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NAFSA: ASSOCIATION OF INTERNA- TIONAL EDUCATORS has championed the cause of international education and exchange for more than 50 years, support- ing the belief that students with international experience and a global perspective are crucial to the survival of the modern world. Committed to building the skills, knowledge, and professional competen- cies of its members, NAFSA strengthens international education’s biggest asset— the professionals who make educational exchange possible. Today, NAFSA has more than 9,000 members from all 50 states and 80 countries. Our members share a belief that international education advances learning and scholarship, builds respect among different peoples, and en- hances constructive leadership in a global community. i AFSA gratefully acknowledges the considerable work of six volunteers who constituted the selection jury responsible for Nchoosing the institutions profiled in the Internationalizing the Campus Report 2007:

STEPHEN DUNNETT, vice provost for WENDY WEINER, director of education international education, University at programs, professor of education, Buffalo, State University of New York Chatham University JON BOOTH, deputy director, division of RON ROBERSON, vice president of international programs abroad, Syracuse academic affairs, Howard Community University College LINDA MELVILLE, international BRIAN WHALEN, associate dean and advisement specialist, University of executive director of global education, New Mexico Dickinson College

Their careful review of the nominations and thoughtful deliberations were truly invaluable. This report was researched and written by Christopher Connell, formerly the national education reporter for The Associated Press (AP), and later assistant chief of the AP Washington Bureau. Mr. Connell is a freelance writer, editor, and consultant who works with foundations, nonprofit organizations, and government agencies. He also contributed many of the fine photographs accompanying the profile articles on the Simon Award winners. Many thanks to the representatives of the colleges and universities who participated in the project, including all who submitted nominations. We especially thank the institutions featured in this report for their assistance in helping us research and report their stories. We once again would like to express our gratitude to the family of Paul Simon for lending the late senator’s name to the Senator Paul Simon Award for Campus Internationalization, bestowed upon the four institutions to receive campus-wide profiles in the 2007 report. Finally, included for the first time in this 2007 edition is an index (see p. 72) listing all previous Simon Award winners as well as those schools spotlighted for ccomplishments in specific areas of iternationalization. Internationalizing the Campus reports from previous years and information about the competition can be viewed online at www.nafsa.org/itc.

Members of the 2007 selection jury with NAFSA CEO and President Marlene Johnson. Left to right: Jon Booth, Wendy Weiner, Stephen Dunnett, Marlene Johnson, Brian Whalen, Linda Melville, Ron Roberson.

ii Acknowledgments...... ii

Introduction...... iv

Winners of the 2007 Senator Paul Simon Award for Campus Internationalization

Calvin College...... 2 The Mission of Calvin College Leads Overseas

Elon university...... 14 Elon University Charts A New Course

Georgia Tech University ...... 26 Georgia Tech’s Well-Engineered Engagement with the World

University of oklahoma...... 40 Boren is Expanding Horizons at the University of Oklahoma

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Shoreline community college...... 54 Explores the World Beyond Puget Sound

Valparaiso University...... 60 International To The Core

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his year marks the fifth anniversary of International- izing the Campus: Profiles of Success at Colleges and T Universities, a report on international education in the United States developed by NAFSA: Association of Interna- tional Educators. Profiling institutions selected to receive the Senator Paul Simon Award for Campus Internationalization, the report cites exemplary practices, model approaches, and major trends, describing the current state of international education on U.S. campuses. We believe this annual publication serves to highlight the power of international education to advance learning and scholarship, build respect among different peoples, and enhance constructive leadership in a global community. NAFSA in 2007 received many outstanding nominations for the Senator Paul Simon Award for Campus Internation- alization from a diverse group of distinguished institutions throughout the United States.

iv We believe this annual publication serves to highlight the power of international education to advance learning and scholarship, build respect among different peoples, and campus enhance constructive leadership in a global community. In seeking out institutions where inter- Simon Award for Campus Internationaliza- homa, for the creation of the National Se- national education has been “broadly tion is profiled in this report. Among the curity Education Program, which addresses infused” across all facets of the institution, 2007 winners are schools of widely vary- critical national security deficiencies in lan- the 2007 Selection Jury (listed on p. ii) was ing sizes and resources: Calvin College in guage and cultural expertise. It is especially tasked with looking for some or all of the Grand Rapids, Michigan; Elon University fitting that one of this year’s Simon Awards following characteristics: in Elon, North Carolina; Georgia Institute goes to the University of Oklahoma, now 9 The campus has been widely interna- of Technology in Atlanta, Georgia; and led by Senator Simon’s close colleague tionalized across schools, divisions, The University of Oklahoma in Norman, and collaborator, David Boren. departments, and disciplines. Oklahoma. We hope that international educators Two other institutions are spotlighted 9 There is evidence of genuine adminis- will share this report with their institution’s in this report for their outstanding accom- trative or even board-level support for top leadership—including their trustees—in plishments in specific areas of internation- internationalization. order to document and underscore the alization. Shoreline Community College in value of international education. Inter- 9 The campus-wide internationalization Washington state is recognized for its In- nationalizing the Campus is also of great has had demonstrable results for stu- ternational Program Advisory Committee, value in communicating with wider com- dents. and Valparaiso University in Indiana is ac- munities and regions. Legislatures and 9 knowledged for its substantial, distinctive The institution’s mission or planning government agencies may find it helpful in commitment to integrating international documents contain an explicit or im- discussing and understanding international issues into the curriculum. plicit statement regarding international education and exchange. Finally, we hope education. All four Simon Award—winning institu- that it not only presents knowledge and tions were recognized in May 2007 in Min- 9 The institution’s commitment to inter- neapolis at a special ceremony held during resources to help improve the practice nationalization is reflected in the cur- NAFSA’s 2007 Annual Conference. It was of international education but also that it riculum. there that the four institutions selected for inspires new insights and activities in years 9 The campus-wide internationalization their overall excellence in internationaliza- to come. has had demonstrable results within the tion were presented with NAFSA’s Senator faculty. Paul Simon Award for Campus Interna- 9 There is an international dimension in tionalization. The late senator served Il- Ronald Moffatt off-campus programs and outreach. linois and the nation as a strong voice for President, San Diego State University civil rights, peace initiatives, and interna- 9 There is internationalization in research President, NAFSA, 2007 tional education. He was a strong advocate and/or faculty exchange. throughout his career for international 9 The institution supports education education, using his positions on various abroad as well as its international faculty, committees in the Senate to advocate for scholars, and students. Marlene M. Johnson exchange. His leadership in this area was Executive Director and CEO Each of the four institutions chosen especially evident in his robust support, NAFSA: Association of by the panel to receive the Senator Paul along with Senator David Boren of Okla- International Educators

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he Dutch immigrants who settled in western Michigan in the mid-nineteenth cen- T tury brought not only their culture and Reformed Protestant faith, but a strong interest in establishing schools to impart their prin- International ciples and religion to the next generation. “Onzeof school for onze kinderen (our school for our children) was the operating description of both the college and the Christian day schools that they established,” according to a history of Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Calvin, one of the largest and most academically rigorous Christian colleges, remains firmly Associationin the Christian Reformed fold. But Calvin is no longer onze school for onze kinderen. Fewer than half Calvin’s 4,200 undergraduates belong to the Christian Reformed Church.NAFSA: Ten percent are minorities, and there are more than 320 international students from five dozen countries. The majority of international students receive more than $10,0002007. a year in financial aid. As recently as the 1970s, 90 percent of the students came from Christian Reformed high schools in the Grand Rapids area and sister schools in midwestern suburbs, southern California, Canada, and other places where Christian Reformed families Copyrightclustered. When Ellen B. Monsma came to Calvin to teach © French in 1971, “if you looked around the fine arts auditorium, all you’d see was blonde heads.” But, says Monsma, director of Calvin’s Off-Campus Programs, “it’s very different now.” Calvin College

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Ninth in International Students, Missionary Scholarship Foundation. It Fourth in Study Abroad all adds to the international flavor of According to Open Doors 2006 the 390-acre campus straddling the data, compiled by the Institute of East Beltline on the outskirts of Grand International Education, Calvin Rapids. Educators ranked ninth among baccalaureate institutions in attracting international Open Admissions but Lots of students, and fourth in sending Merit Scholars students to study abroad. Rather Calvin produces more future Ph.D.s than catering to onze kinderen, Calvin than all but a few dozen liberal arts has internationalized its faculty and colleges, according to tallies kept curricula and aggressively expanded by the National Science Foundation. ties with scholars, theologians, and Calvin enrolled 80 National Merit institutions in Africa, Asia, and Latin Scholars in 2006–07, including 29 in America. In 2006 Calvin launched theInternational the freshman class. But it also admits Nagel Institute for the Study of World virtually every applicant. “It’s a very Christianity under former provostof Joel unusual student body,” says President A. Carpenter to better understand Gaylen J. Byker. Open admissions are the growth of Christianity in the “part of who we are.” developing world. While buildings Calvin, borrowing language from across campus attest to the college’s the Book of Revelation, embarked Dutch roots—with such names as the in 1985 to attract those “from every Spoelhof College Center, Hekman tribe and language and people and Library, and Noordewier-VanderWerp nation.” At the time it had a single Residence Hall—and a chair recently off-campus study program in a small was endowedAssociation in Dutch Language town outside Valencia, Spain. Today it and Culture, students from Asia and runs semester-long, off-campus study Africa far outnumber those from the programs in Tegucigalpa, Honduras; Netherlands and rest of Europe. Fully 74 students had citizenship or roots Beijing, China; Budapest, Hungary; NAFSA:in South Korea, a country with a large Accra, Ghana; York, England, and number of Reformed or Presbyterian Grenoble, France, as well as Valencia. churches and a vigorous missionary It has added majors in international tradition. Home for those Korean development, international relations, 2007. students means 17 different countries, and Asian studies as well as a minor from Fiji to India to Germany to the in African and African diaspora United States to Brazil. Calvin also studies. In a 2001 overhaul of the core Ellen Monsma, director of Off-Campus Study Programs has become a favored destination for curriculum, it specified that students “MKs” or missionary kids—U.S. citizens, must study a non-Western or pre- Former Provost Joel Carpenter ‘74, founding director of the Canadians, Filipinos, Koreans, and Renaissance subject to fulfill a global Nagel Institute for the Study of World Christianity others raised overseas. Many MKs are and historical studies requirement. Provost Claudia Bersluis supported by scholarships provided by “We call it ‘the long ago or far away Copyright Calvin alumnus Stanley van Reken and requirement,’” Provost Claudia © Rosemary Etter, international admissions wife Harriet through their Christian Beversluis says with a smile.

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Leaders with Global Resumes “Part of the challenge here is to keep Two alumni with broad international backgrounds were brought in to lead the institution in the mid- the very distinctively Christian and 1990s: current president Gaylen Educators Byker and Joel Carpenter, provost from 1996-2006. President Byker is Calvinistic or Reformed characteristic a former international lawyer and investment banker with a Ph.D. in international relations who dropped of the college, while really opening it out of Calvin as a freshman in 1966, enlisted in the Army and served as an artillery officer in Vietnam. Byker, up to this global perspective.” son of a Michigan state senator, returned home, wed, started a of Beirut, had been assassinated. The International“Part of the challenge here is to family and captained the wrestling Bykers were among the Americans keep the very distinctively Christian team at Calvin while carving out an evacuated by U.S. Marine helicopter ofand Calvinistic or Reformed charac- interdisciplinary bachelor’s degree. crews from the Beirut beaches in teristic of the college, while really He earned both a law degree and February 1984. The family returned opening it up to this global perspec- master’s in world politics from the to Beirut in the spring, but Byker tive,” says Byker. A tradition of respect University of Michigan, clerked for later had to be smuggled out of the a federal judge, and worked for a for intellectual inquiry made this task country after militants began kidnap- easier, notwithstanding strict religious Philadelphia law firm before resuming ping male Westerners, including their graduate studies. restrictions on who can belong to friend, the Rev. Benjamin Weir, a Pres- A mentor at the University of the faculty, he says. “We expose our byterian missionary. Susan Byker, not Pennsylvania coaxed him to head to Association students to everything. We bring ev- wanting to disrupt further her Leba- Beirut to help rebuild Lebanon after erybody here to lecture,” says Byker. nese students’ education, waited until its civil war. Byker landed on the fac- Rosemary MasonEtter, the interna- the end of the school year to depart ulty of the American University of tional admissions director, puts it, with her daughters. Beirut while his wife Susan taught at “Calvin seeks to have conversations, During those chaotic years in an international school, which their NAFSA: not prevent conversations.” The col- Beirut, Byker managed to complete a 11- and 5-year-old daughters at- lege also hosts a celebrated January tended. But what was thought in 1982 survey on the attitudes of Lebanese citizens toward their wildly fluc- Series of lectures that it bills as “15 to be the end of violence in Beirut days of free liberal arts education,” was just a lull; from five miles away, tuating currency. It would be 1993 2007. that fills the Fine Arts Center Audito- the Bykers felt the force of the truck before Byker completed writing his rium at lunchtime for 15 consecutive bomb that blew up the Marine bar- dissertation. He spent those interim racks on Oct. 23, 1983, and killed 241 years jetting around the world as an weekdays. Speakers have included American and 60 French soldiers. Two investment banker for Chase Man- Paul Rusesabagina, the real-life man- months later, Byker was returning to hattan and Banque Paribas, helping ager of Hotel Rwanda; Dr. Paul Farm- the Middle East from co-teaching governments and corporations hedge er, the founder of Partners in Health; a January interim course at Calvin commodity price transactions. Then Egyptian scholar and dissident Saad whenCopyright he learned that Malcolm Kerr, in 1995 he answered the call to serve Eddin Ibrahim, and Scott Ritter, former ©president of the American University as Calvin’s president. U.N. weapons inspector.

