Activities/Appointments:

• PAL orientation, Visited Department of State , Leadership Training
• Visited and built networking with senior faculties of Education and Communication Department, International Student and Graduate Admission offices at various universities and also met International students in universities
• Attended one day workshop on Developing a Fundraising Plan at Foundation Center Foundation
• Attended NAGAP Conference in Las Vegas

Findings:

• Most of the U.S. institutions that I visited would like to have DVC opportunities with us to discuss on specific topics and to talk to students, school principals and to confirm and exchange views on current news, issues, intercultural sensitivity, politics and other hot news (crisis communication).
• Education Leadership program is a good program to become an American school principals. This program will be valuable for international students if those students are planning to be involved in U.S. oriented international schools.
• There is a challenge in doing fundraising especially in finding a donor, writing a proposal and maintaining previous donors.

Acknowledgements:

• Dr. Richard L. Carhart (former Executive Director of AMINEF) for encouraging, recommending and supporting me to apply for the PAL program
• Dorothy Mora, Program Officer, Department of State for accepting my PAL proposal, confiding my abilities and for her constant support to and understanding of educationUSA Center in Indonesia with all its complexities
• Udval Lkhamsuren, Educational Adviser from Mongolia for being such a wonderfully caring mentor
• Chalintorn Burian, EAP REAC for advising me to participate in the program
• Debbie Hefferon, Educational Consultant for patiently guiding me through the preparation process
• Janine Farhat from the College Board for arranging visits to U.S. institutions
• Carol Blythe from the College Board for arranging the travel and making sure we are taken care of during the program and also her staff who worked endless for preparing all of our needs.
• All the U.S. universities who hosted us for the program

Follow up/Next Steps:

• Conduct an in country workshop to transfer knowledge to other advisers in understanding the role of teamwork in doing fundraising and to provide current information regarding application to U.S. higher education with its admission requirements and procedures
• Develop an orientation and information update sessions about graduate programs on popular majors and professional ones at the center
• Advocate more strongly for and provide information on U.S. higher education to public at both UG and G levels
• Write an article on selected topics related to research
• Participate in sessions and workshops as opportunities available.