"Sustainable Global Commitments in International Education" the latest issue of The Review of Global Studies Literature now available

The Review of Global Studies Literature, initiated in 2010, is a review of recent books and professional publications relevant to the multiple sets of interests in international education. The publication is a project of NAFSA’s Teaching, Learning, and Scholarship (TLS) Knowledge Community. It is a valuable resource for researchers, graduate students and practitioners in all areas of international education. The latest issue published this month, with the theme "Sustainable Global Commitments in International Education," is available via the NAFSA TLS Research/Scholarship network resource library here.

The editors are now looking for reviewers for the next issue. A Call for Reviewers is available at the main page here. (look for the downloadable PDF on the right hand side). The deadline for submissions will be July 30, 2012.

Many, many thanks to Emily Gorlewski, Rebecca Hovey, Bryan McAllister-Grande for all of their hard work as co-editors on The Review of Global Studies Literature!

Photo credit:  Lin Pernille Photography

New Book - Faculty-led 360: Guide to Successful Study Abroad

I'm posting to IHEC Blog today about a new book that I think many readers will find of interest.  Faculty-led 360: Guide to Successful Study Abroad  by Melanie McCallon and Bill Holmes is the newest publication by Agapy, LLC who also published Study Abroad 101 by Wendy Williamson.


Faculty-led 360: Guide to Successful Study Abroad will be a useful guide to any faculty member leading students abroad.  Following is the table of contents: 

Chapter 1: Why Should I Do This?

Chapter 2: From Concept to Reality

Chapter 3: Faculty Responsibilities

Chapter 4: Student-Faculty Relationship

Chapter 5: Student Learning Abroad

Chapter 6: The Study Abroad Office

Chapter 7: Crisis Management

Learn more about Faculty-led 360 to see if it is right for you and your faculty at http://www.facultyled.com/faculty-led-360-excerpt2.


You should also check out the other Agapy LLC projects including facultyled.com (Faculty Study Abroad and International Education) and AbroadScout.com (Study Abroad Blog and Programs Directory with Student Reviews).  Additionally, you can follow along on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/AbroadScout

IHEC Blog Interview with Christopher Murphy about Writing for and Publishing at NAFSA

During the NAFSA annual conference in Kansas City, Missouri this past May I was fortunate to interview Christopher Murphy, Senior Director for Publications at NAFSA, about the publishing process at NAFSA.  I first met Christopher during the NAFSA Winter Leadership Meeting in January 2006 when I joined the NAFSA Subcommittee on Information Management (SIM) representing the Teaching, Learning and Scholarship Knowledge Community.  I had the pleasure of serving on this committee for three years and I really learned a lot about publishing from Christopher and his NAFSA colleagues!

Do you have an idea for a NAFSA publication?  Do you have an idea for an article for International Educator?  If so, be sure to check out the "Get Published in NAFSA Publications" webpage here.  You should also feel free to contact one of the SIM members who are listed on this same webpage.

Many colleagues and IHEC Blog readers know that I'm a fan and collector of international education literature and I encourage you to take a look around NAFSA's publication website to see what resources are available to help with your practice and/or research efforts.  Also, if you find yourself at a NAFSA annual conference be sure to set aside time to visit the NAFSA Bookstore where you can find a nice selection of publications by NAFSA as well as from other publishers!

Photo credit:  David Comp, 2010 NAFSA Annual Conference, Kansas City, Missouti

Literature obtained during the NAFSA Annual Conference & IHEC Blog Posts this Week

During the NAFSA conference I always find time to stroll through the exhibit hall.  I sometimes find it to be the most educational part of the conference.  To be sure, I’m always on the hunt for chotchkies for my kids and I think this year I did not disappoint!  I also started collecting pins (not buttons) from all of the various booths and I have a nice little collection going for the past three years.  More important, however, is that strolling through the exhibit hall provides an excellent opportunity for me to brush up on my anthropological and field/observational research skills (though I have no formal training in this area).  I find it very educational to see how various institutions, organizations, companies and countries present themselves to the field and I always find it fascinating to sit back and watch all of the people from all over the world interacting and working to establish exchanges/agreements as the exhibit hall is so much more than an us [U.S.] and them transaction.

