THE AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF HAITI

& THE POLYTECHNIC-AIU

A SHORT INTRO
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OUR AIU-HAITI & POLYTECH- AIU

The American International University of Haiti &
The Polytechnic-AIU
After the devastating killer earthquake of January 2010 which shocked the world and which took more
than 300,000 lives, chiefly among those who died, a sizable chunk who were among the top graduates
that Haiti had, we have found ourselves wanting to contribute in the aftermath.
We came up with the vision that to help best the country to rebound we must be those few who
actively engage into rebuilding Haitis human capacity so that the nation can rebuild itself better.
We have been working on materializing that vision ever since, and are proud to be in the launching
phase of the development of a key flagship higher education institution with a social commitment: AIUHaiti & Polytech-AIU.
Its social commitment is: to develop key multitasking-multi-skilled and modern leaders in all key
requisite areas of economic development and of agricultural and industrial and chemical and electronic
and energy production development. We want them to be carefully selected people with a pioneering
and competitive spirit, who can benefit the most from the transfer of knowledge, from the best faculties
in the world. We want to develop each year and to graduate annually such people, into the greatest
number of engineers and technicians groomed to be leaders in their field or discipline, for todays needs
and tomorrows demands.
We are not alone in that quest, it seems. Thankfully, a large group of high-end faculties, worldwide,
are signaling to us their willingness to volunteer to lecture or even to teach for us, pro-bono or just for
a small gratification, as their personal contribution, in order to help us fill the top faculty gap for such a
high-end international university.
These top-flight international faculties and lecturers are the key for us to finally get the lift that is
necessary, to end up in the next coming years with a self-reliant body of local knowledge-based
leaders and professors and scientists and technicians, who can use advanced knowledge, and who can
transmit and create new knowledge out of that transmitted knowledge, so that we can put the country,
finally and irreversibly, into mass advancement gears for good.
Our starting point at AIU-Haiti must not be, to teach ancient ideas and disciplines in ancient ways, but
must be to begin right from the start, where the state of higher education currently is in the best
universities around the world. For the aspirations of our youth and of our professionals are the same
with those in the emerging countries and in the developed world. Haitians want to be as well-equipped
in order to better contribute in the division of the world labor, for country and for selves.
Haitians, as it stands right now, cannot articulate in their vast majority, knowledge, advanced
knowledge and approaches and skills, key scientific technical and technological advances. This requires
higher education of high caliber, both knowledge and know-how, calibrated to the highest international
level.
This is what sister universities that we have approached around the world are helping us to do. This is
what academics around the world that we have approached are helping us to do.

- We start with a 24 air-conditioned class rooms, with audio-visual multimedia projection

facilities and internet ready board.
This is to give our students, Gen X and mature students as well, the hardware and infrastructure
designed to make the learning environment technology-oriented, using fully the bandwidth supplied by
the state-half-owned telecommunications company- NATCOM.
- We start with 4 deans who are overseeing 12 schools of undergraduates and of graduate
programs.
- We start with being, right from the get go in our offering, the most comprehensive and
the only university and polytechnic and technological school, of international level and of
international standard operating in Haiti.
The high school students entering our undergraduate programs undergo the same rigorous processes
and standard entrance exams of any college in the United States, like an SAT. The graduate students
undergo a similar process such as a satisfactory score on a GMAT.
- We develop our programs based on an adaptation of various curricula and course
contents of the best universities in Canada and in France and in the USA and the UK.
And we add the best practices and influences of partners or of sister universities worldwide as well as
insights and first-hand knowledge of whats works and whats needed here.
- We start with the propaedeutic or preparation sessions for 48 targeted different fields of
study to put everyone at the high level to pursue our bachelors and masters and doctorate
programs.
- We plan for now for 2,208 students at our first facility.
We are doing the alterations and accommodations now in one facility at Ptionville-Vivy Mitchell, one of
the most affluent middle-class suburbs of the country, on the hills surmounting the capital city of Portau-Prince.
- We look to make of each of the Polytech-AIUs Professional Bachelors program (Licence
Professionnelle) as well as each Magistre or Professional Highly Advanced Practitioners
Masters program, just one notch below a practitioners doctorate program, a world-class
technical, technology and science and business hub venture that delivers highly skilled
Haitians pro who operate at a world-class level.
And we seek to partner with companies and institutions who incidentally can sponsor a classroom and
have it bears its name for a donation of US $ 25,000 to US $ 250,000, depending on which classroom
and for which program.
- Our operating budget is about $ US 3.6 million a year just for faculties salaries and $ 8.1 million total
for the first year. We need friends and we need allies.

