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November 2004
| Full November 2004 issue of International Education Report in PDF format … |
| Put the Arts of Advocacy to Work for Your Program Those who administer international education programs (or even parts of one) have many tasks, most of them crucial. |
| Panel Testifies on Visa Improvements Two panels of university presidents and international education association leaders testified on the importance of international education before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Oct. 6. |
| In the News FBI to Have Direct Access to SEVIS Databases; Students from Belarus Find Refuge at Swarthmore; New Fund Helps Kosovars Study in U.S.; U. Virginia's New Program Cultivates International Perspective |
| Students Study Abroad for the Cost of Staying Home Qualified juniors and seniors at the University of Denver (DU) with at least a 3.0 GPA can now study abroad for one quarter and pay the same tuition, room, and board as if they were staying at DU for the term. The university also provides airfare to and from the overseas site. |
| Campuses Hope to Stop Bad Behavior Before It Starts Opening up study abroad to a greater number of students has a down side, colleges and universities across the country have found: It increases the chances for student conduct problems overseas. |
| Resources IIE Passport: Short-Term Study Abroad 2004; Globalizing Knowledge: Connecting International and Intercultural Studies; The Forum on Education Abroad: Standards of Good Practice for Education Abroad |
| Website Has Resources for Students, from Orientation to Reentry For the past 27 years, the University of the Pacific’s School of International Studies has required its students to take for-credit orientation and reentry courses before and after participating in overseas programs. Each course consists of 21 hours of instruction and focuses on general cultural information that can be applied to any study abroad experience rather than culture-specific content. Since many institutions do not offer such extensive study-abroad support, the content of these courses has been made available online through a website called “What’s Up With Culture?” (www3.uop. edu/sis/culture/). |
