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Academic Exchange

"Youth, Education, and Juvenile Justice: Delinquency rehabilitation and prevention in Brazil and the United States. The experiences of the States of Rio Grande do Sul and Texas"

This project, funded in Brazil by CAPES and in the US by The University of Texas at Austin School of Social Work, is a UT initiative with Brazilian Universities involving community agencies (including the Texas Youth Commission and the Texas Juvenile Probation Commission) around the international area of adjudicated youth and youth at-risk. The first of two symposia (one in Austin, Texas; one in Porto Alegre, Brazil) was held successfully in November 2005 with US and Brazil scholars, students, and community professionals. It is the vision of the project that these Academic and Professional level exchanges can lay the groundwork for a future of student exchanges to establish understanding of issues, models, and areas for work in both countries.

Jane Maxwell, Ph.D., received a Fulbright Senior Scholar award

The Fulbright Senior Scholar award was to provide consultation and guidance on the development of a study of methamphetamine use by long-distance truck drivers. Work included development on survey instrument and sampling methodologies which would allow the survey to be based on a representative sample rather than a convenience sample. Also provided in-depth technical assistance to PhD students. Presented paper and chaired panel at Australian Professional Society on Alcohol and Other Drugs; attended Illicit Drug Strategy Reporting conference; met with Univ. of Queensland Deputy Vice Chancellor, met with Australian-American Fulbright Commission director and staff, American embassy attache, chairman of Australian National Council on Drugs, research analyst with Queensland Police, students at St. John's College at UQ; and Fulbright Work Day with other Fulbrighters based in Brisbane.

Exchange with Visiting Scholar, Dr. Eun Kyung Kim, from Korea

Prof. Zuniga Zarate from the Facultad de Trabajo Social, Universidad Autonoma de Nuevo Leon

Attended the doctoral program here so that he could return and become one of the five doctoral level faculty that school needed to initiate their own doctoral program.

National Institute for Social Work, Tanzania

Dr. Calvin Streeter visited this national social work education program in Dar-es-Salaam and spoke to 5-6 different classes in the Fall of 2005. He has also assisted in the development of their library.