Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Review Method: Peer Reviewed
Abstract: For higher education institutions around the world, building institutional capacity to cooperate internationally has become a priority as we face complex and global development, environmental, social, political, and security challenges. International partnerships between US universities and developing countries are typically initiated by faculty working within departmental boundaries to conduct projects that fit their areas of discipline and individual interests. Such partnerships derive from educational systems based on compartmentalization of resources on both sides and have a short-term impact on partners. In this presentation, the author reports on a partnership between her institution, the University of Georgia, and the higher education system of Tunisia, her home country. The partnership epitomizes a new paradigm in international cooperation aimed at creating long-term, broad based, and transformative institutional programs and relationships. Responding to Tunisia’s most urgent development needs, integrating institutional and national resources, building networks of decision makers, administrators, faculty, and students across disciplinary and institutional boundaries, and facilitating the development of indigenous expertise are among the attributes which have led to the program’s recognition through the Institute of International Education Andrew Heiskell Award for Innovation in International Education as well as the Tunisian National Medal of Merit in Science and Education.

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Review Method: Peer Reviewed
Abstract: Partnerships have become an intrinsic part of global environmental governance, especially since the 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development, where more than 200 Partnerships for Sustainable Development were launched as official outcomes. Even before

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Review Method: Peer Reviewed
Abstract: It is argued that the US and the EU are conducting their foreign policies in very different ways, indeed Robert Kagan has suggested that they could be shaping two different world orders. This paper is interested in examining how far these apparently divergent conceptual approaches translate into clearly dissimilar policy practices. Beyond the much discussed US-EU positions on Iraq, does the EU have something qualitatively and quantitatively different to offer to the concept and practice of transnational governance? This paper analyses these issues through an investigation of the different elements of the Euro-Mediterranean partnership programme, to explore how far the EU is offering a new approach to transnational governance and how far it might be considered to be re-branding old approaches to north-south cooperation. The Euro-Mediterranean partnership offers a good practical example of what EU countries are doing at the regional level. Essentially, the Euro-Mediterranean partnership is an ambitious regional cooperation programme covering all aspects of the social, economic and political relations between the EU and the states of the southern shores of the Mediterranean. But what does the partnership imply in practice? Can the various programmes that the EU proposes to implement ensure economic development, manage social tensions and strengthen political and security institutions in a way that is beneficial for both parties, and for citizens as well as for states? Conceptually, there are obvious tensions between the strategic aims of EU engagement with Mediterranean partners. On the one hand the EU is attempting to strengthen existing illiberal state institutions in North African and Middle Eastern countries, in order to gain more effective cooperation with the EU on emigration control and anti-terrorist policies. On the other hand it is keen to promote power-sharing and good governance in countries which are essentially run on a non-democratic basis. In practice it is not at all certain that even if these conceptual difficulties can be solved, the various national and sub- or supra-national institutions involved in this programme can address the momentous technical challenges of multi-layered transnational governance that are intrinsic to this type of endeavour. Hence, this paper investigates how far this alleged partnership embodies new and effectives means of trans-national governance, and how far it merely repackages old realist principles and tools of north-south cooption.

Publication Type: Poster
Abstract: Community College participates in shared decsion-making model within a partnership to increase recruitment, improve teacher preparation,develop Dual Admission, Intro to Education course offered in school, and more.

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Abstract: Initiated in 2005, the purpose of the partnership is to raise the level of educational attainment for students in poverty by utilizing the expertise of a wide and varied constituency working toward a shared vision. This session provides a review of first year developments and outcomes.