- We seek to develop all form of inter-institutional collaboration and partnerships,

with other world-class universities in the USA, in Canada, in France, in Europe, in
Australia, in the Caribbean, in Latin America, in Asia, in Africa.
We want from each such universities:
- university or technical and technological professors who can lecture for us or even teach
courses for us via videoconferencing,
- study trips and exchange programs annually between their students and ours,
- collaboration in researches or joint researches with our faculty or top professors and
scientists so as to keep them in the loop of technical and scientific and academic
advancements ,
- help in teaching aids and in materials and in laboratory equipment and in academic books
and periodicals for each discipline,
- help in equipping and furnishing our university so that we too have the classroom
environment that is conducive to superior learning capabilities,
- twining programs with half here in Haiti and the other half at the sister universities
abroad,
- and finally, joint AIU-Haiti university degrees and diplomas, delivered in conjunction with
a sister university, so that the diplomas that we deliver are not just fully validated, but
fully accepted worldwide, without any hesitation or reservation, as a diploma of top
quality, backed by a global top quality partner institution.
- We encourage universities that are upgrading, to consider including us in their list of donations
of all they are parting with. We encourage universities that can to include us in their partnership
budget.
- We seek, among others :
-house Virtual University Expert System (VUES) and a library and cyber-library
laboratories for Microsoft, SUN &
CISCO certification courses.

Since we are set up to be the only international university of its kind, our curriculum for each field will
be mostly the same curriculum as in any great world-class universities but slightly modified or adapted
for the Haiti we have and most definitely for the Haiti we want.
1. That being said, while we will strengthen liberal arts education and elevate it to international
standards, we will stress in parallel professional programs.
In fact, we will be at the same time a university, albeit a university with an accent on not just
knowledge but know-how with a strong technic and technological bent, and also an elite polytechnic
school.
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2. The nature of the many limitations we wrestle with here makes it more of an obligation to use a
variety of mix of instruction methods.
From
- the primarily traditional-face-to-face teaching to do the heavy explaining
- to a mix of lecturers who are visiting professors or who lecture live from anywhere in the world via
Video-teleconferencing, or via pre-recorded videos or podcasts, etc.
- to team based projects learning and student exchanges and study trips overseas and learning on
work sites ,
- to some form of collective live distance education in a connected classroom.
3. We do have a few Haitians here at the doctorate level that we are attracting with a considerable
greater pay prospects.
However, we expect at least 70% of our faculty would have to be faculty from overseas, helped from
here by local assistant-professors who know the people and the language and the needs best.
It will have to be for a small token or gratification that these foreign professors would have to teach for.
They can either teach from where they are. And we will find a way to compensate them with a nominal
stipend.
Although we expect a lot of people to want to volunteer to come down to Haiti.
If they can come here to teach for a week, we can look for ways to cover their entire travel expenses
with stipends one and a half time the actual total expenses.
We are working on the website.
Kindly allow us to give you a link to a temporary website, EMPHASIS ON TEMPORARY, just to get the
basic info.
http://aiu-haiti-edu.weebly.com

SOME FACTS TO CONSIDER:

1. There are about 67,000 of high school students who will try this year to get to a university. Although just about
34,000 succeeded at the official national exam and that about 29,000 have a chance at taking the exam again. See the
table below. Per the 10 geographical regions or departments.

Taux de Russite par Dpartement - Session Ordinaire du

Baccalaurat 2014/2015
PHILO
admitted

retakers

failed

absents

Dpartement Admis Ajourns Elimins Absents

Sud
1,596
905
102
77
Artibonite
2,773
1,554
218
456
Grand'Anse
493
643
37
19
Nippes
788
512
35
64
Centre
2,668
1,277
9
113
Nord'Ouest
1,402
1,411
73
86
Ouest
17, 377 19, 238
2, 275
5, 333
Sud'Est
911
435
55
47
Nord'Est
2,176
497
28
160
Nord
4,451
3,120
254
230
National
34 635 29 592
3 086
6 585

total participants

success rate

Participants % de Russite
2,603
61.31%
4,545
61.01%
1,173
42.03%
1,335
59.03%
3,954
67.48%
2,886
48.58%
38, 890
44,68%
1,401
65.02%
2,701
80.56%
7,825
56.88%
67 313
51,45%

