Utah State University and the Dominican Republic

Utah State University has a working relationship with the Dominican Republic. A small team was hired by the University Provost Office to evualate the relationship and hopefully find a way to improve relations. I served as an evaluator on the project. There are four main analysis tools used:

First, an organization chart of SeeSCyT (the program inside the Dominican Republic; a full cultural audit; a timeline and flow chart; and finaly, a Force Field Analysis. The overall analysis model used was the Rummler and Brache Model from Rothwell, Hohne and King (2007).

A few facts

• Dominicans comprise the largest segment of international students at USU with the sole exception of China.
• American degrees carry a lot of clout inside the Dominican Republic.
• One of the biggest hinderances to technology inside the Dominican Republic are power outages.

Full text available on request

My role

• 1 of 6 team members
• Created the backend wiki
• Helped with
  • the cultural audit
  • the timeline
  • the flowchart
  • the Force Field Analysis
  • and organization chart

Done Differently?

Our cultural audit was done with Dominican's in the United States. I would have prefered working with someone in the government which would have been more directly involved.