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Far From Fundamentalism on the intersection of science, Calvin is far from fundamentalist. philosophy, and belief. The executive Kwabena Bediako, 20, a senior director for the project is Kelly J. chemistry major from Mampong- Clark, a Calvin philosophy professor Akuapem, Ghana, observes, “For the whose friendship with aEducators Chinese most part the college is not afraid professor he met on sabbatical of tackling or confronting issues in Scotland led him to become a that are seen as controversial in student of Chinese philosophy. After other Christian colleges. Nothing an exchange of visits, Clark says he is too awkward or too controversial decided that “there were things we to be investigated or be discussed, had to learn from them, so I devoted especially in the sciences.” Bediako’s myself to the study of Chinese older brother is a 2004 graduate thought.” working on a Ph.D. in immunology Religion professor Diane B. and a master’s in public health at Obenchain, a Harvard-trained Northwestern University. Bediako,International expert on Confucianism, came to a chemistry major, says, “I’m goingof Calvin to teach world religions in to have to confront some of these 2005 after long stints at Kenyon issues at some point in my career. College and visiting professorships We might as well start to think about at Peking University and other Asian them critically now rather than be institutions. Daniel caught off guard later in life.” H. Bays, an Bediako’s parents, Kwame and authority Philosophy professor Kelly Clark Gillian, founders of the Akrofi- on the Religion professor Diane Obenchain Christaller Institute for AssociationTheology, History professor Dan Bays Mission and Culture in Ghana, Dean of multicultural affairs, Michelle Loyd-Paige are working with Calvin Seminary and Calvin College now are separate Calvin’s Nagel entities, but share the campus and mainNAFSA: library Institute for the Study of World Christianity. The Nagel Institute recently received 2007. a $2 million grant from the John Templeton Foundation to fund a three- year program of scholarship Copyright and lectures for © Chinese scholars

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history of Christianity in China, Looking toward the Global South came to Grand Rapids in 2002 after and East a long career at the University of Carpenter, a historian and authority Kansas, where he chaired the history on evangelical movements, directed department and directed the Center the religion program of The Pew Educators for East Asian Studies. Bays secured Charitable Trusts before he was hired a $500,000 grant from the National as provost in 1996. Upon returning Endowment for the Humanities to his alma mater, Carpenter pushed that Calvin agreed to match 3-to-1 the college to pay more attention to to create a $2 million endowment issues of “the global South and East.” for Asian Studies. Political science Beversluis, the current provost, says, professor Amy S. Patterson, a Peace “he kept telling us, ‘Look, the church Corps veteran who wrote her isn’t headquartered in Europe and the dissertation on grassroots democracy U.S. anymore. The growth areas, the in Senegal, was attracted to Calvin edge, is in the global South and East, International both by its religiosity and the strong so Calvin College better know where interest in international issues. She it’s happening. We’d better be on topof is the author of The Politics of AIDS of things and not graduate students in Africa and editor of a second who think that west Michigan is compendium on the AIDS crisis. somehow the center of the universe.’” President Byker likes to tell visitors Carpenter says he found a Calvin e ready “to break out of its protective nc that, “There were three Calvin ie ethnic shell.” c colleges before Calvin College in s Sociologist and Dean for Multicul- l this country. One was called Harvard, a tural Affairs Michelle R. Loyd-Paige has c one was called Yale, and the other i both lived andAssociation helped drive change at it was called Princeton. They were all l Calvin, which was far more homog- o p founded by Calvinists very much enous when she arrived on campus f

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Japan, and the Netherlands. They are “This sort of thing can bubble up. eligible for half their financial aid if they choose from 16 other Calvin- I’d be amazed to find a campus approved semester programs. Growing By Finding theEducators International in the nation where the interest in ‘Pioneers’ While Calvin has parlayed its religious interests and connections into a deep- internationalization is not there.” er involvement in study and research abroad, Carpenter believes there are They were willing to work with me lessons to be learned here for any in- and my parents on finances. At various stitution seeking to internationalize. times, especially when I was receiving “This sort of thing can bubble up. I’d so much correspondence and repliesInternational be amazed to find a campus in the na- to my e-mails, I wondered, ‘Am I the tion where the interest in internation- only student applying? These peopleof alization is not there,” says the Nagel get back to me really fast.’” Institute director. “I’ve seen a lot of More than 700 Calvin students post-tenure faculty saying, ‘I’m getting study abroad each year, 500 on three- a little bored with the thing that really week classes during the interim term excited me in graduate school; I’ve rid- and upwards of 200 on full-semester den this horse long enough. There are programs. Under the leadership of some new worlds to discover.’” Frank Roberts, a former academic dean “In some ways that is how change and director of Off-Campus Programs, happens in a lot of fields. You go with and Monsma,Association the current director, “we the pioneers first and see if their com- really bootstrapped the semester pro- mitment and enthusiasm can excite grams abroad,” Carpenter says. Now the interest of others,” says Carpenter. the college is scrambling to keep up One of Calvin’s preeminent inter- with the demand. The International national “pioneers” is Roland Hoksber- NAFSA:Development Studies major requires gen, professor of economics and busi- students to study in a developing ness and the driving force behind the country, which explains why Monsma International Development Studies is exploring an arrangement with an major, which in two years has attracted Frank Roberts, former dean and former director of institute in Thailand to supplement 85 students. Had such a major existed 2007.Off-Campus Programs an existing development program in when Hoksbergen entered Calvin Honduras (Calvin also runs a language Roland Hoksbergen ‘79, professor of economics and in1971, he might have completed his business, and chair of the International Development study program in Honduras). bachelor’s degree in four years instead Studies Committee Students can take their full financial of eight. But he dropped out, bought aid to study at the Calvin-run pro- a van, and drove to Alaska. He wasn’t Beryl Hugen ‘71, professor and director of social work grams in Britain, China, France, Ghana, sure what he would do there, but he Honduras, Hungary, and Spain, and Geography professor Johnathan Bascom was intrigued to learn about far-away Copyright also at five other Calvin-endorsed peoples and cultures. A few years later © programs in Austria, Germany, Greece, he wound up doing earthquake relief

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work in Guatemala and in the process met his wife and found his vocation. “I poked my head out and said, ‘Man, people are poor here. I wonder what’s going on and what can be done about it?’” That led him back to Calvin for Educators a bachelor’s degree and a desire “to understand the economic part of life.” Calvin hired him even before he completed his Ph.D. in economic development at the University of Notre Dame. He took leave to spend three years in Costa Rica as director of the Latin American Studies Program for the Coalition of Christian Colleges and Universities and two years in International Nicaragua running the Christian Reformed World Relief Commit- of tee’s efforts. He also led Calvin study abroad programs in Ghana in 2002 teach Korean. Geography professor Sophomores Bennett Samuel from Dehradun, India, and and in Honduras in 2005. Johnathan Bascom helped start the Johanna Vriesema from Sittard, The Netherlands; senior Another pioneer is Beryl Hugen, Jane Cha from Beijing, China; junior Kwabena Bediako from African and African Diaspora Stud- director of Calvin’s social work pro- Akropong-Akuapem, Ghana, and senior Nana Yaa Dodi from ies minor. He is writing a book about gram, who has led several January Asamankese, Ghana. Cha is an American citizen; she was Eritrea and had planned to take an born in Philadelphia while her parents, Korean missionaries, interims to Russia and Mexico and were studying in the United States. spends a third of his time teaching interim classAssociation there in January 2007 at the Russian-American Christian to study its geography. Eight weeks University (RACU) in Moscow, a small before departure, unrest made that liberal arts college affiliated with Cal- impossible. Bascom quickly re- vin and other religious colleges. “It’s grouped and took the same seven easy to get caught up in off-campus NAFSA:students to Kenya to work in a rural study,” says Hugen, a 1971 Calvin village with a German charity fighting graduate. “It’s almost a rite of passage trachoma, a blinding, bacterial eye for our students now.” disease spread by flies. The Calvin students also got to visit a game park A Last Minute Switch to K2007.enya and snorkel in the Indian Ocean, but Calvin offers instruction in Chinese only after spending several days and and Japanese as well as Spanish, nights in a remote village of the French, German, and Dutch. Recently, Sumburu, an ethnic group related with a $140,000 grant from the U.S. to the Maasai. Using handheld Department of Education to launch Global Position System devices, they its minor in Africa and African Diaspo- mapped the village to help determine ra Studies,Copyright it began offering Kiswahili the best sites for digging new wells ©classes, and plans are in the works to and latrines. Bascom, who has twice

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taught in Eritrea on Fulbright grants, Vancouver)? You’re supposed to be said the trip was “a deep cultural dive” a leader,” Zaki relates. The 18-year- for his class. Says Sarah Holland, 21, a old conceived the idea for Rangeela, senior geography major from Grand which was a big hit from the start. Rapids, “It was dusty and dirty and After graduation, Zaki returnedEducators to fantastic.” Cairo for a master’s degree and “The GPS work got us beyond married a minister who was a graduate merely providing a meaningful of Calvin Theological Seminary. cross-cultural experience, which The couple moved back to Grand is what the interim is supposed to Rapids, where the Calvin Institute accomplish. I think we got to the edge of Christian Worship hired Zaki to of providing an actual contribution,” give the institute a more global says Bascom. Pointing to the college’s focus. Now she works part-time 52-page blueprint for diversity, racial for the institute and is on the path justice, reconciliation, and cross- toward a divinity degree at Calvin cultural engagement, he adds, “I InternationalTheological Seminary. She takes pride think that the African studiesof and in the growth of Rangeela, which has diaspora minor is part and parcel of become such a hot ticket that seats this college responding to our own are even sold to dress rehearsals. “I self-subscribed mandate, From Every nudged Calvin in a good direction,” Nation.” says Zaki. “International students are becoming more aware of their own An Egyptian Student’s Legacy: culture. Korean students go back Rangeela home over Christmas break, visit One of the traditions at Calvin grandma in the village and ask, ‘Can is anAssociation annual variety show called you teach us a folk dance?’” Rangeela—the word means Reviewing the 2007 Rangeela, a “many colors” in Hindi—put on by reporter for the student newspaper, international students. It was started Chimes, griped that an emcee’s accent by a young student from Egypt was “too thick to be understood.” The NAFSA:named Anne Zaki in her freshman performers were stung, but perhaps year, 1995–96. Zaki, a pastor’s no one was more upset than Linda daughter from Cairo, Egypt, came Bosch, the international student from an international, all-scholarship adviser who works closely with 2007. boarding school for student leaders students on the production and is in Vancouver, Canada. Initially she revered by them. “She’s like a mother found the Calvin campus too tame when we arrive,” says senior Jane and homogenous for her liking. Her Cha, 22, a psychology major born in resident adviser and the college Philadelphia and raised in Beijing by chaplain offered words of wisdom. Korean missionary parents. “They challenged me and said, Bosch says aspects of the variety ‘Look, if you don’t like it, change it. show were fair game for criticism— Copyright Don’t just up and go. Isn’t that what including its 2¼-hour length—but not © you learned in your school back (in the accent of the host, who hailed

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from an English-speaking country, says Bruce Berglund, a cultural Singapore. “Everyone should talk like historian and assistant professor of we do here in Michigan—yeah, right,” history. “I’ve had a number of students she says acidly. But Bosch counseled really eager to go out and save the restraint on those upset by the world.” One of his students—now Chimes review. The following week in graduate school in architecture— Educators the newspaper ran several tempered designed a community center for a letters of complaint and a 1,300-word small town in northern India on an Q&A with Bosch—twice as long as internship, and another worked with the offending review—in which the AIDS orphans in Africa. adviser explained the anguish caused Before spending the fall semester in by the review, but also stressed the classes in Calvin’s program at Capital importance of more communication Normal University in Beijing, Christi across cultures, not less. Her advice Bylsma, 20, a junior from Holland, to future Chimes reviewers? Be more Michigan, spent the summer working welcoming and hospitable to guests in a private foster home in a Chinese International in our country—but don’t patronize village. Bylsma, an Asian Studies of them by limiting criticism. major, says, “You have to understand Students at many campuses joke the world before you can address its and sometimes fret about living in a issues. The best thing we can do to “bubble,” and Calvin students are no make the world a better place is to exception. “I’m always struck by the get out there and get educated. That’s activist inclination of the students,” what Calvin is trying to provide for us.” Sarah Holland, 21, a senior geography major from Grand Rapids, Michigan

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Following a Study Abroad Class entry and upload their pictures. By the on the Web time we got home, we had 60 to 70 pages of student-generated content, When Matthew Kuperus Heun, an both written and visual.” associate professor of engineering, In Calvin’s engineering program, and wife Tracy Kuperus, an interna- professors such as J. AubreyEducators Sykes and tional development instructor, led Edward G. (Ned) Nielsen encourage students on an interim to South students to engage with the world Africa in January 2005, they also through projects and internships. In pioneered a “web log” that allowed Sykes’ senior design class, one team of parents, professors, and students back students designed a kit that could pop home to follow their progress on their 50 pounds of amaranth an hour so journey across a country that has that African villagers consume more moved from apartheid to democracy. of the puffed, nutritious grain instead Heun, a 1989 Calvin alumnus, says, “If of just grinding it into flour. Other I was a parent sending these studentsInternational teams worked on projects to make a halfway around the world, I’d want to low-cost water purification system, know what was going on. The peopleof use a Stirling engine to convert solar in Calvin’s IT department thought that energy to electricity, and cannibalize would be an interesting experiment, the motor and transmission from so we did it. We assigned one student an old Toyota Tercel to build a for each day we were away to write an rudimentary utility vehicle.

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Adel S. Abadeer, associate professor of economics, from Cairo, Egypt Engineering professor Ned NAFSA:Nielsen Geography professor Johnathan Bascom teaching world geography. 2007.

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Breaking Taboos Abadeer tells students that people “There’s fear of Economics professor Adel S. Abadeer in Egypt and other African countries are no different from people in the came to Calvin in 1999 after teach- United States. “We think, we hope, ing at Tufts and Boston University. we fear, we love, we aspire the same competition, but Abadeer, once a shot putter on the as you, but our resource set and Educators Egyptian national track team, says, “I’d our cultural set is different,” he says. never even heard of Grand Rapids or also hope and People in less developed countries Calvin College. Calvin Klein came to want “your understanding before your mind before Calvin College or John second-hand clothes,” he tells them. hunger to learn Calvin.” But it has been a happy match “Students are more interested now for the economist. He welcomes because there is some compatibility, Americans’ growing interest in other some rivalry, and even some fear,” he more. We used cultures. “Many taboos are being says. “There’s fear of competition, broken,” says Abadeer, who grew up but also hope and hunger to learn in poverty. “We see the Chinese now more. We used to have problems toInternational have problems differently from 50 years ago, not as attracting students to go to Africa, very poor but as mathematicians. We Asia, and Latin America. Now we haveof see the Indians or Russians as chem- problems accommodating students attracting students ists or software engineers. As we get who want to go to those parts of the to know more about them, we associ- world.” to go to Africa, ate better attributes to foreigners.” Asia, and Latin Association America. Now we have problems NAFSA: accommodating 2007. students who want to go to those parts of . Copyright © the world.”

