With signed subagreements in hand, the newest partners have begun rolling up their sleeves and digging into their projects. AACC's solicitation, which ended in May, resulted in 40 high-impact proposals for projects not just in South Africa, but throughout Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, Europe and the New Independent States, and Asia and the Near East.
Community colleges are in the forefront of training their local workforces.
Applying this expertise to the developing world seems the logical next step. To choose the 11 proposals, three teams of peer reviewers, made up of five practitioners in workforce development and international education, evaluated. AACC plans to announce its final selections once project agreements are signed. Besides the South Africa proposals, there were a high number of projects in Mexico. Perhaps the biggest surprises were innovative and exciting partnerships in Sri Lanka and Uzbekistan.