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Anderson College Five students from Anderson College and associate professor of English, Sarah Sprague, and Danny Rhodes, associate professor of business, taught at the Tatar American Regional Institute (TARI), in Kazan, Russia May 5-16, 2003.Professor Sprague taught American literature and Professor Rhodes taught business management. Dr. Shirley Jacks, professor of French, participated in the CGE workshop for graduate students and teachers of English in Tunis, Tunisia, July 17-29. Dr. Brena Walker, Director of International Studies, and Sarah Sprague taught in CGE’s third workshop for Thai teachers of English in Bangkok, Thailand, July 5-15. Baylor University Baylor University reported that new exchange programs are now offered through American InterContinental University of London, Bogazici University in Turkey, Rhodes University in South Africa, Voronezh State University in Russia, and University of Dundee in Scotland. Spencer Elliot, a senior Accounting-Economics-Finance major studied at Hong Kong Baptist University during the Fall 2002 semester. Carmen Bauerbach, International Business major at the University of Applied Sciences in Worms, Germany, studied at Baylor as a Fulbright Scholar. The Center for International Education sponsors The Chinese Subcontinent Student Association, The Indian Subcontinent Student Association, and other clubs and activities for the many international students. The PAWS (People Around the World Sharing) and Welcome Family programs help overseas students adjust to campus and community life. Belmont University Belmont University has ongoing exchange programs with the University of Angers in France, the Hochschule fur Musik and the Technical University in Dresden, Germany, Victoria University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia, Lingnan University in Hong Kong, Groupe ESC Normandie in Caen, France, Moscow State University and the Russian Academy of Music in Moscow, Russia, and a new program with University of Applied Sciences in Deggendorf, Germany. Summer, semester, and year programs are available in England, Spain and at the Lorenzo de Medici Institute in Florence, Italy. Summer intensive language studies are offered through Catholic University of the West in Angers, France, the Goethe Institute in Germany, Costa Rican Language Academy in San Juan, and the Center for Cross-Cultural Study in Seville, Spain. Forty-five students and five faculty will participate in the Center for Cross-Cultural Study in Seville and London. The first Belmont student will attend Hong Kong Baptist University in the fall, and 20 students plan to participate in exchange programs for the 2003-04 academic year, a 100% increase over last year. Brewton-Parker College Fourteen Brewton-Parker College students traveled to Toronto, Canada in March for a weeklong service project with several community organizations and an experience with a French-speaking Congolese group. Junior sports and fitness major, Keith Wade, spent the summer of 2002 in the southern African nation of Mozambique.
California Baptist University California Baptist University sent 80 students and 17 faculty and staff on International Service Project teams during the summer of 2003.Destinations included Australia, Belize, Cambodia, Vietnam, Germany, Tanzania, Japan, and Malaysia. Dr. Guy Grimes and Dr. Jonathan Parker, Academic Provost, went to Europe to develop sites for future teams and new academic partnerships. Campbell University professor, Steven R. Harmon, was awarded a grant to conduct research at the Institute for Research on Gregory of Nyssa at the University of Munster in Germany from May 27 to June 11, 2003.Student Amy Mann spent the summer on a service project in Malaysia.Campbellsville University During the spring, Campbellsville University hosted Dr. Jilton Moraes, President of BTS in Brasilia, Brazil, to teach in the School of Theology. CGE assisted with his visit through the Exchange Visitor Program. Dr. Tony Cuñha and his wife, Raquel, visited from Recifé, Brazil where he directs Campbellsville’s Music program. The newly formed Office of International Education (OIE) with Coordinator DeWayne Frazier will be the clearinghouse for information and resources, all academic exchanges, overseas opportunities, and academic research. In collaboration with the Vice President for Academic Affairs, OIE has formed an exchange agreement with Kansai Gaidai University in Osaka, Japan. Currently, of the 85 international students on campus, more than 40 are from Brazil, and others are from countries in South America, Europe, Africa, and Asia. A recent recruitment tour in India and a trip to Korea and Japan slated for October will increase enrollment in OIE.
