contact list of program implementers in afghanistan-v2.docx

PROGRAM IMPLEMENTERS IN AFGHANISTAN

1. Yar M. Ebadi, Dean and Professor Robin Hagans Maupin Chair in Business Administration, College of Business Administration, Kansas State University 110 Calvin Hall, Manhattan, KS 66506 Phone: 785-532-7227; Fax: 785-532-7216; Email: yebadi@ksu.edu Kansas State has been working with both the English and Engineering Departments at Kabul University.

2. Steve Brown has run the “Global Connection and Exchange Program” to establish computer labs at various sites in Jalalabad, Afghanistan, where high school boys and girls would receive computer training, access to the Internet, and the opportunity to communicate with their peers in the USA. A common theme for student and teacher discussions would be the program as a precollege institute. The program was funded by Rotary International.

stephenrbrown@att.net

3. San Diego State University:

Contacts: Fred McFarland, ARPE Department Chair at SDSU / Director, Interwork Institute: fmcfarla@mail.sdsu.edu Fary Moini, La Jolla Golden Triangle Rotary Club: FaryM@att.net Steve Brown: stephenrbrown@att.net

4. Thomas E. Gouttierre, Director, Center for Afghanistan Studies University of Nebraska at Omaha Phone: (402) 554-2376 Fax: (402) 554-3681 teg@unomaha.edu http://world.unomaha.edu/cas/

5. Purdue University Department of Agriculture has an extensive program in Afghanistan: http://www.ag.purdue.edu/afghanistan/Pages/default.aspx. Contact: Kevin T. McNamara, Professor of Agricultural Economics, Assistant Director of International Programs in Agriculture, Purdue University, 765-494-4236, mcnamara@purdue.edu

6. Washington State University created the Afghan eQuality Alliance, an Afghan-led organization made up of stakeholders and leaders in Afghanistan’s higher education community that seek to work with and/or partner with Afghan higher education institutions. Contact: Maria Beebe beebem@wsu.edu http://www.ip.wsu.edu/ird/projects/current/Afghan-eQuality-Alliance.shtml

7. At Indiana University, contacts include the Maurer School of Law (http://info.law.indiana.edu/news/page/normal/12550.html) and the Near Eastern Languages and Cultures department and the Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies Program which feed a research database: http://www.indiana.edu/~afghan/index.htm

8. San José State University, School of Journalism and Mass Communications, http://www.jmc.sjsu.edu/ was awarded the Cooperative Agreement to implement a university partnership in Journalism with Herat University. The project began in late winter 2011. Contact: Diane Guerrazzi, Assistant Professor, Broadcast Journalism, E-mail: diane.guerrazzi@sjsu.edu

9. Ball State University, Rinker Center for International Programs, manages programs in rule of law and English language (http://cms.bsu.edu/Academics/CentersandInstitutes/Rinker.aspx) in Afghaninstan. Ball State also hosted the recent conference on university linkages with Afghan universities, details on which can be found at: http://cms.bsu.edu/Academics/CentersandInstitutes/Rinker/AfghanConference.aspx. Contact: Dr. Ken Holland, Dean of the Rinker Center for International Programs, Email: kmholland@bsu.edu.

10. University of Massachusetts – Amherst, School of Education (http://www.umass.edu/education/) has been involved in USAID’s Higher Education Program. Dr. David Evans, Professor, School of Education, Email: dre@educ.umass.edu

11. University of Hartford, Connecticut. Contact: Beth Richards (brichards@hartford.edu), Director of Rhetoric and Professional Writing, College of Arts and Sciences.

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