Sponsor: Fulbright
Program; U.S., Latin American, and Caribbean universities, foundations,
and corporations
Countries: Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Barbados,
Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominica, Dominican Republic,
Ecuador, El Salvador, Grenada, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico,
Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, St.
Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago, Uruguay, Venezuela
Program focus: Faculty development
Timeframe: 1975–present
Description: The Fulbright Faculty Development
Program brings up to 150 educators each year from Latin America and the
Caribbean to the United States for advanced studies in a wide variety of disciplines.
The program began in 1975 in Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, the Dominican
Republic, and Ecuador and additional countries were added over time. Cost-share
partners supplement the basic grant by providing tuition assistance and other
forms of complementary funding. To date, over 3,000 faculty members from higher
education institutions throughout the region have obtained advanced degrees
or conducted research in the United States through the Fulbright
Faculty Development Program. Please see the individual country listings for
information on specific cost-share initiatives. More
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Sponsor: W.K. Kellogg Foundation (WKKF)
Countries: Bolivia, Brazil (Northeast only), Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Mexico (Yucatan peninsula only), Nicaragua, Panama, and Peru
Program focus: Social leadership
Timeframe: 2001–present
Description: WKKF gave
LASPAU a $3.6 million grant to administer this initiative. The five-year grant
is designed to train up to 50 fellows through short-term, master’s,
and doctoral degree programs in thematic areas critical to WKKF’s goal
of implementing and disseminating models to break the cycle of poverty in
Latin America and the Caribbean. Current fellows and recent alumni were also
invited to participate in leadership strengthening
workshops in 2003 and 2004.
To date, 35 fellows have participated in the program. More
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Sponsor: LASPAU Board of Trustees
Countries: Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Grenada, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and Grenadines, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, United States, Uruguay, Venezuela
Program focus: Research grants
Timeframe: 1989–present
Description: The fund provides research support to current LASPAU-administered grantees whose work encourages the exchange of ideas, staff, or resources between institutions in Europe, the United States, or Canada and those in Latin America and the Caribbean. The award enables students to advance their research while strengthening international ties between institutions, two endeavors that embody LASPAU’s vision. The fund, named after former LASPAU executive director Lewis A. Tyler, is sponsored by current and former members of the LASPAU Board of Trustees and by others who support LASPAU’s efforts. More information
Sponsor: Organization
of American States (OAS)
Countries: Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Bahamas,
Barbados, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominica,
Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Grenada, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti,
Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, St. Kitts and
Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and Grenadines, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago,
United States, Uruguay, Venezuela
Program focus: Economic diversification and integration,
trade liberalization, and market access; education; social development and
the creation of productive employment; scientific development and exchange
and transfer of technology; strengthening of democratic institutions
Timeframe: 2002–present
Description: This program supports graduate
studies for outstanding individuals throughout the Americas who are
placed by LASPAU in degree programs at universities in OAS member
countries. To ensure that available funds support the maximum number of grants,
LASPAU negotiates with admitting universities to secure tuition assistance
in the form of scholarships and assistantships. The goal of the program is
to fortify the disciplines and institutions most important to building a strong
future in the region. To this end, grantees pursue studies in fields critical
to addressing issues such as the struggle against poverty and inequality;
consolidating democracy; and achieving integral, just, and sustainable social
and economic development. To date, over 280 individuals have participated
in the program. More
information
Sponsor: Organization of American States (OAS)
Countries: Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Bahamas,
Barbados, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominica,
Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Grenada, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti,
Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, St. Kitts and
Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and Grenadines, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago,
United States, Uruguay, Venezuela
Program focus: Culture; economic diversification and integration, trade liberalization,
and market access; education; social development and the creation of productive
employment; scientific development and exchange and transfer of technology;
strengthening of democratic institutions; sustainable development and the
environment; sustainable development of tourism
Timeframe: 2002–present
Description: This effort supports graduate degree
programs for outstanding individuals throughout the Americas who have obtained
their own university admission. It is designed to fortify the disciplines
and institutions most important to building a strong future in the region.
To this end, grantees pursue studies in fields critical to addressing issues
such as the struggle against poverty and inequality; consolidating democracy;
and achieving integral, just, and sustainable social and economic development.
To date, approximately 440 individuals have participated in the program. More information in English | Español
Sponsor: Fulbright
Program
Countries: Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Belize,
Costa Rica, Dominica, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Grenada, Guatemala,
Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Nicaragua, Panama, St. Kitts and Nevis, St.
Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago
Program focus: Environment
Timeframe: 1993–2001
Description: The success of the Amazon
Basin Scholarship Program led the Fulbright Program to collaborate with
LASPAU in the establishment of the Caribbean and Central American Ecology
Program. The program provided grants to a total of 54 environmental scientists,
researchers, and policymakers from the countries of the Caribbean and Central
America for master’s-level study and one-year certificate programs in
the United States. More
information
Sponsor: U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)
Countries: Barbados, Belize, Costa Rica, Dominican
Republic, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Panama
Program focus: Faculty development, public sector training
Timeframe: 1983–1987
Description: One of six components of the U.S. government’s Caribbean
Basin Initiative, CBSF aimed to increase the number of graduate-level training
opportunities available to public-sector employees and university faculty
members from Caribbean Basin countries. A total of 34 grantees pursued master’s
degrees in fields ranging from farm systems management to mariculture to education.
