Temple University is now an official member of the Rawabit: The U.S.-Jordanian Higher Education Network, a Fulbright Program initiative.
This initiative enables participating Jordanian and United States universities to improve their institutional capacity, internal funding, and risk management so they can undertake serious collaborative reforms guided by U.S. and global best practices.
“Joining the Rawabit network provides Temple with an excellent opportunity, not only to expand our already existing engagement, but also to encourage and facilitate more student and faculty collaboration and mobility,” said Martyn J. Miller, assistant vice president for Global Engagement.
In both the US and Jordan, participating universities and affiliated scholars and researchers will benefit from the resulting open and transparent atmosphere of information and peer-to-peer collegiality.
Rawabit’s overarching goal is to formalize and institutionalize Jordan’s Higher Education Network operations in support of intensified cooperation around higher and postsecondary education. This includes a special focus on ensuring better job opportunities and economic outcomes for targeted populations of university students in Jordan, especially young women.
Academics and professionals whose organizations are members of the Rawabit network are eligible to apply for travel and partnership development grants.
“We will update the community when the new calls for grant proposals are announced,” said Miller.