Public Higher Education Bulletin

Text Books for Ghana Announced (from US AID's November 2007 FrontLines, attached) US AID Administrator Henrietta Fore announced Sept. 18 that Chicago State University (CSU) will receive a $2 million grant to develop, produce, and distribute textbooks for schoolchildren in Ghana. The award comes two years after CSU received $3 million under President Bush?s African Education Initiative to fund its Textbooks and Learning Materials Program (TLMP) in Ghana, part of an overall Administration effort to provide 15 million textbooks and other learning materials to Africa?s children by 2010. The new funding will allow the university to provide additional textbooks for children at the kindergarten level and grades one through three. ?We are proud of our extensive association with American colleges and universities, such as Chicago State University, where we tap into the resources and know-how of the best and brightest of this country,? Fore said. ?This is the first time in Ghana?s history that books have been created in partnership with the United States which has countrywide distribution and sustainable impact,? said Adama Conteh, executive director of CSU?s Office of International

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