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November, 2006 

 

News from the Vice Provost for International & U.S.-Mexico Border Programs

 

Toward an International Education Policy for New Mexico
NAFSA: Association of International Educators and the Alliance for International Educational and Cultural Exchange jointly developed a statement calling upon the President to be proactive in advancing international education. More specifically, the statement requests for the President to
                · Seek broad participation in the formulation and implementation of an international education policy,
                · Ensure effective leadership and interagency coordination in its formulation and implementation,
                · And finally, to announce an international education policy.
In reading the statement, I am struck by the similarity in rationale that we, as members of the New Mexico International Education Consortium (NMIEC), have used to argue for the adoption of a statewide policy on international education.
For example, the Alliance and NAFSA statement argues that imparting effective global literacy to students and to other citizens is an integral and ultimately an essential part of their education. The reasons cited are threefold: National security and the management of global conflict, competitiveness in the global economy, and an increasingly multicultural society. Certainly appropriate for the country at-large; certainly appropriate for New Mexico.
In addition, the goals of an effective international education policy posited by the Alliance and NAFSA in their statement are very similar to those developed by the NMIEC:
            · Requiring knowledge of a foreign language and a foreign area by all college graduates.
            · Developing the educational infrastructure through which the U.S. produces international expertise (more and better trained teachers
           and faculty).
            · Recapturing at least 40% of the international student market and streamlining visa, taxation, and employment policies and regulations
            applicable to international students.
            · Vastly increasing the number of U.S. students studying abroad; promoting ethnic, socioeconomic, and gender diversity in study
            abroad; and diversifying the locations, languages, and subjects involved in study abroad.
            · Invigorating citizen and professional exchange programs and promoting the international exchange of scholars.
The time is right to move vigorously ahead with both a national and a state policy on international education. Our national security and our global competitiveness will increasingly depend on these policies and our multicultural society deserves them

 

Globalization Awards

The Office of International Programs (OIP) is seeking Globalization Award nominations.  OIP awards a maximum of three awards per academic year to faculty, staff, students, and community representatives.  The award recognizes individuals whose actions and deeds promote international understanding, cooperation, involvement, and development.  For more information about the awards or to submit a nomination, please contact Ida Baca (MSC 3567 or ibaca@nmsu.edu) indicating who you want to nominate and describe in one page what this person has done and/or is doing internationally.  In addition, please include a copy of the person’s resume or curriculum vita.  Nominations will be accepted through March 15.

2006 International Matching Travel Grants

The International Matching Travel Grants provide support to faculty/staff members who are seeking external funding for support of international programs and activities.  Prospective grantees need to articulate their intended use of funding and clearly identify the institution or agency with which they hope to work and why funds are needed.  This grant is not intended to cover salaries nor IDC.  A detailed one-page budget should accompany your proposal. On the budget, clearly identify how a minimum of 30% cost share will be provided. Proposals are due March 15 in the Office of International Programs.  Go to our website at www.nmsu.edu/~ip for a complete copy of the application guidelines.  If you have any question, please call or e-mail Ida Baca at ibaca@nmus.edu or 646-4528.

Globalization Awards

The Office of International Programs (OIP) is seeking Globalization Award nominations.  OIP awards a maximum of three awards per academic year to faculty, staff, students, and community representatives.  The award recognizes individuals whose actions and deeds promote international understanding, cooperation, involvement, and development.  For more information about the awards or to submit a nomination, please contact Ida Baca (MSC 3567 or ibaca@nmsu.edu) indicating who you want to nominate and describe in one page what this person has done and/or is doing internationally.  In addition, please include a copy of the person’s resume or curriculum vita.  Nominations will be accepted through March 15.

2006 International Matching Travel Grants

The International Matching Travel Grants provide support to faculty/staff members who are seeking external funding for support of international programs and activities.  Prospective grantees need to articulate their intended use of funding and clearly identify the institution or agency with which they hope to work and why funds are needed.  This grant is not intended to cover salaries nor IDC.  A detailed one-page budget should accompany your proposal. On the budget, clearly identify how a minimum of 30% cost share will be provided. Proposals are due March 15 in the Office of International Programs.  Go to our website at www.nmsu.edu/~ip for a complete copy of the application guidelines.  If you have any question, please call or e-mail Ida Baca at ibaca@nmus.edu or 646-4528.

Globalization Awards

The Office of International Programs (OIP) is seeking Globalization Award nominations.  OIP awards a maximum of three awards per academic year to faculty, staff, students, and community representatives.  The award recognizes individuals whose actions and deeds promote international understanding, cooperation, involvement, and development.  For more information about the awards or to submit a nomination, please contact Ida Baca (MSC 3567 or ibaca@nmsu.edu) indicating who you want to nominate and describe in one page what this person has done and/or is doing internationally.  In addition, please include a copy of the person’s resume or curriculum vita.  Nominations will be accepted through March 15.

