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February 2006
| International Education Report - February, 2006 - Full Issue … |
| Moving Minorities Into Study Abroad -- What Works “If you look at images of study abroad,” says Marilyn Jackson, “from Gidget Goes to Rome to Mary Kate and Ashley, the image is young white women. You can hang all the study abroad posters you want but if a person thinks that study abroad is not for them, they won’t see them.” Sending comfortably-off white kids overseas to acquire some cosmopolitan polish is about the last thing that study abroad professionals aim to be doing. Still, the uncomfortable fact is that relatively few minorities -- in particular Hispanics and blacks –- do study overseas. |
| What to Do When the Media Come Calling Last summer, when bombs were going off on the London Tube, study abroad administrators across the country were suddenly getting calls from reporters looking for a local angle. After 9/11 it was international students and the visa process that made the phones ring -- a lot of international student advisers took a lot of reporters through the SEVIS process, explaining what kind of scrutiny foreign students come under, and did the schools follow procedures in admitting them? |
| Media Interview Tips By From Kelly Leon, director for public relations, Xavier University From Kelly Leon, director for public relations, Xavier University |
| Successful Cross-Cultural Experience: In Search of the Key What is the x-factor in study abroad? What enables some people to get the most out of a cross-cultural experience? There are external factors, like the setting, the structure of the program, the quality of instructors and curriculum; social factors like the makeup and chemistry of the group of students; the leadership, if it is faculty-led. But most people in the field are aware that there is something interior, inside each student, that determines how successful the study abroad experience is going to be. A number of people are working, in a variety of ways, on defining and describing this trait. |
| AASC&U Works Toward Global General Education The Association of American Colleges and Universities recently announced the creation of a network of 16 colleges and universities that have the goal of infusing their general education curricula with global learning. International Education Report spoke with Kevin Hovland, associate director of Shared Futures: Global Learning and Social Responsibility — a multiproject, national initiative of the AASC&U’s Office of Diversity, Equity, and Global Initiatives — about the project. |
| Moving Up – Learning to Be a Chief International Education Administrator NAFSA recently responded to growing interest by forming an upper management special interest group. Joseph Tullbane, director of the Center for International Education (CIE) and associate dean of International Education at St. Norbert College in Wisconsin, has been leading workshops for those who are about to make the leap to chief international education administrator (CIEA) level. International Education Report recently spoke with Tullbane to ask for guidance for those who are about to take on the challenging role of managing their institution’s entire international education effort. This is what he had to say. |
