International Briefs
August, 2006
American Council on Education (ACE) and
Campus Internationalization
NMSU
has been participating in several internationalization
initiatives sponsored by the American Council on Education since 2003.
Specifically, we have been and currently are active participants in the
following three ACE internationalization initiatives:
Internationalization Collaborative (2003)
Internationalization Forum for Chief Academic Officers (2005)
Internationalization Laboratory (2006)
Internationalization Collaborative.
We have participated in the Internationalization Collaborative since
early 2003. The Collaborative, a learning community of approximately 80
institutions, provides a forum for faculty and administrators to share
ideas and help each other in furthering their international agendas.
Members share information about institutional strategies and outcomes
and key issues that need further research and advocacy. The activities
of the Collaborative focus on the challenges to implementing
comprehensive internationalization strategies at member institutions.
Internationalization Forum of Chief Academic Officers. Provost
and Executive Vice President William Flores has represented NMSU at the
ACE Internationalization Forum for Chief Academic Officers since 2005.
The ACE Internationalization Forum for CAOs, funded by The Henry Luce
Foundation, functions for two years and engages 50 Chief Academic
Officers (CAOs) from different types of colleges and universities to
participate in a national dialogue on broadening and deepening
internationalization on their campuses. Like the ACE
Internationalization Collaborative (above) and the Internationalization
Laboratory (below), the Forum is intended to assist member institutions
promote international learning on their campuses and to help leaders
think creatively and strategically about the internationalization
process.
Internationalization Laboratory. The Internationalization Laboratory is an outgrowth of the Internationalization Collaborative
(described above). The Laboratory consists of a small cluster of
institutions who have committed themselves to work closely with ACE
over a 12 to 16 month period to advance collective knowledge about
campus internationalization. NMSU has been invited to join the newest
cohort (one of four universities) and thus will be working with ACE and
the other cohort members over the next year or more to advance
internationalization on our campus. All cohort members (participating
institutions) commit to the following: Conduct a review of their goals
and internationalization strategies, develop strategic action plans,
and share their learning with other member institutions.
Participation
in the Internationalization Laboratory implies a deep commitment toward
the goal of campus internationalization. The process, strategies, and
steps that NMSU ultimately adopts toward the accomplishment of this
goal, indeed what this goal means for NMSU faculty and staff and what
it implies for NMSU students (learning outcomes), will be the main
focus of our participation in the Laboratory.
By
agreeing to participate in the Laboratory (as well as the Collaborative
and the Forum), NMSU has accepted ACE’s premises that campus
internationalization is an ongoing process, is intentional and focused, and is systemic (university-wide).
The Internationalization Laboratory is a particularly exciting and
promising initiative in that the entire campus community will be
involved and ACE staff will be working closely with us through the
entire process. NMSU needs to ensure that its graduates are
internationally literate, culturally aware, and prepared to compete in
a global environment. Our close partnership with ACE, now in its fourth
year, has and will continue to assist us toward that end.
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International Travel
James Ni, Department of Physics,
will attend the Western Pacific Geophysical Meeting in Beijing in late
July. He will give 3 invited talks on the seismic anisotropy and
deep structure of the Tibetan Plateau. Dr. Ni will also conduct a
scouting trip to locate temporary seismic stations for the 2007 summer
deployment of INDEPTH-IV experiment in northeastern Tibet. The
INDEPTH-IV project is funded by NSF to explore the northern Tibet and
the PIs are James Ni and Thomas Hearn.
International Student Orientation—Fall
semester New International Student Orientation and English
Testing begins on August 16. Late sessions are
scheduled for August 28 and September 6. Schedules and
additional information are available in Room 238 Garcia Annex or call
646-2017.
Higher Education Development (HED) Announces the Launch of the Development Specialists Program
HED
in cooperation with U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)
announced the launch of the new Development Specialists Program.
The new program is designed to give U.S. faculty the opportunity to
participate in short-term international development assignments at
USAID Missions worldwide. The primary goal of the program is to
provide broad and diverse sources of technical and advisory expertise
to USAID. This will be achieved by sending U.S. faculty on
short-term assignments to USAID Missions. Application materials
and further program description are available on the HED website http://www.HEDprogram.org.
The
U.S. Agency for International Development has provided economic and
humanitarian assistance worldwide for more than 40 years. For
more information about HED, please visit http://www.usaid.gov.
Twenty-Third Annual World Food Day Teleconference
is scheduled for October 16, 2006 from 10:00am to 1:00pm. This
year’s World Food Day Teleconference will examine the unique and
potentially powerful role played by the hundreds of grassroots’
based movements working for a world free of hunger. The discussion will
be a follow-up of 2005 program in which Frances Moore Lappé
framed the issue of hunger not as a shortage of food but as a shortage
of democracy. Three international leaders with hands on
experience and knowledge about these “home grown” endeavors
will share information about these global citizen activists: Dr.
Makanjuola Olaseinde Arigbede of Nigeria, a full time development
activist who trained as a doctor of medicine; Eva Clayton (former
congresswoman from North Carolina) who has just retired as the
Associate Director-General and director of the International Alliance
Against Hunger for the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN; and
Dr. Deepa Narayan, of India who is senior adviser in the Poverty
Reduction and Economic Management of the World Bank, and author and
team leader of the Voices of the Poor initiative.
The
Office of International and Border Programs at NMSU is a registered
site and the teleconference will be broadcasted from 10:00am -1:00pm in
Milton Hall room 169. Everyone is invited but we would appreciate
notification on the number of attendees to assure adequate space.
Please call 646-4528 to reserve space and/or to
receive a copy of the Study/Action packet. The conference will be taped
if someone cannot attend.
Globalization Awards
The
Office of International and Border Programs is now accepting
Globalization Award nominations. The Office of International and
Border Programs provides up to three awards per academic year to NMSU
faculty, staff, students, and individuals from the community. The
award recognizes individuals whose actions and deeds promote
international understanding, cooperation involvement, and
development. For more information about the awards call 646-4528
or to submit nomination, please contact Ida Baca at MSC 3567 or at ibaca@nmsu.edu,
indicating who you want to nominate and describing in one page what the
person has done and/or is doing internationally to warrant the award
and include a copy of their CV. Nominations will be accepted
through March 15, 2007. If you would like to review the list of
past recipients, please go to our web site at http://www.nmsu.edu/~ip/pages/awards/awards.html
Office of International
&
Border Programs
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