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CIEE Study Center Deadline Extensions
The following CIEE Study Center application deadlines have been extended from April 15 to May 1st. Please view all deadline application extensions here.
Summer
Cambodia, Siem Reap
Transylvania
Fall
Botswana, Gaborone
Ghana, Accra and Legon
Taiwan, Taipei
Happenings at the CIEE Study Center in Bonaire
The CIEE Study Center in Bonaire hosted a faculty-led field class from the Darling Marine Center at the University of Maine from March 12-18, 2007. A group of eight undergraduate students participated in a coral reef ecology field course led by Dr. Bob Steneck, University of Maine and Dr. Peter Mumby, University of Exeter, UK. In addition to the undergraduate program, the faculty and a graduate student conducted research on two coral reef ecology projects while visiting the island.
In early April, the CIEE Study Center in Bonaire hosted two algae identification workshops for volunteer researchers. The workshops were a collaborative effort with the Bonaire National Marine Park (BNMP), which is world-renowned for its conservation measures. The BNMP includes the underwater environment around the entire perimeter of Bonaire and includes a mangrove-rimmed bay called Lac Bay. CIEE Assistant Resident Director and Marine Biologist Caren Eckrich used dried and fresh algal specimens to teach volunteer researchers the more common species of algae found in Lac Bay. The participants learned enough to qualify them to assist in the Lac Bay research project that will be carried out this summer with the BNMP.
CIEE is pleased to share its resources with colleagues in the scientific field. Please contact CIEE at BonaireGroup@ciee.org if you are interested in using the CIEE Study Center in Bonaire for faculty-led classes or research.
If you have students interested in the sciences, please encourage them to consider the summer or semester program in Bonaire.
CIEE Study Center Updates: New Resident Staff
Please join us in welcoming two new Resident Directors to our staff.
Beijing, China: Chinese Language and Ethnic Studies Program
Dr. Dan Smyer Yü joins us as the Resident Director of the Chinese Language and Ethnic Studies program at the CIEE Study Center at Central University of Nationalities in Beijing, China. Dr. Yü is currently a guest professor at the Graduate Theological Union, teaching Cultural Psychology. Prior to this teaching appointment, he was a Kiriyama Research Fellow at the University of San Francisco’s Center for the Pacific Rim. Dr. Yü has been an adjunct assistant professor at Sacramento City College since 2000, primarily teaching courses on cultural anthropology. He is an active anthropologist specializing in Chinese studies, especially ethnic minorities in western China. His published works include Emotions under Local Nationalism:The Primordial Turn of Tibetan Intellectuals in China and Charisma in Digital Hagiography: Netizens, Living Buddhas and the Price of Religion in China. He received his Ph.D. and M.A. in Cultural Anthropology from the University of California at Davis and California State University at Hayward. In addition to his anthropological training, he also holds a Master’s degree in religious studies.
Gaborone, Botswana
Mr. Batsirai Chidzodzo is the new Resident Director of the CIEE Study Center at the University of Botswana in Gaborone, Botswana. Mr. Chidzodzo received his BA from the University of Zimbabwe and holds a Diploma in Personnel Management (DipPM) from the Institute of Personnel Management of Zimbabwe (IPMZ) and an MBA from De Montfort University, where he was recognized for his thesis focusing on the flight of intellectual capital from Zimbabwe. A native of Zimbabwe, he has spent over ten years working with U.S. study abroad programs in Zimbabwe and Botswana. Mr. Chidzodzo’s research interests include the history and politics of Southern Africa in relation to global political history.
CIEE Publications
CIEE Management Institute – New Publication
In 2005 CIEE launched the CIEE Management Institute. The goal of the Institute is to support the field of study abroad by providing educational opportunities related to the business side of the study abroad management challenge. Building on a number of activities over the past year, CIEE recently published the first in a new series of case studies, designed to address management issues in the field of education abroad.
The first case, Scaling the Heights of des Alpes: Managing from Afar, should be arriving on campuses shortly. Please click here to read the case online and be sure to look for it in your mailbox soon.
Our View
Be on the lookout for the latest installment in the Our View
series, Down with America: Anti-Americanism in Study Abroad, which will begin arriving on campuses next week. Click here to read the full essay on our website.
Notes from the Field
Also arriving on campuses soon is Direct Enrollment and the Resident Director, the latest essay in the Notes from the Field series from Dr. Mick Vande Berg, CIEE Chief Academic Officer.
As always, please e-mail with us comments or suggestions for future topics at editor@ciee.org.
News from Abroad
Are you interested in learning more about what your students are doing while at a CIEE Study Center? What better way than hearing directly from CIEE resident staff around the world. CIEE resident directors regularly send program updates to sending school advisors; these updates are now also posted on our website so that you and your students can learn more about on-site orientation activities, classes, cultural activities, and more.
Read what students are up to this spring at the CIEE Study Center in St. Petersburg, Russia, and on the Liberal Arts program at the CIEE Study Center in Santiago, Dominican Republic.
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