2017 University of Chicago Booth School of Business Staff Shirts

I'm liking the new 2017 Chicago Booth staff shirts that were handed out yesterday at the annual summer picnic. I missed the picnic yesterday as I was giving a workshop to the Global Initiatives team at the University of Michigan Ross School of Business but a colleague grabbed a shirt for me which was so nice!

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Two Big International Education Related Announcements at the University of Chicago over the Weekend!

News on the Francis and Rose Yuen Center in Hong Kong

News on Joshua Pickar becoming the 50th Rhodes Scholar from the University of Chicago

Researching Mexico: University of Chicago Field Explorations in Mexico, 1896-2014 - New exhibit at Special Collections unearths UChicago’s research in Mexico

Those of you who are interested in the history of international educational research, study and exchange and/or U.S. & Mexico academic engagement may find interest in a current exhibit “Researching Mexico: University of Chicago Field Explorations in Mexico, 1896-2014 “ at Special Collections at the University of Chicago.

The exhibition is on view in the Special Collections Research Center Gallery from June 30, 2014 - October 4, 2014.  Gallery hours: Monday - Friday, 9:00 a.m. - 4:45 p.m.  Saturday, 9:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. when classes are in session.   

You can read, see a few items from the collection and learn more at:

1.       http://news.lib.uchicago.edu/blog/2014/06/19/researching-mexico-university-of-chicago-field-explorations-in-mexico-1896-2014/

2.       http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/webexhibits/researchingmexico/index.html

3.       http://news.uchicago.edu/article/2014/08/18/new-exhibit-special-collections-unearths-uchicago-s-research-mexico

To be sure, viewing this exhibit is easiest done by those in the Chicagoland area or those who will find themselves in the city while the exhibit is open.  I have yet to visit the exhibit so I am unable to comment but I have penciled in a date to visit next week.

[note that Summer Quarter classes end Saturday, August 30^th so based on my understanding the exhibit would be open this coming Saturday and Autumn Quarter classes begin at the UofC on Monday, September 29^th which would make October 4^th the last day of the exhibit and an open day you can view on a Saturday]

University of Chicago Celebrates the Opening of the new Center in Delhi

This is a big weekend for the University of Chicago as the new Center in Delhi opens!



You can learn more about all of the program of activities and tune in via the University of Chicago website.

If you are on Twitter you can also follow along via #UChiDelhi

Tweets about "#UChiDelhi"

To the class of 2011, I wish you all the best and may you all travel to all corners of this world!

This past weekend I worked the 507th Convocation at The University of Chicago and found it to be a great experience.  As I watched the students receive their diplomas and heard their names called I recognized many from meetings I've had with them over the years to discuss the Fulbright U.S. Student Program, the DAAD, the Boren Scholarship, the Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship, the Freeman-Asia Scholarship or the Thomas R. Pickering Foreign Affairs Fellowship among others.  Many students were successful in these competitions and many were not.  Regardless of the outcome, many students took a leap and applied to these funding opportunities (some students applied to several) to have a meaningful international educational experience.  It is this group of students that I will miss the most.  These are the students who want to leave the comforts of their high speed cable/satellite/smart phone/internet connections behind; to be challenged on their viewpoint and to learn about and consider a different perspective; to see the larger world that they have dreamed and read about; and, to make a difference in this world.  These are the students I want my children to become!

To the class of 2011 at The University of Chicago, and beyond, I wish you all the best and may you all travel to all corners of this world!

Japanese Magic Lantern: The Minwa-za Company of Tokyo and the Art of Utsushi-e

I've posted on IHEC Blog in the past about the exposure my daughter (and son) is getting in her school this academic year to countries, cultures and issues across the globe (see links below).  This exposure is not new as it has been happening since she entered the Nursery school.  My son is in Kindergarten and in his three years at the school he has learned about such things as Diwali and had Greek celebrations in his classroom.  


This morning her class will learn how to make lanterns and in the afternoon they will watch a traditional theatrical performance of Utsushi-e, a classical style of theater that uses lanterns and puppetry! 