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lon University has gone on an extra- ordinary journey in the past 15 years, E transforming itself from a regional college into a comprehensive university with a national International presence that receives far more applicants than it can acceptof from across the country. The beautiful 575-acre campus near Burlington, North Carolina, with dogwoods, magnolias, cherries, redbuds, and oaks—Elon means oak in Hebrew—is designated a botanical garden, and Elon has mastered the knack of building in a Georgian style that makes new dorms and classroom edifices look like Association they have been nestled in those trees for eons. Adding to the curbside appeal is Elon’s reputation as an institution where students become deeply engaged in community service, and NAFSA:where a large majority studies abroad. So deeply is study abroad engrained in the culture at Elon that even the custodial2007. and administrative staff has the opportunity to see London in January, when the flats reserved for Elon students in the fall and spring would otherwise be empty. Elon provides each student—and, if they so request, prospective employers and graduate schools—not only course Copyrightgrades, but a second, formal transcript on their participation in five “Elon Experiences,” namely: leadership, service, Elon University © internships, study abroad, and undergraduate research.

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Elon cemented its reputation Tuesday mornings when classes and well. “These parents are aware how for civic engagement by perennially work stop for 40 minutes while stu- small the world is getting and how emerging among the high scorers dents, faculty, and staff gather outside important it is for their student to on the National Survey of Student the main campus building for coffee, experience that world more broadly Engagement. Elon also was one of donuts, and conversation. Faculty through their Elon education,”Educators adds the 10 original campuses that em- have embraced study abroadwith Lambert. braced Project Pericles, a national gusto. Each year, more than 50 faculty Lambert’s predecessor, J. Fred effort to promote good citizenship memberslead study abroad programs, Young, president from 1973 through under the aegis of philanthropist most on short-term courses offere- 1998, set the institution on this Eugene Lang and his foundation. Not din the winter and summer. A Study course and nurtured the study abroad only did 71 percent of the Class of Abroad Committee, a standing com- programs. Young, a former school 2007 study abroad, but 80 percent mittee of faculty that includes two superintendent, created an organiza- completed an internship and 91 student members, passes judgment tion that continues to place teach- percent engaged in volunteer service. on each program, and faculty say their ers from other countries in North Elon engineered its rise with strong participation in study abroad, includ- Carolina public schools. He person- administrative and faculty leader- ing not only course developmentInternational and ally recruited one of those exchange ship, a passion for strategic planning, teaching but scholarship as well, is and a knack for stretching limited valued as a critical part of theirof pro - teachers, Sylvia Muñoz of San Jose, dollars. (These gains have not gone fessional development. Costa Rica, to come to Elon to open unnoticed: a 2004 book authored Clearly, international studies and El Centro de Español—the Spanish by George Keller from Johns Hop- global awareness have played a Center—to provide Spanish language kins University Press, Transforming a large role in the creation of this new and cultural lessons in an informal College: The Story of a Little-Known Elon. “Two or three decades ago setting to students, faculty, and staff College’s Strategic Climb to National Elon served first-generation college alike. Now ensconced in remodeled Distinction, examines Elon’s rise to students,” says President Leo M. Lam- Carlton Building next to the Isabella a top regional university.) Elon is a bert.Association Today, 80 percent of the parents Cannon Centre for International place that prides itself on congenial- are college graduates and more than Studies, El Centro bustles with activi- ity, down to the “College Coffee” on a third boast graduate degrees as ties day and night. NAFSA:

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Isabella Cannon Shows the Way University School of Law in nearby At his 1999 installation, Lambert an- Greensboro in August 2006. Elon nounced a landmark $1 million gift already offered graduate degrees in from Isabella Cannon, a 1924 Elon business, education, and physical alumna, that gave international stud- therapy. On Lambert’s watch, the full- Educators ies a showcase home at the heart of time faculty has grown from 192 in campus, overlooking Scott Plaza and 1999 to 291 in 2006. Fonville Fountain. Cannon, born in Elon charges lower tuition than Scotland in 1904, was a librarian, civic many of the universities with which activist, and globe-trotter who in it competes for students, but it does 1977, at age 73, campaigned as “a little not discount that “sticker price” to woo students. Its endowment stands old lady in tennis shoes” to unseat at $70 million, but Elon’s leaders the mayor of Raleigh. A diplomat’s hope to boost it by $100 million in a wife, she had lived in China, Iraq, and five-year campaign now underway. Liberia before concentrating her en- Elon’s growth over the past de- ergy on opening parks and improving International cade was fueled by admitting more life in North Carolina’s capital. As students, from 3,500 in 1995 to more of commencement speaker in 2000, the than 5,200 today. “We’ve benefited diminutive Cannon reminded Elon tremendously from our location and graduates that collectively they had being in this great mecca of higher “a grand total of more than 50,000 education in North Carolina,” says years to make this a better world.” She Lambert, a former education profes- made another major gift that allowed sor and associate dean at Syracuse Elon to build the Isabella Cannon University who founded an innovative International Studies Pavilion, which program there to hone the teaching houses 11 international and 11 U.S. Association skills of future professors. “Growth students and is one of several living- has fueled quality at Elon; there’s learning communities in the universi- absolutely no doubt about it,” Lam- ty’s Academic Village, modeled after bert says. “But we can’t continue to Thomas Jefferson’s design for the growand still be the intimate kind of University of Virginia. Cannon died in NAFSA:community Elon is right now.” 2002 at age 97, six months before the dedication of the new Isabella Can- non Centre for International Studies, with Benazir Bhutto, the former prime “These parents are aware how small the minister of Pakistan, as principal2007. speaker. Elon changed its name from world is getting and how important it is for Elon College to Elon University in 2001—the town that had grown up around the college had to change its their student to experience that world more name, too, from Elon College, North CarolinaCopyright to plain Elon—and, under- broadly through their Elon education.” ©scoring that status, opened the Elon

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Studying Abroad in January their tuition funds to the Italian school Elon has built its study abroad repu- and loses use of these funds for the tation largely around month-long main campus. It’s a big expense,” says winter-term courses offered in the Provost Gerald Francis, who joined the middle of its 4-1-4 calendar. It began faculty in 1974 after earningEducators his Ph.D. in with a single January course in London mathematics at Virginia Tech. Francis’s in 1969. Elon now offers approximately 24-year tenure as academic dean and 30 such winter-term study abroad provost spans the Young and Lambert courses. In 1985 Elon began sending eras. His role in Elon’s metamorphosis students and a professor to London was pivotal. for a full semester; in 2006 the university added a faculty-led semester From Custodians to Faculty, Everyone in San Jose, Costa Rica, that combines Gets a Chance to Go Abroad Spanish classes with courses taught Francis also has been a champion of in English in marketing, the politics of finding creative ways to help faculty Central America, and environmentalInternational and staff experience travel abroad. issues. of Gerald Whittington, Elon’s vice presi- Elon also offers students oppor- dent for business, finance, and tech- tunities to enroll in 32 affiliate and nology, personally has led 300-plus exchange programs as well as seven Elon faculty and staff—from full pro- Elon summer study abroad courses. fessors to custodians—on more than a Increasingly, Elon also is placing stu- dozen London trips. Whittington sees Laurence A. Basirico, dean of International Programs dents in international internships, a practical payoff to taking the staff co-ops and other educational experi- to see the sights of London for them- Steven House, dean of the College of Arts & Sciences ences, and Laurence Basirico, dean of selves. “Our students are getting mes- and associate vice provost for academic affairs internationalAssociation programs, is scouting sages from above, below, and sideways possibilities for new semester-long that this is an important value of the Provost Gerald Francis Elon programs in Europe and Asia. “We institution and one that they ought to Gerald Whittington, vice president for finance and want to have one on each of the con- participate in. That’s why we do it,” says administration tinents,” says Steven House, dean of Whittington, who grew up in the great NAFSA:Elon College, the College of Arts and cities of Europe. Sciences. “Don’t think there is not self-inter- These extensive off-campus pro- est in this. They are all part of the sales grams are a costly undertaking for an force,” agrees Francis. The provost even institution on a tight budget. That they encourages Basirico to send a univer- 2007. have grown so large is testament to sity staff member, when possible, with the importance the university places the faculty who lead the regular study in international education. “When you abroad courses in January. If an Elon have 60 students studying abroad for art historian takes students on a fast- a semester in Italy, Elon sends all of paced program to Italy, “it really helps Copyright ©

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if you have somebody to help keep up coastal reef. The course is open to non with the busses and hotels,” reasons science majors, but since it counts as a Francis. “Librarians, purchasing agents, lab elective for the many biology ma- ” e the registrar, or people in student life jors who sign up, “I want it to be chal- z can (do that) to help the program run lenging,” says biology professor Nancy li e Educators smoothly. And that makes them part E. Harris. “They may have had botany, B n of the international campus here.” zoology, and maybe even ecology, but i

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Elon awards $50,000 in floor officeAssociation in the Alamance G. Smith Jackson, vice president for student affairs scholarships for study abroad each Building. Bill Rich, then the dean, put year. Honors students and Elon together an ambitious blueprint for Professor Emeritus Bill Rich Fellows automatically receive a $750 expanding the size, staff, and reach Janet L. Warman, director of General Studies Program and travel grant as part of their awards. of the international programs office. professor of English and education “When we spend a dollar around NAFSA:A year later, when Isabella Cannon here we like to say we are getting two presented her $1 million gift, it or three things done,” says Lambert. became a reality. Rich, an emeritus “An example is the way we top off professor of religious studies, retired certain scholarships to emphasize the in 2004, but still leads a winter-term importance of internationalization2007. trip to Athens and Thessalonica to and global citizenship.” study the art, architecture, mythology, and religion of ancient Greece. Good Timing for an International Some of these winter courses are so Plan popular that students are left with a A decade ago, when winter study second or third choice. It’s a far cry abroad started taking off, the from the early days when “we would internationalCopyright program was still stand in the cafeteria lines to recruit ©operating out of a crowded ground- students for study abroad,” Rich says.

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Education Internships in Costa Rica dozen or more faculty and staff to Basirico, who is also a sociology pro- her homeland each May. Participants fessor, returned from a 2004 trip to are charged just $400. And El Centro Costa Rica and asked F. Gerald Dil- offers a travel perk for students, too, lashaw, dean of the School of Educa- who show up faithfullyEducators for its con- tion, if he’d be interested in sending versations, cooking classes, rumba education majors to San Jose for a lessons, movie nights, and festivals semester to intern in Costa Rican like Día de los Muertos: Once they classrooms. The School of Educa- log 140 hours, “they get a free plane tion already was sending upward of ticket to any Spanish-speaking coun- 20 sophomores to assist in London try. A lot use it to study abroad,” says schools each spring. In Costa Rica, Muñoz. The ticket is funded through of course, there would be the added the provost’s office. complexity of working in Spanish. Immediately, “everyone on our adviInternational- Freshman Seminar on ‘Global sory committee was in favor of the Experience’ idea,” says Janice L. Richardson,of an The curriculum at Elon sends an associate professor of mathemat- early signal to freshmen about the ics who directs the North Carolina importance the university places on Teaching Fellows Program at Elon. internationalization. “Right off the bat The Teaching Fellows Program is a we expose students to the idea that scholarship program jointly funded theirs is not the only world and that by the state and the university that there are other places and people Ernest Lunsford, professor of Spanish provides $13,000-a-year scholarships worth studying,” says Janet Warman, for 25 students from North Carolina an English professor who directs the Laura Roselle, professor of political science and international studies whoAssociation agree to spend four years teach- General Studies program. Freshmen ing in North Carolina schools. Both must take a seminar on The Global Tom Arcaro, professor of sociology, director of Project Dillashaw and Richardson traveled Experience taught by faculty from Pericles and 2005 North Carolina Professor of the Year to Costa Rica to lay the groundwork, every department that explores such and seven education majors spent issues as human rights abuses and John Keegan, associate director of admissions and director of international recruitmentNAFSA: this past spring as teacher aides in San environmental responsibility. With a Jose, living with local families and limit of 25 students per section, the also taking classes of their own. On seminar dates back to a 1994 revision a recent visit, one Elon sophomore of the core curriculum. Warman, who 2007. told Richardson, “Now I know what it’s received Elon’s top teaching award in like to be a Spanish-speaking student 2004, says, “Early on, there was a lot walking into an English classroom and of resistance. Students didn’t seem not understanding the language.” to understand why we were studying Elon has another steady connec- the things we were studying. Now tion with Costa Rica. As a reward for they are much more receptive.” Two faculty and staff who participate in years ago, when former Sudanese the conversational Spanish classes slave Francis Bok lectured about his Copyright and cultural activities at El Centro autobiography, Escape From Slavery, © de Español, Sylvia Muñoz escorts a “the students flocked around him to

