Graduate Student Research at 2014 NAFSA National Conference in San Diego

Are you a graduate student in international education interested in presenting your research? If yes, I was wondering if you would be interested in presenting your research at 2014 NAFSA national conference in San Diego. The name of the session will be “Graduate Student Research” where students will present their research and then the audience will be giving feedback. Presentation will be 5-7 minutes long. We will have a Skype talk to discuss the details of this panel before submitting the proposal. This can be a wonderful opportunity to present at national conference and receive feedback from professionals in the field.

If you know other people who would be interested, send me their names and contact information.

The deadline for NAFSA 2014 conference is August 1st. Please contact me as soon as possible if you are interested.

Hope to hear from you!

Yuliya

Yuliya Kartoshkina, PhD Student at University of North Dakota
2014 NAFSA Annual Conference Committee Member for TLS
E-mail: yuliya.kartoshkina@email.und.edu

Foreign Policy Association’s FPA U program will be coming to New York City, Washington, D.C., and expanding to Boston!

The following information about the Foreign Policy Association's FPA U program and upcoming seminars is being posted here to IHEC Blog with permission.  I recently became aware of these low cost and excellent seminars and I think they may be of interest to IHEC Blog readers so I am posting about them today.  I just wish that FPA U expanded here to Chicago so I could attend!

This fall, the Foreign Policy Association’s FPA U program will be coming to New York City, Washington, D.C., and expanding to Boston!

Beginning in October, seminars will be offered on the following topics:

Careers in International Development
* October 6 (New York City) * October 18 (Washington, D.C.) * November 3 (Boston) *

Who is hiring in development & where are the jobs?

• Current career opportunities in international development
• Home office vs. field assignments, salaries, lifestyle
• What employers are recruiting for right now 

Getting Into the Best International Affairs Graduate Program

* October 11 (New York City) * October 17 (Washington, D.C.) * October 24 (Boston) *

• Examine the top International Relations graduate programs in the U.S.
• Valuable information on career options, financial aid, networking
• Expert guidance on: applications, resumes, interviews, & exams

Landing a Job at the United Nations
* October 12 (New York City) * October 19 (Washington, D.C.) * October 26 (Boston) *

Get your foot in the door at the world body

• The various bodies of the U.N. system: what they are & which are currently hiring
• National Competitive Recruitment Exam preparation
• Non-traditional points of entry into U.N. employment

Working Around the World

* October 13 (New York City) * October 20 (Washington, D.C.) * October 25 (Boston) *

International jobs: where they are & how to get them

• Explore the wide array of international opportunities
• Prepare for a global career: degrees, internships, training programs
• Breaking into the field: resume & application guidance

All attendees receive:

• Course-specific FPA U Tool Book
• Automatic enrollment in the Foreign Policy Association's Global Jobs email alerts
• Light food and drink during networking session

FPA U registrants receive a 75% discount on a Young Professional Membership with the Foreign Policy Association.

Space is limited | Register here.  

Looking Forward to Finishing my Dissertation!

The last week or so I've been working under a very tight timeline to submit a draft of my dissertation proposal which is due tomorrow.  I will still need to work on the draft for the final submission in a few weeks.  A special word of thanks goes out to my wife with all of her help and for flying solo much of this past weekend with my three wonderful [but tiring] kids, who also deserve a word of thanks for putting up with daddy!

Once my proposal is approved I will be able to talk and post more about my topic and will most likely turn to IHEC Blog, Facebook and Twitter if I have questions or in an attempt to learn of tips on where to find additional information and resources!  I haven't been able to respond to most e-mail messages or work on other projects that we may have communicated about but I hope to be able to return to them soon.  Last Friday I created my own Google search story [you can create your own you search story here] about my time in graduate school to date which follows...

The Importance of Creating Standards to Evaluate Master’s Programs in International Education - NAFSA Collegial Conversation

I'm posting the following with permission of Yating Chang, Network Leader of the NAFSA International Education Leader Development Network, as I think several IHEC Blog readers may find this upcoming conversation to be of interest:

International Education is a wonderful career field to be in! Are you thinking of attaining a Master's degree? What are some of the available programs in the country? What about quality of these programs?

Join IELD network's online discussion session
December 17, 2009
4-5pm EST
Be online and conduct LIVE conversation with David Urias, School of Education, Drexel University.
Be free to ask questions and provide your thoughts about this topic.

COLLEGIAL CONVERSATION:
NAFSA Collegial Conversation: The Importance of Creating Standards to Evaluate Master’s Programs in International Education

By David Urias, Ph.D., Drexel University

Everything depends on the quality of the experience which is had.
~ John Dewey

Over the past two decades, programmatic guidelines for undergraduate international education at U.S. colleges and universities have been presented by several national associations and several academic disciplines. However, none of these groups has ventured into the area of suggesting comparable guidelines at the graduate level. It should be noted that in the past, senior level leaders in international education came up through the ranks of faculty and now the trend is toward a more professionalized administrative corps, i.e., a greater professionalization and specialized graduate degree is needed. Professionals in international education - whether from a more theoretical or practical orientation - need to be concerned about the quality and availability of what is being taught at the graduate level. Graduates of these programs are most likely to enter either the academic or practitioner side of the profession. They are our colleagues of the future.