Carson-Newman College The Center for Global Education at Carson-Newman College has coordinated eight Summer and Short-term programs: the Oxford Studies; an Archaeological Dig in Jordan: Ireland Studies; Spanish studies at Kukulcan-Cuernavaca in Morelos, Mexico; a project with Sunshine Romania; French studies at University of Quebec; and a cultural exchange at Woosong University in Daejon, Korea. Academic year or semester opportunities are available at Hong Kong Baptist University, the Semester in London, Al Akhawayn University in Morocco, Yantai University in China, and in Japan at Kansai Gaidai, Nagoya University of Foreign Studies, or Kobe International University. During the four weeks of January 10-February 10, 2003, the English Language Institute hosted an English and American Culture Mini Term for nine students and Dr. Kabyong Park from Nam Seoul University, Choongnam, Korea. In August, Dr. Mark Brock will return to C-N to become the director of the MAT:ESL Program and advisor to the English Language Institute. He spent the past year at the University of Macau and was consultant to Macau’s Department of Education. Dallas Baptist University Dallas Baptist University continues a new relationship with Sookmyung Women’s University and other organizations in Seoul, Korea for international study and service opportunities. Professor Ann Boyles participated in the July CGE Bangkok Teacher Training Project. In the fall of 2003, DBU will break ground for an International Student Center. The new Center will feature classrooms, offices, and a fellowship area.East Texas Baptist University East Texas Baptist University will host a visiting faculty member this fall from partner school Guangzhou University in China. Eighteen students will be in China for a cultural exchange from December 22 through January 9, 2004 to teach English classes at the invitation of faculty at Lanzhou University and perform Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol” for Chinese students and faculty. Gardner-Webb University Gardner-Webb University sponsored a successful MBA/GEM travel-study trip to Switzerland. Students attended lectures and visited several businesses. One student spent a short time at Hong Kong Baptist University. Three students will study at University College Northhampton in England for the fall 2003 semester, and one student will arrive on campus from Malta. Hannibal-LaGrange College In December, Hannibal-LaGrange College sent three teams of students for service projects in China, Chandigarh, India, and Matamoros, Mexico. In March a group of 15 traveled to Nuevo Laredo, Mexico for a community service project and drama presentations. Nine honors students spent the spring semester at Harlaxton College in Grantham, England, which has been rated one of the top 25 overseas programs available. Hardin-Simmons University The Department of Physical Therapy at Hardin-Simmons University spent part of the semester break in Piedro Negras, Mexico. Each day, the team provided physical therapy care for disabled children in a local orphanage and visited homes. They also assisted with painting and preparing a new medical clinic and donated supplies and equipment collected from organizations in Abilene. This is the third project the PT Department has sponsored since 2002. Four groups taking travel abroad courses, the most offered in one year, are traveling this summer for study in Paris, England, Scotland, Ireland, South Africa, and Spain.
Houston Baptist University Houston Baptist University professors, Dr. David Capes and Dr. Rhonda Furr, sponsored a 16-day Culture and Arts study for credit trip to England, Scotland, and Ireland in June of 2003. Students from the College of Business and Economics spent two weeks in Europe meeting with business leaders in London and Paris. A group of eight traveled to Argentina through a learning program to explore organizations and foundations with a focus on service opportunities. Judson College In March, the Judson College Concert Choir conducted a fourteen-day tour in Great Britain. Performances were held in Canterbury Cathedral, York Minster Cathedral, and other sites in England, Scotland, and Wales. The Concert Choir, conducted by Dr. Roger Walworth of the Music Department, tours nationally every year and internationally every third year.
