Lily von Klemperer on Standards of Good Practice for Education Abroad

As many IHEC Blog readers know, I enjoy learning and writing about the history of international educational and cultural exchange and I'm quite excited about the formation last year of the AIFS/AIFS Foundation Education Abroad Special Collection which is a project of the Forum on Education Abroad in partnership with Dickinson College, the American Institute For Study Abroad (AIFS) and the AIFS Foundation.  I enjoy the history of the field so much that several years ago I created the Bury Book Internaitonal Education Library & Archive and have received donated materials from some of the biggest names in the field and get several requests a year about visiting for research (it's currently in my home office which adds some challenges to have visitors).

This week the Forum on Education Abroad held a celebration at the Special Collection at Dickinson to honor the establishment of the center and to showcase some of the donations made thus far.  You can see photos from the event on the Forum's Facebook page and Twitter account.

In the May 23, 2014 Forum News, a note about an interview from 1988 by Tom Roberts with Lily von Klemperer was released on the Forum's YouTube Channel.  Both are pioneers in the field and I'm honored to have met Tom and to have shared a beverage (or more) with him but I never met Lily.  I'm a huge fan of her work and to watch this brief video made my day!

News from NAFSA 1958, 1975 and 1988

One of my many academic interests is the history of international education with particular interest to the mobility of students and scholars to and from the United States.  Earlier this year I was so excited to learn that NAFSA Region XI started a digital archive of historical records that I posted here on IHEC Blog about it.  The other day I was digging around the archives and came across NEWS FROM NAFSA 1958, 1975 and 1988 documents and I thought I would highlight and/or cite a few of the main issues/news of these three time periods:

 

1958

 

- NAFSA marks its tenth anniversary ~ membership rose from 88 to 685, annual budget increased from $2,500 to $40,000 and NAFSA had 20 active working relationships with more than 2o governmental and non-governmental agencies

- NAFSA discovers that many of their old files and photos (to be used in 10 birthday celebration) were destroyed by termites.

-  “New debate rages: Should it be TEFL or TESL?  Should it be English as a foreign language or English as a second language?

- “NAFSA would like to measure impact on American students of interaction with foreign students…will be looking for tools to accomplish this.”

- NAFSA expressed gratitude to IIE for all of it gave to the organization:

o   in starting NAFSA

o   in Hungarian student crisis

o   in fostering important research

o   in conducting foreign student census

 

1975

 

- GRAC Team met in the Rockies to write first comprehensive Advisers Manual on Immigration

- SECUSSA held its first national workshop and the Sourcebook written in five days [I have two original copies of the Sourcebook in my Bury Book International Education Library & Archive]

- ADSEC expresses concern about a new wave of forgery in student credentials and “urges extreme caution, verification of questionable documents”

 

1988

 

- NAFSA celebrates 40 years

- Archer Brown won the first Higbee Award

- Senator Fulbright was one of the plenary speakers at the annual conference

- “U.S. hosts more students from abroad than any country in the world….over 350,000 here now”

- New NAFSA publication – Helping them Home-A Guide for Leaders of Professional Integration and Reentry Workshops by Peggy Pusch and Nessa Loewenthal

- Governor Clinton of Arkansas picked the Region III raffle winner

- NAFSA Field Service Program enters its fifteenth year ~ accomplishments include:

o   Publication of 74 books, manuals and guidelines

o   533 in-service training grants

o   899 regional workshops

 

You can access these three NEWS FROM NAFSA issues here.

IIE Annual Report Archive (1920-2009) Available Online

I just learned that the Institute of International Education (IIE) established an archive of all of their Annual Reports (1920-2009) and made them available on their website in .PDF format.  There are many things I like about this and for those of you who are interested in the history of international education you will find these publications to be very interesting and helpful in your research.  IIE's Annual Reports not only provide valuable information on the organization and its work but they also provide an excellent historical timeline of the field of international education.  The Annual Reports from the early decades are perhaps the most interesting to me as these publications are such valuable pieces of historical literature on the field of international education.  You can access the IIE Annual Report Archive here.

