| EVALUATION CRITERIA
A- Joint or Dual Degree.
The FACE Jury will look for evidence of institutional commitment
to the development of this bi-cultural degree even when the
partnership starts with simple shared teaching and research
exchanges
B- Number of students and faculty in exchange mode
The University Partnership Fund aims at both a qualitative
and a quantitative development of the partnership. The FACE
Jury will discourage stagnation of numbers of students and
Faculty exchanged at the Masters level below three students
each way.
At the Doctoral level, a single student in exchange each
way will not be construed by the Jury as an institutional
partnership, rather as a Doctoral Grant, which is not the
mission of the Fund.
Exchange of Faculty is essential to the dynamic evolution
of the partnership. Exchange Faculty bring new ideas and teaching
methods to the partner institution.They help select those
students better adapted to a creative partnership both ways.
Additional funding arrangements which would facilitate the
living and working conditions of the visiting students will
be appreciated by the Jury of FACE (student stipends, teaching
assistant positions, Research assistant positions, etc.)
C-Quality of the housing/Host Campus, research opportunities
and financial aspects.
Each host institution should be perceived as deeply committed
to making the stay of guest students and Faculty as pleasant
and creative as possible. Any local funding found to achieve
this will be greatly appreciated by the FACE Jury.The creation
of additional collaborations with surrounding research labs
and institutions outside the initial host campus will also
be greatly appreciated, as well as the creation of consortiums
of partner institutions.
D-Additional Local funding and fund raising.
Depending on the discipline, the partnership should be able
to generate interest from local sponsors, enterprises, institutional
funds other than the FACE Fund. The Jury will appreciate any
leads to additional funding to which FACE can give moral and
institutional support both in France and the US
E-Evidence of institutional commitment on the general
aspect of the partnership for the long haul.
The Partnership should be envisaged as a long-term project,
well beyond the initial 3 years of support given by the FACE
Fund.
A concise vision statement on the evolution of the diploma
or partnership will be appreciated in the Year TWO or THREE
Progress Report
F- Scientific excellence of the host teams, scientific
pertinence of the shared or complementary curricula
Each partner team should present its members and their scientific
achievements in concise resumes without lengthy lists of publications,
but with current research activities.
Each partner program, whether Master or Doctoral, should
list the coursework being offered and exchanged in clear,
well defined sections corresponding to the time spent in residency
by the student on the host campus. The credit equivalences
should also be clearly stated as well as any corresponding
qualification units in Doctoral exchanges.
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