University of Mary Hardin-Baylor The University of Mary Hardin-Baylor continued exchanges with Allen International College in Iwate, Japan and Ebino Kohgen International College in Miyaziaki, Japan during the Spring 2003 Semester. Dr. Jim King, Dean of the School of Business, led the 2003 Dean’s International Study Trip to Mexico. The group of fourteen undergraduates, four graduate students, and two chaperones toured in Queretaro, Oaxaca, Cholula, Puebla, Mexico City, Monterrey, and smaller towns and villages. Studies focused on the initiation, financing, support, administration, and maintenance of micro-enterprises. In May, 18 students visited the University of the Americas in Puebla, Mexico for information and cultural exchanges, while Dr. King and Dr. Barbara Dalby, Director of the MBA Program, met with administrators to explore potential partnerships. Dr. Patrick Jaska visited Taiwan last December. He presented information systems interests to Ph.D. students in the Department of Health Care Organization Administration at National Taiwan University in Taipei and to students in the Department of Information Management at National Chung Cheng University in Chia-Yi. Meridith College Meredith College hosted nineteen international students and two visiting scholars for the 2002-03 academic year. Seventeen students were abroad during the Spring Semester, and this summer, forty-eight students are studying on a wide variety of exchanges and faculty-led programs. One of the most popular programs is the 11-week summer experience in Italy, Switzerland and England, which offers up to 12 semester hours of credit for students in any major. Other options include French courses in Angers, France, Spanish courses in Madrid, Spain, and a term through partner institutions in the United Kingdom, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Tokyo, and the People’s Republic of China. New programs have recently been established in Denmark, Bolivia, and Mexico. The Poland Program, the first study abroad trip offered for MBA students, began this summer. Mississippi College Mississippi College sent 21 students with faculty on a study tour of Edinburgh, Scotland, the Lake District of England, and the cities of York, Durham, and London during Spring Break 2003.On the nine-day trip, students earned three hours credit in History, Communication, or Theater. Missouri Baptist University Missouri Baptist University offers study abroad opportunities at Harlaxton College and Regent’s College in England and Hong Kong Baptist University. Spanish and cross-cultural courses are available at the Center for Cross-Cultural Study in Havana, Cuba from faculty at the Universidad de La Habana and at the Center in Seville, Spain. Students can study in Australia at Robert Menzies College on the campus of Macquarie University near Sydney. Course work and internships are the focus in Switzerland at Webster-Geneva, in the Netherlands at Webster-Leiden, and at Webster-Vienna with access to national and multinational companies and organizations. The Webster University Hua Hin Cha-am campus is located south of Bangkok, and all students enroll in a course on Thai culture while pursuing coursework in their major field of study. MBU is sponsoring a 10-day trip to England in May of 2004 for credit in History or Education degree requirements. North Greenville College North Greenville College student, Erynn Reconnu, spent six months from February through July of 2002 in Poland teaching English as a second language to adults in Colleges and night schools, and children in elementary schools. Early childhood/elementary education major, Charlotte Wells, spent two months last summer in Ghana, West Africa working with children and as a hospital volunteer. In March, Dr. Sam Isgett led three teams of 24 students and faculty back to Ecuador for service learning projects. Faculty continued the training and staff development at a private school in Ambato as other teams worked in Quito.
Oklahoma Baptist University During the Oklahoma Baptist University January Term 2003, Dr. Carolyn Cole led a study tour of English literature and culture from London, and Dr. Gary Chancellor, professor of French and German, led a study tour in France for language and culture. Assistant professors of nursing, Wanda Robinson and Norma Harder, took seven nursing majors to Port-au- Prince, Haiti to intern in a private women’s and children’s hospital and clinic. A total of 35 students, staff, and faculty will work and study abroad this summer. Students who had planned to go to China will be on next year’s English teaching team at Xinjiang University in Urumqi, to continue the 17-year partnership. This summer, three graduates will go through orientation for teaching at the Moscow Economic School, a joint OBU/CGE project. Joy Willitt will study at Seinan Gakuin University in Japan, and Micah Harris at Oxford University.
