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Since 1995, Indiana University's Center for International
Education and Development Assistance (CIEDA) has been IU's
multidisciplinary center for coordinating development assistance and
training in Africa, Asia, Central Asia and the Caucuses, Central and Eastern
Europe, and Southeast Asia. CIEDA brings together the expertise and talents of
Indiana University to assist developing and
transitional nations in capacity building and institutional development
to improve the welfare of their citizens.
Technical assistance for institutional
development means:
- Knowledge and skill building of staff
members and professionals in content-based fields, research
methodologies and crosscutting skills such as accounting, management,
and information technology;
- Assisting in policy formulation;
- Planning, designing, sequencing, and mobilizing programs of change in institutional organization;
- Helping to develop intellectual and financial
resources for sustainable growth; and
- Building professional networks for
long-term personal and institutional development.
The descriptions below highlight a few recent and current IU institutional
development initiatives abroad:
- IU was the lead university in two large projects in Malaysia to develop undergraduate programs in business, engineering, and computer science: the Institute Teknologi MARA’s American Diploma Program, and the
Universiti Tenaga
Nasionale. These programs involved more than a dozen US university campuses, thousands of Malaysian students, and hundreds of US and Malaysian faculty;
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With a grant from the US Department of State, Indiana University is providing faculty development and administrative training to the American University of
Kyrgyzstan. Funded activities include curriculum development, library development, degree training, and
faculty and administrative exchanges;
- Faculty in environmental studies are assisting Kathmandu University in the establishment of a master’s degree program in natural resource management.
- CIEDA has established an American Studies Center at Baku State
University in Baku, Azerbaijan that includes a library on
international development issues, a computer laboratory with
internet connectivity, and a program of semester-long exchanges of
faculty;
- Faculty from the School of Public and Environmental Affairs are
helping to set up an undergraduate degree program in public
administration at Western University in Baku, Azerbaijan;
- The IU School of Law is assisting with curriculum development in
international law at Aidelet Law School in Almaty, Kazakhstan;
- The School of Public and Environmental Affairs has conducted a
six-year long project in Parliamentary Development in Ukraine;
- Indiana University is the lead university in TransPAC, a grant
to extend the National Science Foundation's high-speed computer
network to research centers in the Asia-Pacific region and Russia;
- The Kelley School of Business helped to establish a Center for
Excellence in Business Education in Budapest, Hungary.
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