From NASULGC to APLU

The National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges (NASULGC) plans to change its name to the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU) on April 1, 2009. NASULGC was founded in 1887 and is the nation’s oldest higher education association.

You can read more about name change here: http://tinyurl.com/5bquya

Director named to the new Center for Capacity Building in Study Abroad

The Center for Capacity Building in Study Abroad is a joint project of NAFSA and NASULGC. Margaret Heisel who is currently the Deputy Vice Provost of Academic Affairs at the University of California has been named the new Director of the Center. According to the NAFSA website, the Center will focus its support of the education abroad field by:

• Building a rich information base to serve institutions wishing to expand their on-campus capacity rapidly, while maintaining quality.


• Identifying opportunities in emerging, potentially high-demand study abroad markets—beyond the traditional destinations—and providing guidance on how to best access those markets responsibly.


• Using innovative action-learning teams, convene groups of institutions experiencing rapid growth to share ideas and information, act as peer support, and foster collaboration.

You can read more about the Center and Dr. Heisel’s bio here: http://www.studyabroadcenter.org/

Center for Capacity Building in Study Abroad

NAFSA: Association of International Educators and NASULGC, National Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges begin an interesting collaboration as they co-found the Center for Capacity Building in Study Abroad. More information on this new initiative are available at www.studyabroadcenter.org.

NASULGC International Research and Development Database

From the March NASULGC News

March 10, 2008-Profiles of nearly 400 overseas research and applied
development projects at more than 60 public universities are now posted
on the NASULGC website as part of the International Research and
Development Project Database
<http://www.nasulgc.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=776&srcid=884>
(IRDPD).

The project profiles, based on data provided during an online survey of
project directors conducted during fall 2007, include: location,
activities, expertise, partnerships, funding, participant training, and
principal contacts. The database can be searched
<http://www.nasulgc.org/NetCommunity/page.redir?target=http%3a%2f%2fnasu
lgc.advcomp.com%2fsurvey%2freport%2findex.cfm&srcid=884&erid=0> by
location, broad fields of expertise, and types of activity.

The project was spearheaded by Peter Koehn, professor of political
science at The University of Montana-Missoula and a NASULGC Faculty
Fellow in Residence. "We now have a database that provides a more
detailed and complete overview of university international research and
development activity than has existed before," said Kerry Bolognese,
NASULGC vice president for international programs. "The database offers
a useful cyber-infrastructural tool for NASULGC, member institutions and
their faculty, and interested agencies." By providing
international-development project data in one location, with links to
available project web sites, NASULGC hopes to develop increased
understanding among the media, the general public, donors, and policy
makers at state and national levels regarding how higher-education
institutions promote international development and engage in
international community service. "As we move forward with this
initiative, provosts might want to consider assigning responsibility to
a senior officer for ensuring participation by campus project directors
in the database, keeping it up-to-date, and monitoring posted profiles,"
Bolognese said.

If you have trouble with the links above you can access the IRDPD here:
http://www.nasulgc.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=776&srcid=884.