Ouachita Baptist University Twelve Ouachita Baptist University students studied abroad for a semester during the spring at Alicante University in Spain, the University of Reading in England, the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, Salzburg College in Austria, Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane, Morocco, and Seinan Gakuin University in Fukuoka, Japan. Sixty-nine international students attended Ouachita from thirty-three different countries for the spring term. The Beijing international conference co-hosted by the Daniel R. Grant Center for International Studies and the English Department of Peking University has been tentatively scheduled for May of 2004.Co-Chairmen for the conference are Professor Liu Shusen, Associate Dean of the School of Foreign Languages at Peking University, and Dr. Tom Greer, Professor of Humanities. In June and July, Ian Cosh, Director of the Elrod Center for Family and Community, and Sharon Cosh, Coordinator and Instructor in ESL, led a group of eight students to teach English on college campuses in Japan. Palm Beach Atlantic University Palm Beach Atlantic University School of Pharmacy professors, Christine Birnie and Allana Panzarella accompanied nine students to RioBama, Ecuador. The service learning project involved teaching, a medical clinic, and community service. Other service projects were sponsored in New Guinea and Japan. Dr. and Mrs. Billy Lewter were in London during the spring semester with 28 students for study abroad. Dr. Richard Gamble completed a sabbatical in Cambridge, England, and was selected a visiting scholar and inaugurated by the Master of Fellows as a member of St. Edmonds College. For the fall 2003 semester, three students have been accepted into the Oxford Studies program and three will attend Hong Kong Baptist University. Dr. and Mrs. Charles Lester will be in London with 29 students from September 10 through December 5, 2003, for study abroad.
Samford University More than fifty Samford University students, under the direction of Barbara Crider, participated in summer study abroad courses in Spain to develop practical communication skills in Spanish. In June, students in the Masters of Comparative Law program and the Juris Doctorate program studied in Durham, England. The diversity created by combining matriculation for international scholars (lawyers, judges, and law professors) with Samford’s Cumberland School of Law students creates a program which is unique in legal education in the United States. For January of 2004, Dr. Rosemary Fisk is developing a travel abroad course entitled, “Narratives of the East: A Journey to Myanmar, Thailand, and India,” and Dr. Donald Sanders is planning “Musical Monuments of Italy” for a 10-day study tour of seven Italian cities.
Shorter College Thirteen Shorter College students studied in England and Ireland with Mrs. Betty Zane Morris and Dr. Terry Morris during the annual Mayterm program. David Roland took a team to Morocco for basketball clinics in several cities. During the summer, Dr. Bob Nash and Dr. Jennifer Davis organized a trip for eight students to take classes at Mahidol University in Bangkok, Thailand, and two students are studying with Dr. Wilson Hall at Salzburg College in Austria. Individual students are studying abroad in Mexico and Spain. A new agreement with Kansai Gaidai University near Osaka, Japan provides the opportunity for semester or yearlong student and faculty exchanges between the two institutions. President Ed Schrader announced that an agreement was signed in June of 2003 with Kaxil Kiuic, the organization that administers the Helen Moyers Biocultural Reserve located in Yucatan, Mexico. Through the agreement, Shorter will have access to faculty exchanges with other schools and institutions. Students can have field experiences in the Biocultural Reserve and the Maya ruins in the Yucatan for biological, archaeological and cultural studies.
Southwest Baptist University During Southwest Baptist University’s winter break, 89 students participated in five international service projects in Guatemala, India, Malaysia, Kiev, Ukraine, and Corsica. Darren Crowder, associate director of admissions, led a team for the March spring break project to conduct surveys in communities along the outskirts of Lima, Peru. Projects were planned for this summer in Cambodia, Egypt, Nepal, Nicaragua, and South Africa.President C. Pat Taylor and Director of Graduate Studies in Education, Tom Hollis, traveled to Columbia, South America, February 27-March 5 to work with the President of San Andres Christian University, Dr. George May, in the areas of long-range planning, accreditation and fundraising. The school opened in 1998 and currently has 80 students enrolled. Dr. Mick Arnold, coordinator of educational administration programs and associate professor of graduate education, and four graduate students conducted teacher-training workshops at seven private schools on the island of San Andres during July. Dr. Brett Miller, associate professor of communication arts, delivered a series of lectures on intercultural communication at the Southwest Petroleum Institute in Chengdu during March. The invitation was issued by the English Language Institute/China as part of its Visiting Scholars Program. During the 2002-03 school year Maureen Didde attended Hong Kong Baptist University. Three students plan to attend the University of Leicester in England for the fall semester and Kristin Baer has applied to the University of Aix in France.