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hear more of his story and ask how list for Elon is to deepen the connec- students journeyed to southern Af- they could take action,” Warman tions between the academics and rica to join Namibian university stu- says. The General Studies program those experiences.” dents at a Future Leaders Summit on does not end with freshman year. As HIV/AIDS. The Periclean Scholars in juniors or seniors, students must take Project Pericles and AIDS in Namibia the Class of 2007 tackled the probEducators- advanced interdisciplinary seminars. Project Pericles, a national civic en- lem of pediatric malnutrition in Hon- Elon reinstated a language require- gagement initiative that Elon signed duras, and subsequent classes also ment three years ago, and already the onto in 2002, also has had a decidedly have chosen an international focus language faculty want to raise it. “A international cast to its character. The for their work. two-semester requirement is really first 29 Periclean Scholars in the Class If there is any anomaly to this quite minimal,” says Ernest Lunsford, a of 2006 focused on the problem of pervasive international culture, it is professor of Spanish. “We also would HIV/AIDS in Namibia. Over three that fewer than 2 percent of Elon students are international. International like to have more study abroad that years, under the direction of sociol- enrollments have grown over the incorporates serious language study.” ogy professor Tom Arcaro, the group past decade from 40 to 89, and the Elon offers majors in Spanish and produced a four-part documentary universityInternational is eager to attract more. To French and minors in Italian and Ger- series that aired on public television date, its efforts to do so have been man studies. Classes are also taught in the region. The project brought ofconstrained by the limited availability in Chinese, Japanese, and Arabic. to campus speakers from Namibia, of financial aid. The only major other than lan- including Anita Isaacs, an activist for John Keegan, director of interna- guages that requires study abroad those living with HIV. Arcaro, who was tional admissions and associate direc- is international studies, which has North Carolina’s Professor of the Year tor of admissions, travels the world surged in popularity. Laura Roselle, in 2006, also led several students and recruiting students, and exchanges a political science professor, says, a campus video producer to Namibia dozens of e-mails on a daily basis “In 1997 we had 12 majors. Right now to meet with AIDS activists and tape with prospects and their parents. we have 173. Each time we raised the footage for Associationthe documentary series. “We would love to enroll 100 more requirements, we thought, ‘Uh-oh. Students packed 70-pound suitcases international students,” says Keegan, Enrollments might suffer.’ But it has with textbooks, toys, school supplies, a 1996 Elon alumnus. “Every day the not slowed at all.” International stud- and clothing that they distributed to international students on campus ies, she says, appeals to the service- Namibian school children. Lambert ask me, ‘Who else is coming from my oriented students drawn to Elon. called Arcaro’s stewardship of the country? Who else is coming from “They are looking for a place where NAFSA:program “the single most powerful, Panama? Who else is coming from service opportunities and volunteer sustained, and globally influential Singapore?’ They are just as into it as activities are valued, and they find act of teaching and mentoring I have we are.” that here,” says Roselle. “The2007. to-do (ever) witnessed.” As seniors, 11 Elon

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they entrusting this child? What’s the nature of this school and this place? When they meet John, the trust level just goes sky high. He represents the Elon community so well.” Another internationalEducators student, Kira Tippenhauer, 21, a sophomore originally from Port-au-Prince, Haiti, says Elon’s size was just right. “I did not want to go to a huge school where I would be just a number,” Students Beth Roberts '07 of Paris, Ky., Chae Kim '09 of A Personal Touch says Tippenhauer, who heard of Elon Seoul, South Korea, Alana Dunn '07 of Pittsburgh, Pa., through a family friend in Michigan and Kira Tippenhauer '09 of Port-au-Prince, Haiti The personable Keegan is a persuasive who knew John Keegan’s sister. “I love salesman. Chae Kim, 20, a sophomore it here,” says Tippenhauer. “There are accounting major from Seoul, SouthInternational not that many international students, Korea, and her parents got theof full but still there are students from 45 treatment when they pulled into different countries. That means 45 Elon on a spring break trip after she countries in the world know about spent a year in Jackson, Mississippi, Elon and have parents who decided as a high school exchange student. to send their kids to Elon.” “He was very welcoming. He basically Munoz, the El Centro director, told my parents he would look says, “What’s nice about the numbers after me while I was here,” said Kim. we have now is that we stand out. She found herself one of only two People notice us. They really take KoreanAssociation students on campus that first us as part of their families. My semester, but that did not bother supervisor, Lela Faye Rich (associate her. “I just feel obligated to step out dean for academic advising) is like a more and represent who I am more mother for all international faculty. If because numbers-wise, there aren’t you want to be recognized or known, NAFSA:many of us,” said Kim, who interned it’s very easy.” for PricewaterhouseCoopers in Seoul They also don’t have to worry this past summer. about getting to or from the airport, Susan C. Klopman, vice president 45 minutes away. “We pick them of admissions and financial planning, up, we drop them off at the airport. 2007. says stories like Chae Kim’s are That’s any time that they ask for it,” “what has made Elon admissions says François Masuka, director of and enrollment successful. We have International Student and Faculty been fortunate enough to really Scholar Services. “We do things I make connections with so many of don’t think many schools do. The our students. It’s getting harder with environment is a friendly, brotherly, the proliferation of applications, but sisterly type of environment. We Copyright a personal relationship is critical for cultivate that. You’ve got to hold © international students. To whom are more hands here.” Masuka, who hails

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from the Democratic Republic of says Ayesha Delpish, an assistant the Congo and earned a master’s professor of mathematics who is degree at the School for International the resident faculty member. Elon Studies in Vermont, worked at the is hosting 20 exchange students in University of Virginia and Texas Tech fall 2007, more than ever before. Educators University previously. Nancy Midgette, associate provost, observes, “Now it’s our job to Stepping Up Exchanges encourage our (domestic) students to Elon hopes to bring more be the other half of these exchanges. international students to campus They work best when you have by stepping up exchanges. people going in both directions.” Monica Pagano, assistant dean of Both Lambert and Basirico believe international programs, says, “When that the university will need more I got here (in 2003), there were staff and resources to move its two exchanges. Now we have 14. international education programs to International It’s exciting.” The Argentinian-born the next level. With so many faculty Pagano is an authority on service leading study abroad courses, Basiricoof learning. She returned in spring 2007 says, “The next step for us is to from the Dominican Republic, where become a leader in terms of quality she’d gone to expand opportunities of programs and a leader in research for students to volunteer over spring on the pedagogy of study abroad.” break. So pleased were the parents Lambert says, “There are times of one 2006 Elon graduate with the when you can’t just keep moving service-learning projects that took along the same trajectory. You’ve Susan C. Klopman, vice president of admissions and financial planning their daughter to Guatemala and got to make a leap in terms of the Tibet, that they gave the university resources youAssociation commit to a particular Francois Masuka, director of International Student and $250,000 to fund international program.” Elon’s infrastructure for Visiting Scholar Programs service-learning scholarships. managing international programs was Monica Pagano, assistant dean of International Programs Many students who come for “built like everything else at Elon– short stays are placed in the Isabella –by bootstrapping it and making it Ayesha Delpish, assistant professor of statistics and Cannon International Studies PavilionNAFSA: incrementally better and better. But resident faculty member at the International Pavilion with the domestic and international after a period of years, you need to students living there for the full year. regroup, reorganize, and make new “It’s great to constantly have that investments to take the program to flow of culture coming through,”2007. the next level.” “The next step for us is to become a leader in terms of quality of programs and a leader in research on the Copyright ©pedagogy of study abroad.”

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Georgia Institute of Technology President Wayne CloughInternational no doubt was half jesting when he told student radioof Gstation WREK an easy way to pronounce his name: “rough, tough, Clough.” But it also fit the robust, can-do image of the famed engineering school with the boisterous fight song in the middle of Atlanta. Georgia Tech was founded in 1885 by Atlantans hoping to push post-bellum Georgia into the industrial age. A shop building wentAssociation up alongside the iconic, gable-roofed Tech Tower, and five shop supervisors were hired to work alongside the first five professors. For decades it was primarily an undergraduate institution, with a grand football team—the eponymous JohnNAFSA: W. Heisman was the first coach— and no alumnus more revered than golf legend (and mechanical engineer) Bobby Jones. It wasn’t until 1950 that Tech awarded its first Ph.D.2007. In 2006, Tech awarded 400 Ph.D.s—two-thirds in engineering—along with 2,500 bachelor of science and nearly 1,300 master’s degrees. Some 2,700 of the nearly 17,000 students are international, and two-fifths of the 845-member faculty was born outside the United States. With national stature Copyrightlong achieved, Georgia Tech now wants to make its name as an © international institution of higher education and research.

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“What we’d like to do is be offering Georgia Tech’s education and researchEducators programs globally and the product you get is the same, no matter where you get it, anywhere in the world, just likeInternational buying a Coca Cola.” of Georgia Tech’s immodest strategic those residences now are dorms, plan lays out the ambition to become and the Olympic aquatics facility an “a source of new technologies and a upscale student recreation center. driver of economic development not Recently Georgia Tech acquired only for Georgia, but also for the na- 2,000 more onetime Olympic Village tion and the world…. We want to be Jack Lohmann, vice provost for institutional beds from adjacent Georgia State development and an architect of Georgia Tech’s a leader among the world’s best tech- University. ambitious International Plan nological universities.” The journalist- authorAssociation Thomas Friedman, in updating ‘Just Like Buying a Coca-Cola’ David E. Parekh, deputy director, Georgia Tech Research his best-seller The World Is Flat: A Brief Jack Lohmann, vice provost for insti- Institute, associate vice provost and professor of History of the 21st Century, singled out Mechanical Engineering tutional development and an architect for praise Georgia Tech’s ambitions for of Georgia Tech’s ambitious Interna- branch campuses on several conti- Howard A. Rollins, Jr., associate vice provost tional Plan (IP) for undergraduates, for international programs and professor of psychologyNAFSA:nents and for giving its undergraduates deeper international experience. He says it helps that Tech “is an entrepre- Jason Seletos, program coordinator, Office of praised Tech’s Clough for “producing neurial place.” On the international International Education not just more engineers, but the right front, “we’ve got a lot going on, all the kind of engineers.” way from the traditional study abroad 2007. Clough has capitalized on to this more cohesive program for opportunities to expand Tech’s global international study to these overseas reach, starting with the 1996 Olympics, sites and, of course, a substantial in- two years after his return to campus. ternational population on our own “We realized the Olympics would be campus,” says Lohmann, an industrial an opportunity” to advertise Georgia and systems engineer. “What we need Tech “as a global institution,” he says. now is to get our arms around all this Copyright Georgia Tech hosted swimming and and develop a more cohesive connec- © diving events and the Olympic Village; tion between all these activities.”

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“We’re not quite there yet,” adds offer Georgia Tech’s education and novation,” says Parekh. Irish President the vice provost, who talks purpose- research programs globally and the Mary McAleese visited the Atlanta fully about getting people to view product you get is the same, no mat- campus in April. Georgia Tech “as basically a multina- ter where you get it, anywhere in the tional university, much as you would world, just like buying a Coca Cola,” Nearly 1,000 a Year Study AbroadEducators speak about a multinational corpo- says Lohmann. Georgia Tech boasts that it makes ration. When you think of IBM, you Clough emphasizes that to sustain study abroad possible for all majors. don’t think of any particular site loca- international ventures like this, “there In 1993, 191 Tech students studied tion. We’re trying to articulate a vision has to be a financial model that abroad. Now it sends five times that for Georgia Tech… (so that) in 10, 15 works.” David Parekh, deputy director many, mostly on summer courses years, when people hire our gradu- of the Georgia Tech Research Insti- combining travel and study in a ates, they might ask, ‘Well, where in tute and associate vice provost, made Georgia Tech did you graduate from?’ 15 trips to Ireland over two years in profusion of fields. “Given the kind They won’t necessarily assume At- securing support from IDA Ireland, of university Georgia Tech is, it’s re- lanta.” Instead, that student might the Irish development agency, and markable that we have 34 percent of have matriculated in classes taught corporate partners to open a research ourInternational students studying abroad,” said by Georgia Tech professors in the beachhead in Athlone, on the River Howard A. Rollins, Jr., a psychology university’s campus of long standing Shannon in the center of Ireland. “At ofprofessor who as associate vice pro- in Metz, France, or in facilities being Davos, at the last World Economic vost for international programs and created through academic partner- Forum, Bertie Ahern, the Taoiseach director of the Office of International ships in Singapore; Shanghai, China; (prime minister) of Ireland, spoke Education from 2003 to 2007 was Hyderabad, India; and other parts of about Georgia Tech’s being an overt also a principal architect of the Inter- the world. “What we’d like to do is to part of the country’s strategy for in- national Plan. Association

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The International Plan requires students to complete at least 26 weeks of study, internships, and research in another country and to demonstrate proficiency in a second language. To Educators do so, they must pass an independent oral exam certified by the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL); Georgia Tech picks up the $140 exam fee. Students also must take three courses exam- ining international relations, global economics, and a specific country or region, followed by a capstone seminar designed to tie the coursework and international experiences togeth- International er with the student’s major and future of profession. Industrial design students in the College of Architecture, for instance, might design senior projects to European specifications and markets. Those who fulfill these require- experiences. Four hundred seniors classroom, and raising questions ments receive a special International each year earn the co-op designator about this wider world, the faculty Plan designation on their bachelor of on their Tech diplomas. The Coop- here at Tenth Street on North Avenue science degree. “It’s a degree designa- erative Division was renamed the Di- are going to have to adapt to this tor. It’s not something that Tech takes visionAssociation of Professional Practice in 2002 thrust and become more interna- lightly,” says Jason Seletos, a program and now runs a work abroad program tional as well, and we’ll draw even coordinator for the Office of Inter- that helps students land internships more talented students,” says Long. national Education. “The last degree and co-op positions outside the The Sam Nunn School, founded in designator before this one was for United States. Debbie D. Gulick, the 1990 and named for the former Geor- co-op and that was done in 1912.”NAFSA: assistant director, says, “We sent 32 gia senator, enrolls more than 360 Georgia Tech embraced the Inter- students to work in 15 countries last undergraduates in international affairs national Plan and allocated $3 million year, and this year we have 46 stu- and language majors. In 2008 it will for its first five years—mostly for ad- dents in 19 countries.” offer a Ph.D. for the first time, with a ditional language instructors. It hopes special focus on science and technol- to entice 300 students2007. per class—12 ‘Seditious’ Nature of the ogy in international affairs. “That’s our percent to 15 percent of the student International Plan unique niche in international educa- body—to sign onto the International William J. Long, chair of Tech’s Sam tion,” says Long. Plan so that at least half the students Nunn School of International Affairs, The Nunn School in 2005 pro- graduate with an international experi- believes that “the seditious qual- duced the third Rhodes Scholar in ence under their belt (it was already ity” of the International Plan will Georgia Tech history: Jeremy Farris, of at 30 percent). Georgia Tech remains transform Georgia Tech. “When you Bonaire, Georgia. During his years at Copyrighta mainstay of cooperative education have more students studying abroad, Tech, he took summer courses taught © combining classroom and workplace bringing back foreign ideas into the by Associate Professor of Internation-

