**PROFESSOR APPLICATION**

> **FACULTY EXCHANGE PROGRAM - 2002**
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> (For USDA Use Only)
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> **I. PERSONAL INFORMATION**: ? 2 LETTERS OF ?
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> ? RECOMMENDATION ?
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> Name: ? ?
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> FAMILY NAME, GIVEN NAME ? 2 PHOTOGRAPHS ?
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> (Please capitalize FAMILY ? ?
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> NAME. Name must correspond ? SIGNED ?
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> exactly to passport or ? CONDITIONS ?
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> travel documents.) ? OF TRAINING ?
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> Date of Birth: ? HEALTH CERTIFICATE ?
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> Place of Birth: ??? ???
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> Country of Citizenship: ??? Male ??? Female
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> Home Address: Telephone Numbers:
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> (include city codes)
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> (Home)
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> (# Street) (Office)
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> (Town or City) (Fax)
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> (Country and Post Code) (Telex)
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> (E-mail)
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> **II. EMPLOYMENT**: (Please complete for your last three jobs starting
> with your current job)
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> A\) Current Job
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> Name of organization
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> From [/ /]{.underline} to present
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> date Name of Supervisor Telephone of Supervisor
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> Title of current position Address of Organization
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> Describe your duties
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> B\) Job Two
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> Name of organization
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> From [/ /]{.underline} to [/ /]{.underline}
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> date Name of Supervisor Telephone of Supervisor
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> Title of position Address of Organization
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> Describe your duties
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> C\) Job Three
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> Name of organization
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> From [/ /]{.underline} to [/ /]{.underline}
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> date Name of Supervisor Telephone of Supervisor
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> Title of position Address of Organization
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> Describe your duties
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> **III. EXPERIENCE AND PLANS: (use the back of the page to continue
> answers if necessary)**
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> A\) Describe your past teaching experience in each of the U.S.
> disciplines-Agricultural Economics and Marketing, Agribusiness
> Administration and Agrarian Law. (Describe courses and adult education
> programs you have taught)
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> B\) Describe your expected future teaching in each of the U.S.
> disciplines-Agricultural Economics and Marketing, Agribusiness
> Administration and Agrarian Law. (Describe both courses and adult
> education.)
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> C\) Describe the training you want in the U.S. Which three courses do
> you wish to revise or create during the program?
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> D\) List name, address, and telephone number of professional contacts
> you have in the United States.
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> Name Name Name
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> Address Address Address
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> Telephone Telephone Telephone
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> E\) Academic Education
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> Language
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> Name of Field of Dates Degree Obtained of
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> Institution Study Attended & Date Comp. Instruction
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> F\) Training or study in other countries:
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> Field of Study Dates Lang. of Instruction Country
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> G\) Describe specific improvements in the curriculum or teaching at
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> your institute that you want to develop while in the U.S.
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> H\) Which parts of US market economy would you like to understand
> better?
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> (list several in your priority order)
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> **IV. AVAILABILITY**:
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> A\) When could you be available for training in the U.S.? Please
> indicate specific beginning and ending dates when you could be
> available.
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> **V. LANGUAGES:** (Please indicate **ENGLISH** capabilities in first
> line)
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> Can Converse Can Read Can Write
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> Fluently Passably Easily With Difficulty?Easily With Difficulty
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> If you have taken the TOEFL, give score and date of test [/
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> \[international test of English as a foreign language\]
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> **VI. TRAINING BENEFITS:**
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> A\) How will you put the knowledge you gain in the U.S. into practice?
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> B\) Why will selecting you for study in the U.S. help your country
> more than selecting one of the other professors?
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> **VII. ATTACHMENTS:**
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> Please include with your application the following attachments:
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> 2 passport photographs, completed applications from your Institute
> (Supervisor's Recommendation, Rector, Dean, Department Head, Letter of
> Commitment), 2 letters of recommendation **from private businessmen**,
> and a signed Conditions of Training.
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> **VIII. SUPERVISOR\'S RECOMMENDATION FOR APPLICANT\'S TRAINING:**
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> (Please have your supervisor complete the following questions. Provide
> an English translation if necessary.)
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> A\) What do you want the applicant to learn while in the United States
> for training?

B\) How will the applicant\'s training be used by the organization

when he/she returns from the United States?

Thank you.

Signature

Title

Date

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**[FACULTY EXCHANGE PROGRAM CONDITIONS OF TRAINING]{.underline}**

Name of Participant

(FAMILY NAME, Given name, Other names)

Country

If I am accepted to receive training under the U.S. Department of
Agriculture (USDA) Faculty Exchange Program (FEP), I agree to adhere to
my arranged program, to devote my time and attention to my studies and
practical training, and to conform to FEP regulations and procedures for
the duration of my training program. I will not seek extension of the
period of my program but will return to my country without delay upon
completion of my training acquired under this program. I also agree to
conform with all laws of the United States.

Furthermore, I thoroughly understand the following policies of the
Faculty Exchange Program:

I. [Dependents:]{.underline}

> USDA strongly discourages family members from accompanying or joining
> a participant while he/she is in training. The Faculty Exchange
> Program is not responsible in any way for family members. If
> dependents do wish to come to the US, the participant is responsible
> to show proof of health insurance coverage that equals or exceeds the
> coverage required by U.S. visa regulations.

