Bogdan T. Leja
1304
Castalia Drive, Cary, NC 27513
Tel: W. (919) 962-0299, H. (919) 468-8279, Email: leja@email.unc.edu
Homepage: http://ibiblio.unc.edu/ucis/btl4
Experience:
University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill, Office of the Associate Provost
for International Affairs (2004--) International
Liaison Officer (ILO): Reporting to the Vice Provost for International
Programs, I collaboratively engage faculty and staff to articulate, develop,
and implement strategic “internationalization” plans as directed by senior
staff. The ILO facilitates relations with international partners, hosts
visiting foreign delegates and supports university clients in order to advance UNC’s international profile and programs.
University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill, University Center for International
Studies (95 --).
Director
of Outreach Programs: I provide leadership and administrative support
in establishing educational programs, managing university projects and outreach
activities to North Carolina Universities, K-12
schools, communities, businesses. Matching UNC expertise with external needs, I
develop collaborative relations with other universities, joint conferences and
outreach initiatives that examine a variety of global issues and promote
activities that benefit and globalize NC. I engage in awareness building to
ensure that state, national and international concerns are aware of the
services and opportunities that UNC can provide via our various outreach
activities. I'm active in fundraising, grant writing and statistical research.
I also serve as the UCIS, International Liaison Officer; a very proactive post
geared toward expanding UNC's globalization efforts.
Columbia University, New York, N.Y. Office of the Provost (94--95)
Institutional Planning and Research: Gathered, analyzed, and reported
data needed to assess institutional effectiveness, qualitatively and
quantitatively. Gathered facts and distilled information for strategic planning
and performance reviews required by external agencies and internal
constituencies. The position required knowledge of descriptive and inferential
statistics, research design, data analysis, presentation, and considerable
knowledge of the University structure and computer-based information systems.
Projects included the University Statistical Abstract, Inter-University Salary
Exchange, departmental teaching load, salary and enrollment analysis, student
satisfaction and success indicators. Harlem community outreach/fund-raising volunteer.
Columbia
University Institute
on East Central Europe (91--94)
Program Coordinator: Administered the U.S. Department of Education Title
VI grant. Managed the combined IECE-Harriman Institutes and Teachers College
Outreach Program to New York City and
surrounding communities. Recruited faculty and scholars for conferences aimed
at K-12 teacher training, curriculum development and student achievement.
Developed fundraising strategies, wrote grant proposals. Gathered
Title VI enrollment, job placement statistics for seven regional institutes.
Set up computers, access to the Internet and trained students and teachers in
online information retrieval and new software programs. Counseled students,
managed staff.
United
Press International (UPI), Warsaw, Poland (89--90)
Reporter: Wrote news on Polish economic and political restructuring. Provided analysis on economic change and small business
development. Knowledge of interview techniques, news
media. Special field projects include,
Ukrainian minorities, development of new profit centers, political and social
change in Eastern Europe.
Columbia University Libraries, New York, N.Y.
Lehman International Affairs Library, Reference Department, Library
Assistant VI (86--89) Butler Library, Serials
Cataloging, Library Assistant V (85--86)
JHAG Import-Export Ltd., Aachen, Germany. Manager, Far East and
European Operations (83--85)
Education: Columbia University, New York, N.Y. School
of International and Public Affairs, Master of International Affairs (91). The Harriman
Institute, Economics Concentration. Central
Connecticut State University, New Britain, CT., School of Business,
Master of Organizational Management (87), School of Political Science, Master
of Asian Studies (83), Bachelor of Arts in Political Science (81). Polish Studies Certificate, Jagellonian University, Krakow, Poland.
Skills: Practical
administrative, budgeting and fundraising. Creative thinking
and collaborative problem solving skills. Extensive
record of achievement as project manager with excellent communication, public
service and organizational skills. Works well with divers groups and
systems. Experience in distance learning technologies and a strong commitment
to internationalization. Training in statistical research,
database development and analysis, HTML/Java script, multi media presentations.
Extensive international experience. Languages: Polish
and Russian.
Continuing
Studies: Beijing
University, China. Program on
Chinese culture, Arts and History, Summer 2002. Korea
University,
Seoul
South Korea. Program on
Korean History, Summer 1999.
Special Projects
Principal Investigator (2001---) Freeman
Foundation, North
Carolina Teaching Asia Network. With
funding of $506,000 established a training program focusing on Asia for North
Carolina and South
Carolina middle and high school teachers.
Program includes educational travel to East Asia for
teachers completing the 30 hour NCTAN
seminar.
Principal
Grantwriter (2000-01) U.S.-Palestinian
Linkages (UPLINK) Program that will join University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill, North Carolina State University in Raleigh, An-Najah
National University, Palestine-West Bank, Applied Research Institute Jerusalem
in developing new strategies and educational approaches in effectively
addressing "Greater Access to and more Effective Use of Scarce Water
Resources".
Principal Investigator (2000--) National
Science Foundation. Poznan 2000 Establish ongoing interactions and
exchanges between the Research Triangle Universities (RTU) and the Institute of
Bio-organic Chemistry (Polish Academy of
Sciences) and the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland in all
areas, especially biotechnology and material science research. The working collaboration
will enable the exchange of research methods and experimental data, as well as
exchange of established investigators, postdoctoral fellows, and graduate
students.
Principal
Investigator (98-2000) The Asia Society, TeachAsia Program. With $16,000 funding from the Asia
Society the University of North
Carolina at Chapel
Hill aims to act as a resource provider on Asia to
teachers in the Orange County Middle Schools. Teachers at Guy Phillips Middle
School in the Chapel-Hill, Carrboro School
District will be the lead group in program
design of this new educational collaboration. UNC-CH will provide resources and
expertise; help develop workshops for teachers and aid in developing curriculum
materials on Asian topics. UNC-CH will help provide access to additional
resources on Asia in conjunction with the UNC-CH
Curriculum in Asian Studies, the Japan Center, the
Triangle South Asia Consortium, the UNC-CH School of Education and the NC
Center for International Understanding.