Another practice of mine in the exhibit hall is searching for and collecting reports and books for my various research activities and to be housed in my Bury Book International Education Library & Archive.  NAFSA 2010 was exceptionally good to me as you can see from the photo pictured with this post (includes much of the literature I picked-up).  This week I will be highlighting some of literature I picked-up in the exhibit hall as well as some of the literature I was given (Many thanks IIE and MIUSA).  Additionally, I hope to post about a new publication about study abroad in the U.S. that I recently received.  To end this week I plan to post my video interview with Christopher Murphy, Senior Publications Director at NAFSA, as we discussed writing and publishing with NAFSA.

In case you missed my tweet (with photo) from #nafsa10 about the new CIEE Occasional Paper #32 titled “Study Abroad and its Transformative Power” by Gerald W. Fry, R. Michael Paige, Jae-Eun Jon, Jon Dillow and Kyoung-Ah Nam I thought I would put this great new publication on your radar.  CIEE has resurrected their popular Occasional Papers series and based on my conversation with a colleague at CIEE involved with bringing this new Occasional Paper to the field there will hopefully be more to come in the future!  You can access the Study Abroad and its Transformative Power Occasional Paper #32 here and all of the CIEE Occasional Papers here.

NAFSA Call for Volunteers for Chair Designate of the Subcommittee on Information Management (SIM)

NAFSA: Association of International Educators has put out a call for volunteers for Chair Designate of the Subcommittee on Information Management (SIM). I was a member of NAFSA’s Subcommittee on Information Management for three years (2006-2008) representing the Teaching, Learning & Scholarship knowledge community and I think it is a great committee. SIM is “a key pan-NAFSA body that works with all of the knowledge communities to coordinate print and e-publication projects.”[1] Not only is SIM a great way to contribute to the work of NAFSA but you get an inside perpective to the publishing field and you get to add you voice to future and updated NAFSA publications! You can read more about this position and download a position description and application here.

Have an idea for a publication or article in the field of international education? Consider writing for NAFSA! You can learn more about writing for NAFSA here.

Photo credit: Orin Zebest

[1] from the December 15, 2009 (Vol. 14, No. 46) NAFSA.news

공감 (미주 유학생과 새터민 학생에 대한 공감 리포트)

A short time ago I received a wonderful gift in the mail. One of my former advisees (an international student from South Korea) from my professional work in The College at The University of Chicago sent me a book that she recently published. It was a very nice to hear from her as it’s been about two years since she graduated. Her book is published in both Korean and English which is nice for me as I (unfortunately) don’t speak or read Korean. What is even more interesting is that her book fits perfectly with the theme of IHEC Blog so I thought I would post about it since I finally was able to finish reading her book. Here is a brief description of Empathy: A Light to My Soul (2009) by Jessica Jungmin Lee from the front cover: “The stories of South Korean students in the United States vs. the narratives of North Korean adolescents in South Korea: Reconstructing Identities through ‘SELF-NARRATIVES’”.

I found Empathy: A Light to My Soul to be a very interesting read and one that should be of interest to international educators. If you read Korean you can learn more about this book as well as order a copy of the book from here ('m assuming this is the page for this). Update: The link I provide does not take you directly to webpage for Empathy: A Light to My Soul but rather to a list of books. I think this has to do with the Google translation of the webpage. Fixing this link problem is beyond my technical scope of practice but you can find the book on this page by scrolling to the very bottom and you'll find it. Thanks to my colleague Bettina Hansel over at Intercultural Eyes for catching this!

Writing and Publishing in the Field of International Education

I've always wondered where the best place is for international education practitioners/researchers to submit their work for publication. One publication avenue is in journals/publications such as Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad, Journal of Studies in International Education, or International Educator where we educate/inform our field (critical need for this). Another publication route is to submit work for publication in journals/publications focusing more generally on higher education, public diplomacy, policy, or on many other topics where we educate/inform those outside of our field in order to gain more support and understanding of our field (also critical need for this)? A third possibility is to take both paths and to write and submit different manuscripts for the different audiences you are trying to reach. What are your thoughts on this?