Report on Lakeland College's participation in the IAPP study tour in Brazil

2. Brazil 2014

6. What is IAPP?
• Study tour
• Webinar series
• Mentoring program
• Goal: Establishing long-term partnerships
between American and Brazilian colleges and
universities
• Organized by the International Institute of
Education

7. Brazilian Higher Education
• Public
Federal Universities
State Universities
Federal Institutes
Private
Catholic- PUC
Other Religious
For-profit colleges

8. Who goes to school where?
• Private high school public universities
• 25% attend public universities
• 75% attend private universities
• Most of the students who attend private
universities attend for-profit institutions
• Only 10% of all students accepted into public
universities

9. • For-Profit colleges-
– Estácio 311,000 students
– Kroton 476,000 students + Anhanguera
Educacional 400,000 students
• (For perspective: the University of Phoenix
has 269,000 students)

10. http://www.insper.edu.br/

11. Policies and Policy Developments
• Private universities are free (by constitutional
decree)
• Extensive, ongoing, quantifiable, public
evaluation system- CAPES scores
• Quota of 50% of spots for public school
graduates
• Low interest student loan programs

12. Policies and Policy Developments
• Brazilian Scientific Mobility Program– “STEM”
(called Science without Borders in Brazil)
• English without Borders

22. Museo Paraense Emilio Goeldi
Belem, Brazil

24. Potential Areas for Partnerships-Rio
• PUC-Rio
– Student Exchange
– Portuguese
– Various Disciplines
• IBMEC
– Business
– Economics
– Communication
– Dual degree MBA?

25. Potential Areas for Partnerships-
Rio Grande do Sul
• Federal University
– Archaelogy
– Education
– Sociology
– Exercise Science
– Humanities
– Portuguese
• PUC-RS
– Student Exchange
– Business
– Short-term Programs
– Computer Science
– Natural Science

26. Potential Areas for Partnerships-
Brasilia
• Instituto Federal
– Serving returning students
– English and faculty development

27. Other Potential Opportunities
• US State Department support
• Education USA
• IAPP consortium of interested institutions
• Fulbright
– Faculty
– English teaching assistants

28. IAPP-Brazil Steering Committee
Jennifer Alig
Jen Siebert
Carole Robertson
Sharon Roob
Becky Boyko
Krista Feinberg
Tim Fojtik
Greg Smith
Nick Spaeth
Rene Ryman