Juarez-Lincoln-Marti Faculty Exchange Project 

 Options or "Menus" of this Exchange Project 

 Options for American Faculty going to Mexico: 

i) Full Sabbatical Leaves (one or two semesters) in a Mexican Institution,
contacted directly through this program. Faculty gets his/her salary plus
what the Mexican Institution will pay. 

ii) Fulbright-Garcia Robles Scholarship (can be taken with a Sabbatical or
an unpaid leave) contacted through CIES with our advertisement. Faculty gets
the Fulbright payments plus some aid from Mexican Institution.

iii) Summer courses in Mexico (but not in August; universities shut down).
Faculty takes his/her free time and a Mexican Institution pays a salary. It
can be for a summer course or short, intensive seminar/training sessions.
Once there, US-Mexico Commission may provide some funds for presentations.

iv) Winter Break short courses in Mexico (we can use the two-week period of
January 7th to 20th). Faculty uses his/her free time and Mexican Institution
pays for the trip. There are also possibilities that the US-Mexico Bilateral
Commission pays a stipend for giving short presentations, once there.

v) Spring Break short courses (also using free time) in a Mexican Institution.
The institution pays for the trip and the Commission may also use the Faculty
for talks/presentations and pay a stipend.

vi) Short courses (one-two weeks long) and training sessions to Faculty of
Mexican Institutions as parts of their Sabbatical leave in the US. Mexican
Institutions or the Bilateral Commission pays for the trip and expenses.

vii) Research stage at Mexican Institutions, during Sabbatical and/or other
types of leaves. This project establishes contacts among interested parties. 
The host Mexican Institution pays a salary.

viii) Contacting other Faculty at US willing to share in this work and
providing the interface to facilitate their giving workshops/courses at
Mexican and Latin American universities.

 Options for Mexican Faculty Coming to the United States: 

i) Faculty coming for Doctoral studies, through the US-Mexico Bilateral
Commission program (Fulbright) spend two to three years here. Assistantships
and tuition waivers from SUNY are great help, especially now that the Mexican
currency has been devaluated to 50% of its value one year ago.

ii) Faculty coming for one or two semesters, as part of their Sabbatical leave,
need to find an American  institution to teach. There is much interest in
learning new teaching methods (e.g. group learning, use of technology, etc) 
that we have recently adopted here.

iii) Faculty coming for shorter spans (one to six months) to take courses in
a specialization topic, at the graduate level, appreciate tuition waivers and/or
student housing. Especially for the summer session, when dorms are almost empty
and these Faculty could be easily accomodated there, at affordable rates.

iv) Faculty coming for one or two semesters to do research at an American
university, with an American Faculty/Researcher counterpart, need information
about institutions, labs, research projects and  researchers. We could
help establish these contacts and enhance the ones established by the Fulbright
program. Also help with housing arrangements, access to campus facilities, etc.

v) Faculty can be invited to academic activities (e.g. conferences, workshops, 
technical meetings, etc.). We could find housing and registration fee waivers
for these activities, to these Mexican visitors.

vi) Faculty can be invited for longer periods to participate as "interns"
in American institutions and thus work with an American faculty, share his or
her office, visit and participate in the coursework and academic activities
and pay room and board with part time work with language students and as a
resource for developing materials in the visitor's native language.