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February 2005
| International Education Report February 2005 full issue PDF … |
| Bellevue Community College: A worldview in two years The battle for international education is being fought in all corners of the country and the world — and in all types of institutions. To be sure that best efforts are recognized, no matter where they emerge, NAFSA, the Society of International Educators, has this year begun to present the Senator Paul Simon Award for Campus Internationalization which recognizes outstanding achievements by a U.S. college or university under the broad umbrella of campus internationalization. The award is named for the late Senator Paul Simon (D–Ill.), who identified international education as an issue of crucial importance for the future of the United States, and became a forceful champion of the cause. Before his death in December 2003, Simon led an effort to create a multi-billion-dollar, federally funded study abroad scholarship known as the Abraham Lincoln scholarship program. In this first year of the Paul Simon Prize, five U.S. higher education institutions have been singled out. |
| Advising Gay and Lesbian Students: An Interview with Kevin Morrison The Rainbow Special Interest Group (SIG)is a focal point of knowledge about how to advise gay, lesbian, bi-sexual and trangendered (GLBT) students for life abroad; or conversely, how to counsel international students, on coming to the States, about our own confusing sexual codes. |
| Web-Enhanced Course Internationalizes Business Curriculum Less than 1 percent of the students at Montclair State University in New Jersey study abroad. But if an idea recently implemented by Kathryn Martell, associate dean of the School of Business at Montclair State, and a colleague in Hungary catches on, more students on campus will have an international learning experience. |
| Panel addresses international student issues International students face distinct challenges while pursuing their education, so a panel discussion was held recently at the University of Houston—Clear Lake, to address some of their concerns. |
| TRAVEL READING Gospel: A Novel by Wilton Barnhardt |
| New International Recruitment Tool — Instant Messaging Just as colleges in the United States are learning the ins and outs of recruiting American students via instant messaging, they are learning the advantages and limitations of using IM to communicate with prospective students internationally. |
| Interdisciplinary Undergraduate Research Abroad When Daniel Wubah, special assistant to the president at James Madison University, was planning a pilot program that would give undergraduate science students unique research opportunities in Ghana, he began talking with another professor who also was planning a summer program in Ghana for history and culture students. Looking to create opportunities for mutually beneficial interaction, the professors planned the programs so that the two groups of students would be able to spend a week together discussing their research. |