It is both exciting and unsettling that new educational models and means of delivering educational programs and services are evolving at all levels of higher education. One of the myriad of complex challenges facing American higher education is to develop standards and benchmarks for newly emerging professions, including global, international, and comparative education, which have arisen in an era of transition and globalization. Standards provide policymakers, educators, parents, students, and the public with the means to monitor, measure, and continuously improve student achievement and college/university program quality.

A major value of graduate standards is that they provide criteria by which an academic program can judge its educational effectiveness. Whether used for accreditation or program development purposes, standards provide faculty, staff, administrators, and students alike a tool to measure a program’s characteristics against a set of well-conceived criteria designed to ensure educational quality and efficacy. Knowing exactly what a program is expected to do makes it more likely stakeholders will mobilize their energies to meet those expectations and provide the means for potential students to make appropriate decisions concerning their future study objectives. The standards/benchmark criteria do not have to constitute a precise set of indicators to be applied rigidly in assessing all such programs. Rather, they are the dimensions that should be considered in reviewing and guiding existing and planned international education programmatic activities.

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Two-Week Summer Graduate Seminar on Study Abroad in Rome, Italy

Loyola University Chicago’s School of Education will again be offering a unique opportunity this summer for graduate students to participate in a two-week (July 4-17, 2010) graduate seminar focusing on U.S. students who study abroad at Loyola’s John Felice Rome Center Campus.

The seminar is ELPS 429: U.S. Students Abroad: Lessons from Rome in Cultural Immersion (see the summer 2009 syllabus here) carries 3 graduate level semester hours and will be taught by Terry Williams. I’m a doctoral student at Loyola in Comparative and International Education and while I never took this course, due to work conflicts, I’ve only heard positive feedback from those I’ve known who have taken the course. Terry Williams has taught this same course in Rome for several summers now.

If you are interested in this graduate level seminar please visit Loyola’s website for summer programs here and you can reach Terry Williams at twillia@luc.edu.

Of special note: The John Felice Rome Center is the oldest continually operating U.S. university program in Italy.

Universitas 21 Announce Joint Ph.D. Program

Universitas 21 has announced that fourteen member institutions have established a joint Ph.D. program. The Memorandum of Understanding signed in May 2009 by Vice-Chancellors and Presidents from the universities of Auckland, Birmingham, British Columbia, Delhi, Dublin (University College), Edinburgh, Glasgow, Hong Kong, Korea, McGill, Melbourne, Nottingham, Queensland and Virginia:

“enables doctoral students to embark on joint degrees which will considerably enhance their research and employment opportunities on an international scale. Unlike a number of other joint programmes, this MoU gives an over-arching framework for universities to create tailor-made programmes of study for each student, taking individual research needs into account and enabling collaboration with another of the network’s universities.”

This is certainly an interesting collaboration in higher education and one to watch!

Universitas 21 is an international network of 21 leading research-intensive universities in thirteen countries. You can learn more about Universitas 21 here.

Research & Internationalization at NAFSA's Annual Conference

The following is from my colleague Bryan McAllister-Grande, Assistant Director in the Office of Global Affairs at Brandeis University and the Research & Scholarship Network Leader of NAFSA’s Teaching, Learning & Scholarship knowledge community:

As research and research application become increasingly important in our work, I'd like to highlight two specific opportunities to explore these areas during the LA conference.

**Graduate Student Research Roundtable (open to all)
Wednesday, May 27
3:45 - 5:00 pm
Westin Bonaventure Hotel
Avalon Room

Facilitators: Rebecca Hovey (World Learning), David Rudd (Arcadia University), Lou Berends (Illinois Institute of Technology), David Comp (University of Chicago), with guest Elaine Loveland (Managing Editor, "International Educator" Magazine)

This annual meeting is geared for all who are doing (or interested in) research in international education. We'll be breaking up into small groups for open discussion. Topics include: academic degrees and career paths; publishing in the field; research on student learning outcomes and mobility; "theses and dissertations: what knowledge is of most worth?"; and research on internationalization vs. globalization.

**NAFSA Research Seminar: Legitimizing Internationalization on our Campuses through Research
Thursday, May 28
8:00 - 10:00 am
Los Angeles Convention Center 404 A

Chair: Val Rust - University of California-Los Angeles
Panelists: Ji-Yeung Jang (University of Minnesota), Richard Sutton (Visiting Scholar, Kennesaw State University Siegel Institute for Leadership & Ethics), Larry Braskamp (Loyola University-Chicago), Bryan McAllister-Grande (Brandeis University)

Internationalization is an important goal of 21st-century institutions, yet for many faculty and university leaders it can seem disconnected from the core tasks of teaching, learning, and scholarship. This seminar features expert panelists discussing how research on aspects of internationalization -- including education abroad, international student recruitment , intercultural learning, and broader university strategies for internationalization -- can help position internationalization as a driving force of higher education. We'll also be opening up discussion for seminar participation.

