NEWS BRIEFS -- May 5, 2000 Volume III, Issue 2

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From the Higher Education International Development Community

From ALO's Partners...

The Oregon State University/University of Botswana partnership (2000), have received a $400,000 award from USAID-EDDI (Education for Development and Democracy Initiative) to support their project "Institutional Strengthening Through Natural Resources Management: Creating a New Paradigm of the Commons."

Virginia Tech has received a $2.2 million grant from USAID to develop a cadre of Malawians who can prepare teacher educators. The funding began in May 2001 and will continue throughout 2006. This latest grant follows two partnership awards from ALO: the first, started in 1999, is with the Malawi Institute of Educatio, and the Domasi College of Education. Their second award was received in 2000, for a partnership with Domasi. Although different in focus - the first partnership is studying the cultural context of teaching and learning in three trial schools, and the second deals with incorporating research to encourage on-going development and evaluation of Malawian basic education policy and programs - they both have as a fundamental goal an analysis of the existing basic education system in Malawi and how it can be reorganized to better serve both the students and Malawi society as a whole.

Announcements

The International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications (INASP) are working to improve access to scholarly journals and databases in the developing world. According to a recent press release, scholars in Ghana, Tanzania, and Uganda are now able to access such materials at no cost. The offer will be soon be extended to Malawi and Mozambique, and to other regions of the world by the end of the year. For more information, see the INASP web site at http://www.inasp.org.uk/peri/

The U.S. State Department's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs maintains a list of open Requests For Grant Proposals (RFGPs) and accompanying solicitation documents on their web site, http://exchanges.state.gov/education/rfgps. Bureau RFGPs are published on Thursdays in the Federal Register.

Bellanet is hosting an email discussion list for members of a multi-agency task force charged with evaluating the implementation and future of the Addis Ababa Plan of Action for Statistical Development in Africa in the 1990s. Institutions involved in the process include the ECA, DFID, the Federal Office of Statistics in Nigeria, the African Development Bank, the World Bank, and the US Census Bureau. For more information or to be added to the list, contact: Shady Kanfi skanfi@bellanet.org

Conferences and Seminars

Oct. 3-5: "Building and Sustaining Learning Communities in a Dot Com World," regional meeting, University Continuing Education Association, Sheraton Atlantic City, Atlantic City, NJ. Contact: rnovak@rci.rutgers.edu

Oct. 5: The Department of Latin American and Caribbean Studies (LACS) The Center for Latino, Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CELACS) of the University at Albany (SUNY) "Workers and Globalization in the Americas: Shifting Productive Structures, Social Identities, and Labor Strategies." See http://lasa.international.pitt.edu for more information.

Oct. 7-12: The Association for the Development of Education in Africa will hold its sixth Biennial Meeting in Arusha, Tanzania. The theme of the meeting is "Reaching Out, Reaching All: Sustaining Effective Policy and Practice for Education in Africa." Contact adea@iiep.unesco.org

Oct. 15-17: "Management Information Technology and Systems for Institutional Research,"annual forum, Southern African Association for Institutional Research, Cape Technikon, Cape Town, South Africa. Contact: Amanda Lourens, amanda@techpta.ac.za

Oct. 21: "World Peace Agenda: Mexico and the United States," symposium, Georgia Perimeter College, Decatur, GA. Contact: Doug Crane, 770-551-3072, dcrane@gpc.peachnet.edu

Oct. 24-27: "World Education Forum — Education in a Globalized World," forum, Porto Alegre, Brazil. This forum will continue work on the global commitment to achieving Education for All by the year 2015. See http://www.unesco.org/education/efa/index.shtml for more information.

Oct. 27-Nov. 4: 8th Senior University Management Workshop, the Association of African Universities. Hosted by Ain Shams University at the Movenpick Hotel, Cairo. Contact: secgen@aau.org

Oct. 28-30: "Weaving the Fabric of Global Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches" institute, University of Wisconsin System. Contact: Douglas B. Savage, 414-229-6795, dbsavage@uwm.edu

Oct. 31-Nov. 3: "Generation Y Studies Abroad: Global, High Tech, and Environmentally Aware," annual conference, Council on International Educational Exchange, Portland, OR. Contact: 800-40-STUDY, conference@ciee.org

Nov. 1-3: "Technology, Learning, & Intellectual Development: Challenges at the Crossroads of the Education Revolution," conference, Association of American Colleges and Universities, Baltimore, MD. Contact: 202-387-3760, meetings@aace.nw.dc.us

Nov. 3-7: "Building Solid Communities Within Higher Education," annual meeting, Association for Continuing Higher Education, Vancouver, British Columbia. Contact: Arthur Hoover, 734-487-0042, art.hoover@emich.edu

Nov. 4-8: "Strategies and Resources for Lifelong Learning," conference, International Council for Innovation in Higher Education, Rome, Italy. Contact: Christine van Duelmen, 416-360-3805, cvanduel@c-s-m.org

Nov. 7-9: "Sustainable Development, Community Participation, and Biodiversity Conservation in Mexico and Latin America"international colloquium, Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí. See http://lasa.international.pitt.edu for more information.

Nov. 28-30: "Navigating Through the Maze: Discovering Global Education Resources for Community Colleges," fall conference, American Council on International Intercultural Education, Washington, DC. Contact: 847-635-2605, lkorbel@oakton.edu