More on this event today and additional performances this week through Saturday are available here.


Related posts:
The internationalization of Room 404 [a 3rd grade class at The University of Chicago Laboratory Schools]
Cranes of Hope For Japan Relief fundraiser

The internationalization of Room 404 [a 3rd grade class at The University of Chicago Laboratory Schools]

I feel very fortunate that my children are able to attend the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools.  It’s truly an incredible place on so many levels!

Of particular interest to me this year is the international focus in my daughter's 3rd grade class!  Following are some of the main internationally focused projects of from her class this year:

- Towards the end of second grade students and parents had to select a language to begin in 3^rd grade.  Language offerings were Chinese, French, German and Spanish.  We spent a bit of time discussing the various languages with my daughter and in the end my daughter chose Spanish.

-       - Back in October to coincide with Halloween my daughter’s class participated in the Trick-OrTreat for UNICEF program!  The children collected over $300 and then used the information from the back of the collection box to see what their money could be used for—vaccinations for 20+ children, fresh drinking water, blankets, and school supplies for needy children.

-       - The children also had to bring in a pumpkin for a painted pumpkin globe class project.  The children painted their pumpkins blue, placed their equator and prime meridian to place Africa first and then traced the other 6 continents onto their globes.  Finally they painted and put labels on the continents and oceans.  After finishing their pumpkin globes the children began looking more closely at each continent.  They examined Atlases to find locations of countries, landforms, and special features of each continent.

-       - The class started a Global Grains project and in autumn started with South America then on to Asia and the Middle East where they cooked Tabbouleh, potato samosas, and rice noodle stir-fry and recently to Australia where the grains of study were wheat and waddle seed. The children made Waddle Seed Biscuits and meat and vegetable pies. They also got to sample a taste of Vegemite!   

-      -  In January the children prepared and presented reports on Asia to the other third grade classes.  After taking and organizing notes, each group composed a page long report on their assigned research topic. 

-       - Immediately following the class presentations on Asia the children met with their Kindergarten buddies to write and decorate letters to the families in Honduras that were receiving class/family donations of baby supplies.  The kindergarteners had drawn many (adorable) pictures of babies and hearts that were cut out and pasted around the letter for decoration.  The third graders helped their buddies choose a message to write around the border and together they composed a short note to the families.  Additionally, the children received the names and photos of children in the village and the class wrote letters to specific children as well.  Students taking Spanish helped with some basic Spanish phrases to include.

   - German Club pretzels! – This long-standing tradition of selling bakery fresh pretzels every Thursday began with Lab’s first German teacher.  My five year old son particularly likes this and every Thursday a different Kindergarten student is responsible for taking pretzel orders, collecting money, purchasing and distributing pretzels.  Proceeds fund the Pretzel Scholarship for one Lab student to participate in the school’s three week exchange in Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg (reminds me of my high school exchange program).


This photo is of the morning welcome sign on my son's Kindergarten class door at Lab: "Hip Hop Hooray We Will Learn About Diwali Today!"  How awesome is that?!  Each student in the class received their own Diwali candle which we have at home (in fact we have two as my daughter was in this same Kindergarten class and also learned about and celebrated Diwali!).

What is really great is that the academic year is not over yet so I’m excited to see what the next internationally focused homework/project will focus on!

Great year for British Scholarships in The College at The University of Chicago with 3 Rhodes, 2 Marshall & 2 Gates-Cambridge (and a Fulbright finalist!)

Congratulations to the seven University of Chicago recipients of the 2011 Rhodes, Marshall and Gates Cambridge Scholarships!  It was a great year for British Scholarships in The College with 3 Rhodes, 2 Marshall & 2 Gates Cambridge (and we have a Fulbright finalist to the UK)!  

Additional recognition is due for my colleagues who work so hard with these applicants!!

A Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations

Continuing with my history theme...This IHEC Blog post, however, really has nothing to do with international education other I will be following this style guide for my dissertation which will be on an international education topic.  This IHEC Blog post has more to do with The University of Chicago where I work and the historical influence this institution has had in academia.  It is truly an amazing place to work and it makes you be at the top of your game everyday.  

For this post, I'm writing some information about a style guide that I have to follow for formatting my dissertation.  I had always heard about Turabian Style but never knew anything about it or its history so I thought I would copy and paste some interesting (at least to me) information and history from Wikipedia (with links to The University of Chicago Press) about Kate L. Tirabian and her style guide. "A Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations" by Kate L. Turabian is a style guide for writing and formatting research papers. Except for a few minor differences, Turabian style is the same as The Chicago Manual of Style. However, while The Chicago Manual of Style focuses on providing guidelines for publishing in general, Turabian's Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations focuses on providing guidelines for student papers, theses and dissertations. The most recent version of Turabian (7th ed.) enables use of footnotes and/or endnotes in combination with parenthetical referencing. Turabian was the graduate school dissertation secretary at The University of Chicago from 1930 to 1958. The school required her approval for every master's thesis and doctoral dissertation.

Citation: all text copied and pasted from Wikipedia at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_L._Turabian and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Manual_for_Writers_of_Research_Papers,_Theses,_and_Dissertations

"We are All Islanders to Begin With": The University of Chicago and the World in the Late Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

Since 1996, John W. Boyer, Dean of the College and the Martin A. Ryerson distinguished service professor of History at The University of Chicago, has written an Occasional Papers on Higher Education series focusing on The University of Chicago.  Of particular interest to me and hopefully many IHEC Blog readers is Volume XVII "We are All Islanders to Begin With": The University of Chicago and the World in the Late Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. 

To be sure, "We are All Islanders to Begin With": The University of Chicago and the World in the Late Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries is a history of the University of Chicago but this publication provides an excellent overview of campus international efforts, collaboration and thinking during the early twentieth century through present day.

You can access all of the volumes in Boyer’s Occasional Papers on Higher Education here.  I just received a hard copy of this publication for my Bury Book International Education Library & Archive.

A Language for Everyone to Study

With the start of the academic year comes the annual ritual of promoting the study or languages and recruiting students.  The College at the University of Chicago requires students to demonstrate competency in a second language.  This is not an uncommon graduation requirement for most institutions of higher education in the U.S.  What is unique about the University of Chicago is the number of languages one can study to meet this requirement.  The following is a list of languages one can study at the University of Chicago to meet the second language competency requirement:

Akkadian

Albanian

American Sign Language

Arabic

Arabic, Colloquial Egyptian

Arabic, Modern Standard

Aramaic/Elementary Syriac

Armenian

Assyrian

Aymara

Old Babylonian

Ne-Babylonian

Balochi

Bangla/Bengali

Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian

Bulgarian

Catalan

Chinese

Coptic

Czech

Demotic Egyptian (Hieroglyphs)

Middle/Late Egyptian

Elamite

English, Old

Frence

Ge`ez

Georgian

German

Greek, Attic

Greek, Modern

Gujarati

Hebrew, Classical

Hebrew, Modern

Hieratic

Hieroglyphic Luwian

Hindi

Hittite

Italian

Japanese

Kazak

Korean

Latin

Lycian

Lydian

Macedonian

Malayalam

Marathi

Maya, K`iche’

Maya, Yucatec

Nahuatl

Norwegian

Old Norse

Pali

Persian (Farsi)

Phoenician

Polish

Portuguese

Russian

Sanskrit

Slavonic, Old Church

Slovakian

Spanish

Sumerian

Swahili

Tamil

Targum

Telegu

Tibetan

Old Turkic

Turkish

Turkish, Ottoman

Ubaritic

Ukranian

Urdu

Uzbek

Yiddish

Uchicago Future Peace Corps Volunteers Facebook Group

Yesterday I decided to produce a week long series here on IHEC Blog focusing on internationalization in The College at The University of Chicago where I work.  As I was strolling through the halls of Harper Memorial Library looking for items to take pictures of I came across an interesting sign for the Peace Corps.  This wasn’t about an upcoming informational session/meeting for prospective students.  Rather, it was a sign for a new Facebook book called the Uchicago Future Peace Corps Volunteers Facebook Group.  The University of Chicago is consistently a top producer of Peace Corps Volunteers each year and I have posted to IHEC Blog about that in the past (read here).  I copied and pasted information about the group below:

