Standard Exchange Program Structure

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Mission

• American Councils for International Education
  ACTR/ACCELS is an international non-profit
  organization working to advance education,
  research, and mutual understanding across the
  United States, Canada, and the nations of
  Southeastern Europe, Eurasia, and South Asia.

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Who Are We?

• Multi-national staff of over 370
• Speaking over 15 languages
• 32 Regional Offices in 19 Countries in Eurasia,
  Eastern and Southeast Europe
  
• 45 Million Annual Budget
• 5000 Participants Annually

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Geographic Regions
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US-Eurasian Fellowship Programs

• Graduate and Doctoral Students
• Faculty and Scholars
• Undergraduate Students
• High School Students, Teachers
• Short-Term Trainees (professionals)
• Advanced Language Training

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Responses to new environment

• Sponsored programs
• Kosovo-American Education Fund
• National Bank of Serbia
• Bolashak Program

• Facilitating individual matriculation
• U.S. Graduate School Consortium
• EducationUSA Advising Centers in Eurasia
• REAC

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KAEF

• Business
• Economics
• Law
• International Affairs
• Public Administration
• Journalism/ Mass Communication
• Public Health

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KAEF

• Assets of USAID funded Kosovo Business Finance
  Fund
  
• Eight Fellowships per year
• Masters Study
• Currently placing for Fall 2006
• New National Bank of Serbia program for Business
  and Finance
  

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www.kaef-online.org
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Bolashak -- the future

• Kazakhstan
• Since 1993
• Worldwide
• Graduate, Undergraduate and ESL
• Service to country

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Top Bolashak fields
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2007 graduate students
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Assembling a target audience

• Website searchable database
• Started in Eurasia, 2005
• Publicized through EducationUSA, American
  Councils
  
• Free for applicants
• 43 countries to date
• 3700 applications in process
• 720 completed records

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University perspective
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Top fields

• Business Administration 18
• Economics 14
• International Affairs 11
• Law 10
• Public Administration 5
• Journalism/ Mass Communication 4
• Education 4
• Political Science 4
• Computer Science 3
• English 3

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Top countries
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Current and next steps

• International applicants
• Grooming of entries
• Continued publicity
• in Eurasia
• Expansion worldwide through OSEAS/ VCO
• Undergraduate

• U.S. institutions
• Cultivating interest
• Inviting to browse entries
• Determining and implementing pricing structure
• Enabling universities to contact prospective
  students
  

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• www.americancouncilsnetwork.org

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Advising Centers

• 15 sponsored EACs in Eurasia
• Sponsorship campaign
• 8.5 by 11 inch bulletin board display
• Desktops pictures and logos and websites
• Outreach assistance

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Exposure to over 350,000
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Thank You!

• Ann Domorad
• Director of Program Administration
• American Councils for International Education
• adomorad_at_americancouncils.org
• [phone]
• www.americancouncils.org