Union University Union University had three students at the Intensa Language Institute in San José, Costa Rica during the Winter Term 2003.Michael Mallard, Professor of Art, and Dr. Gavin Richardson, Assistant Professor of English, conducted a study tour in Italy for 16 students. Amber Bostwick attended the Oxford Study Abroad Programme in England during the Spring Term. A group of 30 Brazilians from Colegio Batista in Belo Horizonte studied English at Union during January. Phillip Ryan, Assistant Professor of Language and Coordinator of ESL, gave leadership to this program with TESL majors working as assistants and group leaders. Professor Tharon Kirk, Chair of the School of Nursing, Cathy Parrett, Associate Professor of Nursing, and Dr. Cynthia Jayne, Director of the Institute for International and Intercultural Studies, visited the University of Inner Mongolia and nursing schools in Hohhot, Inner Mongolia China, Qingdao, and Beijing to explore possible exchanges between nursing programs. Dr. Jan Wilms, Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, visited K.U. Leuven University in Belgium to explore possible opportunities with the Junior Program in European Culture and Society. During the summer, 12 students from the Master of Arts in Intercultural Studies Program will conduct ethnographic research in Turkey for six weeks. Students will be at the American Institute on Political Economic Systems in Prague, Czechoslovakia, The University of Alicanté in Spain, University of Quebec in Chicoutimi, Canada, and Estudio Sampere in Madrid, Spain for the Summer Term. Dr. Jean Marie Walls, Associate Professor of Language, participated in the 25th anniversary Quebec Summer Seminar sponsored by SUNY Plattsburgh in Montreal, Quebec City, and Paris. For the Fall Term 2003, students have applied for study abroad in Cortona, Italy, the International Studies Program in Quito, Ecuador, Salzburg College in Austria, Université Laval in Quebec, Canada, and the University of Madrid in Spain. Wayland Baptist University Wayland Baptist University’s Board of Trustees approved the first candidates for graduation from the partnership with the Kenya Baptist Theological College. On July 19, 2003, sixteen students received the Associate of Applied Science degree in a ceremony in Kenya. The students began their studies with Wayland in 2000 as the university began sending faculty to teach at KBTC. Currently, two professors at a time teach classes in the academic foundations in Kenya twice annually. The students meet all day each day to earn credit for two courses over a four-week period. Dr. Vaughn Ross, professor of biological sciences and the organizer of the alliance, reports that the impact of the partnership has been felt, not only by the Kenyan students, but also by Wayland’s faculty and students. William Carey College William Carey College offers many study tours, study abroad, and service projects throughout the year.Dr. Milton Wheeler, professor of history, planned a May-June trip to Austria, Switzerland, and Germany; the July-August tour in Peru; a November-December trip to England; and a tour in Greece for March of 2004. Shannon Robert and Tim Matheny of the theatre faculty have organized a return trip for three students to perform a drama at the Brackinhurst Center in Nairobi, Kenya in July and August. The Summer Travel and Excavation Program combines intensive study travel with three to four weeks at an archaeological dig.For 2003, Dr. Daniel Browning conducted a 13-day tour of Greece. The May 25-June 6 trip focused on the Worlds of Agamemnon, Plato, Alexander, and Paul. In a long-standing tradition with Rotary International, Cary has produced 22 Rotary Scholars, one of the largest numbers among Southern schools. Students have traveled to England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, the Netherlands, Israel, Australia, New Zealand, and India. Wingate University During May of 2003, 92 students and faculty from Wingate University participated in culture and art study tours. Dr. Ann Moncayo organized the Chile tour, Dr. James Feiker took a group to Norway, and Ms. Karen Wheeler was the faculty director for the trip to France. Winter 2003 seminars were offered to Ireland with Dr. Lauren Merkle, to Spain with Dr. Carmen Rivera, and to Switzerland with Dr. John Sykes. |
