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SDPUS is a nonprofit global network of Professors who have begun working as academic “citizens of  the world” on university campuses and in the field of the quickly developing world of Latin America.

SDPUS professors teach, mentor, and conduct local research as they internationalize K-12, college and university faculties within their host countries. SDPUS is an innovation, inspired in large part by current trends towards globalization.

We are:

• working to meet the higher education faculty needs around the world
• helping less developed countries in Latin America improve domestic educational opportunities
• spreading by cultural diffusion, with each participating K-12 School District, College or University making its own cultural, social, ideological, ecological and/or technological contributions.
• providing academic, organizational and financial support needed to make the above possible.

Based upon our experiences to date, our plan is to further the development of SDPUS in the following ways:

• provide faculty with a comprehensive orientation plan to include continued guidance and support during the process of relocation.
• work with host institutions to help adjust the partnering faculty, their new departments and the curriculum to each other.  One of our major concerns will be the development of curricula and teaching methodologies to facilitate the achievement of successful academic programs.  To reach this goal, SDPUS will employ culturally competent methods appropriate to the local experience.
• provide financial support to cover the hiring and compensation costs of our professors, beyond that provided by host universities.
• emphasize priority fields of specialization that would particularly benefit from an international perspective.                                           i.e. international higher education, international business, sustainable economics,  global social science, sustainable science, environment, economic, security, population statistics and probability.
• strongly encourage SDPUS professors and fellows to undertake high quality research.  SDPUS will assist in disseminating this research in various developing and developed countries.

In short, SDPUS was founded to create and maintain a new institutional pathway towards an appropriate and "developing-world-sensitivity" and internationalization of all education.

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International Professors Project is growing due to the support of dozens of dedicated people around the world.

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We are continually seeking Strategic Decisions & Partnerships Fellows. If you are a college or university professor interested in joining our project, please email us for more information.

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Strategic Decisions & Partnerships is a non-profit 501(c) (3) organization. We need your help to bring Strategic Decisions & Partnerships to the world.

We hope that you will consider supporting the International Professors Project. All contributions are tax deductible.

Today, we must broaden our commitment to the developing world’s universities. Your active engagement is needed so that the International Professors Project can greatly enlarge its corps of academic citizens of the world teaching, developing university libraries, designing culturally appropriate curricula and mentoring fledgling educators. 

Through this work, Strategic Decisions & Partnerships is committed to developing and fostering international perspectives, knowledge and understanding.
 
By supporting Strategic Decisions & Partnerships, you will:

1.   assist in sending experienced professors to struggling schools and universities around the globe, helping to create and maintain for the long-term,  a large supply of first world professors on third world campuses. These men and women fill new academic positions and replace professors lost to the ongoing “brain drain” from the developing world.

2.   help to provide needed expertise in academic programs in third world universities.

3.   aid in critically needed design and development of courses in the social sciences, physical sciences and engineering disciplines.

4.   support the introduction of higher education administrative expertise.

5.   perhaps most significantly to enhance mutual understanding across cultures.

Strategic Decisions & Partnerships accepts checks in U.S. funds drawn on U.S. banks or donations via credit or debit card online from anywhere in the world.

Global Outreach Program                                                    Renowned and well distinguished Professors from leading universities all across the world have undertaken seminars with SDPUS. Regular global exposure and thorough understanding of global competitive practices are the reasons that SDPUS partnering professors are recruited by multi-national corporations, with their operations spread across continents.

Moreover, SDPUS member faculties regularly undertake corporate projects and hold annual seminars with renown faculties. Some of the most notable and recognized international faculties,  have either taught SDPUS students or have undertaken seminars with SDPUS faculties.   

 

Latin America: OUR EDUCATIONAL FOCUS

One of the greatest obstacles to developing countries in Latin America is in providing rural areas high-quality university education, with sufficient funding, curriculum, and retention.

• University education is expensive and can heavily burden governments, especially those of the poorer nations of the world. Yet, an educated population is a key factor in leading a country out of poverty and into economic productivity.
• One size does not fit all in higher education for developing worlds.  Much of western policy, science, and technology offer little discourse and instruction on the majority of the world’s environmental, population, and security issues/needs. 
• Many educated citizens of the developing world choose to pursue higher education and their careers in developed world.  While these scholars have the opportunity to contribute to their discipline and benefit from fully developed economic and political systems for themselves and their children, their absence is often to the detriment of their home nations which would benefit from their expertise and experience.

At present, there are many educated scholars in the developed world who, with proper institutional support, could make a valuable contribution to education in poorer countries.

• Strategic Decisions & Partnerships goal is to send professors and instructors from the developed to the developing world and within the developing world to other developing-country universities.  As a part  of this process, SDPUS assigns young International Instructors to universities in their homelands. Additionally, at least 25% of the International Professors,
• Instructors and Fellows will be drawn from the pool of unemployed and underemployed Ph.D.’s from developing countries.
• SDPUS aims to support and supplement the salaries of scholars  who live and teach in the developing world.  By helping to mitigate   the financial barriers, the project helps to provide a more stable and enduring platform for the work of internationalizing higher education.  
• SDPUS encourages broad circulation of opinion, information, theory, and research with differing perspectives. SDPUS helps to enable developing world universities to more confidently and to freely set forth their own regional and countries' higher education ideas, approaches, and values.
• All work of SDPUS is informed and framed by collaboration with regional participants, individuals whose intimate knowledge of political, cultural, and social issues/needs is integral to the internationalization of higher education process.

SDPUS offers a central location for sharing and disseminating data and completed research across the developed and developing world. Both the developed and the developing world stand to benefit from a network that offers opportunities for intellectual and academic exchange and collaboration within the context of university education.