Of the first group of 34,000, (we should expect half of the 29,592 to get through after retaking the exam at the end of
august 2015) the state university can only admit about 3,000 to 4000 annually in their 11 faculties for lack of space and
teaching infrastructure.
The other top 2 universities are private:
- UNIQ or University Quisqueya has already about 8,000 students and can barely add 2,000 more students a year.
- And Notre Dame University of Haiti, a catholic university which has about 6,000 students can barely add another 1000
a year.
There is a plethora of other universities. But none so in in terms of quality.
The bulk of the remainder will go to the neighboring Dominican Republic which has at least 40,000 Haitian students.
And those who can will travel to the USA, to Canada, to Europe.
Yes, we want to cater to the best prepared of all Haitian students (although as an international university, we want also
to attract foreign students from the Caribbean and from Central America who want to graduate in a bilingual FrenchEnglish or French-Spanish university setting that we are the only country other than Canada that can offer such unique
programs).
The best prepared and also the best minds, who cannot afford to travel elsewhere, represent roughly 10 to 12%. The
best prepared does not mean necessarily those with financial capabilities to pay for an international university, even if it
is in Haiti. Therefore, we will endeavor to set up a unique school loan program, out of grants that we are seeking, to
give everyone a chance who wants one to complete an undergraduate and a graduate program.
In fact, in each class, we plan that 8 of the 48 will actually be taken care of by the university, as a recipient or
beneficiary of a full scholarship. And furthermore, because of the grants we seek, we will be the only university in Haiti
and let alone in the region where students need only to find means to pay for just 2 years out of the 4 years of study.
The school loan will kick in for the remaining years of study. Guarantee to all, regardless of financial abilities.

2. The plan is to start on the supply side by saying, there are 48 fields of study that we can begin with and we shall see
how many register for each.
The trouble is that each university in Haiti offers a few conventional or traditional programs and Haitians students in
Haiti don't have much choice.
We want to end that by providing the most comprehensive set of choices. We need only 48 students to start a program.
3. All of our classes will be technologically equipped so that our university professors may be anywhere in the United
States or in the world; each of our students will receive a tablet and will have the tablet in front of him, so that this form
of distant education can take place collectively as a cohort.
There is too much of a shortage of electrical power and of bad internet connection to have any other form of distant
education.
4. We will have to have as key condition, several main collaborations with a key US, a key UK, and 2 other key
international universities in order to able to deliver for each program or field for which we have 48 students registered. It
is the only way. That is the way we want anyway. Yet, make no mistake about it, while we want to continue on being
able to offer dual diplomas or twin diplomas, in conjunction with a key US, UK, France, Canada, etc. universities, we
strive to be the pinnacle of higher education in Haiti whereas our degrees, based on our standalone capabilities, are
accepted worldwide.
5. This what gives us the key central argument with which we seek to open the requisite corporate and institutional and
governmental financial doors to support each of our programs.
It will cost less to keep Haitians educated in Haiti than elsewhere and it will pay off more.
6. We have not involved yet the Haitian government, as it has the state university to worry about, and the State
resources are scarce. We have not involved also the Clinton Global Fund. We want to start a different path first, and
thereafter get everyone on board.
We need a board of strong international members and allies to do just that.

7. Because, most people want to help build a success story in Haiti. They don't always know-how and the political
and governmental way often does not yield measurable, significant, sustainable, long term results that we can
show.
A university can. An international university can show how it impacts the building of a different and word-class
human capacity in Haiti, in a self-reliant way.
And this opportunity, this claim can be leveraged into something great for all-involved, financially and otherwise.

