CONTENTS Spring 2006 Former President of Mongolia Receives Honorary Degree . .1 IU Archivist Holds Workshops in Liberia . .21 IU President Participates in National Summit on 2007 Reaccreditation Emphasizes Globalization, Internationalization . .2 Internationalization . .22 Goldman Sachs Foundation Honors Three IU Programs . .3 IUB, IUPUI Offer Financial Assistance to International Students .23 Mathers Museum Exhibit Depicts an African Society . .4 Renowned School Renamed the IU Jacobs School of Music . .24 Education Professor’s Research Projects in China . .5 New Dean Leads IU School of Journalism . .25 IUPUI Integrates Service Learning and Study Abroad . .6 Kelley School Offers Online Courses to Advanced Technologists 27 IU Assists University of Pretoria with American Studies . .7 Ptil Yarkur’s Grandson Visits Exhibit . .28 Distinguished Professor Emeritus Receives John W. Ryan Award .8 Visiting Fulbright Scholar from Gaza Energizes IUS . .30 Professors Win Guggenheim and Fulbright-Hays Fellowships . .9 SPEA Establishes Study Abroad Program at Oxford University . .31 SPEA Project for Ukraine Receives USAID Funding . .10 National Virtual Translation Center Director Visits IUB . .33 IU Education Experts Help Strengthen Afghan Schools . .11 ICIP Hosts Conferences on Iraq and Islam in Africa . .37 Kazakhstan’s Bolashak Scholars Begin Their U.S. Studies . .12 Education School Hosts Science Workshop for Korean Teachers 40 IUPUI Global Citizenship Conference Attracts Student Leaders . .13 Announcements . .43 IUB Senior Is Named Mitchell Scholar . .14 International Who’s Who . .44 IUSB Sociologist Teaches a Semester at Sea . .15 Faculty and Staff News . .46 Study Abroad Peru ’65 Alumni Reunite at IUB . .17 OIA Announces Inaugural Issue of International IUPUI ....... .48 School of Optometry Expands its International Links . .18 IUB Welcomes New International Faculty . .49 Emeritus Music Dean Promotes U.S. Cultural Diplomacy . .19 2005–2006 Visiting Scholars at IUB . .53 Workshop Co-Director Travels on Peace-Building Mission . .21 New from IU Press . .56 ON THE COVER Office of International Programs Indiana University James Vaughan Bryan Hall 104 Home Before Dark 107 S. Indiana Avenue Mandara Mountains, Nigeria Bloomington, IN 47405-7000 Color photograph February 18, 1974 James Vaughan Collection INDIANA UNIVERSITY OFFICE OF INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMS SPRING 2006 IN THIS ISSUE Former President of Mongolia Receives Honorary Degree IU President Participates in National Summit on Internationalization Goldman Sachs Foundation Honors Three IU Programs African Society Exhibit at Mathers Museum Education Professor’s Research Projects in China IUPUI Integrates Service Learning and Study Abroad Bloomington • East • Fort Wayne • IUPUI • Kokomo • Northwest • South Bend • Southeast International News Spring 2006 Former President of Mongolia Receives Honorary Degree t Indiana University’s mid-year of universal education, Commencement ceremony which had broken down A that took place on December with the dissolution of 17, 2005, the former president of the Soviet Union. He Mongolia, Natsagiin Bagabandi, successfully steered the received an honorary Doctor of Laws country away from degree from Indiana University in unproductive educa- recognition of the decades-long tional practices by open- relationship between the central ing up avenues with Eurasian country and the university. other countries, and Bagabandi has long been an secured agreements with advocate for modernization in more than 20 nations to Mongolia. He entered politics in offer higher education 1980 and held various political posi- scholarships that enabled tions, leading to his election as Mongolians to receive leader of the Mongolian People’s their education and Revolutionary Party in 1991, the year training abroad. after the collapse of the Soviet sys- Bagabandi has tem (under which Mongolia was a advanced degrees from “satellite” country with a communist Russia and Ukraine and regime). He served as parliamentary is a trained technologist tesy of Chris Meyer/IU Home Pages speaker and opposition leader in the in the food industry. He Mongolian Parliament. In 1997, he holds a number of was elected as president and served honorary doctorates Photo cour for two terms until 2005. from Japan, Kazakhstan, Former President Natsagiin Bagabandi receives the Mongolia is the only fully demo- South Korea, Turkey, Doctor of Laws degree from IU President Adam W. cratic country in the former Soviet and Ukraine, as well as Herbert. bloc east of the Baltics. Bagabandi from many universities has played a strong role in preserving in Mongolia. Mongolia’s stability, guiding the Indiana University’s connection been continuously taught by native country through controversies, with Mongolia