2004 CIEE Awards
CIEE Award for Research in the Field of International Education
Dr. Hans de Wit received the CIEE Award for Research in the Field of International Education. This Award was established by the Board of Directors of CIEE to acknowledge outstanding research in the field of international education over an extended period of time. For his many years of service to the field, CIEE recognizes the extensive service that Hans has performed as a member of the Board of Directors of CIEE, as a founding member of the European Association of International Education and service as its president in 1994, as editor of the Journal of Studies in International Education for the past decade, as a member of the board of trustees of World Education Services, and as author of the highly acclaimed Internationalization of Higher Education in the United States of America and Europe: A Historical, Comparative, and Conceptual Analysis.
Both Dr. Hans de Wit and Dr. Charles Ping, outgoing Chair of the CIEE Board of Directors, were recognized at the CIEE Annual Luncheon on Thursday, November 11.
CIEE Student Recognition Award
Hideyuki Hiruma, Soka University
CIEE Study Center in Guanajuato, Mexico Spring 2004
Throughout his semester at the CIEE Study Center in Guanajuato, Mexico, Hide demonstrated outstanding academic achievement, exceptional cultural sensitivity, and a motivation to learn that was inspiring. A Japanese national studying at a U.S. university with a significant Japanese population, this experience was a double immersion of sorts for Hide, who was the sole Japanese student among 10 American peers, and a foreigner in his Mexican homestay as well. He was able to use his learning about Mexican culture to help him understand more about both American and Japanese culture, observing his own reactions in comparison with his classmates’, and finding unexpected parallels sometimes between Japanese and Mexican society.
Throughout the entire semester, Hide was engaged, respectful, dedicated to his homestay family and his learning process. In sum, Hide was the sort of superior student that inspires everyone who is involved in on-site international education—host families, teachers, program staff, and peers.
CIEE Program Excellence Award
The CIEE Award for Program Excellence recognizes a program or program component that was truly excellent at a CIEE Study Center during the previous academic year. The 2004 award was presented to the CIEE Study Center in Cape Town, South Africa.
Giving back is another way of ‘closing the circle’, and the CIEE Study Center in Cape Town is doing just that, as community service is increasingly becoming the hallmark of co-curricular activities there.
Community Service allows program participants to give back and make a difference in the marginalized communities of the Cape Peninsula. The growth of the Community Service component has taken place through the efforts of Resident Director Quinton Redcliffe, as well as through the many students who have dedicated hundreds of hours volunteering at clinics, building houses, and giving comfort to AIDS orphans—among many other projects. All of these projects fulfill a need in the communities where they take place, while also serving to bring our students closer to the daily lives of South Africans.
Both the CIEE Student Recognition Award and the CIEE Program Excellence Award were presented at the Academic Consortium Breakfast Plenary, Friday November 12.