More research-related and Teaching, Learning, and Scholarship (TLS) events and sessions can be found here.

For more information about the Research and Scholarship Network, please contact me at bgrande@brandeis.edu. See you in LA!

International Supplement now available for “Road Map for Graduate Study: A Guide for Prospective Graduate Students”

I’m posting today with an update to a previous IHEC Blog post on the book Road Map for Graduate Study: A Guide for Prospective Graduate Students. Donald Martin, books’ author, has written an international supplement for Road Map which is approximately 25 pages long and is available for sale through him at $5.00 per copy. I’ve read the supplement and I think it’s a valuable piece for anyone outside of the United States wanting to come here to study. You can learn more about Road Map and find Donald Martin’s contact information here.

Road Map for Graduate Study: A Guide for Prospective Graduate Students

I thought some of the IHEC Blog readers who are considering graduate school may find this new book Road Map for Graduate Study: A Guide for Prospective Students by Donald Martin to be particularly helpful as you embark on your next educational journey. Martin, who has held Associate Dean positions at Teachers College at Columbia University and the Graduate School of Business at the University of Chicago, gives readers an insider’s perspective on:

Getting started (doing research on graduate institutions)
Getting in (going through the application process)
Getting out (successfully completing your program of study)
Frequently asked questions (FAQs) of inquirers, applicants, admitted and enrolled students
And features: Ten Tips on the Application Process; Seven Deadly Sins for Applicants; and, Seven Ways to get Positively Noticed as an Applicant.

You can learn more about the book and order a copy here.

CIEE Ping Foundation Fellowships in Support of Study Abroad Doctoral Research

For the second consecutive year, CIEE: The Council on International Educational Exchange is offering the Ping Doctoral Research Fellowships. Snippets from CIEE’s website follow:

“Ping Doctoral Research Fellowships provide support for doctoral research focused on U.S. undergraduate study abroad. Funded through a small endowment, the Doctoral Research Fellowships are named after Dr. Charles Ping, a gifted teacher and scholar, a tireless advocate for the internationalization of U.S. higher education, President Emeritus of Ohio University, and a long-time former Chairman of the CIEE Board of Directors.

Nominations with all the documentation described (three complete sets) must reach the CIEE office no later than April 30th.

Please direct any questions to Dr. Michael Vande Berg at mvandeberg@ciee.org.”

You can learn more about the Ping Doctoral Research Fellowships here.

Free Student Memberships to the Chicago Council on Global Affairs

The McCormick Foundation has generously given the Chicago Council on Global Affairs a $25,000 donation in order to offer all new students complimentary memberships for this program year. There is no limit on memberships for this offer- they are encouraging as many as possible to take advantage of this deal.

Please feel free to pass along this link, to teachers and students or anyone with student connections.

Growth in International Graduate Admissions Continues to Slow

Today, the Council on Graduate Schools (CGS) released the phase II findings of their annual report on graduate student admissions in the United States. Since 2004, CGS’s annual report has provided the field with valuable data and insight into the patterns of international student enrollments in graduate schools across the United States. You can access the 2008 CGS report here: http://www.cgsnet.org/portals/0/pdf/R_IntlAdm08_II.pdf

Graduate Student Roundtable on Research at NAFSA

At the upcoming NAFSA: Association of International Educators annual conference in Washington, D.C. my colleague Louis Rizzo and I will be co-chairing the Graduate Student Roundtable on Research on Wednesday, May 28th from 3:45 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. If you are a faculty member, graduate student, recent graduate or considering applying for an advanced degree I encourage you to attend this discussion session.

Ping Doctoral Research Fellowships

From the CIEE News: March 6, 2007…

CIEE has recently established the Ping Doctoral Research Fellowships, providing support for doctoral research focused on U.S. undergraduate study abroad.We invite Directors of Graduate Studies (or in the absence of a departmental DGS, a Chair) to nominate a qualified doctoral candidate for a Fellowship. These Fellowships, funded through a small endowment, are named after Dr. Charles Ping, President Emeritus of Ohio University and a long-time former Chairman of the CIEE Board of Directors.During the 2008-09 academic year, CIEE will provide up to two $20,000 Ping Fellowships to outstanding doctoral candidates. Please visit the CIEE website here for details about eligibility, requirements, and the nomination of candidates.Please let interested parties know about the Ping Doctoral Research Fellowships. If you have any questions, please contact Mick Vande Berg at mvandeberg@ciee.org.