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The Association Liaison Office for University Cooperation in Development

Vol. III ~ No. 2 ~ March/April 2002

With an estimated 24.8 million dead worldwide and five million new infections diagnosed in 2001 alone, the HIV/AIDS pandemic is draining national resources and undermining development achievements of the past 50 years for many countries throughout the entire world. [read more]

Established in 1992, ALO coordinates the efforts of the nation's six major higher education associations to build their partnership with the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and to help their member institutions plan and implement development programs with colleges and universities abroad. Copyright 2001 by the Association Liaison Office. All rights reserved. Send comments, requests for addition to the distribution list, or submissions to "News Bytes" to ALO.

DIRECTOR Joan M. Claffey
COMMUNICATIONS COORDINATOR Laurie Arnston
EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT Regina Butler
PROGRAM ASSOCIATE Marilyn Crane
PROGRAM ASSOCIATE Charlie Koo
PROGRAM ASSISTANT Laura Laskofski
ADMINISTRATIVE ASSOCIATE Johnson Niba
PROGRAM ASSOCIATE Michelle Wright

For millennia, the world's scholars have traveled far and wide to have access to the best libraries and academic opportunities. Like their predecessors, today's African scholars are leaving the African continent in droves to take up residence in countries where they have access to the largest library that humans have ever constructed: the World Wide Web. [read more]

"It is confession time: Before I left Namibia for Highline Community College, I was a bit skeptical about what it is we can learn from a community college and whether this program is worth the money spent on it," commented Margaret van der Merwe, Head of Department for Electrical Engineering Research at the Polytechnic of Namibia "I was wrong. I did learn a lot." [read more]

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