The Institute of International Education selected eighteen U.S. colleges and universities for the 2012 Brazil initiative of IIE’s International Academic Partnership Program (IAPP). They are participating in a yearlong series of training activities to help each institution implement and sustain partnerships with institutions in Brazil, culminating with a study tour to Brazil in spring 2012 to meet with potential partner campuses.
The visit to Brazil is being organized by IIE and the Fulbright Commission, and the delegation of U.S. educators will travel to Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Brasilia, Campinas, and Piracicaba from April 14-21, 2012. The group will visit public and private higher education institutions, and will meet with officials from the Fulbright Commission and other international organizations, and with Brazil’s Ministry of Education, Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES), and the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq).
The participating U.S. campuses are: Baruch College, CUNY; Brandeis University; Brookdale Community College; Chatham University; California State University, Fullerton; Daemen College; East Tennessee State University; Illinois State University; Monroe Community College; Monterey Institute of International Studies; Queens College, CUNY; Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey; Stevens Institute of Technology; University of Massachusetts, Amherst; University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth; University of South Florida; University of Toledo; and Washington State University.
The International Academic Partnership Program (IAPP), originally funded by the U.S. Department of Education's Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE), is a major initiative of IIE’s Center for International Partnerships in Higher Education that seeks to increase the number of international partnerships between higher education institutions in the U.S. and those abroad.
To learn more about the Brazil program, please visit: www.iie.org/Who-We-Are/News-and-Events/Press-Center/Press-Releases/2012/01-13-2012-IAPP-Brazil. For more information on the IAPP Program or to participate in future program, please go to: www.iie.org/iapp or contact iapp@iie.org.
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