Fields of study and/or Programs (in orange) that students are registering for, by subject or
by discipline
Accounting
Administration
Advertising
African Studies
Agribusiness and agro-processing
Agricultural Economics
Agricultural Education
Agricultural Engineering
Agriculture and Agronomy and Crop management
Ancient Studies
Animal Sciences
Anthropology
Arab Studies
Archaeology
Architecture
Art and Design
Arts
Asian Studies
Behavioral Sciences
Biochemistry
Biological Sciences
Biotechnology
Botany
Broadcast Engineering
Broadcast Journalism
Business
Business Administration Management
Business Management
Cellular Biology
Chemical Engineering
Chemistry
Child Development
Chinese Studies
Civil Engineering
Commerce
Communication
Communication Media
Computer Engineering
Computer Science
Consumer Sciences
Creative Arts
Criminal Justice
Culinary Arts and Taste Science
Cultural Studies
Dairy Science
Dentistry
Earth Sciences and Water Sciences and Hydrology and Limnology
Ecology
Economic studies
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Economics
Education
Electrical and Electronics Engineering and Telecommunications
Engineering
English
Entomology
Environmental Engineering
Environmental Health
Environmental Studies
European Studies
Family and Consumer Sciences
Film and Television Studies
Finance
Finance Accounting
Finance Banking
Fine Arts
Food Science
Forestry
French
Genetics
Geography
Geology
Gerontology
Graphic Arts
Health Science
History
Horticulture Studies
Hospitality
Human Resources
Human Sciences
Humanities
Information Technology
Interior Design
International Business
International Relations and Diplomacy
Journalism
Landscape Architecture
Languages
Law
Leadership Studies
Liberal Arts Sciences
Library Studies
Linguistics
Literature
Logistics
MBA
Management
Management Information Systems
Marketing
Materials and Applied Science and Petrology and Energies
Mathematics
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Mathematics Education
Mechanical Engineering
Mechatronics
Medical Dietetics
Medical Sciences and Life Sciences
Microbiology
Military Studies
Mining Engineering
Museum Studies
Music
Nautical Studies
Near Eastern Studies
Nursing
Oceanography
Oncology
Pharmacy
Philosophy
Physical Education
Physical Sciences
Physical Therapy
Physics
Policy Management
Political Science
Poultry Science
Preschool Education
Primary education
Psychology
Public Health Education
Public Relations
Real Estate
Religious Studies
Retail Studies
Rhetorical Studies
Risk Management
Russian Studies
Science Teacher Education
Social Sciences
Social Studies
Sociology
Spanish
Sport Medicine and Administration
Statistics
Strategy
Strategic Management
Studio Arts
Theater Arts
Tourism
Turf Management
Writing
Zoology

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Under the authority of the university governing council or board, we are structured in 2
parts:
1. The Academic Affairs. Headed by the Rector/Vice-Chancellor, assisted by a Vice-Rector and
by the Deans
2. The Administrative Affairs. Headed by the President/Chancellor, assisted by a Vice President
of Administration and of Development

The Deans:
I. Dean of the Group of Faculties of Leadership of the Human and Social Sciences (DGFL-HSS),
who is responsible for :
. Vice Dean 1: Faculties of Leadership of the Arts, of the Humanities and of Languages (FL-AHL) :

. Vice Dean 2: Faculties of Leadership of the Human and Social Sciences (FL-HSS):
Including but not limited to the:
. School of Psychology
. School of Communications
. School of Media Arts and Sciences
. Vice-Dean 3: Faculties of Leadership of Law, Economy, Management and Political Sciences
(FL-LEM & Sciences Po) :
II. Dean of the Group of Faculties of Leadership of the Life and Health Sciences (DGFL-LHS),
who is responsible for :
. Vice Dean 4: Faculties of Leadership in Sports Medicine and in Motricity (FL-SMM):
Including but not limited to the:
. School of Physical & Occupational Therapy
. School of Brain and of Cognitive Sciences
. School of Communications Sciences and Disorders
. Vice Dean 5: Faculties of Leadership of Medical Sciences (FL-MED):
Including but not limited to the:
. Faculty of Medicine
. Faculty of Psychiatry
. Faculty of Dentistry
. Vice-Dean 6: Faculties of Leadership of Health and Life Sciences (FL-HLS):
Including but not limited to the:
. School of Nursing

