LASPAU customarily works with Latin American and Caribbean countries.
The programs listed below are those that have also included U.S.
participants. However, the vast majority of LASPAU-administered
grantees have studied in the United States over the years, and
hundreds of U.S. universities have generously signed agreements
to offer tuition assistance to those grantees.
Sponsor: InterGen
Countries: Mexico, United States
Program focus: Environment (research grants)
Timeframe:
2002–2008
Description: This program offers grants to investigate and
implement effective, scientifically based and measurable methods to reduce ozone
creation and improve air quality in the border region between Mexicali, Mexico,
and Imperial County, California. Sixteen applied research grants have been awarded
to environmental and social scientists on both sides of the border. The program
also addresses cross-border policy issues such as shared environmental standards
and the purchase of emission reduction offsets or other mitigation efforts that
achieve a similar benefit. The $2 million initiative is funded by a seed grant
from InterGen to LASPAU. More
information
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
The twelve U.S. participants in the OAS Self-Placed
Graduate Scholarship Program have pursued long-term research,
master’s,
and doctoral degrees in fields including environmental resource
management, international public service, political science and
government, physics, anthropology, sociology, ethnomusicology,
community ecology, ecological agriculture, and Latin American
economic integration. Countries of study include Argentina, Bolivia,
Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, Guyana, Mexico, and Peru.
Sponsor: Coca-Cola Foundation
Countries: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Honduras, Mexico, Peru, United States
Program focus: Visiting faculty (food science, food technology)
Timeframe: 1991–1992
Description: This program was designed to promote international exchange and the transfer of information in the areas of food science and food technology. Four professors from U.S. institutions traveled to nine Latin American universities, where they conducted seminars and short courses, held meetings, and visited government, industry, and academic facilities.
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
information
Sponsor: Inter-American
Development Bank (IDB)
Country: Dominican Republic, United States
Program focus: Visiting faculty
Timeframe: 1988–1989
Description: LASPAU assisted INTEC in contracting
U.S. professors for short-term lecture visits at INTEC as a complement
to the faculty development program.
Sponsor: Ford Foundation
Countries: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, United States, Venezuela
Program focus: Higher education reform
Timeframe: 1995
Description: A grant to LASPAU from the Ford Foundation enabled the Harvard
Graduate School of Education (HGSE) to host a fellows program to strengthen
scholarship in higher education in Latin America. Six academics from Argentina,
Brazil, Chile, Mexico, the United States, and Venezuela were given one-semester
appointments in the Administration, Planning, and Social Policy area of HGSE.
Senior scholars and practitioners were invited to Harvard to enrich the fellows’ understanding
of higher education reform efforts in Latin America and other regions of the
world.
Sponsors: U.S.
Agency for International Development; Nicaraguan universities
Country: Nicaragua,
United States
Program focus: Visiting faculty
(basic sciences)
Timeframe: 1981–1983
Description: To
respond to the shortage of qualified faculty in Nicaragua in the early 1980s,
LASPAU recruited eight U.S. professors to teach basic sciences at the Universidad
Nacional Autónoma de Nicaragua and the Universidad Centroamericana.
In addition to their teaching responsibilities, several of the professors
collaborated on development-oriented research projects and curriculum revision.
The effort helped enhance the teaching, research, and evaluation capacities
of the two universities and increased technical expertise in the basic sciences.
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