Project Maine France Quebec

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Project Maine France (Quebec)

• Faculty Delegation Trip

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PMF(Q)

• Specific Goals and Purpose of PMFQ
• To help realize the UMS vision for international
  study by creating and sustaining a robust network
  of academic relationships with partner
  institutions in France and Quebec, thus providing
  a possible model for partnerships with other
  regions of the world.
• To provide a cost effective means for all
  campuses to increase their involvement in
  international programs through a centralized
  support structure.
• To engage in collaborative research with France
  and the EU (and Quebec) in areas directly
  relevant to building Maines economy and
  enhancing Maines participation in the global
  economy.
• To help students, faculty, and others develop
  linguistic and cultural knowledge and skills
  through a wide range of opportunities both in
  France and Quebec.
• To support the goals and directions of the UMS
  Strategic Plan.

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Partners

• Quebec
• Université de Québec
• France
• lUniversité du Maine (LeMans)
• lUniversité dAngers
• lUniversité de Nantes
• lUniversité de Bretagne Occidentale
• lÉcole Supérieure des Beaux Arts au Mans
• lIUFM Pays de la Loire (a institute for teacher
  preparation)
  
• THEODILE (a research laboratory at lUniversité
  de Lille III)
  
• lIUFM Nord Pas-de-Calais (a second institute
  for teacher preparation)
  
• IFREMER (the French National Institute for Marine
  Research)
  
• Paris 12, la Faculté dAdministration et
  Relations Internationales

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Where
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Significant Activities To Date

• April 2005
• Completion of an inventory of all the current
  collaborative activity between the UMS and our
  academic partners in France.
  
• October 2005
• A high-level delegation, including the UMS
  chancellor and vice chancellor, two UMS
  presidents, and two provosts, visited the four
  French universities who are members of the
  University Network of the Western Atlantic
  (LeMans, Angers, Nantes, and Brest) to sign a
  formal, system-level agreement. A formal Intent
  to Cooperate was also signed with the College of
  Administration and International Relations at the
  University of Paris XII. The October delegation
  visit was coordinated with Governor Baldaccis
  trade mission visit to France.
• December 2005
• Professor Martin Rogoff from the U Maine Law
  School visited four law schools in France
  December 2005 - representatives from IFREMER (the
  French National Research Institute for Marine
  Studies), with whom we visited in June 2005, came
  to Maine to visit our marine science field
  stations and discuss collaborative research
  opportunities with marine researchers here.
• January 2006
• Monsieur Gautier, the French Consul in Boston,
  visited Maine and spent some time at USM with
  Rich Pattenaude learning more about the UMS
  partnerships in France.  Some of the impetus for
  the visit came from Christian Tual, the French
  Embassy education liaison in Washington D.C.
• January 2006
• Stephanie Welcomer from the University of Maine
  School of Business taught at the Université
  dAngers.
  
• February 2006
• During her February 2006 trip to France to
  oversee the UMF semester-long study abroad
  program at LeMans, Sylvie Charron met with the
  Ecole des Beaux Arts at LeMans on behalf of PMF
  to plan next steps in student exchanges between
  their program and the UMS. Our first Beaux Arts
  exchange student, Martin Roulet, came to study at
  USM this Spring (2006) with Jan Piribeck in the
  Fine Arts department.

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Significant Activities To Date

• March 2006
• Tiane Donahue visited the IUFM Pays-de-la Loire
  and the IUFM Nord-Pas-de-Calais as well as the
  THEODILE research laboratory at Lille III to
  pursue opportunities for student exchange (IUFM
  PdlL), faculty exchange (with all three
  entities), and research collaboration (primarily
  with IUFM NPdC and THEODILE) in the area of
  teacher formation and research on teaching and
  learning in preparation for the May Faculty
  Tour.
• March 2006
• George Criner, chair of the Department of
  Resource Economics at the University of Maine
  visited the University of Angers and the Faculté
  dAdministration et Echanges Internationales at
  Paris 12 to launch an exchange of masters
  students and to discuss the possibilities of
  joint/dual degrees in resource economics.
• March-May 2006
• A uniform policy for all UMS student and faculty
  exchanges was developed and is being reviewed and
  approved by the system CAOs and presidents. It
  will be shared with our French partners during
  the May 2006 faculty delegation visit and
  reviewed and adopted by them.
• April 2006
• A delegation from UBO (Université de Bretagne
  Occidentale) in Brest spent a week in Maine
  interacting with colleagues on all seven
  campuses, deepening their understanding of our
  university system and the mission and programs of
  each of the seven campuses, and making specific
  plans for student and faculty exchange and
  research collaboration between UBO and UMS.
• May 2006
• Faculty Delegation Trip Fine Arts , Business,
  Social Sciences and Teacher formation
  
• June 2006
• Angers Delegation Visit to Maine
• October 2006
• The four presidents of the RUOA universities are
  planning a visit to Maine and the UMS.
  

