSION
Diversifying Rural Livelihoods
in Southern Africa
Moderator: Gary Bittner, USAID
“Diversifying Rural Livelihoods in the Chinyanja Triangle: A Promising
Approach to Cooperative Development”
Speakers:
Johannes Geyer, University of Pretoria (South Africa)
Marion McNamara, Oregon State University (USA)
Nic Olivier, University of Pretoria (South Africa)
“Reflections in Progress and Obstacles Facing International Collaboration”
Speakers:
James Simon, Rutgers University (USA)
Southern African institution (Southern Africa) TBC
REGIONAL SESSION
Collaboration with Higher Education
for Agricultural Development in Africa
Moderators: Montague W. Demment, University
of California-Davis (USA)
J. Mark Erbaugh, The Ohio State University (USA)
“Arguing the Case for Higher Education
and Africa’s Economic Growth”
H.E. Amadou L. Ba, Ambassador of Senegal
“The African National Academy of Science
Initiative”
Patrick Kelley, U.S. National Academy of Science (USA)
Remarks from International Relations Legislative
Staffer for Congressman Meeks (D-NY)
Ian Campbell
“Strengthening Africa’s Human and
Institutional Capacity for Agricultural Science and Technology”
Robert Bertram, USAID (USA)
“The Importance of U.S.-Africa Higher
Education Collaborations”
William B. DeLauder, Commission on the Abraham Lincoln Study Abroad Fellowship
Program
“World Bank Approaches to Higher Education
in Africa”
William Saint, Lead Education Specialist, Africa Region, The World Bank
All conference participants are welcome to attend this regional session.
Reception
Co-Sponsored by the African Ambassadors’ Committee on Agriculture
and
Rural Development/Partnership to Cut Hunger and Poverty in Africa
Washington, D.C. Tour by Night
Friday, August 11
Networking Breakfast
PLENARY SESSION
The Relationship Between Economic
Growth and Higher Education
Moderator: Joseph Carney, USAID
Speakers:
Malcolm McPherson, Senior Fellow in Development
John F. Kennedy School of Government
Harvard University
Ken Lee, Senior Advisor
United States Agency for International Development
Mei Mei Peng, Education Program Specialist
United States Agency for International Development, Office of Education
Closing Session
Presentation of the HED photo competition awards
Closing Remarks and Adjournment
Christine A. Morfit, Executive Director
Higher Education for Development
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