 We are a group of students that are interested in community service, raising awareness about global issues, and providing knowledge and support for any member of the University who is interested in the Peace Corps. We hope to: 

*promote existing service opportunities for University students that are in line with Peace Corps values--meeting service needs and promoting better cross-cultural understanding--while also creating new opportunities to meet community deficits.

* provide all undergraduates with knowledge about the Corps as a post-graduation path, as well as the skills and resources necessary to become the best candidates for Peace Corps selection.

* reach out to current University of Chicago alums serving in the Peace Corps by grant writing and fundraising in support of their community service projects in order to promote a culture of global volunteerism.

I wonder what impact this Facebook group will have on the number of Peace Corps applicants from the University of Chicago?


Photo credit: http://davidcomp.wordpress.com/

Internationalization in The College at The University of Chicago

Today is the first day of Autumn Quarter at The University of Chicago and I am entering my eleventh academic year of work at this fine institution.  My first five years I worked in the Office of International Affairs which is the office that works with our international student, scholar and staff population.  Since 2005 I have worked in the Office of the Dean of Students in The College with the current position of Senior Adviser for International Initiatives.  


With the start of a new academic year (which brings upon a crazy busy schedule for me) I thought I would highlight the international activities here in The College at The University of Chicago by walking through three floors of Harper Memorial Library (the administrative building for The College where my office is located) and taking pictures of things I see that promote scholarship beyond our borders.  I was surprised to find many different kinds of images that highlight internationalization here on campus and I plan for this to be a week long series here on IHEC Blog.  


For this first post I thought I would take a picture (above) of the eastern wall of the great reading room in Harper Memorial Library and copy and paste text about its significance from a recent Chicago Maroon article (which you can view here):

"Dean of the College John Boyer's speech [to a group of visiting diplomats] continued with the morning's emphasis on Chicago's connections to the wider global community, focusing on international education through centers in London, Singapore, Paris, and, starting next fall, Beijing.  He explained that the screen above the reading room's eastern wall has coats of arms of international universities from Berlin to Calcutta to Tokyo, symbolizing the school;s commitment to international education.  "The iconography of this great building spans geography, and this is a wonderful symbol of the University today, "Boyer said."

As you walk through your campus or organization, building or office what images do you see around you that promote internationalization?


Photo credit:  http://davidcomp.wordpress.com/

A Long College Baseball History between Waseda University (Japan) & The University of Chicago (U.S.)

In the spring of 2008, the University of Chicago men’s baseball team went to Japan to play three exhibition games against its longtime international rival Waseda University.  What was unique about this visit was that the last time these two teams played against each other was 1930.  Last week I was at the athletic center on campus with my son where some great historic University of Chicago sports memorabilia is on display (including the first Heisman Trophy awarded to Jay Berwanger in 1935).  In the display cases were some great memorabilia pieces from the Chicago vs. Waseda baseball series that ran between 1910 and 1930.  The following is a description of the baseball trips to Japan (photo of description included in this post):

The University of Chicago baseball team traveled to Japan every five years between 1910 and 1930 as a guest of Waseda University.  The year following each of the Maroons’ first four trips to Japan (1911, 1916, 1921, 1926), Chicago played host to Waseda.  On its five overseas tours, Chicago faced Japanese college opponents, including Waseda and Keio, as well as all-star teams from Hawaii, China, the Philippines and Japan.  The Maroons’ visits to Japan played a significant role in the development of Japanese baseball, as more than 20,000 fans attended the Chicago-Waseda games in Tokyo in 1930.

