www.kent.edu/ciie
November 2011
EHHS to Welcome International Scholars
The College of Education, Health and Human
Services will soon be welcoming nineteen
international scholars.
KSU will be hosting seventeen scholars through
the 2012 International Leaders in Education
Program (ILEP).
Pictured (from left to right): Dr. Vinay Bhargava, Dr. Ernest Epstein, Shonal Agarwal,
Rosalind Strickland, Christine Arabin, and Batt Burns
Not pictured: Dr. Sharon Brennan, Valdez Russell, Doug Sessions, and Dr. Shih-Mei Yang.
CIIE PROFESSIONAL ADVISORY BOARD MEMBERS
Shonal Agarwal
Chapters India, New Dehli, India
Christine Arabin Ozarslan
Kent State Koleji, Istanbul, Turkey
Dr. Vinay Bhargava
World Bank, Washington, D.C.
Dr. Sharon Brennan
University of Kentucky and Representative of the Consortium
for Overseas Student Teaching, Lexington, Kentucky
Batt Burns
Former Principal, Study Abroad Planner, Sneem, Ireland
Dr. Ernest Epstein
Historian, Comparative and International Education Society
and Loyola University, Chicago, Illinois
Valdez Russell
The College of The Bahamas, Nassau, The Bahamas
Doug Sessions
International Baccalaureate Americas, Bethesda, Maryland
Rosalind Strickland
Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio
Dr. Shih-Mei Yang
Hung Kuang University, Taiwan
The ILEP scholars will represent eight countries:
 Brazil
 India
 Indonesia
 Kenya
 Malaysia
 Morocco
 Senegal
 South America
Dr. Janice Hutchinson and Matthew Williams
will be leading two academic classes for the
ILEP scholars.
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Maya Bitsadze, Assistant Professor at Ilia State
University in Tbilisi, Georgia, will be a Junior
Faculty Development Fellow in the Higher
Education Administration Program. Dr. Mark
Kretovics will be serving as Maya’s advisor.
———————————————————The Recreation, Park and Tourism Management
Program will be hosting two research scholars:
Xiaolan Mao from Chongqing University of
Technology and Ying Ma from Shandong
College of Tourism and Hospitality. Dr. Philip
Wang will be hosting these two scholars.
EHHS Faculty Think Internationally...
This
fall
has
proven to be a busy
time for our EHHS
faculty connecting
internationally.
Faculty served as
consultants,
instructors,
and
c o n f e r e n c e
presenters
around
the world.
Here
are just a few...
Where in the world is EHHS?
International Education Week Events
Statement on International Education
Week 2011 (an excerpt)
Monday, November 14
Semester at Sea Opportunities - Dr. Ken Cushner with Students
Read Room, 200 White Hall
4:30-5:30 p.m.
by U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan
Tuesday, November 15
International Web Searching - Vanessa Earp
Room 152 First Floor, Library
2:30-3:30 p.m.
Fulbright Visiting Scholar Lectures
Moroccan Women’s Status in the Old and the New Family Codes
Keltouma Guerch, Morocco
Quality Assessment for Universities in Kyrgyzstan
Chynara Ryskulova, Kyrgyzstan
Read Room, 200 White Hall
4:30-5:30 p.m.
Thursday, November 17
Visiting Scholar Lectures
The Bilingual Education in Xinjiang
Minawar Abdurahim, China, Visiting Scholar
The Process of Educational Reform in Tajikistan
Lolagul Raimbekova, Tajikistan, Muskie Scholar
Read Room, 200 White Hall
4:30-5:30 p.m.
Friday, November 18
Immigration and Entrepreneurship Seminar
Read Room, 200 White Hall
10:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
The Great Talent Show— Sponsored by AIS-EHHS
Read Room, 200 White Hall
4:00-5:00 p.m.
At each of these International Education Week events, CIIE will be selling Blue Iris
World Market Fair Trade jewelry and artifacts made by Fair Trade Co-ops.
Proceeds from these sales will go to a STUDY ABROAD SCHOLARSHIP for an
EHHS student.
This year’s theme is International
Education: Inspiring Students Locally to
Succeed Globally. International Education
Week is a joint initiative of the U.S.
Departments of Education and State. It
celebrates the benefits of understanding the
world around us so we can better
communicate and collaborate with others
from different cultures. It is an ideal
opportunity to inspire students to broaden
their horizons through global learning,
foreign
languages and international
exchange.
President Obama and I are passionate
about providing all of our children with an
education that will enable them to succeed in
a globally competitive economy where
knowledge and innovation are more
important than ever. And, with the world’s
economies and societies becoming more and
more interdependent, it is almost impossible
to distinguish between domestic and
international issues.
Therefore, we must work together to give
all of our students an outstanding education,
which includes learning about our global
partners – their cultures, histories,
languages, values, and viewpoints. We must
focus on integrating international
perspectives into our classrooms. It is
through education and exchange that we
become better collaborators, competitors and
compassionate neighbors in
this global society.
Retrieved from: http://iew.state.gov/docs/arneduncan-statement.pdf