United Board For Christian Higher Education In Asia

The united board's current grant initiatives focus on leadership development for higher education, faculty development for enhanced teaching, learning, and research, campus-community partnerships, culture and religion in asia, and special initiatives. In the fiscal year 2024, the united board made 21 grants to 18 institutions totaling $604,100. Through grant support to institutions in our network, the united board helps link teaching and learning with action research and reflection, thereby promoting the development of purpose and values and the pursuit of knowledge and skills.

The united board accepts endowment gifts to provide unrestricted support for its work and also accepts contributions for the term and permanent endowments set up for a specific purpose consistent with the mission and policies of the united board. Disbursements from endowments are made annually in accordance with the united board's investment and spending policy and the terms approved by the board of trustees governing each endowment. In fiscal year 2024, the united board disbursed endowment grants totaling $ 751,845.

The united board also accepts contributions in support of work with institutions in its network in asia, including its grant programs and faculty and leadership development initiatives. These include:united board fellows program. The united board fellows program provides emerging leaders at institutions in its network with exposure to best practices in university administration and leadership. This is achieved through participation in an intensive, three-week summer institute on university leadership, a one- to four-month placement at a college or university in asia, and other activities throughout the program year. Fellows learn new approaches to teaching, learning, and management, which they can share with colleagues from their home institutions. They develop professional relationships and enduring networks and gain greater confidence, decision-making abilities, and a willingness to embrace new challenges. Since 2002, over 250 mid-level faculty and administrators from asian colleges and universities have completed the united board fellows program and returned to their home institutions. In the fiscal year 2024, the united board supported 32 fellows and presidents for $217,641.united board faculty scholarship program. The united board faculty scholarship program helps develop and retain outstanding educators at asian colleges and universities by offering young faculty members the opportunity to pursue advanced degrees. Host universities in australia, china, indonesia, japan, korea, hong kong, taiwan, the philippines and thailand open their campuses to faculty scholars from less developed institutions, offering them coursework, research guidance, exposure to new styles of teaching and learning, and a network of their peers. The scholars return to their home institutions with phd or master's degrees as well as innovative ideas and an international network that enriches their classrooms for years to come. In the fiscal year 2024, 40 scholars benefited from this program, with total spending of $367,525. Conferences, workshops, and seminars. The united board organizes and sponsors numerous leadership and faculty development activities, usually collaborating with an asian college or university. These programs gather together selected leaders, faculty, and administrators from colleges and universities in the united board's network to explore pressing issues in asian higher education. In fy'24, the united board expended $ 219,407 on these initiatives.