The USAID Cooperative Agreement with the American Council on Education (ACE) seeks to mobilize the resources of U.S. higher education in support of international development cooperation. In 2004, the University of Missouri, as the lead U.S. institution, received a $100,000 grant from the American Council on Education’s Association Liaison Office to work in partnership with the University of the Western Cape. The purpose of this grant was twofold: to build capacity in academic leadership and in nursing education at UWC.
Since 2004, administrators and faculty from both universities have traveled back and forth between Missouri and South Africa to work on these goals. Although this grant will finish in the spring of 2006, the grant has already produced many positive developments within the UWC nursing school. Moreover, the relationships that have been established between UWC’s nursing faculty and their counterparts at UMKC, Columbia and UMSL as a result of working together on this grant will continue to flourish beyond 2006. Additionally, an academic leadership program has been successfully launched at UWC. Our hope is that this leadership program will continue to thrive and may even serve as a model for other African universities.
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