International Research Funding Alert June 2021

 

Texas Tech University's Office of International Affairs will lead the Education Administration Leadership Summer Institute, in collaboration with Oklahoma State University and the Global One Health Summer Institute (GOHi) at Ohio State University. The project involves the U.S. Embassy in Ethiopia and Ethiopia's Ministry of Science and Higher Education (MoSHE). The university partners will design the summer institute in collaboration with the U.S. Embassy and MosSHE to prioritize and identify the needs of Ethiopian universities aligning with their national priority areas. The U.S. Embassy and MoSHE will identify and select 50 higher education administrators from Ethiopia to train them on ways to improve academic leadership and to increase the retention among administrators trained in leadership, management, and governance.

The project is being led by Dr. Sukant Misra, Principal Investigator and Vice Provost for International Affairs at Texas Tech. The training will be co-facilitated by experienced Ethiopian leaders who have demonstrated success in Ethiopian higher education. U.S. faculty, staff and guest experts will lead interactive sessions.

Participants will assess their abilities to apply critical management skills to identify, understand and overcome the challenges of organizational change. They will learn to identify developmental priorities and opportunities for innovation on campus; how to support entrepreneurship and commercialization; and ways to improve government relations.

We are proud of this effort, which contributes to the internationalization of our campus and solidifies our network of international partners. We encourage all Texas Tech Faculty developing an international sponsored project to contact the International Grants & Partnerships unit.