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Faculty Delegation to France

• Teacher Preparation/Formation (Facilitator
  Tiane Donahue, UMF)
  
• Ann E. LYNCH, UMF, (Teacher Education)
• Eric PANDISCIO, UM, (Mathematics Education)
• François AMAR, UM (Chemistry, Science Education)
• Business (Facilitator Jane Smith, UM)
• David VANDERLINDEN, USM, (International Finance,
  Business)
  
• Anthony GAUVIN, UMFK, (eCommerce, eMarketing)
• Fine Arts (Facilitator Claire Davidshofer,
  UMPI)
  
• Rose MARASCO USM (Art)
• Susan E. PICINICH USM (Theatre Design)
• Elizabeth Roberts McFALLS UMF (Digital New Media,
  Fine Arts)
  
• Social Science/Humanities (Facilitator Jane
  Smith, UM)
  
• Kristin LANGELLIER UM (Communication)
• Elizabeth HAZARD UMA (International Relations
  History)
  
• Francesca VASSALLO USM (Political Science)

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University Visits

• LEMANS lUNIVERSITÉ DU MAINE
• http//www.univ-lemans.fr/
• Noella Gaigeot, who teaches English at the
  IUT,(institut universitaire de technologie) was
  very interested in student exchanges and
  collaborations

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University Visits

• NANTES - UNIVERSITÉ DE NANTES
• http//www.univ-nantes.fr/
• The Dean, Cecile Clergeau, was very receptive to
  having Maine students and suggested leveraging a
  program the have create in conjunction with
  Bentley College in Mass in Franco-American
  Studies in Business and economics. The program is
  for undergraduate students. It is reciprocal
  exchange with France and American student
  spending one semester abroad taking courses in a
  foreign language. This program would fit in with
  business students at all the campuses in the UMS
  system. I have subsequent e-mail conversations
  with Christine Bertail (coordinator of American
  Students at Nantes) and Cecile Clergeau
  reaffirming their interest in creating a similar
  program with UMS and sending French students to
  Maine (UMFK).
• Discussion with David VanderLinden from USM to
  build a program that would allow business
  students from the small colleges receiving a BS
  in Business from their home campus, a Diploma of
  Franco-American Studies in Business and Economics
  from Nantes, and a MBA in International Business
  from USM.
• Nantes also have a center for entrepreneurship
  that would match well with the Aroostook and
  Washington County Alliance for Rural
  entrepreneurship efforts (AWARE) but scheduling
  conflicts prevented my meeting with the director
  of the center.
• Jean-Francois Le Beere from the Centre
  International des Langues was very interested in
  having American professors teach at Nantes but he
  was not sure where the funding would come from to
  support such an effort.

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University Visit

• PARIS - PARIS 12
• (UNIVERSITÉ DE PARIS 12 (VAL-DE-MARNE),
• FACULTÉ ADMINISTRATION ET ÉCHANGES
• http//www.univ-paris12.fr/
• Paris XII is the most innovative and academically
  advanced of the schools we visited (at least in
  my disciplines) and they are very interested in
  creating a dual master (MBA) program with the UMS
  system (the UMS system is much less
  enthusiastic), the problem with collaborations
  with UM and USM is that both schools are AACSB
  accredited (PARIS XII is not!) which hampers
  such collaboration (classes at Paris XII would
  not count towards the UM and USM MBAs) .
• I view the Paris XII proposition as a possibility
  for the tri-campuses consortium to provide
  students a MBA from the consortium and a Masters
  from a French University.
• Paris XII is the only University in France that I
  visited that understands eCommerce and its role
  in the global Society.
  

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University Visit

• ANGERS
• lUNIVERSITÉ DANGERS
• http//www.univ-angers.fr/
• The school is located in the town (3 urban
  campuses) and public transportation is easy to
  use. The University strengths are its
  professional programs.
• Talked with Bruno Daucé who is involved with a
  Masters Program in Internet Marketing. His
  curriculum is very cutting edge with many
  marketing research aspects. Bruno is however
  spending next year teaching in Spain.
• Angers also house ESTHUA, center for Hotel and
  Tourism Management, which should provide some
  good possibilities for collaboration.

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University Visit

• BREST lUNIVERSITÉ DE BRETAGNE OCCIDENTALE
• http//www.univ-brest.fr/
• Visiting Brest was like a trip to Nova Scotia.
  The UBO Business and Information Technology
  faculty were very interested in any and all
  possibilities of collaboration and exchange.
• I believe that UBO provide the best opportunities
  for students from the smaller UMS campuses..
  
• Daniel Madec at the IUT (2 year vocational school
  equivalent to our Maine Community College system)
  is very interested in creating across the pond
  collaborations between his student and ours.
• UBO also does a lot of work in sustainability and
  could be a good match for UMFKs Center for
  Sustainable Rural development.

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General Impressions

• France, as is all countries in the EU, has a new
  system of matriculation in higher education
  called the LMD (License/master/doctorat, 3/5/8).
  http//www.bologna-bergen2005.no/EN/national_impl/
  00_Nat-rep-05/National_Reports-France_050125.pdf
  
• French faculty members are government employees
  with jobs for life and fixed salary schedules
  that are discipline agnostic. An Assistant
  Professor with 5 years makes the same as any
  other Assistant Professor with 5 years experience
  regardless of the University or discipline.

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General Impressions

• What is the benefit for an American student to
  study in France?
  
• If it is the desired outcome of a cultural and
  linguistic immersion, the same experience can be
  gained in nearby Quebec at a lower cost.
  
• I believe that the best outcome for the student
  is exposure to the European Union and the
  differing political, social and economic
  constructs and the possible opportunities for
  collaborative learning. The exchange should build
  from the strengths of both the UMS and our French
  universities.
• There needs to be clearer direction from UMS on
  the following
  
• Budgets to support PMF activities
• Constraining factors that preclude certain
  collaborations
  
• An understanding of the degree of autonomy that
  each of the seven campuses have under the
  guidance of the PMF outline.
  
• While France has method for inviting professor to
  France the UMS system (with the exception of
  Libra) does not have a formalized method for
  inviting professors and limited funding to do so.
  
• The PMF project also has implications for
  Admissions, Alumni Affairs and University
  Relations office (including development) that
  have not been explored.

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Next Steps

• Increase awareness among UMS faculty and
  Students
  
• Create education Packages
• Student going to France
• Student coming from France
• We may get 20 students from UBO visiting us for
  one week next summer
  
• Need to create a semester long business
  concentration for French Students
  
• Nantes is ready to send students NOW

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