Sponsors: United
States Information Agency;
U.S. Agency for International
Development
Country: Haiti
Program focus: Faculty
development
Timeframe: 1979–1985
Description: This collaborative program marked
the continuation of a trend, begun in 1976, to expand faculty development efforts
to the Caribbean. Scholarships for U.S. graduate training were granted to faculty
members or recent graduates of the national university, Université d’Etat d’Haiti.
Sponsors: United
States Information Agency
Country: Haiti
Program focus: Faculty development (teacher
training)
Timeframe: 1986–1990
Description: As part of Haiti’s efforts to rebuild the country in the
late 1980’s, the United States Information Agency asked LASPAU to implement
this program for professors at the Ecole Normale Supérieure and the
Institut Pédagogique. Five grantees studied at the undergraduate and
graduate levels. Their specialties—linguistics, literature, science
education, and mathematics education—were considered particularly important
for Haiti’s education system. The professors returned to train teachers
destined for rural as well as urban assignments, thus having a positive effect
on teaching throughout the country.
Sponsor: Ford Foundation
Countries: Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Bahamas,
Barbados, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominica,
Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Grenada, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti,
Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, St. Kitts
and Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname, Trinidad and
Tobago, United States, Uruguay, Venezuela
Program focus: Higher education reform
Timeframe: 1996–1997
Description: A far-reaching grant from the Ford
Foundation to LASPAU continued the work of the Latin
American Fellows Program on Higher Education. The additional
funding supported in-country roundtables on higher education reform; case
studies to inform practitioners about reform efforts and form the curriculum
for a professional development program; a Harvard symposium
on higher education reform; and wide dissemination of the published outcomes of the roundtables,
case studies, and symposium.
Sponsor: IBM Latin America
Countries: Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Bahamas,
Barbados, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominica,
Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Grenada, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti,
Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, St. Kitts
and Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname, Trinidad and
Tobago, United States, Uruguay, Venezuela
Program focus: Electronic communications
Timeframe: 1990–1992
Description: IBM provided a $50,000 grant to
enable LASPAU to establish its Network Project in 1990. The project was designed
to encourage computer communications for academic purposes throughout the
Americas with the intention of stimulating greater communications among former
grantees, their colleagues, and faculty in the United States. As a result
of this early program, a number of electronic mailing lists were established,
some of which are still in active use. More
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Sponsor: W.K. Kellogg Foundation (WKKF)
Countries: Argentina, Barbados, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica,
Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua,
Peru
Program focus: Social leadership
Timeframe: 1999–2003
Description: Fellowships for long- or short-term
study abroad were granted to professionals at institutions—including
universities, nongovernmental organizations, and government agencies and ministries—actively
engaged in projects funded by WFFK, with the goal of contributing to the success
of those projects. To achieve the greatest impact, WKKF targeted grants toward
specific areas of community need such as health; food systems and rural development;
youth and education; higher education; and philanthropy and volunteerism.
Half of the 61 fellows administered by LASPAU studied in the United States,
and the other half studied in Latin America or Europe. More
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Sponsor: W.K. Kellogg Foundation (WKKF)
Countries: Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, El Salvador,
Guatemala, Haiti, Mexico
Program focus: Social leadership
Timeframe: 2002–2003
Description: A continuation of the previous two Leadership Strengthening Programs,
this joint LASPAU–Tec de Monterrey initiative sought to strengthen the
leaders of nongovernmental organizations that were recipients of WKKF funding.
The program’s goal was to build a cadre of socially minded leaders who,
through their projects, would work for the common good and have an increasingly
significant social impact on their respective countries. The 15 participants
undertook a three-week session at ITESM in Monterrey, Mexico, one week at
Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and nine months of online
learning.
Sponsor: U.S. Agency
for International Development (USAID)
Countries: Belize, Bolivia, Dominican Republic,
Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Nicaragua, Panama,
Peru
Program focus: Faculty development
Timeframe: 1977–1986
Description: LASPAU collaborated with USAID missions and host country ministries
on this effort to support basic development projects at Latin American and
Caribbean universities. A university’s ability to provide service to
the neediest sectors of the population was an essential criterion for inclusion.
The 164 university teachers, administrators, and researchers funded by the
program obtained master’s degrees at U.S. institutions in fields including
agriculture, food production, nutrition, health, and education, with areas
of concentration such as appropriate technology and rural development. More
information
Sponsor: U.S. Agency
for International Development (USAID)
Countries: Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Haiti,
Honduras, Panama, Paraguay, Peru
Program focus: Faculty development, public and private
sector training
Timeframe: 1982–1988
Description: Under this program, 50 post-secondary educators, public servants,
and private-sector professionals were awarded scholarships for master’s
degrees in the sciences, technology, health, education, agriculture, and engineering. More
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