I have included several pictures with this post that I took via my phone through the glass display cases so I apologize for the glare.  You can read more about the 2008 Chicago baseball trip to Japan and more on the history of these “exchanges” via two Chicago Maroon articles here and here.  Additionally, you can view 38 photos throughout the years of these games in the University of Chicago Archival Photographic files here.

Promotion of a Better Understanding on the Part of American Citizens of the other Peoples of the World at the University of Chicago in 1923

Over the weekend I was scanning through a book entitled The Story of The University of Chicago 1890-1925 by Thomas Wakefield Goodspeed (1925) and was pleased to find the following paragraph:

"In the very last days of President Judson's administration, Mr. and Mrs. M. Haddon MacLearn and the sons of Mr. Harris, Albert W. Harris, Norman D. Harris, Hayden B. Harris, and Stanley G. Harris, gave the University $150,000 for the endowment of the Norman Wait Harris Memorial Foundation, in memory of Norman Wait Harris, for many years one of the leading business men of Chicago and head of the Harris Trust and Savings Bank. The fund was given in the name of Mrs. N.W. Harris. The income of this endowment was to be expended for the "promotion of a better understanding on the part of American citizens of the other peoples of the world, thus establishing a basis for improved international relations a a more enlightened world order." The first conferences under the Harris Foundation were held at the University during the Summer Quarter of 1924. Lectures were delivered by eminent Men of other countries and heard with great interest." (p. 186-187)

The fact that this endowment was established in 1923 to promote better understanding between Americans and other peoples of the world is impressive and interesting to me. What is equally impressive is that the Norman Wait Harris Memorial Foundation Fund is still in existence and is one of the oldest endowments at the University of Chicago. You can learn more about how the Norman Wait Harris Memorial Foundation Fund is being used here.

Photo: Asia Lecture Series at the University of Chicago 25 to 29 May 1949. The 25th annual institute of the Norman Wait Harris Memorial Foundation in International Relations dealt with Nationalism and Regionalism in South Asia. Speaking at the far right is Phillips Talbot, director of the 1949 Institute, and visiting assistant professor of political science.

Archival Photographic Files, [apf3-01135], Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library.

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!

One afternoon in late September, 1945 during a routine session of the U.S. Senate...

... then freshman Senator J. William Fulbright stated:

“Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent to introduce a bill for reference to the Committee on Military Affairs, authorizing the use of credits established abroad for the promotion of international good will through the exchange of students in fields of education, culture, and science.”

It was that speech on the Senate floor that established The Fulbright Act of 1946 (A Bill to amend the Surplus Property Act of 1944 to designate the Department of State as the disposal agency for surplus property outside the United States, its Territories and possessions, and for other purposes).

A brief history of the Fulbright program can be found here.

During my research efforts I learned of significant contributions by two University of Chicago faculty to the early years of the Fulbright Program.

First, Walter Johnson was chairman of the Department of History at the University of Chicago and served on the Board of Foreign Scholarships from 1947 to 1954 and as chairman of the Board of Foreign Scholarships from 1950 to 1953. Today, the Board of Foreign Scholarships is known as the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board.

Second, John Hope Franklin served in the Department of History at the University of Chicago from 1964 to 1982 and as chairman of the Department from 1967 to 1970. He was appointed to the Board of Foreign Scholarships from 1962 to 1969 and served as chairman from 1966 to 1969.

What's great is that we have held past Fulbright interviews at the University of Chicago in the John Hope Franklin Room in the Social Sciences Building (which is a great interview room by the way) and now that I know of his contributions to the Fulbright Program I hope to schedule many more interviews in that room in the future. I will of course begin each interview with a brief history on John Hope Franklin and his connection to the Fulbright program.

Unintended Consequences of Internationalization

Today we have our fourth guest blogger here at the IHEC Blog. My colleague Erika Mercer from The University of Chicago comments on a recent article by Jane Knight about the unintended consequences of internationalization. Erika’s post follows:

A recent article by Jane Knight in the Boston College Center for International Higher Education’s quarterly journal International Higher Education examined the unintended consequences of internationalization. One such unintended and often rather problematic consequence she notes is the “rankings race” – institutions competing for prestige through international and regional rankings.