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no incentives to actually do it. Here, got an opportunity to attend an because applied research is so valued, AIESEC student leadership conference there are a lot of niches for interdis- in Morocco over spring break, the ciplinary research and teaching,” says university picked up the conference Bowman. “For a political scientist, I fee and most of her plane ticket. “I have all sorts of collaborative research don’t think schools withoutEducators such an opportunities with biologists, and international mindset would have chemists and engineers and what-not. done something like that,” Pechar says. It’s great.” Clough, raised in southern Georgia Encouraged by Molly Cochran, by parents who had not gone to another associate professor in college, says that with 80 percent of the Nunn School and director of undergraduates in engineering and John McIntyre, professor in the College of Management and undergraduate programs, Ashley Bliss, science and two-thirds from Georgia, executive director of the Center for International Business 21, of Marietta, Georgia, and Emily some students still need to be Education and Research (CIBER) Pechar, 19, of Atlanta, both quickly convinced to fit study abroad into their Sheila K. Schulte, director of International Student & Scholar signed up for the International Plan.International busy schedules. But it is inarguable, Services Bliss, a junior majoring in economics he adds, that they need to graduate and international affairs, spentof a with a global view. “Even if they stay in semester studying in her mother’s this country—which is unlikely—during hometown of Monterrey, Mexico, their careers, they are going to be living with a cousin and girlfriends impacted by this global economy,” she had known since childhood. She says Clough. “They have to be able to landed a job as an intern at CNN speak to people with different accents. Español and spent this past summer They have to be comfortable in that studying in Argentina. world and to appreciate it.” Pechar,Association a freshman international Clough discovered his calling as a affairs and modern language major, geotechnical and earthquake engineer foresees spending her junior year on in graduate school at the University of Georgia Tech’s exchange with Sciences California, Berkeley. Civil engineering Po, the prestigious French political faculty there were drawn into that field NAFSA:science institute in Paris. When she after the 1964 Good Friday earthquake

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in Alaska and a major temblor struck Niigata, Japan. “When you get “It’s a different experience. The into that field, you’re immediately immersed in a global enterprise,” says Clough. campus here is huge. Campus life inEducators Birth of GT-Lorraine the U.S.—that’s something I wanted Georgia Tech boasts that it is the only U.S. institution with a campus of its own in France: Georgia Tech to experience. I really loved it.” Lorraine. Opened in 1990, it offers primarily graduate courses in father and French mother, adds, Georgia Tech began sending electrical and computer engineering “We’ve gotten more mileage out of it undergraduates to Lorraine for taught by Georgia Tech faculty as than we could have ever hoped.” The summer classes in 1998 and now well as non-engineering courses French partners provided bricks and 160International sign up for that experience taught by Tech faculty and adjuncts. mortar, including 50,000 square feet each summer. Students this year It owes its existence to the vision of classrooms, laboratories, research ofcould choose from more than of the longtime mayor of Metz, facilities, offices, and dorms. Visiting two dozen courses on topics from Jean-Marie Rausch, who came to Georgia Tech faculty get apartments thermodynamics to international the United States looking for a major and cars. “When our faculty go there, business. For graduate students and technological university willing to they know where their children undergraduates alike, English is the establish a branch in Lorraine. “He are going to go to school, they mode of instruction. Georgia Tech said, ‘We are setting up a technology know where they are going to live. grants dual master’s degrees with park in cow pastures outside of Metz. Normally when faculty go overseas, nine European partner institutions. He was greeted here with open arms,” none of thatAssociation stuff is known and it’s “The French students call this the relates John R. McIntyre, the founding hard,” says Clough. More than 80 Atlanta campus,” Sheila Schulte, director of Georgia Tech’s Center for Georgia Tech faculty have spent a director of International Student & International Business Education and semester at GT-L, and the branch Scholar Services, says with a smile. Research (CIBER). McIntyre, who was campus has awarded 800 graduate Sophie Govetto, 26, a French graduate born in Lyons, France, to an American degrees. student in mechanical engineering, NAFSA: marvels at the breadth of courses offered on the main campus. “In GT-Lorraine you have to choose four classes out of six offered; you 2007. have restricted choice. Here you can choose from thousands. For us Europeans and especially French, that’s good. We’re not used to choosing our classes.” Some of the best students produced by GT Lorraine return to Copyright Atlanta to pursue Ph.D.s, as Matthieu © Bloch, 25, of Previssin, France, has

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done. The computer engineer, who works on cryptography, says, “It’s a different experience. The campus here is huge. Campus life in the U.S.—that’s something I wanted to experience. I really loved it. That’s Educators why I decided to sign up for a Ph.D.” Bloch recently received a doctorate from his French university and expects to complete his Georgia Tech Ph.D. by year’s end. A Two-Way Street His mentor, Steven W. McLaughlin, deputy director of Georgia Tech- Lorraine, says, “We bring students to International the campuses of our partners who of would not have ended up in Metz if George Tech weren’t there. They help us, we help them. It’s a two-way street.” For any institution seeking to emulate what Georgia Tech has done, the lesson is “to keep the long term in popular,” says Smith, “but many of (ISyE) and its Supply Chain & Logistics mind,” says McLaughlin. “Even though our students can’t afford the extra Institute have long been ranked we’ve been doing this for years, it’s expense. We’ve got to make sure that number 1 in that field. Harvey M. still a lot of hard work to build and everyAssociation student who wants to study Donaldson, the managing director, sustain our program. You need to find abroad can do so.” That will be one says, “We did not start off to have a strategic partner willing to invest of the objectives in a new fundraising an international program; we simply not just for two or three or five years drive. The University System were interested in logistics. But we but for a long time, maybe forever. of Georgia allows out-of-state can’t do our business in just the 48 We have that kind of a partner.” NAFSA:students who study abroad to pay states of the continental United After Lorraine, the single most in-state tuition plus $250. Douglas States. As supply chains expanded, popular destination for Georgia Tech the domain where we applied our B. Williams, associate chair for students is the university’s summer technologies and expertise became undergraduate affairs in the School of program at Oxford University in global.” Through an alliance with 2007. Electrical and Computer Engineering, England. “We take over Worcester the National University of Singapore says, “I tell our out-of-state students College in Oxford every summer,” (NUS) and the Singapore Economic says Anderson D. Smith, Vice all the time that it’s cheaper to go to Development Board, it created the Provost for Undergraduate Studies Metz for the summer than to stay in Logistics Institute-Asia Pacific, which & Academic Affairs. Some 150 Tech Atlanta and take classes here.” offers master’s degrees, conducts students spend six weeks at Oxford, research, and convenes conferences. and many spend an additional four Logistics Goes Global Companies such as DHL, the Copyrightweeks traveling with professors Georgia Tech’s Stuart School of international shipping giant, pay the © across the continent. “That is very Industrial and Systems Engineering tuition of graduate students from the

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Educators works and we can match the concept Graduate Industrial Engineering students from Singapore: and theory to practical issues.” Front (l-to-r) Sin Man Kwan, Magdalene Chua, Yan Ting Tan. Rear: Rui Wang and Ke Yao Liu Another logistics graduate student, Magdalene Chua, 28, of Singapore, was equally enthusiastic. “When you speak to the people in the logistics industry in Singapore about Georgia Tech, they say, ‘Oh, you are going to Georgia Tech. Wow!’” she says. Hiroki Muraoka, 24, of Saitama, International Japan, who was studying in the of Global Logistics Scholars dual degree program, says, “In Japan I could just remember the theory. Here I have to understand and apply it.” Professor Zhou also leads an island nation and other countries in 11-week summer study abroad Asia in exchange for a three-year work program that takes undergraduates commitment. “Between 15 and 30 to Singapore and Beijing to study students are enrolled each year in the manufacturing,Association logistics, and modern 18-month program,” says Donaldson. Asian history. Two dozen Georgia Tech “They complete a semester at the engineers are joined by NUS students National University of Singapore, in Singapore and by students from come here for the spring and a May- Tsinghua University in Beijing. “With a mester, then do an internship back in NAFSA:program like this, there’s no way you Singapore before they receive dual can force anyone to go. They can take degrees.” all the courses here. The only thing Graduate student Ke Yao Liu, 25, you can do is take advantage of their Anderson Smith, vice provost for Undergraduate Studies & of Hebei, China, lauded a seminar 2007. natural interest to go to that part of Academic Affairs in Atlanta led by Chen Zhou, an associate professor, that took students the world,” says Zhou. Harvey M. Donaldson, managing director, Supply Chain out to the Atlanta distribution centers The students also are learning that, & Logistics Institute, Stewart School of Industrial and for UPS and FedEx and the hub of the as Chip White, chair of ISyE , says, Systems Engineering “the people who design routes now Norfolk Southern railroad’s operations. Doug Williams, professor of Electrical and Computer “We learned a lot through this class,” are no longer just in Atlanta. They Engineering and associate chair for Undergraduate Affairs says Liu. “In Georgia Tech, what we can be in Shanghai and Singapore and learnCopyright is practical. We address industrial all over. Innovation in this industry is Chen Zhou, associate professor of Industrial and Systems ©problems directly. We see how it globalizing, too.” Engineering

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Expanding Partnerships Around Teaching Grad Students Not to the World Stand Up Clough, a former dean of engineering In a similar vein, Schuster, a biochemist at Virginia Tech, says that when he whose predecessor, Jean-Lou became president, he recognized a Chameau, was tapped byEducators Cal Tech need for Georgia Tech to establish to become its president in 2006, in Asia an academic base similar to offers this prediction: “We are in an Georgia Tech Lorraine. “Singapore era now in which networks are being turned out to be a good place to start,” established and relationships built. he says. Tech also offers dual degrees We are going to find partnerships that with prestigious Shanghai Jiao Tong work and partnerships that don’t; we’ll University, where it now has offices support the ones that do—and say and a plaque on the wall reading goodbye to the ones that don’t.” “Georgia Tech Shanghai.” Georgia Schuster early in his career Tech Research Institute opened its coauthored a seminal study on the branch in Athlone, Ireland, in 2005 International bioluminescence of the firefly. Today and this spring Provost Gary Schuster of he works on molecules that bind and signed an agreement to explore the cut DNA when irradiated with light. potential to open a Georgia Tech A steady stream of postdoctoral campus in Hyderabad, India. Georgia Tech is also in talks with potential fellows from India works in his lab, and partners in South Korea and Latin Schuster says the first thing he teaches America. “A week doesn’t go by that them is not to stand up when he walks Chelsea C. “Chip” White III, chair and professor of we don’t have someone contacting us in. “I don’t want them deferring to me transportation and logistics about a joint degree program, a joint because of my position. I want them to challenge me and my ideas,” he Gary B. Schuster, provost and vice president for researchAssociation program (or) some kind of Academic Affairs larger connection to us,” says Clough. says. “That’s the great strength of the “Everybody’s looking to partner up.” American research university. It’s not a Lorie Johns Paulez, semester study abroad adviser culture of status.”

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The entire world now recognizes Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and that research universities are “not Arabic. Phil McKnight, the chair only places for deep thought and of modern languages, says, “We discovery, but engines of economic are not your traditional language development,” adds Schuster. program here at all. This school Educators In establishing these “remote has a very interdisciplinary and operations” in other parts of the pragmatic approach. We still do world, “we have to make sure to be literature and culture, but that’s just true to ourselves. What we have to a part of the curriculum.” Half the export is not only our way of teaching students are engineers. “One of but our culture.” our signature programs—if not the signature program—is our series of ‘Not Your Traditional Language summer intensive language programs Program’ called Language for Business and Technology” (LBAT), says McKnight, a Although language study is not professor of German. These summer International required at Georgia Tech and there immersion programs in China, France, is no stand-alone language major, Germany, Japan, Mexico, and Spain of enrollment in language classes has offer six to eight weeks of study doubled in the past five years to more abroad that combine classroom le than 4,400 students. Junior Eddie hist lessons in business, culture, and w D. Lott, an industrial and systems am technology with field work, cultural te engineering major, spent fall 2005 s events, excursions, and visits to local e studying in Buenos Aires, Argentina, h businesses. Eighty to 90 students t and enjoyed the experience so much customarily head off with Georgia y b he was headed off this fall for a whole Tech professors to Toulouse, France t year of study and work in Valencia, Association e (home to Airbus); Weimar, Germany; k Spain. He credits Tech’s Lorie Johns c Tokyo and Fukuoka, Japan; Mexico a j Paulez, the semester study abroad City, Mexico; Madrid, Spain; and adviser, with encouraging him to apply w Shanghai, China. A U.S. Department o l for as many study abroad scholarships of Education Title VI grant supported l e

as possible. He won several, includingNAFSA: the creation of the LBAT courses Y a federal, $5,000 Benjamin A. Gilman in Chinese, Japanese, Korean, International Scholarship. Lott, an and Russian. Mike Schmidt, 24, of Atlanta native, says, “A lot of people New Orleans, a graduate student come to me and say, ‘Study2007. abroad in mechanical engineering, did is too expensive.’ I say, ‘Put yourself internships with Bosch and Siemens in the mix. There really are a lot of and spent a full semester in regular scholarships out there.” classes at Technical University The School of Modern Languages Munich (TUM). He had no problem within the Ivan Allen College of writing business reports in German. Liberal Arts (which also houses “My experience abroad has gotten theCopyright Nunn School) offers classes in me a lot more opportunities than ©Spanish, German, French, Russian, anything else,” says Schmidt.

