“Develop Your World: International Education Summit 2012” at Harper College, Palatine, Illinois

The International Student Office and International Studies and Programs at Harper College are pleased to announce our Second Annual “Develop Your World: International Education Summit 2012” on Friday, March 2, 2012 in the Wojcik Conference Center! Develop Your World: International Education Summit 2012 aims to bring together scholars, faculty, and administrators from Harper College and a variety of Illinois and Wisconsin colleges to highlight and focus on the issues of global education and comprehensive internationalization in general with a specific emphasis on curriculum infusion.

Please inform anyone you believe might be interested in attending. This event is free and open to all.

Program of Events:

8:30 am: Registration and coffee in lobby of Wojcik Conference Center, Harper College

9 am: Keynote address (Wojcik Center Amphitheater): Dr. John Hudzik, , Michigan State University and NAFSA Senior Scholar for Internationalization.  [read Dr Hudzik’s guest post on the Chronicle of Higher Education’s International blog]

10:30 am: 2 concurrent sessions:

a) Approaches to Curriculum Infusion (W-216) : Dr. Hilary Kahn, Director of the Center for the Study of Global Change at Indiana University

b) Study Abroad and Curriculum (W-217): Professor Christopher Deegan, Director of Study Abroad at the University of Illinois-Chicago

12 pm: International Buffet Lunch

1 – 2:30 pm:  2 concurrent sessions on curriculum infusion with content from specific geographic regions:

a) Africa (W-216): Professor Jeffrey Rice, Department of History and Program of African Studies, Northwestern University

b) Southeast Asia (W-217): Professor Trude Jacobsen, Assistant Director, Center for Southeast Asian Studies and Department of History, Northern Illinois University

For more specific information on the individual sessions, please visit http://dept.harpercollege.edu/facdev/devopsn.html. For directions to and maps of the College, please visit http://goforward.harpercollege.edu/about/visit/index.php.

If you are interested in registering for the Summit, please contact Jill Izumikawa on 847-925-6756 or jizumika@harpercollege.edu.

New Book: "One White Face" by Hilary Corna

I recently received a copy of a new book called One White Face (2011) from the author Hilary Corna and I just finished reading it and I wanted to share here on IHEC Blog.  I've been aware of her book since it was published but had yet to locate a copy so I was very happy to receive a copy form Hilary in the mail.


One White Face is a personal account of Hilary's experiences of being the only Caucasian working for Toyota Motor Asia Pacific as well as her experiences of being a female in a male dominated business culture and society.  During her three year sojourn throughout Asia, Hilary excels  in her work and earns the respect of her colleagues and mentors at Toyota and along the way she discovers more about herself.  I really enjoyed reading One White Face as it provided a wonderful and detailed account of a young woman's (Hillary's) journey into the experience of a lifetime.


As much as I would like to place One White Face on the shelves of Bury Book International Education Library & Archive that will have to wait.  I'm first going to give the book to my ten year old daughter Gabriela to read.  I think Gabriela will find the book fascinating and it will further develop her interest and curiosity in foreign travel and studies.  More important is that I think Hilary is a very motivating young woman and I want her story to further inspire Gabriela to seek her own adventurous path (domestic or foreign) throughout her life.


If you are interested in purchasing One White Face please note that IHEC Blog readers can receive a discount by ordering here and entering the following discount code "P554X5B4" [please note that I receive no compensation for your order or via the discount].


Hilary is half-way through her 2011-2012 book tour which you can learn more about here.  If you are interested in having Hilary come to your campus you can find additional information and contact information in the previous link.


You can also follow Hilary Corna / OneWhiteFace.com on Facebook, Twitter and on YouTube!


You can see Hilary speaking at the http://tedxcolumbus.com/events/tedxyouthcolumbus/ event on November 10, 2011 below:

Top 17 IHEC Blog Posts of 2011

For this post I thought I would simply highlight the top 17 posts over on International Higher Education Consulting Blog (IHEC Blog for short).  The rank order is decided by the total number of visits per post and nothing else.  I hope you find some of these post of interesting and/or helpful in some way in the work that you do.  If you have a strong opinion about any of these posts please do leave a comment.

