Panama project 525-1001 · 1991 · higher education, universities and scholarships · Academy for Educational Development, Inc. (AED)

Project to provide leaders and potential leaders in Panama with specialized skills, training, and academic education as well as an appreciation of the working of democratic processes in a free enterprise economy. The project, a component of the Caribbean and Latin American Scholarship Program II (CLASP II), will provide U.S. training in priority areas to some 550 leaders and potential leaders, 70% of them from socially and economically disadvantaged classes and 40% of them women. Project training will take three forms. (1) About 70% of the trainees (400 persons) will participate in short-term training programs (1-8 months); (2) 60 persons will pursue long-term technical courses in skill areas required for local social and economic development (12-24 months); and (3) the final 90 participants will be awarded scholarships for up to 4 years of academic study at U.S. universities in areas aimed at remedying key shortages in Panama, especially in non-urban provinces; at least 10% will be trained in Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU's). Long-term technical and academic participants will receive 10 months of pre-departure English language and remedial training in Panama p

Source: DEC abstract, PD-KAW-574 (1991). The source's own text.