On 23 May, Mr. Stéphane Grivelet, head of programmes at the
Asia-Pacific Bureau of the French-speaking Universities Agency (AUF, http://www.auf.org) met
Professor Sudip K. Rakshit, Vice President for Research, Professor
Peter Haddawy, Vice President for Academic Affairs.
He also visited the AIT Language Center where he met Mr. Matthew
Laszewski, Head of the Center, as well as Ms. Ginette Chamart, French
language Instructor. AIT is an associated member of AUF and as such is
eligible to the various academic mobility and research support grants
offered by the association. AIT is already collaborating with several
other regional institutions such as ITC in Cambodia or HUT, HCMCUT and
IFI in Vietnam and is a partner in several AUF sponsored projects.
There is a potential for AIT to play a greater role in AUF’s activities
in the region, whether in terms of academic exchanges, research
initiation and support, or the development of regional capacity and
resources for French language teaching for non-French language
majors.