 

2006 International Matching Travel Grants

The International Matching Travel Grants provide support to faculty/staff members who are seeking external funding for support of international programs and activities.  Prospective grantees need to articulate their intended use of funding and clearly identify the institution or agency with which they hope to work and why funds are needed.  This grant is not intended to cover salaries nor IDC.  A detailed one-page budget should accompany your proposal. On the budget, clearly identify how a minimum of 30% cost share will be provided. Proposals are due March 15 in the Office of International Programs.  Go to our website at www.nmsu.edu/~ip for a complete copy of the application guidelines.  If you have any question, please call or e-mail Ida Baca at ibaca@nmus.edu or 646-4528.


 



 

National Endowment for the Humanities Sponsored Southwest & Border Studies Faculty Workshop/Seminar and Public Lecture Series Continues

The next Southwest & Border Studies workshop/seminar and public lectures series is titled “Smile Now Cry Later:   Acting Hardcore in a Chicano English Anti-Language,” which will be held on January 19.  The guest lecturer will be Norma Mendoza-Denton who is an Associate Professor of Linguistic Anthropology in the Department of Anthropology and Founder and Director of the Linguistic Anthropology Multimedia Laboratory at the University of Arizona. Dr. Mendoza-Denton has published a number of books, chapters of books, and articles with a focus on sociolinguistics.  Dr. Mendoza-Denton will conduct a faculty workshop on January 19, 2006 from 10:30-12:00 noon in Breland 333 and a public lecture from 3:30-4:30 on January 19 at the Nason House.  The public lecture is open to the general public, faculty, staff, and students and the Faculty Workshop/Seminar is open to faculty.  Please RSVP to Alanna at International Programs, 646-4528 if you are interested in attending either of these functions.

 

Four additional faculty workshops/seminars and public lectures which are also scheduled for the Spring semester are:

February 23 & 24–The Influence of Water & Other Natural Resources on Culture, William de Buys

March 6 & 7–Women on the Border, Mirna Torres

March 30 & 31–Film on the Border, Rosa-Linda Fregoso

April–Southwest Literature/Literatura de la Frontera, Socorro Tabuenca

Exact times and locations for these workshops/seminars and public lectures will be provided shortly.

 

NSF Partners in Innovation Grant

The Office of the Vice Provost for International & US-Mexico Border Programs was recently awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to fund the New Mexico-Chihuahua Partnership for Innovation Project (NMCPFI). NMCPFI is made up of research universities from New Mexico and the state of Chihuahua, Mexico, regional and state economic development agencies, National Laboratories, technology consortia, research organizations, and private businesses.  This is a $719,000 two year grant, which involves border technology development.  NMCPFI brings together NMSU, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Universidad Autonóma de Ciudad Juárez, Tecnológico de Monterrey-Chihuahua, the Chihuahua Trade Office, the New Mexico Economic Development Department, Los Alamos and Sandia National Laboratories, the Mesilla Valley Economic Development Alliance, the Centro de Investigación en Materiales Avanzadas, Centro de Investigación en Alimentación y Desarrollo, and high-tech associations and consortia and private businesses to develop the infrastructure for more effective commercialization of emerging research.  For more information on this project, please contact Everett Egginton at eegginton@nmsu.edu.

 

International Travel

Robin Peterson, Marketing, will serve as Distinguished Visiting Professor at City University of Hong Kong from December 15 to December 22. Dr. Peterson’s duties will include providing instruction to faculty members on enhancing their publishing efforts, delivering a research paper entitled "Elements of Futurism and Small Business," and conferring with faculty members about curriculum development.

Hung T. Nguyen, Mathematical Sciences, will travel to Phuket, Thailand, on December 11, 2005, to attend the Sixth International Conference on Intelligent Technologies, where he is an honorary general chair and will present a contributed paper entitled "Decision making beyond Arrow's impossibility theorem." He will also travel to Saga, Japan, at the invitation of Saga University to present a series of research lectures on Coarse Data Analysis, during January 8-15, 2006.

Josefina Alvarez, Mathematical Sciences, was an invited speaker at the annual meeting of the Sociedad Matematica Mexicana that took place in Mexico City, in October, 2005.

Host Families for the Holidays - The Office of International Programs is seeking Host Families for the Holidays.  Any faculty, staff or community representatives who would like to share their Christmas holidays with an international student or family, should contact Mary Jaspers at marjaspe@nmsu.edu or 646-2017. 


 

International Student Reception

NMSU faculty, staff and students are invited to a reception welcoming new and returning international students.  The reception is sponsored by the Office of International Programs and will be held on Friday, January 20, 2006 from 4:00 – 6:00 pm in The Underground (formerly called The Club), 1st floor in Corbett Center.  Everyone is invited and refreshments will be served.


 



Editorial Note:
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Office of International & Border Programs
Garcia Annex Rooms 237-246
Box 30001, MSC 3567
Las Cruces, NM 88003
Phone: 505-646-3199 | Fax: 505-646-2558
E-mail: cip@nmsu.edu


(Last Updated: December 11, 2006 9:31 am MST )