Principal
Investigator (97-98) USIA, NAFSA Association of International Educators
Cooperative Grants Program. Project Title: "Southern History and Culture
Exploration Program." Received support of $6000 to develop and put in
practice activities and workshops that help foreign students at UNC-CH develop
a more discerning and sensible understanding of their host state and the
Southern region. The University Center for
International Studies (UCIS), Center for the Study of the American South and
the International Center have joined forces in developing SHCEP.
Principal
Grant Writer (97) U.S.
Department of Education, Group Projects Abroad Program. Project Title: "North
Carolina India
Project." Support of $82,041 is being sought under CFDA 84.021
"Curriculum Development Team" project listing in furtherance of
South-Asia, India, course development, continued development of UNC-CH Library
India collection and gathering of educational materials, video-audio production
in support of the Hindi-Urdu language, K-12 teachers and schools and the
International K-12 Outreach Program. Project objectives are to foster
collaboration among university faculty, administrators and K-12 teachers for up
to seven weeks in India in a team
effort to gather, research and develop additional
curriculum materials.
Principal
Grant Writer (97) U.S.
Department of Education, Field Initiated Research Grants. Project title:
"University/K-12 Partnerships and Learning Technologies: Tools in
Improving Teaching and Student Performance." A two year, $274K project
that addresses: University/K-12 school partnerships that augment teacher
training and support should lead to increased teacher skills and improvement in
student performance. Project aims are to explore that hypothesis by providing
educational workshops, skills measurement and student performance analysis.
Principal
Grant Writer (97) NAFSA: Association of International Educators,
Cooperative Grants Program. Project title: "International Student's Southern
History and Culture Exploration Program (SHCEP)." Funded and being
implemented. Project aims: To deepen international students' understanding of
and participation in the life of the region, UNC-CH proposes to provide
lectures, interactions with various populations and tours. The program will
help participants look behind the simplistic stereotypes of the South, to
consider the region's complex cultures, development, and human relations.
Principal
Grant Writer (96) U.S.
Department of Education, Field Initiated Research Grants. Project title:
"Internet Tools in Improving Rural K12 Education." A three year $495K
project set in poor performing rural North
Carolina school districts whose goals will
be to implement, teach, use and evaluate the Internet as a tool in K12
education. Selected schools, classrooms will use Internet tools as a supplement
to their normal course of study and will be tested and compared to their
non-participating colleagues. Findings will be published and distributed.
Internet
Evaluation and Link-up Advisor, NC School Partnerships Committee (96)
The University of North Carolina General Administration, The North Carolina
Center for International Understanding are developing a partnership program
between NC K12 schools and schools abroad. First phase is to research and
evaluate the Internet as a communication tool between NC student and students
in England. Second
phase will be to partner students in other countries where language barriers
present minimal problems. Third stage is to host on-line conferences and
learning events for participating schools.
Project
Director (93). The German Marshall Fund and "Internews" program for Training Romanian Broadcast
Media Journalist in Election Coverage. Set-up training sessions in
Bucharest, Cluj, contract presenters, purchase and
ship video equipment, clear problems with Romanian customs bureau.
Grant
Writer/Editor (93). "Pioneers" educational media grant
proposal for Parallax Productions. The USIA, Soros
Foundation and the Russian government supported the eight million dollar
project proposal. Goals are to bring business curriculum materials to secondary
and higher education institutions and entrepreneurial television programs in
conjunction with "Ostankino and other agencies.”
Manager
(92). The Soros Foundation grant for
radio station and field communication equipment purchase, shipment and usage
training. Initial recipient was "Radio B-92", the main independent,
anti-aggression voice in Belgrade, Serbia.
Project Manager (91--92).
Production, editing, translation and printing of "How to Set-up a Low
Power, Low Cost Radio or TV Station in Eastern Europe" for the Soros Foundation and "Internews".
Outcome: Produced English, Romanian, Bulgarian and Czech original copies.
Printed in the Czech Republic and
distributed throughout Eastern Europe and Russia.
Project Director (91--92). Survey of East European and former Soviet Union radio
stations for "Internews" and future funding
by the Soros Foundation. Over 228
radio stations reviewed.
References:
UNC-CH
Dr. James Peacock,
Director UCIS (919) 966-4106
Dr. Niklaus Steiner, Associate
Director UCIS, (919) 962-5374
Ms. Sharon Glover, Administrative
Officer, Contracts and Grants (919) 843-8589
Dr. Joel Schwartz, Political
Science Dept., (919) 962-0403
North Carolina Center for International Understanding (NCCIU)
Ms. Millie Ravenal, Director, NCCIU (919) 733-4902
Ms. Marty Babacock, Assistant Director, NCCIU (919)
733-4902
North Carolina Schools
Portia Wilson-Whitaker,
Coordinator of Foreign Languages, ESL
Durham Public Schools, (919) 560-3783
Columbia University
The Harriman Institute:
Dr. Alexander Motyl
1215 International Affairs, Columbia University, New York, N.Y. 10027
Tel. (212) 854-4623 E-mail to: ajm5@columbia.edu
Institute on East Central Europe:
Dr. John Micgiel, Associate Director
1227 International Affairs, Columbia University, New York, N.Y. 10027
Tel. (212) 854-4008 E-mail to: jsm6@columbia.edu
School of International and Public
Affairs:
Ms. Joan Turner, Associate Dean
1415 International Affairs, Columbia University, New York, N.Y. 10027
Tel. (212) 854-2598 E-mail to: jmt3@columbia.edu