A UW-Stout administrator is heading to Singapore for a week to evaluate higher education programs there.

It's the first trip in a five year, $75,000 deal between the university and Singapore’s Ministry of Education.

Julie Furst-Bowe is scheduled to leave for Singapore on January 16th.

She'll be the only American on a panel that will look at the country's institute of technical education.

It will examine leadership, management and strategic planning.

Furst-Bowe says the ministry picked stout because of it's expertise in ongoing quality improvement processes.