II\. [Attendance of Participants at Conferences and
Meetings]{.underline}

> Attendance of participants at national or international conferences,
> conventions or meetings of professional, trade, or other associations
> is not permitted unless such attendance is a part of the approved
> Faculty Exchange Program.

III\. [Conditions for Termination of Training Programs:]{.underline}

> USDA reserves the right to terminate the training program of those
> participants who:
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> A. Change the course of study without authorization from the USDA
> Faculty Exchange Program.
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> B. Fail to show sufficient interest in or to pursue effectively their
> training program.
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> C. Have severe mental or physical health problems.
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> D. Conduct themselves in a manner prejudicial to the program or to the
> laws of the United States.

E. Marry during training without securing prior USDA approval.

F. Have in any way falsified information on the application and/or
supporting documents.

G. Fail to maintain health insurance for dependents in US

> H. Accept payment for work performed while in the U.S.

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IV\. [Travel:]{.underline}

If selected, the participant, will travel on the tickets and according
to the arrangements made by the USDA. USDA will pay for round trip
transportation to and from your country's capital city to the United
States. The participant is responsible for all costs associated with
traveling to and from their home to the capital city at the beginning
and end of the program.

V. [Financial Support:]{.underline}

> The applicant is aware that the financial support provided by the USDA
> Faculty Exchange Program is for training fees, emergency medical
> insurance, lodging, food and incidentals [only]{.underline}. The daily
> maintenance allowance is adequate for modest lodging and food. USDA
> does not fund any expenses related to family members accompanying
> participants. During the program lodging is arranged by USDA. You will
> most likely share a bedroom with one other participant during your
> entire stay in the U.S.
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> Participants are not allowed to earn a salary from work performed in
> the U.S. during their stay under this program.

VI\. [Health and Insurance:]{.underline}

> It is a requirement before arrival in the United States that every
> participant have a physical examination and be determined to be in
> excellent health. Each participant is responsible for arranging and
> paying for a physical examination. A signed statement from a qualified
> physician certifying good health is required. The insurance provided
> to each participant while in the United States will cover
> [only]{.underline} **EMERGENCY** medical care and **DOES NOT** cover
> pre-existing conditions, prescriptions, dental or optical work. In
> addition, the participant must pay a percentage of medical expenses
> for each occurrence.

VII\. [Debts and Obligations:]{.underline}

> The participant will be responsible for all debts and financial
> obligations incurred while in the United States.
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> Signature below indicates agreement to and understanding of the above
> conditions.

Applicant\'s Signature Date

**APPLICATION**

by

for

**Faculty Exchange Program**

**offered by**

**United States Department of Agriculture**

**FROM THE RECTOR**:

Why do you want to send one or more of your best faculty to the United
States for an extended period to study curriculum in agricultural
economics and marketing, agribusiness and agrarian law?

How will your institution consider and implement the proposals to change
your institutes courses and curriculum which your faculty will bring to
you upon their return from study in the United States?

Rector

Date

**FROM THE DEAN**

Which skills and understandings of your recent graduates are most in
need of strengthening and could be strengthened by appropriate changes
in curriculum and course content?

Describe what you want the training of your faculty in the U.S. to
contribute to the education of adults in your area and the transition of
agribusiness to the market economy.

Why would participation by your institute in the Faculty Exchange
Program produce more results for the people and the economy than
participation by other institutes in the same program?

Dean

Date

**FROM THE DEPARTMENT HEAD**

How will you adjust and manage the operation of your department while
some of your best faculty members are absent and on training status in
the U.S.?

How will you change assignments and operation of your department upon
the return of your faculty from training in the U.S. to make use of
their new understandings and proposals?

What elements of the U.S. market economy do you want our faculty to be
better able to explain and teach upon their return?

What elements of your education system, curriculum and teaching methods
do you especially want your faculty to study, compare with those in the
U.S., and bring back proposals for change?

Which courses should your faculty be able to teach upon their return
from the U.S. which they are not currently qualified to teach?

Head of Department

Date

**LETTER OF COMMITMENT**

from

(name of Institute)

to the

**UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE**

**to participate in the**

**FACULTY EXCHANGE PROGRAM**

The institute named above commits itself to release the following
interested and capable faculty members to study in the U.S. if selected
by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). The institute
administration agrees to continue to pay each faculty member their full
salary while they are participating in the Faculty Exchange Program..

The institute hereby authorizes the above members of their faculty to
bring copies of the institutes curricula, course outlines and teaching
materials to the U.S. to be used by the faculty member for review, study
and comparison.

The institute administration agrees that faculty members going to the
U.S. should inform themselves about the teaching programs of the
institute and will assist them to do so before they leave for the U.S.
and during their stay in the U.S.

The institute understands and accepts that their faculty members while
in the U.S. will develop proposals and try to suggest changes which they
believe will improve this institutes curricula, courses and teaching
methods.

The institute administration agrees to consider in good faith proposals
for change presented to them by returning faculty and to create
opportunities for returning faculty to share with other faculty members
the understandings and proposals for improvement which they developed
while in the U.S.

The institute administration promises to offer a position of the same or
improved responsibility to each faculty member returning from the U.S.
if he/she satisfactorily completed the Faculty Exchange Program.

Rector Vice Rector Dean Department Head