UpDate - Vol. 14, No. 14, Page 11
December 8, 1994
Food and resource economics gets $300,000 USIA grant

     A decade-long collaboration between the University of Delaware
and the University of Agriculture in Nitra, Slovakia, has led to a
United States Information Agency (USIA) grant that will assist
Slovakia in its transition from a centralized economy to a market-
driven one.
     Joachim Elterich, professor in the Department of Food and
Resource Economics and director of University Operations Research
Program, received a two-year, $300,000 USIA grant to deliver Western
business management education and extension to the University of
Agriculture in Nitra.
     The grant proposal, developed with Catherine Halbrendt and
Richard Bacon, also from the department, and graduate students Darin
Batkova, Fe Zinna Albay and Julia Farkasova, includes courses in
business management, international trade and marketing, contracting,
community development, macroeconomic impacts and communications.
     Eight educators from the University of Delaware's College of
Agricultural Sciences, Delaware State University and the private
sector will teach intensive courses in eight, three-week modules in
the spring of 1995.
     This January, a group of Slovakian educators will visit the
University of Delaware to be exposed to Western-style curriculum,
culture and agricultural industry. They also will attend the Allied
Social Sciences Conference in Washington, D.C.