Message-ID: <MAC.971124182057@maine.maine.EDU> Date: Mon, 24 Nov 1997 18:20:57 EST From: "Dennis McConnell, Maine Business School" <mailto:mac@MAINE.MAINE.EDU> Subject: FMDAP Announcement for U.S. Graduate Business Students To: mailto:INTDEV-L@URIACC.URI.EDU
I have received the attached FMDAP announcement from the IIE
office in Washington. Business-school faculty on the list may
want to bring this program to the attention of their more promis-
ing graduate students.
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Free Market Development Advisers Program for MBA Students
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PROGRAM: The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)
and the Institute of International Education (IIE) announce the
1998-99 competition for the Free Market Development Advisers
Program (FMDAP)
The FMDAP is an opportunity for U.S. graduate business students
to provide management assistance to small- and medium-sized
enterprises and business-serving organizations in emerging market
countries. The ten-month assignments enable graduate business
students to gain invaluable international work experience as they
contribute to USAID mission objectives abroad.
USAID funds the program and provides first-year graduate business
students positions within host organizations at middle and upper
managerial levels in such areas as:
* Financial Control * Information Systems
* Personnel Management * Quality Control
* Marketing
On completion of assignments, Advisers will return to their home
universities and, under the guidance of their university mentors,
write a case study. Case studies from all Advisers are then
published in a case book that is used for teaching and curriculum
development.
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ELIGIBILITY: Applicants must be U.S. citizens currently enrolled
in an accredited U.S. graduate business program. Each Adviser
must return to complete business degree course work after the
period abroad.
The applicant's U.S. academic institution must approve the ten-
month leave between the first and second year of the business
program, and endorse the candidacy of the applicant.
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TO APPLY: Applicants are required to submit an application and an
essay indicating their reasons for applying to the program and
the contribution they would make in their work assignments.
Applicants must also address the issue of cross-cultural situa-
tions while working in a host country company and how the experi-
ence will benefit their future professional plans.
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SELECTION CRITERIA: Preference is given to applicants with:
* at least two to three years of previous management experience
before entering a graduate business school program
* academic achievement in coursework
* foreign language competency (where applicable)
* a commitment to the developing world
* the maturity to work in a new, unsupervised situation
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BENEFITS: Positions are for a ten-month period, including a
mandatory two-week orientation in the U.S. prior to departing
for the host country.
Allowances cover expenses for the Adviser only, including:
* travel and expenses for orientation in Washington, DC
* cost of international travel
* living expenses
* health insurance
* appropriate housing
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FMDAP APPLICATION DEADLINE IS FEBRUARY 16, 1998.
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A national panel of graduate business school and private sector
specialists will select candidates. Finalists will be notified
of their acceptance by late April.
For more information, or to request application material, please
contact:
Susanna Calingaert
Free Market Development Advisers Program
Institute of International Education
1400 K Street, N.W.
Washington, DC 20005-2403
Tel: (202) 326-7710
Fax: (202) 326-7698
E-mail: mailto:scalingaert@iie.org
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