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CIEE Knowledge Series
By now, many of you should have received copies of the third installment of the CIEE publication series, Knowledge. If you haven’t, please click here to download an order form and place your order.
Topics for 2007 include disability, food, and identity which join previous year’s topics: women, return, risks, and health, safety, and parents. We hope the Knowledge series continues to help you advise students and their parents.
As always, please e-mail with us comments or suggestions for future topics at editor@ciee.org.
CIEE Study Center Updates
Admissions Update: Dakar, Senegal and Amman, Jordan
We have received a great number of early applications for the CIEE Study Center in Dakar, Senegal and the CIEE Study Center in Amman, Jordan. If you are in the process of reviewing applications for the fall 2007 program, we ask that you forward these to CIEE as soon as possible as these programs are filling rapidly and there are a limited number of spaces available.
We strongly recommend that students indicate a second choice option on their application in the event they are placed on a waiting list. For those applying to Dakar, please have your students consider our other West Africa options, the CIEE Study Center in Legon, Ghana and the CIEE Study Center in Accra, Ghana. For Amman alternatives, students may want to consider the CIEE Study Center in Ankara, Turkey or the CIEE Study Center at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London, England (which has an application deadline of March 15).
If you have any questions, please contact us at 1.800.40.STUDY or via e-mail at studyinfo@ciee.org.
News from Abroad
Are you interested in learning what your students are doing while at a CIEE Study Center? Each semester, CIEE resident staff send out program updates, providing sending school advisors with updates related to orientation activities, classes, and cultural activities and excursions. These updates are also posted on our website and are a great way for you and your students to learn more about what’s happening on-site at CIEE Study Centers around the world.
Learn what students are up to this spring at the CIEE Study Centers in Budapest, Hungary, Ferrara, Italy, and Stellenbosch, South Africa.
CIEE Study Center in Paris, France
After almost a decade in the elegant 8th arrondissment of Paris, the CIEE Study Center has moved to the very center of Paris and Parisian life! With it's new 2nd arrondissement location, right on the mazy rue du Sentier, the CIEE Study Center is now in the very heart of Paris: a 10 minute walk to the Palais Royal, a 15 minute walk to the Louvre, a 15 minute walk to the Opéra Garnier, and a 20 minute bus ride to the Sorbonne.
Close by are the splendid passages, glass-covered walkways worming their way through 19th-century buildings, home to fantastic, unusual boutiques. The rue Vivienne is no more than a stroll away. Just walk out the door and take the same promenades as Frédéric Moreau in Flaubert's Education sentimentale. The Musée Grévin, one of the disputed sites of the birth of cinema, is within eye-shot. And just as you exit the Métro to get to the new CIEE Study Center, you are greeted by the grandest of all Parisian film palaces, the Rex, a magnificent Art Déco, 5-story cake with 6 viewing rooms inside. But don't forget to look behind you, because right across the street is the Cinéma du monde, a former site of the Cinémathèque Française that now shows films from all around the world - Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Holland, Taiwan, and the U.S.
Even before the days of cinema, generations of Parisians loved to stroll the Grands Boulevards, the perfect place to go to the theatre, the music-hall, or the café-concert. You’ll feel that sense of history as well in the rue du Sentier itself. Sentier is known as the heart of Paris’ fabric district, which attracted immigrants from around the world, creating a rich, multi-ethnic feel. In our building, you can see in the courtyard the tracks used by the vehicles delivering fabric, and the pulley used to unload the bales! Now the neighborhood is changing, and one is just as likely to run into a little bistro or a quirky, off-beat new café, as a store selling rolls of fabric or ready-to-wear clothing.
The crèpes are 3 euros and the Study Center and almost all surrounding cafés are equipped with wireless access. You will find yourself in the hustle and bustle of one of the liveliest and most interesting areas of the French capital.
We at the CIEE Paris Study Center have so much more to show you and tell you about this fabulous city. We are more than excited to be able to do so from such a splendid location.
CIEE Staff Updates
Amanda Gilliam will join CIEE as the Enrollment Officer for Europe on March 19. Amanda has more than five years of experience in customer service and has spent a good deal of time traveling abroad including a year as a Rotary Exchange student in La Serena, Chile. Her experiences in Chile and elsewhere have left her very familiar with the excitement and anticipation that accompanies any student’s preparation for living in another country.
Ana Salas Apaolaza, a native Peruvian, will be working in the Enrollment department for the next year and joins us as a student from the University of Seville in Spain. Ana will be processing applications, tracking pre-departure materials, and training our seasonal employees.
Elana Ovsiyenko comes to us from the Ukraine and has joined the Billing and Registration team. Elana will work with us for the next year assisting with billing and grades processes and will serve on the scholarship committee.
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