Lesley University DigitalCommons@Lesley Lesley College Current Special Collections and Archives Fall 1983 Lesley College Current (Fall,83'-Winter,84') Lesley College Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.lesley.edu/lesley_current Recommended Citation Lesley College, "Lesley College Current (Fall,83'-Winter,84')" (1983). Lesley College Current. 43. https://digitalcommons.lesley.edu/lesley_current/43 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Special Collections and Archives at DigitalCommons@Lesley. It has been accepted for inclusion in Lesley College Current by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@Lesley. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Jean Spiridigliozzi, '84, of Beverly Farms, and TerryLynn Ible, '84, of Bermuda The LE~LEY COLLEgE International Programs Lesley's International Students and Programs by Kathryn Furlong GRADVA TE SCHOOL Lesley is becoming increasingly in­ PROGRAMS ternational. Once again the College emerges as a leader, in its recognition Mexico and Brazil of the need for intercultural training The Graduate School has several and global understanding. All told, international programs, according to hundreds of students are involved in Assistant Dean James Magee. One is a variety of Lesley international a Master's degree program in Educa­ programs . tion directed at teachers in American The Undergraduate School, with schools in Guadalajara, Mexico, and ten students from foreign countries Brasilia, Brazil. "We send professors and ten from Puerto Rico, exchanges twice a year to teach courses," he thirty -two more students with colleges says. "Over a period of two years and in Hull and Bradford, England. 32-credit hours, students can The Graduate School, during the complete their Master's degree." In year, enrolls 65 to 70 registered stu­ January, Joan Fisher, Teaching dents in full-time degree programs. Resources Librarian and Lecturer, The Arts Institute alone averages taught a course in Guadalajara on more than 50 foreign students a year. media, and Richard Wylie, Vice In addition, several hundred more are President and Dean of the GS, a enrolled in Graduate School special course in Brasilia on current issues in institutes and seminars on and off education. campus. PMBI has international students too, as well as Americans assigned to Middle East foreign countries. More than forty students from the One million foreign students will be Middle East attended Summer attending U.S. colleges by 1990, Institute programs and courses at according to the American Council of Lesley last summer which were Education's Committee on Foreign geared to their needs, for example, Students and International Policy. Middle School Administration and During 1980-81, 2.7 percent of Early Childhood Education Institutes. students were international. This Eight of the forty students entered figure could rise to 10 percent of all regular degree programs at Lesley: students in the early 1990s. four are doing Independent Study for "The presence of foreign students a Master's degree and four summers­ could be one of the most powerful only programs in Education, accord ­ themes in higher education," said ing to Dr. Magee. They live in five Richard Berendzen, Chairman of the Middle Eastern countries and come to ACE Committee and President of Piyachat Ruenguisesh, UG'86, of Bangkok (right), and a friend Lesley in the summer to be with their American University. "Few colleges teams. are prepared to cope with such an influx of foreign students .... VNDERGRADVA TE Educators need to be educated .... Professionals in There is a great deal ... to learn." FOREIGN STUDENTS International Education The Committee recommended that Another GS program is P.I.E.S. institutions give moral support to Helga Braein, Undergraduate Ming Lee Chee, '85, of Singapore, (Professionals in International Educa­ international students and look for foreign student advisor, Associate says, ''I'm glad I came to Lesley. I tion). These Master's degree and ways to promote greater integration Professor of Physical Education, and could not get such good teachers at C.A.G.S. programs are also under with American students. a native of Norway, says, "I'd like the home. They treat you as a person the direction of Dr. Magee and of "Foreign students," according to Lesley community to be more aware here and always say 'Hi' first. That's Program Counselor Paula Gassmann, the ACE Committee, "are all too of the foreign students. They're good really nice." who provides services to all GS often an unrealized, underutilized, resource people. Let's use them. Ming Lee hopes that Lesley will International Students. Three kinds of and unintegrated resource for reliev­ There's a world outside of Lesley." send college catalogs to the American students are attracted to P.I.E.S.: ing the startling lack of knowledge During the coming year, she plans to Embassy in Singapore. Because she returned Peace Corps volunteers who among most American undergrad­ have open intercultural seminars of had no college counselors at her want to develop marketable skills uates about international matters." the new International Club, at which school, she asked the Embassy to based on their experiences; foreign foreign students will talk about their recommend American colleges which nationals who want to develop countries. had programs in Special Education. intercultural skills and to work either Piyachat Ruengvisesh, '86, from The Embassy personnel had no here or abroad; and American Bangkok, finds that many Lesley information and suggested she go to students who have a certain expertise students do not know where Thailand an American 2-year college (she and who want to develop intercultural is, for example. (Lack of geographic attended Endicott for six months). skills. The Americans must have knowledge is a common failing among Only then did she discover Lesley. knowledge of a second language and American students.) Piyachat herself Ming Lee takes six courses a have lived or worked abroad. as well as her family are very cosmo­ semester and works very hard. ''I'm "Some of our students," says Dr. politan. Her parents went to so afraid of failure," she says. "I know Maurice Sterns, faculty member and American colleges, one sister is in my parents are paying so much." She Director of International Development San Francisco, and a younger sister is also studying Japanese at Harvard of Academic Programs, "are interest­ plans to study art in Japan or France. Extension because she wants to work ed in foreign-student advising or pre ­ In the future, Piyachat would like to in an American school in Japan after paring American managers who work set up her own kindergarten with a she graduates. for multinational corporations and program for special-needs children in Because Ming Lee is 24-years-old, their families for living abroad." Bangkok which has none now. she would prefer to live with students "I like Lesley," she says, "because her own age . At present she has a (continued on page 2) Helga Braein, Associate Professor of Physical it is a small college with small classes . room in White Hall, which houses Education, in the academic robes of the I can really get to know my primarily freshmen. University of Oslo professors." 2 International Programs Marion was Lesley's first Inter ­ Arts Institute achievement. It's just head stuff. national Club President last year and The Arts lnstitute's Expressive What I learned didn't help me in my was also active in the International work with emotionally disturbed Student Association of New England . Therapies programs are of particular interest abroad. More than 250 stu­ children. For example, I hadn't She says, "I was lucky with my intern­ learned about non-verbal body lan­ ship last spring . I got exactly what I dents have had professional training in its affiliated centers in Europe and guage. I had been looking around for wanted at the World Affairs Council. I two years and first heard of LIMA talked to foreign student advisors the Middle East. In addition, students from 26 countries, representing all and Lesley from Hannelore from twenty schools and developed a Wittowke. She was a student here three-hour program dealing with continents, have studied for their master's degrees at Lesley in last year and was very enthusiastic cultural adjustment." about the program." All P.I.E.S students are expected to Expressive Therapies and Creative Arts in Learning. Ursula concurs. "In my class with complete an internship (considered Paolo Knill, for example, I work with Vivien Marcow, Assistant Professor "the heart of the program") and a different modes, transferring expres­ of Dance Therapy CORE groups at thesis or project as part of a 38-credit sion from painting to music to art. It's program. Lesley, is a '77 graduate of the Lesley Expressive Therapies program and fascinating. In fact, all my classes are American student Barbara Bresna­ interesting which is why Lesley is the former Director of the Israeli Arts han is a free-lance translator and a such a special place." Institute Project. This Institute is the Henrike Hey/and of West Germany, Severe substitute teacher in multi-cultural Next year Ursula would like to do Special Needs Program, and Morion classrooms in Boston and Brookline . model for future affiliated centers: It is independent and staffed primarily by her practicum in a therapeutic field Hellebreckers of Holland, P.I.E.S. Before joining the P.I.E.S . program, clinic in Germany for psychosomatic she was Director of the Berlitz School local people. However, Shaun McNiff, Dean of the Arts Institute at Lesley, disorders. Eventually she would like in Buffalo and Director of to head a group of her own. (continued from page 1) Translations in Boston. Barbara is an and other Expressive Therapies faculty, teach in all affiliated institutes A 1974 study by the Center for accomplished multi-linguist and has Education and Research showed that lived in Mexico and Spain.