The increased focus on numbers and rankings as a means of determining value in higher and international education is alarming, certainly, as it can take our eyes off of the higher aims and potential of international education. This trend, however, could unfold in interesting ways given the current economic recession. With numbers in international education (enrollments, budgets, etc.) falling as they are in many cases, I wonder whether we might be forced to look away from them as indicators of success and instead look to more abstract (though harder to measure) goals. The silver lining of the current recession may be a window in which we can advocate for meeting the less tangible goals of international education and focus on quality rather than quantity. Idealistic, certainly! But as many of us find ourselves working within smaller budgets (and perhaps with smaller cohorts of students), it may be useful to consider free or inexpensive ways to tailor our programming and educate students about larger, important concepts (for example, citizen diplomacy) -- those hard-to-measure-but-good aspects of internationalization.

In considering Dr. Knight’s article, another unintended consequence of internationalization that comes to mind is the increased need for (obsession with?) accountability. As we’ve seen, the cry for accountability has already echoed through many other facets of higher education. As exchange programs, joint degree programs, etc. grow, we'll feel ever more the need to be transparent and prove legitimacy. This, of course, brings us back to numbers…


Previous IHEC Blog posts focusing on rankings can be found here:
http://ihec-djc.blogspot.com/2008/10/qs-world-rankings.html
http://ihec-djc.blogspot.com/2008/08/2008-academic-ranking-of-world.html
http://ihec-djc.blogspot.com/2008/08/forbescom-enters-college-ranking.html
http://ihec-djc.blogspot.com/2008/12/100-free-college-rankings.html

University of Chicago Top Producer of Peace Corps Volunteers for Second Consecutive Year

For the second consecutive year, the University of Chicago is the top producer of Peace Corps Volunteers for Small Colleges and Universities with 35. This accomplishment not only demonstrates the achievements made by Chicago students but also the global engagement of the students in their service and scholarship. The University of Chicago has also been very successful in recent years in the Fulbright U.S. Student Program with more students and alumni from the undergraduate College receiving Fulbright grants than the graduate students. You can read my previous blog post on the top producing institutions of Fulbright U.S. Student grants for 2008-2009 here.

The University of Washington (large college and university category) with 104 volunteers and George Washington University (medium college and university category) with 57 volunteers should also be congratulated on being the top Peace Corps Volunteer producers for their respective categories. You can download the 2009 Peace Corps statistics here.

Early Connections between the DAAD and The University of Chicago

As the DAAD contact at The University of Chicago I have long been interested in the history of the DAAD and the early connections it has had to the University. During my recent efforts I learned that Arnold Bergstraesser who founded the DAAD and from 1937-1953 he taught in the United States with his last appointment as Professor of German Literature and History at the University of Chicago. You can learn more about Arnold Bergstraesser here: http://www.arnold-bergstraesser.de/arnoe.htm.

Similar to Senator Fulbright, German Chancellor Adenauer also had a vision to create a major international academic exchange program that Germany could call her own and in the years following the end of the Second World War he re-founded the DAAD, Deutcher Akademischer Austausch Dienst (German Academic Exchange Service). German Chancellor Adenauer was so engaged in this process that he actively took part in the signing of exchange agreements with a variety of partner institutions in the United States.[1]

[1] Chancellor Adenauer’s active participation in the signing of partner institution exchange agreements is evidenced at the University of Chicago where the original DAAD-University of Chicago exchange agreement from 1953 is housed at the Office of International Affairs. This exchange agreement between the University of Chicago and the DAAD contains Chancellor Adenauer’s original signature and on the agreement it is evident that he crossed out the word “eins” (meaning “one” in German) and wrote in the word “zwei” (meaning “two” in German) for the number of guaranteed exchange students from the University of Chicago.