Indiana University/South East European University
Country:
Macedonia
Award Date:
2001
Award Amount:
$2,325,000.00
Cost Share:
$584,499.00
Other Partners:
Indiana Consortium for International Programs—USAID/Macedonia, USAID/Europe and Eurasia Bureau; Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe; Sabre Foundation
This Special Initiative is building the institutional capacity of South East European University (SEEU) as a new multilingual, multi- ethnic institution that offers a Western-style curriculum, high-quality teaching, action-oriented research, and community outreach. Among significant accomplishments, the partnership has developed and taught an intensive ESL program for students and professionals at SEEU and redesigned the SEEU computer center and trained 22 local full-time and part-time instructors. The partners have begun a one-semester computer literacy curriculum, required of all students, and sponsored visits to SEEU by U.S. faculty in business, education, communications, law, and public administration to consult on curriculum design, teach courses, offer faculty workshops, and conduct joint research projects. The partners selected and enrolled six SEEU junior faculty for M.A. fellowships at IU and other Indiana institutions, who will return to SEEU to teach. Also, the partners have enrolled SEEU ESL teachers in an online certificate course in language education, the first at any Macedonian university. SEEU’s Chief Information Technology Officer took a three-week training program in university information systems technology at IU, and 10 IT instructors from SEEU have undertaken a second distance IT course leading to an IU certificate. The partners have delivered approximately 16,000 textbooks and reference materials to the SEEU library, donated by the Sabre Foundation. An IU library consultant visited SEEU for two weeks and an SEEU librarian traveled to Indiana to for one month of training at U.S. partner institutions. SEEU has also received much-needed educational support equipment from IU partners.