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Kendall Chuang, 24, a graduate of Georgia Tech in the following scholarly work in understanding student in electrical and computer way: we believe that the real world and getting our arms around what engineering, minored in East Asian problems exist at the interface it means to be globally competent. studies at the University of Illinois between different disciplines, and At the moment we’re working a lot at Urbana-Champaign, and spent that interdisciplinary research is the on seasoned wisdom as opposedEducators to a year at Konan University in Kobe. way to define a problem, to address it evidence-based research,” he says. He returned to Japan as part of and to solve it,” says Liotta, a chemist “We need to start asking the Georgia Tech’s cooperative education who joined the faculty 42 years ago. questions: How long does a student program to spend six months The $1.2 billion in new buildings have to be overseas, six weeks, six interning at NTT’s research center, constructed on Clough’s watch “has months, six years? Does it matter where he worked alongside engineers really fostered that culture,” adds what kind of experience they have? and scientists twice his age. “I really the Brooklyn-born Liotta. “We put Does a work experience have a didn’t expect engineers (at Georgia many disciplines in one building, and bigger impact than doing study Tech) to be so interested in learning in many cases not just in the same abroad? What’s the impact of a about other cultures and other building but in the same laboratory secondInternational language? At the moment, languages,” he says. so we can lower the barriers and we cannot give cogent answers to Charles L. Liotta, who has overseen foster that interdisciplinary research.”of these questions.” Georgia Tech’s Georgia Tech’s $345 million research Office of Assessment already has enterprise as vice provost for research How Long Does It Take? launched a longitudinal study to shed and dean of graduate studies, says Jack Lohmann, the vice provost light on the issue, and the growing that the university’s “global vision” for institutional development, sees numbers of students’ signing up for will serve it well in the increasingly another challenge for all of U.S. the International Plan should provide competitive arena of the twenty-first higher education in the international ample data for Lohmann and his century. “I can describe the culture arena. “We need to do a lot more colleagues to ponder. Association “We need to start asking the questions: How long does a student have to be overseas, six weeks, six months, six NAFSA: years? Does it matter what kind of experience they have? Does a work2007. experience have a bigger impact than doing study abroad? What’s the impact of a second language? At the moment, we cannot give cogent answers to these Copyright ©questions.”

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Befitting a former chair of the students and faculty; three-quarters who was ambassador to South Africa Senate Select Committee on goes to students. OU has added during the final tumultuous years of Intelligence and a man for whom a 15 faculty positions in Chinese and apartheid, says, “When we first started federal study abroad scholarship is Arabic languages, Asian philosophy, this, we heard from some professors, named, Boren has given international history and politics, the economics of ‘Don’t be ridiculous. AnybodyEducators who education pride of place in OU’s development, European security and wants to study international relations curriculum and activities and made integration, international business is going to go to some place back East the Norman campus a regular stop management, and other disciplines. to study.’ Well that’s not true at all.” for world leaders from Margaret The School of International and Area Of the 23,000 students enrolled Thatcher to Mikhail Gorbachev. Soon Studies, launched in 2001, has grown on the Norman campus, 1,551 are after taking office in 2006 as Africa’s from three dozen to 350 majors. “It is international students. Oklahoma first elected female head of state, a hard-charging group,” said political has forged exchange agreements scientist Robert H. Cox, the founding with 173 partner universities in Liberia’s President Ellen Johnson- director. “We require them to study 60 countries and each year hosts Sirleaf visited at the invitation of abroad for at least a semester and approximately 750 visiting students Boren and Ambassador Edward J. take at least two years of a language.”International while sending an equal number off Perkins, OU’s senior vice provost for Suzette Grillot, an associate to study at those institutions. Millie international programs and former professor of political science,of says C. Audas, director of Education U.S. ambassador to Liberia, South the myriad of international events Abroad and International Student Africa, and Australia. held on the Norman campus “gets Services, notes that in addition to students energized. They learn enriching the education of thousands Spurt in International Studies something about the world here, of students, the exchanges also have Oklahoma has boosted study abroad and that energizes them to go out produced at least 89 marriages. The by providing $250,000 in international and actually see that part of the ebullient Audas, a Bolivian-born travel grants and fellowships for worldAssociation or study the issue.” Perkins, former language professor with an

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OU doctorate in higher education Boren’s Days At Balliol administration, received a second President Boren recalls with a smile doctorate in honoris causa from that on his first visit to campus Université Blaise Pascal in Clermont- as president-elect, “Millie Audas Ferrand, France—OU’s oldest partner— intercepted me on the sidewalk and Educators in 2005 for building Oklahoma’s said, ‘Can I walk with you? I’ve been exchange enterprise over nearly three waiting all my career for someone decades. “I was honored not for like you to become president of any research, not for any academic OU.” Boren immediately proclaimed advancement, but for the human her his “soul mate.” Boren needed relations and the human attachments no convincing about international between the people of France and the education. A congressman’s son, he people of the United States. That was was elected president of the Yale glorious for me,” said Audas, whose Political Union and won a Rhodes husband, William Audas, is a retired Scholarship to Oxford after graduation OU director of career services and International in 1963. He was at Balliol College founding director of the J.C. Penney when word came that President John Leadership Center at Price College of F. Kennedy had been shot; he was still of Business, in which numerous there 14 months later when Britain international students participate. bade farewell to its great wartime Audas first came to Norman as a leader, Winston Churchill. “I learned so language instructor in 1978. When she much about my own country by being became the first full-time director of outside it,” says Boren. Education Abroad and International Ambassador Edward J. Perkins, executive director, During Oxford’s long reading International Programs Center and William J. Crowe Chair Student Services in 1986, she quickly periods, he trekked to more than in Geopolitics found kindred spirits across the faculty, 30 countriesAssociation across Europe and the including cell biologist Paul B. Bell, Suzette Grillott, interim chair of International and Area Middle East. Boren also volunteered Jr., who had done extensive research Studies with the speaker’s bureau at the U.S. in Sweden and shared her enthusiasm Embassy in London, speaking before Robert Henry Cox, director, International and Area Studies for study abroad and partnering with ladies’ garden clubs in little towns institutions overseas. “By having all Paul B. Bell, Jr., vice provost for instruction and dean, NAFSA:across England. It left him convinced these exchanges, we have significantly College of Arts and Sciences of the importance of being a good increased the diversity of international listener and seeing the world through OPPOSITE PAGE: Millie C. Audas, Director, and the staff students at OU,” says Bell, now vice others’ eyes. Boren believes it crucial of Education Abroad and International Student Services. provost for instruction and dean of for OU students to explore the world Front L-R: Karen L. Elmore, Elaine Masters, Millie Audas, the College of Arts and Sciences.2007. Monica Sharp, Lin Goldston. Rear, Natalie Wagner, Jack beyond the Red River. “Oklahoma is Audas still travels the world to Hobson, Shannon Rodgers, Nishan Ratnayake, Diana in the middle of the country. We have Tiffany, Danika Hines, Dragan Milivojevic, Tina Henderson, oversee existing exchanges and strike one of the lowest percentages of any Mariana Mircheva, Janae Johnson. new compacts. “It’s labor intensive to make all these collaborations and agreements live. They are not just “By having all these exchanges, we have on paper. But we’ve had incredible momentum,Copyright rhetoric, and funding significantly increased the diversity of ©from President Boren,” she says. international students at OU.”

43 Kr ist Profiles of Success at en P Colleges+Universities a r tr id g e , a states of first-generation Americans The Borens’ offer to escort him to a s s and the highest percentage of people friend’s ranch came too late; he was i s born in this country,” he says. flying back to Malaysia in two days. t a “We felt terrible,” the president said. n

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f e stay together,’” Boren recalls. The Internationalup like cowboys and cowgirls. The young man expressed regret that he international students really look like had not gotten to visit an Americanof the part,” said Boren. The program, farm nor seen any “real cowboys.” which started with 300 participants,

Kristin Partridge of Student Life oversees the OU Cousins program matching international and U.S. students

Three Norman couples active in Friends to International Students. Left to right: George and Mittie Durham, Lyndal and Susan Caddell, and Dale and Lisa Robinett Association

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now draws up to 1,000 each year. After the terror attacks of September 11, 2001, when Boren exhorted the campus community to make OU international students feel welcome, Educators 1,600 students signed up. Other universities have borrowed the concept and even the Cousins name from OU’s friendship experiment, according to Kristen Partridge, assistant director of student life, who still corresponds with her “cousin,” a Singapore engineer she befriended as a sophomore in 1996. Like many major universities International with sizeable international student contingents, Oklahoma has a host of family program called Friends to International Students that arranges for local families to invite students into their homes, take them grocery shopping and make sure they have a place to spend Thanksgiving and the winter holidays. Susan and Lyndal Caddell, Norman school teachers, Association have hosted students from more than a dozen countries on three continents, often several at once. They’ve taken them to rodeos and the Cowboy Hall of Fame in NAFSA: Oklahoma City, but the international students’ favorite outing is when the Caddells bring them to big family cookouts. “A lot go, ‘Wow! You have aunts and uncles and everyone2007. else here, just like home,’” said Caddell. “It’s a lot different from the image of America they get from TV and movies.” Copyright ©

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Getting Outside the Comfort Zone “Don’t ever let it be said that (a . In welcoming freshman, Boren always reminds them about the importance of “getting outside their future prime minister) was in your comfort zone” and befriending Educators OU’s international students. “Don’t ever let it be said that (a future class at Oklahoma and you didn’t prime minister) was in your class at Oklahoma and you didn’t know them,” he says. At every major know them.” academic convocation, a phalanx government. “I used to be very shy. “Tripp” Hall III, vice president for of international students bearing I couldn’t speak to anybody alone. alumni affairs, calls the growth their countries’ flags marches behind I depended on my twin to do the “astonishing.” In Moscow, alumni bagpipers and the Kiowa Blacklegging talking,” said Akingbola. “It’s so great gather in the middle of the night Society, a group of Native Indians in to know different sets of people.” Internationalto watch satellite feeds of OU feathered headdresses. The University of Oklahoma It takes an effort, too, for Alumni Association has goneof football games, especially the annual international students to breach their international, too, recently adding showdown against the University of comfort zones. When twins James clubs in Venezuela and Colombia Texas. But in Brazil, OU alumni are and John Akingbola of Lagos, Nigeria, to others across Europe, Asia, Latin more excited about the burgeoning enrolled as freshmen in 2003, they America, and the Middle East. Jim international activities, Hall says. hung out at first only with Nigerians. When their older brother—who went to college in Britain and later earned a MBA at Purdue University—came to visit, “he wasn’t happy. He told Association us, ‘You’re not really maximizing your time here. Why don’t you just break out of your bubble and see what’s out there for you?” That was all the push they needed. JamesNAFSA: Akingbola, 21, became involved with the 150-member African Students Association and moved up the ranks of OU’s International2007. Advisory Committee (IAC), which coordinates the activities of more than two dozen international student organizations. Akingbola, a chemical engineering major, was IAC president in 2006-07 while former IAC President Kenah Nyanat, a petroleum engineering Copyrightstudent from Borneo, Malaysia, was © elected president of OU’s student

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Home of the Neustadt Prize Robert Con Davis-Undiano, an The University of Oklahoma is English professor who is dean of the Honors College and executive home to the prestigious Neustadt director of World Literature Today, International Prize for Literature, a says, “We’ve democratized the biennial, $50,000 prize bestowed by Neustadt program. It used to be a kind Educators the university and its 80-year-old of ivory tower process, where the literary magazine, World Literature great writers of the world would come Today. The magazine also brings to campus and meet a few faculty.” famous writers to campus for the Now, through classes, symposiums, Puterbaugh Conference on World meals and receptions, “upwards of Literature. Turkish writer Orhan Pamuk 1,000 to 1,500 students are involved won the Nobel Prize a week after his each time. We’ve really opened it 2006 visit. Between the Puterbaugh up.” Davis-Undiano, an authority on Conferences and the Neustadt Prizes, Mexican-American literature, says, Norman regularly draws such literary “When we brought in Kenzaburo Oe, International lions as South Africa’s J.M. Coetzee, for example, the Japanese students Japan’s Kenzaburo Oe, Poland’s on campus were dumbfounded. Theyof Czeslaw Milosz, Mexico’s Octavio said, ‘In Japan, we’d get to wave at him Paz, and Colombia’s Gabriel Garcia in a parade. Here we get to have lunch Marquez—all Nobel laureates. with him.’”

James Akingbola, a chemical engineering major from Nigeria Association Tripp Hall, vice president for Alumni Affairs Robert Con Davis-Undiano, dean of the Honors college and executive director of World Literature Today

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Growing Connections with China “Of course, they were unarmed,” In 2006 the People’s Republic of says Gries. “I guess because I grew China chose OU as the site for a up throwing baseballs and softballs, new Confucius Institute, part of a I had a knack for it that most of my worldwide network that encourages Chinese classmates didn’t.”Educators Gries the teaching of Mandarin language speaks Mandarin with a Beijing accent. and Chinese culture in schools and “It gives me a real advantage because colleges. It will offer credit and non- people feel more comfortable with credit courses to college students, someone who speaks with an at-home business people and travelers as well accent,” he says. “It’s like a foreigner as local school children, taught by OU speaking with a Texas drawl.” instructors and teachers on loan from Gries has established a program to bring mid-level Chinese diplomats Ming Chao Gui, associate professor of Chinese Beijing Normal University. Boren took a personal interest in and their counterparts from the State Peter Hays Gries, director, Institute for U.S.-China shaping an ambitious summer studyInternational Department to Norman each fall for Issues and Harold J. and Ruth Newman Chair in abroad program called “Journey to an informal weekend retreat “to get U.S.-China Issues China” in which students travelof to to know one another outside the Provost Nancy Mergler Kunming, Shanghai, Xi’an, and Beijing tense atmospheres in Washington for four weeks of classes on Chinese and Beijing.” He explains, “crisis Andrew Ballinger, a meteorology graduate language, civilization, economics management is a huge problem in student from Australia and politics. When Ming Chao Gui U.S.-China relations as recent history accepted a faculty position in 1994, has demonstrated with the Belgrade there were just 14 students and he was bombing incident in 1999 and the the only instructor. “I was a one-man spy plane collision in 2001. There just army,” he laughs. Gui was following in wasn’t enough familiarity between the footstepsAssociation of his late father, Cankun individuals in the two diplomatic Gui, who taught at OU until his wife’s services for them to be able to cut illness led the couple to return to through the red tape and manage China. In 2006–07, Chinese language these crises in a productive way.” courses drew 215 students and OU NAFSA:offered both a major and minor in Internationalizing the Community Chinese. Ambassador Perkins, who had led the Gui helped woo Sinologist Foreign Service and served as U.S. Peter Hays Gries to Norman as the ambassador to the United Nations 2007. founding director of the Institute for in addition to tackling some of the U.S.-China Issues and as the holder most difficult diplomatic assignments, of an endowed chair. The 39-year- says that when Boren wooed him old political scientist was born in to come to Norman, “he asked me Singapore and grew up in Hong Kong, to participate with him in bringing Tokyo, and Beijing; his father was a an international sphere” not only to U.S. diplomat. In fourth grade in a the campus but also to the wider public school in the Chinese capital, Oklahoma community. Like Boren Copyright he came in fourth in a citywide speaking to garden clubs across © competition throwing hand grenades. England in the mid-1960s, Perkins

