Dr. Zainab Faruqui Ali participated in a program on "Building Administrative Capacity in Bangladeshi Institutions of Higher Education" organized by the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, Department of State, USA and the American Institute of Bangladesh Studies. The month long intensive program was conducted by the College of Education at Pennsylvania State University where participants from ten Bangladeshi universities attended visits, meetings, discussions and presentations with deans, administrators, and presidents of various public, private, faith-based and HBCU universities in Pennsylvania, Maryland, Ohio and Washington DC. The program ended with meetings with the representatives of Bangladesh Desk and administrators of the State Department. Representatives of both USA and Bangladeshi universities will be working on future collaboration on various aspects of higher education.