began in 1956 with speakers at IU. including constitutional issues, the creation of an interdepartmental “Mongolia’s ties with Indiana privatization, environmental crises, Uralic and Altaic program—now the University increased rapidly during and contested Parliamentary elec- Department of Central Eurasian President Bagabandi’s years in tions. Mongolia participates in the Studies (CEUS) in which Mongolian office,” says Christopher Atwood, United Nations Millennium Studies resides. Altaic studies were associate professor of Mongolian Development Goals project and is strengthened in 1961 with the arrival studies at IU, who praised the presi- broadly recognized for promoting of Denis Sinor as department chair dent’s active role in promoting democracy and transparency in (see p. 8 for related story). Sinor greater Mongolian-American government, as well as for progress recruited John Gombojab Hangin, relations and in setting a tone of in education. an ethnic Mongol who began teach- openness and accessibility that wel- Early in his presidency, ing Mongolian at IU in 1963. Since comes academic researchers from Bagabandi worked to reclaim then, Mongolian language and cul- abroad. IU’s Mongolian Studies pro- Mongolia’s previously high standards ture, both classical and modern, has gram has three permanent faculty continued on page 34 1 International News Spring 2006 IU President Participates in National Summit on Internationalizing Higher Education with top federal officials charged • Less than 8 percent of U.S. undergraduates take foreign language with educational planning, develop- courses ment, and support. President • Less than 2 percent study abroad in any given year George W. Bush used the occasion • Foreign language degrees account for only 1 percent of under- to announce a new $114 million pro- graduate degrees conferred in the United States posal, the National Security • Only 15 public schools now teach Arabic Language Initiative (NSLI), which • Only 2,000 people teach Chinese in American schools would further strengthen national —U.S. Department of Education security through education, espe- cially in developing foreign language n January 5, 2006, a select Columbia. Indiana University skills from K-16. Recognizing that group of American university President Adam W. Herbert U.S. deficits in foreign language O presidents was invited to attended the two-day summit, which competence hampers the nation’s attend the U.S. University Presidents was co-hosted by Secretary of State ability to engage effectively with the Summit on International Education Condoleezza Rice and Secretary of rest of the world, the proposed NSLI in Washington, D.C. This “unprece- Education Margaret Spellings. will be used to train more Americans dented summit” was organized by President Herbert took part in a in “critical” foreign languages like the U.S. Department of State’s panel discussion, “Preparing Globally Arabic, Chinese, Hindi, Japanese, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Competitive U.S. Students,” together Korean, Persian, Russian, and Affairs. The goal was to “engage U.S. with Charles Reed, chancellor of Central Asian languages (see Web higher education leaders in a the California State University sys- sites below for further information renewed partnership to strengthen tem, and Walter Massey, president on the NSLI). international education, emphasiz- of Morehouse College. In his The summit focused on how to ing its importance to the national remarks, Herbert stressed the inter- continue attracting foreign students interest.” The meeting attracted national leadership role of IU, par- and scholars to come to the United representatives from all 50 states, ticularly in the depth and breadth of States for study and training and the Puerto Rico, and the District of its area studies programs, foreign many barriers that impede that flow. languages offer- It also dealt with how to encourage ings, especially more U.S. students to enhance their those that are education by studying and working less commonly abroad. Attention was also drawn to taught, and out- the key investments required to reach activities. strengthen U.S. international higher About 120 education, and how to develop leaders from a dynamic strategies that would engage range of public the public and private sectors in a and private uni- shared national vision for the future. versities, commu- Secretary of State Rice stressed nity colleges, that the goal was to “make America historically black more open while still maintaining colleges and uni- our security.” Secretary of Education versities, and Spellings pointed out that learning foreign languages is not simply an Summit participants in the Benjamin Franklin State Dining Room. Hispanic-serving institutions met education or economic