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Regional | Argentina
| Brazil | Costa Rica | Mexico | Panama
Regional:
 Public
Administration at the Municipal Level: A Program for Argentina,
Chile, Paraguay, and Uruguay
Client: United States Information Agency
(USIA)
Start: 1994 End:
1995
Funding
Agency: United States Information Agency (USIA)
Project
Description:
The first phase of the two-phased program brought eight city and
state officials from four countries in South America (Argentina,
Chile, Paraguay, and Uruguay) to participate in activities in
Texas and Washington, D.C. The second phase involved five
specialists from the U.S. conducting seminars in South America.
An audience of more than 300 South American public
administration professionals participated in the seminars held
in various sites. Topics included Total Quality Management,
Management of Municipal Solid Waste, Privatization of Municipal
Services, the Design and Implementation of Economic Development
Programs, Urban Planning and Strategic Planning. |
 Latin American Economic Journalists Program
Client: United States Information Agency
(USIA)
Start: 1994 End:
1996
Funding
Agency: United States Information Agency (USIA)
Project
Description:
The first phase of this two-phased program took place in June,
1994. Twelve journalists from four Latin American countries
(Argentina, Chile, Mexico and Venezuela) met with a
cross-section of U.S. financial analysts, investors, economists
and government officials. Topics included all aspects of
financial relations between the Americas, investment practices,
and economic and trade forecasts. The three-week program took
place in Texas, New York, and Washington, D.C. The second phase
served as a follow-up opportunity for the participants to
address various international financial issues. Seven of the 12
journalists participated in a series of roundtables and panel
discussions. The journalists formed a professional association
"Asociacion de Periodistas en Economia y Finanzas de las
Americas" (APEFA) which will host an annual symposium at
different locations in Latin America. The first was held in
Santiago, Chile, in Spring 1996. |
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Argentina:
| Program
of Non-University, Technical Higher Education Reform
Client: Inter-American Development Bank
(IDB)
Start:
September 1995 End:
November 1995
Funding
Agency: Inter-American Development Bank
Project
Description:
TIEC recruited three consultants for IDB to work with the
Ministry of Culture and Education in Argentina to advise on the
model of administration and the design of a system of
accreditation and evaluation for community colleges in
Argentina. The consultants included a staff person from the
Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, a president of a U.S.
community college, and a faculty member from Anglia Polytechnic
University, a member of the British Universities Transatlantic
Exchange Association (BUTEX).
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Brazil:
| Brazil
Fulbright Seminar on American Democracy Client:
Fulbright Commission of Brazil
Start: June
1989 End:
July 1989
Funding
Agency: Fulbright Commission of Brazil
Funding Source:
Fulbright Commission of Brazil
Project
Description:
TIEC, in collaboration with the LBJ School of Public Affairs at
The University of Texas at Austin, developed a seminar for a
group of 15 faculty, researchers, and secondary school teachers
from Brazil. The goal of the seminar was to demonstrate how the
American political process responds to evolving issues of
American policy. The Brazilian participants attended
discussions, panels and lectures set up by the LBJ School and
visited with various government officials in Austin. Side trips
were taken to Houston to visit NASA and to Fredericksburg. The
participants were given daily experiences in American culture
while in Austin.
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| Brazil
Fulbright Environmental Law Seminar
Client: Fulbright
Commission of Brazil
Start: August 1990 End:
September 1990
Funding
Agency: Fulbright Commission of Brazil
Funding Source:
Fulbright Commission of Brazil
Project
Description:
TIEC hosted a group of lawyers from Brazil for one component of
the Brazil Environmental Law Fulbright Program. The lawyers
spent time at The University of Texas at Austin, The University
of Texas at El Paso, Lamar University in Beaumont, and Texas
A&M University-Galveston. In addition to lectures, panels
and discussions at the universities, the group visited
facilities and met with officials of many environmental
organizations such as the Monitoring and Emergency Response
Laboratory, Texas Air Control Board, Texas Water Commission,
several environmental law firms, International Boundary and
Water Commission, Asarco Smelter, the Colonias, Gulf Goast
Hazardous Substance Research Center, Mobil Oil Corporation,
Chemical Waste Management Plant, Exxon Chemicals, NASA, Turtle
Hatchery of the National Marine Fisheries Services, Gulf Coast
Waste Disposal Authority, and Texas Attorney General's Office. |
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Costa Rica:
 CAPS
Training Program for Costa Rican Print and Broadcast JournalistsClient:
Partner for International Education and Training (PIET)
Start: June
1989 End:
August 1989
Funding
Agency: PIET
Funding Source: U.S.
