b'P U LT E I N S T I T U T E forG L O B A L D E V E L O P M E N T 2020 - 2021A N N U A L R E V I E WPARTNERSHIP Celebrating 20 Years of Pulte Institute Faculty FellowsPartnership with Catholic Now in its second year, the Pulte Institute Faculty Fellowswill also have an increased amount of involvement with PulteRelief Servicesprogram boasts 100 interdisciplinary Notre Dame facultyInstitute projects and programs, as well as coursework in the committed to five-year terms. Each Fellow has individualKeough School of Global Affairs. expertise in one or more of the Institutes five domains ofAdditional information about the program, including theCreating synergy between the metrics of academic institutions thematic focus and can access several unique, collaborativeresponsibilities of Pulte Institute Faculty Fellows and eligibilityand practitioner-based organizations can be challenging; but the benefits, including Pulte Institute expert practitioners, grantcriteria, is available at pulte.nd.edu/FacultyFellows. University of Notre Dame and Catholic Relief Services (CRS)Working together in several countries opportunities, travel, and worldwide partnerships. Fellowshave managed to cultivate a partnership that has spanned twothroughout the world, our partnership decades. with Notre Dame has enabled CRS to CRS has partnered on programs with several Notre Damedocument evidence of success and ACROSS THE UNIVERSITY entitiesincluding the Alliance for Catholic Education,innovate and improve our programs in the Keough Schools Integration Lab, the Kroc Institute, andareas such as education, trauma and the Pulte Instituteon joint programs to address global 10031 8 development challenges for the most vulnerable since 2000.resilience in conflict areas, peacebuilding, The partnership grew over the years based on common valuesand food security. Through exchanges, Faculty Fellows DepartmentsColleges and Schools enshrined in Catholic social teaching.research and evaluations, and leadership Pulte Institute Executive Director Michael Sweikar and Davidtraining, together we have tested game-Leege, former CRS director for monitoring, evaluation,changing new approaches that help us accountability and learning, published an article in Praxisachieve our common goal of transforming THEMATIC AREAS OF FOCUS which documents the partnership between Notre Dame andthe lives of poor and vulnerable CRS as they seek to fight poverty and inequality worldwide. Thecommunities.1914 48 11 8article, From Associational Value to Complementary Synergy: Eighteen Years of NGO-University Partnership, provides a Simone Buechler, Senior Advisor formodel for how university-NGO partnerships can continue toUniversity Engagement and Research Business inSustainabilityEffective StatesHumanitarianism Globalgrow together over time. at Catholic Relief ServicesDevelopment and Development HealthI sit in a discipline that is ubiquitousdesign touches and draws from each and every discipline around the University. However, its focus remains on the human experience and how that impacts the plurality of its sociological implications. This is what I find truly inspiring in my work. Neeta Verma, Associate Professor, Department of Art,Art History & Design, Pulte Institute Faculty Fellow24 25'