1.  Cuba at NAFSA 2011

2.  Quotes by U.S. Presidents on the Importance of International Exchanges and the Fulbright Program

3.  264 International Education/Exchange Related YouTube Channel Subscriptions [note: total subscriptions now total 506]

4. Describing International Education in 134 characters

5.  List of all the Free International Education Resources I Utilize

6.  At What Age Can Someone Study Abroad?

7.  My Twitter and IHEC Blog's Facebook posts in support of Earth Day

8.  Portrayal of Exchange Students in Movies and on TV in the U.S.

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

10.  How short can a study abroad program be?

11.  National Security Language Initiative (NSLI) Pipeline

12.  The Middle, episode: "Foreign Exchange" (s02e05)

13.  Educational Credential Evaluators, Inc. (ECE) now offers online training, E-Learning!

14.  The International Visitors Leadership Program (IVLP) Celebrates 70 Years!

15.  David Mize Undergraduate Scholarship Program through AMIDEAST

16.  List of Movies/Television Programs where the Characters go Abroad

17.  Growth of Research on U.S. Students Abroad

We shall see what 2012 brings! (more about this in a later post)

You can see previous IHEC Blog annual top posts lists here:  2010 & 2009.

Future Conference Sites of U.S. Based International Education Organizations

Should you be an advanced planner I thought I would put these future conference sites for AIEA, CIEE, The Forum on Education Abroad and NAFSA on your radar:

AIEA
2012 – Washington, DC
2013 – New Orleans
2014 – Washington, DC
2015 – Washington, DC
2016 – Montreal
2017 – Washington, DC

CIEE
2012 – Shanghai
2013 – Minneapolis

Forum on Education Abroad
2012 – Denver
2013 – Chicago
2014 – San Diego
2015 – New Orleans

NAFSA
2012 – Houston
2013 – St. Louis (I believe this was originally scheduled for Louisville)
2014 – San Diego
2015 – Boston
2016 – Denver
2017 – San Francisco

MelibeeU, the professional training arm of Melibee Global has launched!

I'm a big fan of what Missy Gluckmann has been doing over at Melibee Global for some time now.  Really forward thinking stuff that she is doing for the field as evidenced by her lastest creation of MelibeeU.

Upcoming workshops are as follows:

International Educators: Striking a Balance (January 20, 2012)

and

Global Service Learning: Design/Reflection/Connection Workshop Series with Dr. Eric Hartman (Online – February 2012) [the coupon codes available here expire on Wednesday January 11th at 11:59 PM EST]

MelibeeU has also partnered with Small Planet Studio and have produced additional training resources for the field to include: 

The "How-To Series": How to Work in Study Abroad, as an Intercultural Trainer & a Global Education/Intercultural Consultant

and

Short-Term Study Abroad Crossroads: Where Planning Missteps Meet Cultural Blunders

If these offerings don't fit your schedule please stay tuned to MelibeeU for more interesting workshops in the future!

7 Question NAFSA Survey on Nontraditional Programs for Nonimmigrants

Please take a couple of minutes to complete a 7 question NAFSA survey on Nontraditional Programs prepared by the NAFSA Task Force on Non-Traditional Programs of the International Student & Scholar-Regulatory Practice Committee.

More information follows:

NAFSA: Association of International Educators Committee has charged a task force within its International Student and Scholar Regulatory Practice (ISS-RP) to analyze and make recommendations for government agency liaison regarding the regulatory challenges of nonimmigrant participation in nontraditional programs (hybrid, low-residency, distance/online, short-term ESL, professional training, and others). A survey has been created to gather data to help internally inform the task force.  Please take this important survey here.

We are also seeking specific examples of institutions finding it impossible or difficult to implement nontraditional programs due to regulatory or visa issues.  Please e-mail your examples to Steve Springer, Director of Regulatory Practice Liaison, NAFSA staff at steves@nafsa.org.

"International Education News and Views" - A Twitter List of International Education Thought Leaders and Knowledge Producers

I came up with this select group of international education organizations, news outlets/reporters/editors and thought leaders as a way to highlight those who are advancing the knowledge production in the field.  To be sure, there are some who I have missed and I will add them to the list as necessary. This is the only Twitter list I have and will probably ever create.