Agency for International Development - Costa Rica
Project
Description:
TIEC provided training, day internships and American culture to
a group of Costa Rican print journalists and later to a group of
Costa Rican broadcast journalists as part of PIET's overall
training program. The participants attended training sessions at
The University of Texas at Austin, The University of Texas at El
Paso, and the University of Houston. In addition, a follow-on
seminar was arranged in 1990 for the participants in Costa Rica.
The purpose of the seminar was to provide follow-up training and
discussion after the journalists had had a year to use their
newly acquired skills in their home country.
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Mexico:
 Summer
English-as-a-Second-Language Institute at The University of
Texas of the Permian Basin (UTPB)
Client: The University
of Texas of the Permian Basin (UTPB)
Start: July 2003 End:
Ongoing
Funding Agency: The
University of Texas of the Permian Basin (UTPB)
Funding Source: The
University of Texas of the Permian Basin (UTPB) Project
Description: The Texas
Intensive English Program (TIEP) conducts, on behalf of UTPB, an
intensive, four-week program of English for Academic Purposes on
the UTPB campus, as part of an intensive language-exchange
program between UTPB and the Universidad Autónoma de Chihuahua
(UACH) in Mexico. In the program between UTPB and UACH, a group
of faculty and students from UTPB attend a four-week
intensive Spanish program at UACH, while a group of faculty and
students from UACH attend the program set up by TIEP on the UTPB
campus. |
| Curriculum
Reform Projects
Client: Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León
(UANL), Monterrey
Start: 1993 End:
1997
Funding
Agency: Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León
Funding
Source: Government of Mexico
Project
Description:
TIEC collaborated with UANL on four separate occasions to
restructure the curricula of several academic programs. The
reform process involved teams of faculty from both UANL and TIEC
affiliated universities. The methodology began by defining
knowledge and skills required of the graduates, and reviewing
the existing curricula and pedagogy. The revised curriculum
involved designing entirely new courses, specifying pedagogical
methods and student-learning experiences, writing new course
syllabi with suggested textbooks, and defining the faculty
characteristics needed to teach the revised curriculum.
In 1993,
assistance was provided to completely restructure the
preparatoria curricula in math, science, and computer science.
In 1995, TIEC assisted with the redesign of the Bachelor of
Business Administration degree with specializations in
accounting, finance, human resources, information systems,
marketing, and production management, plus Masters degrees in
Business Administration, Public Accounting, Information Systems
Management, and Public Administration.
In 1996, assistance was
provided to redesign undergraduate degree programs in physics,
mathematics, computer science, civil engineering, chemical
engineering, industrial engineering management, industrial
chemistry, and chemical pharmaceutical biology.
Then in 1997,
degree programs in biology, food science, and QPB (chemistry,
microbiology and parasitology) were redesigned.
During these
four efforts, more than 60 TIEC faculty worked in teams with
over 100 UANL faculty.
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| Accreditation & Staffing Assistance
Client: Universidad de Monterrey, Mexico
Start: 1992 End:
1997
Funding
Agency: University and Private Funds
Project
Description:
Assistance was provided in organizing the university staff for
institutional self-study required for accreditation; collecting
and presenting required data and securing candidacy status.
Faculty were periodically provided with ESL training.
Consultation was provided on specific summer programs designed
to attract US students. |
| Business English for Mexican Managers
Client: Vanity Fair, Mexico
Start:
August 1996 End: 1998
Funding
Agency: Vanity Fair
Project
Description:
The Texas Intensive English Program (TIEP),
a wholly owned subsidiary of TIEC, provided 6 hours of
daily English language training over a two-month period for
small groups of employees of Vanity Fair from several locations
in Mexico. Instruction focused on preparing the employees to
function effectively in English with international colleagues. |
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Panama:
| Short-Term
Business & Industrial Training Programs
Client: Consejo del Sector Privado para la Asistencia Educacional
(COSPAE)
Start: 1990 End:
1992
Funding
Agency: COSPAE
Funding
Source: Government of Panama and U.S. Agency for International
Development
Project
Description:
Short-term, customized training seminars were conducted in
Panama and Texas for supervisory personnel in various areas
including refrigeration, retail sales, industrial management,
merchandising, quality control, industrial production and
supervision. TIEC worked with community colleges as well as TIEC
universities to provide training, internships and cultural
activities for the participants in each of the programs.
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