・Howard and USP noticed a United States Department of Education and Brazil Ministry of Education program called the "US-Brazil Mobility Project"

・Our two universities led a four-university consortium (with Vanderbilt and Bahia)

・Submitted a proposal jointly to the Fund for Improvement of Postsecondary Education in the US and CAPES in Brazil

・Have been granted an award to provide a faculty and student exchange and joint curriculum development program in the area of -- Race, Development and Social Inequality (sound familiar?)

　

・Fund for Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE) is one of the most competitive programs in the government

・Award for a US-Brazil Mobility Project made last month (both countries total, $440K)

・Four-year funding, exchange 50 students

・Partners are Vanderbilt, Universidad de Sao Paulo, Universidade Federal da Bahia