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found himself traveling around those skills, there really is not much s Oklahoma for speeches to Rotary hope for the future,” says Mergler, a u b

Clubs and other civic organizations. psychologist. r o “Community leaders in small towns Australian student Andrew Ballinger f throughout Oklahoma, whether first came to OU in 2002–03 on g Educators n it’s business or ecumenical or the an undergraduate exchange from i t YMCA or whatever, know about the Monash University in Melbourne i International Programs Center,” he a

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Intensive Arabic and a Blog About Syria Another exchange program sends David L. Boren OU students to the Hashemite University in Zarqa, Jordan,Educators for six weeks of intensive Arabic lessons Scholars+Fellows each summer. Peter Wiruth, 22, of Tulsa, who graduated with honors For President David L. Boren, OU’s selection as a 2007 winner in international studies in May 2007, of tHE sENAtor PAUL sImon Award FoR cAmpus International- says, “I gained as much in the six ization carried a special poignancy. Boren and the late Illinois senator weeks as I had in the three semesters of classes here.” Wiruth was active were longtime friends and Senate colleagues who stood together on the need for in the Arab Student Association Americans to improve their understanding of the world beyond Western Europe. on campus, for which one of his Boren was the author of the National Security Education Act of 1991, which pro- mentors, Joshua M. Landis, assistant vided study abroad scholarships for American students to learn the languages Internationalprofessor of Middle Eastern Studies and cultures of critical parts of the world. The bow-tied Simon had the programof renamed for Boren after he gave up his Senate seat in 1994 to become OU’s thir- teenth president. The National Security Education Program (NSEP) David L. Bo- ren Scholarships are merit-based awards of $8,000 to $20,000 for study in the Middle East, Africa, Asia, Central & Eastern Europe, Eurasia, Latin America, and the Caribbean. Graduate students compete for Boren Fellowships worth up to $30,000. In 2006, 141 undergraduates received Boren scholarships and 69 graduate students won Boren fellowships, all with a promise to work after graduation for a federal department or agency with national securityAssociation responsibilities. Almost three in 10 of the 2006 recipients were studying Arabic; others were polishing their Amharic, Pashto, Tajik, Uyghur, Wolof, and other critical languages. Boren says he was motivated by the imbalance between international students in the United States and the much smaller number NAFSA:of U.S. students abroad. “People were coming here from all over the world—from Malaysia, Nigeria, South America—and we were sending maybe 3,000 or 4,000 to the entire developing world. My thought was that this was a matter of2007. national security…. It was a danger to our country that the bench was so shallow about whole regions of the world.” There now have been more than 4,000 Boren scholars and fellows. In 2000, Congress created the Benjamin A. Gilman InternationalCopyright Scholarships of need-based grants up to $5,000 for undergraduate © study abroad. That program honors the former New York congressman and chair of the House Committee on International Relations.

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and codirector of the Center for Peace with their professors during the Studies, serves as faculty adviser. summer. A Journey to Italy already Landis, who was raised in the Middle has been added alongside the Journey East by parents who were academics, to China—the president and his wife writes a blog on Syria that is must- have attended portions of both reading for politicians, diplomats, and programs—and summer Journeys to Educators academics. It draws several thousand the Aegean (Turkey and Greece) and hits a day and is widely quoted by South America (Chile and Ecuador) the news media. Its success shows are in the works. “My goal,” says Boren, “how much globalization and all the “is to double and triple the number technology that goes along with it are of students who have study abroad globalizing universities,” says Landis. experiences.” Boren still serves on the “I’ve been able to become part of the U.S. selection committee for Rhodes debate on Syrian policy.” Scholarships. Of the 42 applications In addition to two-way exchanges, he read last winter, 39 had studied OU increasingly is sending small abroad. “That just revved me up all the International groups of students to study abroad more,” he says. of

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Association ‘A Totally Different Place’ the Gaylord College of Journalism Craig Lavoie, 23, of Bartlesville, Okla- and Mass Communications. Once a homa, who graduated this spring with broadcaster and press secretary to a degree in letters and political science then-House Speaker Carl Albert, NAFSA:and was a Rhodes Scholarship finalist Foote was the founding dean of the in 2006, speaks admiringly of the way College of Mass Communication Boren uses the fundraising skills he and Media Arts at Southern Illinois honed during his political campaigns University. He played a role in 2007. to raise millions now “for scholar- convincing former senator Paul Simon ships, endowed professorships, and to come to the Carbondale, Illinois, new buildings and gardens. He’s going campus in 1997 to launch a public to leave an unbelievable legacy here.” policy institute that now bears his Adds Lavoie, “I don’t even think I get name. Foote, who has worked on the full scope of it. You talk to anyone journalism projects in Bangladesh as a who was here before he came in 1994, Fulbright senior scholar and recently it’s just a totally different place.” organized the first global congress Copyright Joe S. Foote returned to his alma of journalism educators, says it has © mater in 2005 and became dean of been exciting “to return to a university

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so focused on the rest of the world. It’s much more challenging to become an international university in a land-locked state with no tradition of international dynamism.” Kenah Nyanat, 22, the student body Educators president, is a petroleum engineering student Exporting Football from the town of Miri on the island of Borneo in Malaysia. The eldest son of a Shell Oil Co. geologist who was one of the first from his Prowess to Japan village and tribe to attend college, Nyanat Even thE FAmed FootBALL PRogram At oU, was a champion debater in high school and as which has won seven national football a freshman emceed the Eve of Nations, the university’s annual celebration of international championships, has its international side. culture. He comes from a family of high Coach Bob Stoops and his staff share their prowess achievers: sister Rami, 21, a sophomore studying with Akira Yonekura, offensiveInternational line coach at Ritsumei- geology, and her American OU “cousin” were kan University in Kyoto, Japan. Yonekura, or Coach named OU Cousins of the Year this spring for Bob as he is called,of has made a half-dozen trips to creating a multimedia scrapbook chronicling Norman to soak up inside knowledge of Sooner program activities. Both spent this past summer football. Ritsumeikan is the Oklahoma of Japan, studying in China. Nyanat has interned with energy companies with five collegiate championships and two na- in Houston and elsewhere and down the road tional titles to its credit over 13 years. Yonekura envisions getting both a master’s degree in won All Japan honors as a lineman for the petroleum engineering and a MBA. “I really think Ritsumeikan Panthers in the early 1990s. “For President Boren has a plan on driving OU to the Japanese my size is supersize,” explains the point where it is on the same level as perhaps Association 6-foot-3, 265-pound Yonekura. an Ivy League institution, but maintain the same level of affordability that it has (now),” says Ritsumeikan sends 25 students—includ- Nyanat. ing an occasional football player—to Nor- The end of OU’s international journey and man each spring to improve their English David Boren’s tenure is not in sight. “WeNAFSA: have for five weeks. During his own eight-month so much more we want to do,” says the 66- sabbatical at OU, Coach Bob had full year-old president. “I started a religious studies access to the football team’s practices and program so our students could learn about even got a copy of the playbook, with the other religions and better2007. understand what’s happening in the Middle East and other parts proviso that he was free to discuss it with of the world. I’m looking to start an institute Japanese colleagues, but not Americans. on the philosophical and cultural roots of the “My team is one of the strongest in Japan. American Constitution.” Our offensive system is almost the same as When he left the Senate, some colleagues OU,” says Yonekura. “For us, Texas is Kwansei- were mystified, Boren says. Now, “a lot are gakuin University.” The annual showdown with jealous, frankly. This is where the action is, I tell that Kobe rival draws 25,000 to 30,000 fans. them.Copyright I’m following my dreams.” While he plans to keep studying OU football, © Yonekura also hopes to spend time at a smaller U.S. college that is a football power in a lower division. His aim? “To learn how to beat a stronger team with weaker players.” 53 ExploresProfiles the of Success at World BColleges+eyondUniversities Shoreline Puget Sound Community Educators

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hen Shoreline Community College was built in a Seattle suburb 10 miles from W the Space Needle in 1964, the wooded, 83-acre campus wasInternational designed to look like a Japanese botaniofcal garden. The student union, the PUB, was an acronym for Pagoda Union Building, and until the 1990s its sports teams competed as the Shoreline Samurai. That nickname was abandoned after student leaders decided it was demeaning, and today Shoreline athletes take the field as the Dolphins. AssociationBut Shoreline itself is more international than ever, with a record 643 international students enrolled in 2006-07 and scores of students along with faculty studying overseas each summer. Many of these ambitious NAFSA: programs were spawned by an initiative the college took in 2001 when it created an International Programs Advisory Committee (IPAC) with an annual purse of 2007. $20,000 to disburse grants to faculty to develop short- term study and service abroad projects. That next summer, faculty led dozens of students on three-week study trips to Antigua, Guatemala; Monterrey, Mexico; and London, England. Every summer since then, 45 to Copyright 70 Shoreline students have headed off to earn credit in © China, Japan, Ireland, Greece, Turkey, Namibia, South Africa, Thailand, Honduras, Peru, Argentina, Iceland, and elsewhere.

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Through Shoreline’s membership in the Washington Community College Consortium for Study Abroad, students also can take classes during the fall, winter, and spring in London, Florence, Paris, Salamanca, and San Educators Jose, Costa Rica. From 1999 through 2006, 120 Shoreline students studied abroad through the consortium, and three Shoreline professors taught classes overseas. In a region replete with excellent community colleges, Shoreline must scramble for students, despite its excellent track record in sending graduates to the University of given the job on a permanent basis.International A 10-person staff works on Washington for four-year degrees. Through it all, support from ofthe top international programs and advises The commuter college, two miles for Shoreline’s internationalization the growing ranks of students from inland from Puget Sound, is the was unwavering. The commuter around the world. “We’ve made a tenth largest of Washington’s 34 campus earmarked $85,000 in concerted effort in the past several community colleges. In addition to 2005–06 and another $85,000 in years to integrate our international awarding associate degrees in arts 2006–07 toward internationalization education programs and our and sciences, it prepares students projects, including grants for international students with the rest for careers in health, technology, faculty development, study abroad of the campus,” says Saplad. “More and computers and has an award- scholarships as well as improved and more international students have winning automotive training center. servicesAssociation for international students. taken leadership positions in our Most of the international students “The administration is very supportive student government. They hold eight who make their way to Shoreline of building programs and curricula of the 12 executive offices this year.” seek to transfer to universities, says that prepare our students to be Thalia Saplad, executive director of global citizens,” says Saplad. International Peer Mentors the Office of International Programs.NAFSA: Mari Kosin, assistant director of “For international students, business Praise from Accreditors international student services, laid is number 1. Our engineering, health The Northwest Association the groundwork for the emergence of occupation, and nursing programs are of Schools and Colleges and international students into leadership also draws, as well2007. as biotechnology.” Universities commended Shoreline in positions with a program she started Many international students come 2002 for “its excellent international five years ago called International from Asia, with the largest numbers studies program.” The visitors left Peer Mentors (IPM). Five students from Indonesia, Hong Kong, Korea, “impressed by the exemplary are selected annually for these paid and Japan. and creative efforts to recruit and positions, in which mentors help After two presidents departed accommodate international students newcomers to the United States in four years, Shoreline found and to use resources from the adjust to life at Shoreline and in stability when civil rights attorney success of that program to encourage the Seattle area. The mentors take CopyrightLee D. Lambert was promoted in faculty and students to travel and diversity training alongside full- © 2005 to interim president and later study abroad.” time college staff and help shape

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had the confidence to apply for posts in student government because they had held these IPM leadership jobs for a year,” she says. An Exploration of Irish Literature Educators and Culture The International Programs Advisory Committee, which includes two Shoreline students, two staff members, and a broad representation of faculty, sifts through faculty proposals for summer study abroad courses and decides which ones to fund. Gary A. Parks, a professor of International both educational and extracurricular English literature and creative writing, activities for their peers. received a green light from IPAC of “They play a major role in our to take creative writing students to orientation for international students,” Ireland in August 2006 to explore the says Saplad. “They’ve helped get sources of inspiration for W.B. Yeats, more international students to James Joyce, and other authors and to partake in activities and to get more craft stories of their own. In addition involved in their education. They to viewing the Book of Kells in Trinity undergo professional development College in Dublin and standing before Thalia Saplad, executive director, Shoreline international with my staff and we send them to the majestic Cliffs of Moher jutting programs conferences around the state. It’s the Association into the Atlantic off County Clare, Colleen Ferguson, assistant director of international first time in years where international they attended a poetry slam at a pub programs students have really seen themselves in Galway and worked up sketches as part of the institution.” about life in nineteenth century, Gary A. Parks, English professor Colleen Ferguson, assistant director famine-stricken Ireland while visiting Mary Kosin, assistant director of international student of international education, said the NAFSA:Inishmore, birthplace of novelist and services first international students to run for activist Liam O’Flaherty. campus-wide office were veterans “The driving query of the class of the International Peer Mentors was that I wanted people to explore program. “They learned a2007. lot about the the question of why such a small institution and how it worked. They nation has produced so much great “The administration is very supportive ofCopyright building programs and curricula ©that prepare our students to be . global citizens.”

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e Wind. “We did the Yeats pilgrimage first while teaching at Rollins College

p to Sligo, and visited Inishmore, an and over the past 13 years at Shoreline.

