{"id":1350,"date":"2021-09-13T22:18:41","date_gmt":"2021-09-14T02:18:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/international\/?page_id=1350"},"modified":"2021-09-13T23:04:33","modified_gmt":"2021-09-14T03:04:33","slug":"history-of-international-involvement","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/international\/history-of-international-involvement\/","title":{"rendered":"History of International Involvement"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

(Past and Present)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The 1980’s<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

UMES International Development Programs experience began in 1980, with a multi-year award to UMES by the United State Agency for International Development (USAID) under the Title XII University Strengthening Grant Program. This six-year grant (1980-1986) was a faculty and staff preparedness program.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Four primary activities that emerged during the decade of the 1980 s were:  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

  1. Long-term overseas project technical assistance;<\/li>
  2. Faculty educational exchanges, both long and short-term;<\/li>
  3. Short-term overseas technical assistance; and,<\/li>
  4. Participant training.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    The goals and objectives set forth during the 1980’s rolled forward into the 1990’s.\u00a0<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

    Noticeable patterns were:<\/em>       <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    1. The Agricultural Sciences continued to be the major focus of the long and short-term overseas project technical assistance and participant training;<\/li>
    2. Non-agricultural related project activities started emerging, and the range of individual countries for project training activity were broadened.<\/li>
    3. Faculty educational exchange increased drastically;<\/li>
    4. Formal and informal linkage agreements were established with Africa, the Middle East and Asian Higher Education Institutions;  and,<\/li>
    5. Internationalization of the campus began. <\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

      Focus For 2000 Onward<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
      1. Internationalization of the curricula continues to be emphasized;<\/li>
      2. Student study abroad and exchanges continue to be a priority area;<\/li>
      3. International\/global education continues to become an integral part of learning, discovery, and engagements; and,<\/li>
      4. Our geographic area of focus has expanded beyond Africa to include Latin America and the Caribbean region.<\/li><\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

        (Past and Present) The 1980’s UMES International Development Programs experience began in 1980, with a multi-year award to UMES by the United State Agency for International Development (USAID) under the Title XII University Strengthening Grant Program. This six-year grant (1980-1986) was a faculty and staff preparedness program.   Four primary activities that emerged during the decade of…Read more History of International Involvement<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"folder":[],"class_list":["post-1350","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1350\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/folder?post=1350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}