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Schedule At-A-Glance

March 23, 2007

Draft Agenda

8:00-8:30 Registration, Continental Breakfast
8:30am Welcome and The Global Encounter Process at MSU - Acting Dean of ISP (followed by Q&A)
8:40 am Overview of MSU African Partnerships - African Studies Center Director
8:55 am Strategic Planning for African Partnerships - Prof. James Bingen, CARRS, ASC Advisory Committee Chairperson
9:10 am The Call for Strategic Partnerships in Africa (followed by Q&A) - The Provost
10:10 am Plenary Discussion of the MSU Strategic Plans for Africa
10:30 am Break
10:45 am Breakout Sessions on New Ideas for Strategic Initiatives in Africa

Each breakout session will explore new models and activities for partnerships such as joint and collaborative degrees, jointly-appointed faculty, triangular collaboration, entrepreneurial models, etc., as well as ethical and strategic criteria for good partnerships.

  • West Africa
  • East Africa
  • Southern Africa
  • North Africa
  • Central Africa
11:55 am Plenary Report-Back from Breakout Sessions
12:30 pm Break and Pickup Sack Lunches for Brownbag Regional Breakout Sessions
12:45 pm African Regional Breakout Discussions: Initiatives and Synergies *

Each breakout session will explore what have we are learning from MSU's current and recent partnerships in Africa, and strategic decisions that need to be made to act on emerging new patterns of partnership.

  • West Africa: including UNN, UCAD, University of Mali
  • East Africa: including U. Dar es Salaam (UDSM), AAU
  • Southern Africa: including U. Malawi, U. KwaZulu-Natal, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, and University of the Northwest
  • North Africa
  • Central Africa
2:00 pm Break
2:15 pm Plenary Summary Report-Back from Breakout Sessions:
3:05 pm Discussion: Next Steps: What have we learned today for the MSU strategic partnership initiatives in Africa?
3:30 pm End of Meeting.

* Note: Because these general discussions do not allow us to be as specific as needed, we expect to hold special extended meetings in the months ahead to plan across departments and colleges for specific MSU initiatives for the African institutions we choose. Such discussions already have been held in 2006-2007 on the UCAD partnership in Dakar.

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