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The Association Liaison Office for University Cooperation in Development

Vol. II ~ No. 5 ~ Sept/Oct 2001

A L O 2001
ALO Announces New Partnerships: 15 awards have been made for the 2001 Higher Education Institutional Partnerships. Awards have also been made in the Special Initiatives for Ethiopia and Macedonia

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International Institutions in Search of Partners: New CUPID matches

The Association Liaison Office
for University Cooperation in Development

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 Bits" to ALO.

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

ALO hosted its third annual meeting of higher education partners last month, from August 6th through 8th at the Monarch Hotel in Washington, D.C. [read more]
Read excerpts from USAID/Mexico Mission Director Paul White's Speech at Synergy in Development 2001
The University of Bucharest's School of Community Justice Administration (CJA) is fast on its way to making a name for itself. Members of the Romanian Ministry of the Interior and Ministry of Justice have been among CJA's premier graduating class. [read more]
Until very recently, Laos had a grand total of seven pediatricians to serve a population of approximately 5.4 million, 2.5 million of whom are children. Case Western Reserve University and the National University of Laos are working to bring that number up. [read more]

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