The NAFSA Region XI Archives

Those who know me either from my work on the NAFSA: Association of International Educators Teaching, Learning and Scholarship (TLS) team and other NAFSA Task Forces and Subcommittees or via IHEC Blog will know that I have a strong interest in the history of the field of international education. Yesterday, my colleague Bryan McAllister-Grande from Brandeis University and the Research/Scholarship Network Leader for NAFSA posted some really exciting news to the Research/Scholarship discussion forum (if you’re not subscribed now is a good time). Specifically, NAFSA’s Region XI has set up an online archive and there are some really great documents in PDF format with some dating back to the 1950’s and 1960’s. It is important to note that most of these documents have a national focus on international education and are not specific to Region XI. A brief listing of what you can find in the archives:


News from NAFSA (1958)

Foreign Students: Exchange or Immigration? (1964)

A History of Study Abroad (1966)

A Letter to NAFSA from Lyndon Johnson (1968)

The Professionalization of the Foreign Student Advisor (1976)

The Impact of the “Buckely Amendment” (1976)

While they are mentioned on the Archive website I think it is important to highlight and thank the Region XI Archive Committee members for their invaluable work on this project! The committee members are:

Bob Chudy – University of Connecticut
Steve Harvey – Southern New Hampshire University
Michelle Kort – University of Connecticut, Babson College.
Richard Lazzerini – University of Hartford
Don Ross – Salem State College
Jennifer Stephens - Consultant
Alice Thayer – St. Michael’s College

You can access the Region XI Archive here.

IHEC Blog’s YouTube Channel is Looking for Subscription Recommendations

A little over a week ago I created a YouTube channel for IHEC Blog. I decided to create a YouTube channel primarily for my research activities as well as a way for me to find and archive (favorite) interesting videos related to international education and public/citizen diplomacy. The side benefit is that IHEC Blog’s channel can serve as a clearinghouse for all international education and public/citizen diplomacy related channels on YouTube. Building up the subscriptions will be a slow process but as I come across channels of interest I will subscribe to them. Additionally, as I come across videos of interest I will add them to my list of favorites. Here are the YouTube channels I have subscribed to so far:

U.S. Center for Citizen Diplomacy (http://www.youtube.com/user/USCitizenDiplomacy)

Wandering Educators (http://www.youtube.com/user/WanderingEducators)

Education USA TV (http://www.youtube.com/user/EducationUSAtv)

Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship Program (http://www.youtube.com/user/gilmanscholarship)

Manitou Heights (http://www.youtube.com/user/rmsylte)

Fulbright Center (http://www.youtube.com/user/fulbrightcenter)

Fulbright U.S. Student Program (http://www.youtube.com/user/fulbrightprogram)

Fulbright Scholar 1 (http://www.youtube.com/user/FulbrightScholar1)

Foreign Fulbright Program (http://www.youtube.com/user/fulbrightforeign)

ExchangesConnect (http://www.youtube.com/user/exchangesvideo)

AustraLearn (http://www.youtube.com/user/AustraLearn)

What channels are missing? If you have a YouTube channel (or have recommendations for channels) that I should subscribe to on IHEC Blog's channel please leave a comment with the link to your channel.[1]

You can link to IHEC Blog’s YouTube channel here at http://www.youtube.com/user/IHECBlog


[1] Links to relevant channels only please! Please note that I reserve the right not to subscribe to a suggested YouTube channel and/or to not post comments suggesting YouTube channels.

Grateful Dead Donate Their Archives to UC Santa Cruz

In April, Mickey Hart and Bob Weir annouced that the Grateful Dead would donate their archives to the University of California, Santa Cruz. You can read the Santa Cruz press announcement here: http://www.ucsc.edu/news_events/text.asp?pid=2142 and access the Grateful Dead Archive here: http://library.ucsc.edu/speccoll/GD_archive.html.