J “It’s a village without electricity only a island in the Gaeltacht off the west m a a i c International coast of Ireland,” he says. “A lot of 25 miles from downtown Kingston, native speakers there still speakof Irish. but very difficult to get to. We have to Liam Flaherty’s stories get mystical in go up the mountain by four-wheel- places, and when you read them on drive truck,” he says. “The students Inishmore you can really understand live at the houses of two coffee farm- how this place would give rise to these ers and work within the community, stories.” primarily tutoring in two elementary schools.” Thompson twice has spent “It was a great experience,” says six-month sabbaticals in the Blue Parks. When the students came home, Mountains and returned to campus in half signed up for an Irish literature Association 2006 determined to help the Jamai- course that he inaugurated at can farmers secure a niche and better Shoreline that fall. “That class filled up prices in Seattle’s food markets for with 27 students. It was a nice follow- their rich coffee beans. up in terms of internationalizing the “I recruit the students out of my NAFSA:campus,” he says. psychology classes,” says Thompson. “They are very diverse. On this summer’s trip, 75 percent have never be- “[Shoreline] definitely is an unusual fore traveled outside the Northwest. 2007. It’s a unique opportunity for them. I community college. A lot of four-year have three students over age 50, several in their 30s and 40s, and students who are 18, 19 years of age.” schools don’t support the type of Both Thompson and the students find the readjustment upon return to Seattle challenging. “You’re bom- unique (study abroad and international barded with the technologies, the Copyright lights, noises. Everybody’s in a hurry. © service) programs we have.” Once you get accustomed to a certain

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rhythm, it’s very difficult to come Shoreline’s summer study abroad two weeks at Shoreline to kick off a back and be thrown into another cul- programs are open to all students reciprocal student exchange program. ture,” he says. “The students see their and members of the community, Ajou’s program is regarded as one of culture and their surroundings in a although traditionally they have the finest in its country. different way.” Some, he adds, change drawn primarily those on track to President Lambert, who is Korean-Educators career paths so they can deal directly transfer to a four-year institution. American, summed it up last fall in his with the poverty they saw in the Blue The Office of International Programs first “State of the College” address. Mountains. now is stepping up efforts to interest “One of the great challenges before more of the students who are us is how we prepare our students, A Commitment to Multicultural and seeking technical and professional community, and workforce to degrees in study abroad. Two new Global Awareness compete in a global world,” Lambert exchange partnerships have already Thompson, who served on the said. Stressing the importance of the IPAC for four years, says Shoreline borne fruit. Last winter, six Danish liberal arts to the development of the “definitely is an unusual community business students from Erhvervs whole person, he added, “Whether college. A lot of four-year schools Akademi Vest (Business Academy it’s the nineteenth century or the don’t support the type of unique West) in Esbjerg, Denmark, came to International (study abroad and international Shoreline for classes and internships twenty-first century, there are certain service) programs we have.” with local businesses, and Shoreline ofskills and talents that are universal Parks said the emphasis on the and the Danish institute exchanged from one generation to the next. I international at Shoreline fits in business and marketing professors am proud to be part of a campus with its “tradition of being a strong for two weeks. Shoreline has won that grapples with these issues as academic transfer school. It’s just part awards for its automotive technology we debate ways to ensure that all of of our history and culture here. We offerings and this past summer 20 our students receive a world-class have a commitment to multicultural students from Ajou Motor College educational experience.” awareness and global awareness.” in Boryeong,Association South Korea, spent

Orientation for international NAFSA: students, Winter 2007.

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spotlight Profiles of Success at Colleges+Universities 60 Profiles of Success at Georgia Institute here is no ice hockey team at basket- Colleges+Universities of Technology ball-crazed Valparaiso University, but T the Indiana institution completed a hat trick this spring when for the third time in four years a trio of seniors was awarded Fulbright scholarships. They are bound for China, South Korea, and Germany. For a campus with 3,000 undergraduates, it was evidence how successful the 148-year-old independent Lutheran schoolEducators has been in infusing the curriculum with international content and encouraging students to explore global issues. Valparaiso sends upwards of 200 students a year to study abroad, many to programs it operates in Cambridge, England; Reutlingen, Germany; Puebla, Mexico; and Hangzhou, China. It requires nearly all freshmen—including nearly 1,000 business, engineering, and nursingInternational majors—to take a two- semester, interdisciplinary course that meets five hours a week to discussof texts from the East Asia and Afghanistan, from Plato and Sophocles, and from the Old and New Testaments of the Bible (the 80 freshman in the honors program, Christ College, read equally diverse and global texts). One of the latest Fulbrighters, Carl Boschert, a Chinese and Japanese studies and history major from AssociationJackson, Mississippi, spent a semester at Valparaiso’s Hangzhou Study Center and made two other research trips to China. Associate professor of history Charles Schaefer, who advises the Fulbright applicants, sees “a NAFSA: direct correlation between our students’ performance in winning Fulbright awards and our overseas study programs. Many of our students have studied overseas for a semester or an entire year and come back with 2007. an expanded world view and an interest in exploring international studies even further.” Schaefer himself as a Fulbright lecturer at Addis Ababa University in the 1990s. Religious and classical music occupy an important place in the life of Valparaiso. A $1.5 million gift allowed Copyright it to open a Bach Institute in 2003, and the university © chorale has toured Germany twice in recent years and performed as a resident choir in Leipzig at St. Thomas Church, where Johann Sebastian Bach was cantor for the last 27 years of his life and where he is buried. 61 Spotlight Profiles of Success at Colleges+Universities

The Valpo Core Course Leads arts and science majors (Valparaiso’s Internationalization law school, which dates back to 1879, enrolls 500 students; 400 other “We provide a lot of opportunity graduate students pursue degrees within a small-size liberal arts college,” in arts and sciences, businessEducators and says Provost Roy Austensen. “We nursing). John R. Ruff, associate provide a liberal arts education for professor of English and director of engineers and accountants and the Valpo Core Course, describes it finance majors and nurses as well” as this way:

Since its inception in 1998 the Valpo Core has helped to broaden and internationalize Valparaiso University first-year students’ horizons. Almost every unit in this year-long course puts into dialogue texts from different eras and traditions: Gilgamesh with Genesis, Shusako Endo’s Silence with the Gospel of Mark, Lord Shang and Mencius with Plato and John Stuart Mill, The InternationalBhagavad Gita with Martin Luther’s Christian Liberty. Laura Esquival’sof Like Water for Chocolate transported us to Mexico during the Mexican Revolution; Julia Alvarez’s In the Time of the Butterflies took us to the Dominican Republic during the Trujillo era; Philip Gourevitch’s We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families brought us to Rwanda after the genocide. Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner, set mostly in Afghanistan, has been one of our most successful texts; Il Postino and Cinema Paradiso, set in Provost Roy Austensen Italy, are among our most successful films. This past year Sonia Nazario’s Professor John R. Ruff, director of the Valpo Core Enrique’sAssociation Journey helped us put a human face on the undocumented worker traveling by train from Honduras into the United States, a Jon Kilpinen, dean of Arts and Sciences harrowing and heartbreaking tale. Renu Juneja, associate provost and professor of English

Valparaiso junior Tyler Tappendorg with woman cooking in Namibia. Photo courtesy Tyler Tappendorf.NAFSA:

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“Many of our students have studied overseas for a semester or an entire year and come back with an Educators expanded world view and an interest in exploring international studies even further.”

Gourevitch and Nazario have Before the Valpo Core, there was takes place among these people spoken on campus, and Elias Chacour, a required freshman seminar, but the before they even go to teach has the Palestinian peace activist and topics and syllabi varied widely. Jon T. in some ways transformed the priest whose autobiography Blood Kilpinen, dean of the College of Arts experienceInternational for our students,” says Brother was just added to the syllabus, and Sciences, says, “As a residential Juneja, a professor of English. has been invited. campus, we felt that building a of Hugh E. McGuigan, director of In- Valparaiso draws a third of its common experience among the ternational Studies, is convinced the students from Indiana and almost freshmen was important. It would freshman Core whets student appe- as many from Illinois and elsewhere assist with retention but also help tites for study abroad. Valparaiso is a in the Midwest. The campus is build a sense of community and founding member of the Associated located an hour outside Chicago identity for each group of students.” New American Colleges (ANAC), and 15 miles south of Lake Michigan The Valpo Core looks at themes of formed in 1994 by a group of mid- and the 15,000-acre Indiana Dunes life, death, vocation, loss, and love sized, comprehensive universities that National Lakeshore. International through the lens of great works of emphasize undergraduate education students numbered 118 in 2006. With literature andAssociation art. Many texts are and offer master’s and professional a 13-to-1 ratio of students to faculty, ancient classics, but others explore degrees. Elon University, a 2007 Valparaiso prides itself on keeping modern dilemmas, such as Tracy winner of the Senator Paul Simon classes small. To keep each of the 40 Kidder’s gripping Mountains Beyond Award for Campus Internationaliza- sections of the Valpo Core Course Mountains on Dr. Paul Farmer’s tion, also belongs to the group of 22 under 20 students, the university NAFSA:fight against poverty and infectious institutions, which allows members encourages every department except diseases in Haiti and globally. to send students on each other’s engineering to contribute faculty, Associate Provost Renu Juneja, study abroad programs at no addi- and most do. “The beauty is that who joined the faculty in 1978 after tional cost. “We’ve got a student now the core stimulates a conversation2007. coming to the United States from studying in Morocco through Mercer about major ideas and themes in India on a Fulbright scholarship, said University, and we had two in the fall human history among a wide variety teachers from different fields come through Butler’s program in Alcalá, of faculty members, some of whom together as cohorts to discuss the Spain. We have another student in haven’t touched texts like these texts before teaching them to the Puebla, Mexico, through Ithaca Col- since they were undergraduates students. “What has developed is a lege. This ANAC consortium is giving themselves—if then,” says Austensen, mathematician sitting with a nurse us more study abroad opportunities whose field is modern European sitting with a historian sitting with in countries where we don’t have our history.Copyright “It enlivens the intellectual an English professor sitting with a own programs,” says McGuigan, who ©climate of the campus.” chemist, and the conversation that has been at Valparaiso since 1983.

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The Fifth Hour—A Movable Feast incorporated classic Chinese and Jap- it’s really another strange country for The most unusual feature of the anese texts and East Asian issues into most Americans.” In summer 2006, 10-credit Valpo Core is the fifth its freshman curriculum. “Students the entire Christ College faculty trav- hour each week that takes place regularly read Mencius, Chuang-Tzu, eled to Berlin, Leipzig, Wittenberg, outside the classroom. “In some ways Hsun-Tzu, Lu Xun, and other classical and Erfurt, Germany, forEducators 10 days; it’s a moveable feast. A variety of and contemporary Chinese thinkers,” other faculty have traveled as a group activities take up that fifth hour. The says Piehl, a 1968 alumnus. And the to China. residential life people on campus college provides “Albert Schweitzer have become very involved with the Fellowships” for students to work as International Presence on Campus Core,” says Dean Kilpinen. “Since our medical volunteers in mobile clin- When Juneja and her husband, po- freshmen live together, the student ics in Costa Rican and Nicaraguan litical scientist James L. Kingsland, affairs people do programming in villages over Valparaiso’s two-week joined the faculty in 1978, she found the residence halls that matches the spring break. herself one of the few international syllabus. Likewise, our art museum professors on campus and one of also follows the syllabus.” The Sending New Faculty Abroad Internationalonly a handful of people from India museum displays works of art that Valparaiso also sends new faculty in the community. Now, almost two relate to the topics under discussion after their first year off to Cambridge,of dozen of Valparaiso’s 254 full-time in a special room. England, for a week-long retreat. faculty is international. “It’s changed The activities and the undertak- They live in apartments that Val- so much,” she says. “I remember ings vary, and not everybody must do paraiso students occupy in the fall when there were only four or five In- the same thing. “If there’s a German and spring, see shows on London’s dian families in the surrounding area, film festival on campus, that could West End and visit the usual sights, and now we can’t find a hall to ac- be a core-approved activity, or a jazz but they also learn firsthand just how commodate us all. We built a cultural festival, or our Martin Luther King Day much importance Valparaiso places center 15 miles from here and this is celebration,” says Juneja. Students on international education. “Part is happening in other communities as must write about their activities— acculturatingAssociation them to the special well. I am a Sikh and we built our own the Valpo Core is a writing-intensive mission of this university and part is temple. I just find the whole situation experience—but no one scans IDs at helping them bond with each other has changed dramatically.” the door. as a cohort so they are not in their si- International enrollments actually Mel W. Piehl, professor of humani- los. But part is also to widen their ho- peaked in the late 1990s before Asian ties and history and dean of ChristNAFSA: rizons,” says Juneja. “However much enrollments dropped after a currency College, notes the honors college has we say that England is like America, crisis, and fewer students from the “When2007. I came there was no concerted effort made to recruit students internationally. It was personal contacts and church connections... It’s only in the last 15 years that Copyright © we’ve actually done international recruiting.”

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Orientation for international students, August 2006.

Middle East came after the September University in Hangzhou—where VU’s 11, 2001, attacks on the United States. own study center is located—and “But the trend now is going back up,” other universities in China have International says McGuigan, especially with the been visiting scholars at Valparaiso. government of Saudi Arabia funding Using its religious connections, of scholarships for its nationals to study Valparaiso also hosts young faculty in the United States. from overseas who are sent to the “We are going about this much Indiana campus for four months of more deliberately,” says Juneja. mentoring by the United Board for “When I came there was no concerted Christian Higher Education in Asia. effort made to recruit students Eighteen professors early in their internationally. It was personal careers have made that journey over contacts and church connections the past four years from institutions in that brought us students. It’s only in China, India,Association the Philippines, Taiwan, the last 15 years that we’ve actually Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, and done international recruiting.” At Indonesia. McGuigan said that one first Valparaiso was content to send participant, a professor of English from a representative on tours to college Nanjing University, “just fell in love fairs in Asia, the Middle East, and LatinNAFSA: with Valpo” and immediately recruited America. Now it is lining up exchanges four students to come to Valparaiso with partner universities in China for master’s degrees in international and elsewhere. Holly Singh, assistant commerce and policy, as well as director of international 2007.programs, English and communications. also has made several recruiting trips A former president, O.P. Kretzmann, Hugh E. McGuigan, director of international studies to India, his homeland. once defined religious universities “We have partnerships now with such as Valparaiso as places “where Holy Singh, assistant director of international studies five Chinese universities. They send us Athens and Jerusalem meet.” students … and we host their faculty Nowadays, Valparaiso is adding other Melvin W. Piehl, dean of Christ College, Valparaiso’s honors college for professional development. Many cities across Europe, Asia, and Latin Chinese faculty have come here America to that mix, and Valpo’s forCopyright a semester,” says Juneja. Almost students are the better for it. ©five dozen professors from Zhejiang

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