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III. Dean of the Group of Faculties of Leadership of the Earth Sciences and of the Natural
Sciences (DGFL-ENS), who is responsible for :
. Vice Dean 7: Faculties of Leadership of Earth and Universe Sciences (FL-EUS):
Including but not limited to the:
. School of Agronomy
. School of Farm Management and Technology
School of Animal Sciences
School of Bio-resource Engineering
School of Food Science and Agricultural Chemistry
School of Natural Resource Sciences
School of Plant Science and of Cash Crop Sciences
School of Dietetics and Human Nutrition
School of Parasitology
School of Agribusiness and of Agricultural Economics
. School of Agro-Processing
School of Biotechnology
. Vice Dean 8: Faculties of Leadership of Environmental Sciences and of the Ecosystem (FL-ESE):
. Vice-Dean 9: Faculty of Leadership of Natural Sciences (FL-NTS):
IV. Dean of the Group of Faculties of Leadership of Engineering, of Formal or Exact Sciences
and of Technologies (DGFL- EPT), who is responsible for :
. Vice Dean 10: Faculties of Leadership of Engineering and of Construction Science (FL-ECS):
Including but not limited to the:
. Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering
. Schools of Architecture and Urban Planning
. School of Biological Engineering
. School of Chemical Engineering
. School of Electrical Engineering
. School of Engineering Systems
. School of Health Sciences and Technology
. School of Materials Science and Engineering
. School of Mechanical Engineering
. School of Nuclear Science and Engineering
. Vice Dean 11: Faculties of Leadership of Materials and Applied Sciences (FL-MAS):
Including but not limited to the:
. School of Petrology and of Energies
. Vice-Dean 12: Faculties of Leadership of Exact Sciences and of Technologies (FL-EST):
Including but not limited to:
. School of Applied Mathematics (mathematical physics, math biology, computational biology), Pure
Mathematics and Statistics
. School of theoretical computer science,
. School of theoretical physics and of energy
. School of numerical analysis and scientific computation
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Giving
This AIU-Haiti project is a multi-million dollar project, of at least 25 million, over the first 3 to 5years.
We can only grow and prosper if we find annually the significant capital gifts it requires from friends and
allies who want to be part of a success story in Haiti.
See attached our preliminary budget.
We need a strong permanent endowment, to help build 3 campuses as we envision it, and to help
house temporarily the university in its current facilities, so that it can sustain in the meantime its wide
range comprehensive academic programs. We need also a residential commons to house at least 250
visiting faculty and students.
We need to finalize the deal that will let us own outright the property at Vivy Mitchell, a well-to do
neighborhood of Ptionville, where quickly we are doing the alterations and renovations in 7 buildings
at a cost of just over $ 1,4 million USD.
We seek either a fiscal parent in a large US or UK university and/or an endowment in billions dollars
terms to mark AIU-Haitis academic distinction and its institutional stability as it is reflected in the
generosity of its dedicated benefactors who understand the true value of re-building Haitis human
capacity as paramount over anything else.
Donors with their capital gifts can help fund facilities, scholarships for our students and faculties and
fellowships with other universities, the university residences, teaching and research, etc.
Such gifts to AIU-Haiti can lead to well-mediatized recognition opportunities, which honor or
memorialize the donor.
- For 250,000 USD and up, we can name 1 of our 12 faculties in a donors name and that name
will appear in the diplomas.
- For 25,000 USD and up, we can name a particular classroom after the name of a donor.
- Gifts toward endowment, that are unrestricted and that are in excess of 1 million USD and up,
are invested by the university, and the income from the gift is directed toward a purpose
selected by the donor. Like other universities, only the income from the principal is expended,
so that the gift continues in perpetuity. Gifts of that nature qualify the donor for a seat at
perpetuity at the governing council or board of the university. Endowment opportunities include
facilities funding, scholarships, professorships, and funds to support teaching and research.
- Gifts that are restricted use of funds can be directed toward a purpose designated by the donor,
such as the creation of a financial aid funnel to help fund, as a financial loan, the other half of
the program for every student at AIU-Haiti. This restricted gift must be in excess of 2 million
USD and up and will be depleted over a specified agree-upon period. Such gift also gives right
to a seat at the governing council or board until the entire amount of the gift is disbursed to its
intended purposes.
- Gifts toward unrestricted use can support the day-to-day operations of the university, including
administrative salaries, buildings and grounds maintenance, student activities, general financial
aid, teaching, and research.
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We accept also gifts in kind, as well as gifts structured over a long period or that are deferred
gifts in ways that are beneficial both to the donor and to AIU-Haiti.
We finally accept marketable securities, as well as bequests or being named in someones will.

No greater than 30% of any gift ever ended up as part of administrative salaries.

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