IUPUI is Indiana's premier urban research university. The campus enrolls more than 30,000 students in 21 schools and academic units.
Vision and Goals of Strategic Alliance
1. To establish a new mode of internationalization that creates a bi-national community of collaboration and dialogue, pulling each institution into an ever deepening relationship of mutual benefit and giving each a solid, long-term base of operations in the other country.
2. To focus campus international efforts for maximum benefit and to create economies of scale and synergies of effort.
3.To share resources between our two institutions, thus enhancing the capacity of each across teaching, research, and service.
4. To build upon and enhance one of IUPUI’s most important and well-developed international activities: the partnership between the IU and MU Schools of Medicine.
5. To establish a powerful interdisciplinary approach and to bring all the resources of an American university to bear on one of the most pressing issues of our times: the pandemic of HIV/AIDS.
6. To provide a cross-campus platform for IUPUI students, faculty, and staff to develop a deep understanding of Africa, connecting us to a continent that has played such a key role in American history and dispelling misconceptions that continue to reverberate in the context of American racial dynamics.
7. To enable IUPUI faculty, staff, and students to develop a sense of themselves as global citizens, to understand the issues of social and economic development facing much of the world, and to appreciate the assets and resources of communities they have heretofore seen only as helpless or backward.
8. To respond to strong community interest in the issue of HIV/AIDS in Africa, an interest that runs across the top leadership of the state to local religious and voluntary organizations.
9. To create an articulated, concentrated focus of activity that attracts attention, funding, and support from a wide variety of external sources.
10. To lay a foundation where new projects can easily build on existing ones, and new faculty, students, and staff can easily become involved, even if they have previously little experience with either Africa or international work.
