Entering another year of its relationship with the Junior Faculty Development Program (JFDP), APSA hosted a discussion session for visiting educators from Eastern and Central Europe and Russia. At the meeting in January 2004, APSA welcomed educators from Uzbekistan, Azerbaijan, Macedonia, Serbia, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan, Ukraine and Russia. Click here to learn more about the faculty members who participated in the meeting, their host and home instutions, research interests and goals for the program.

The Junior Faculty Development Program is a program of Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA) of the U.S. Department of State. JFDP is administered by American Councils for International Education: ACTR/ACCELS. The program's overall mission is to foster opportunities for Eurasian and Southeastern European higher educational systems to increase access to academic resources and new educational perspectives, and to promote the development of a growing network of academics among those regions and the United States. JFDP is a non-degree, professional development program that provides promising junior university faculty with the opportunity to:

• Develop new courses and implement curriculum reform at their home institutions
• Cultivate teaching skills and techniques derived from exposure to U.S. educational methods
• Expand the information base in their fields of study
• Become a vehicle for ongoing contact and exchange between home and host institutions

APSA Staff Members Linda Lopez, Bahram Rajaee and Michael Brintnall meet with JFDP participants in the Centennial Center.

For more information about APSA's International collaboration efforts, please contact Bahram Rajaee, Director of International and External Relations.