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CIEE at the 2006 NAFSA Conference
Come visit CIEE at the NAFSA national conference later this month! You will find CIEE at booth #801, near the entrance to the exhibit hall. If you are interested in setting up an appointment with specific staff members at the conference, please contact us by email at info@ciee.org or by phone at 1.800.40.STUDY.
While you’re at our booth, remember to drop off your business card to enter a drawing for a complimentary registration to the CIEE Annual Conference "Making the Most: Seizing Every Opportunity to Learn Abroad," to be held this November in Seville, Spain. Winners will be announced Thursday, May 25th, 10:30-11:00am at the CIEE-sponsored coffee break in the exhibit hall.
Come to one of the following sessions or workshops, at which CIEE Portland and Resident Staff are presenting:
Monday, May 22, 8:00am-12:00pm
Workshop: Marketing Study Abroad Nationally - Advanced Tactics and Strategies
Presenting: Jamie Lawhead, Director, Information Systems and Kate Watkins, Director, Communications
Thursday, May 25, 9:15am-10:45am
Poster Fair: Education Abroad Through Work, Internship, and Volunteer Programs
Presenting: Jennifer Atkinson, Program Manager, Teach Abroad
Thursday, May 25, 4:00pm-5:15pm
Session: Advising Students on Racism: Improving Practice and Overseas Experience
Presenting: Eero Jesurun, Resident Director, Madrid, Spain
Friday, May 26, 8:00am-9:15am
Session: Educating and Accommodating Students with Visible and Non-Apparent Disabilities Abroad
Presenting: Catharine Scruggs, Program Director, Western Europe
Friday, May 26, 8:00am-9:15am
Session: Reflective Writing: Getting Students to Go Beyond the Journal
Presenting: Ellen Whitman, External Relations Officer
Summer and Fall 2006 CIEE Scholarship Recipients Announced
We are pleased to announce that over 40 students will receive CIEE scholarships for summer 2006 programs. These students will attend CIEE Study Centers in locations such as Monteverde, Costa Rica; Shanghai, China; St. Petersburg, Russia; and Seville, Spain. For a list of recipients, please click here.
CIEE scholarships were awarded to over 50 students for the Fall 2006 semester, who will study in Dakar, Senegal; Hyderabad, India; and Rennes, France among many other Study Centers. For a list of recipients, please click here.
For more information on CIEE scholarships, please click here. As always, please encourage your students to apply!
CIEE Staff News
Dr. Lynne Guitar, Resident Director of the CIEE Study Center in Santiago, Dominican Republic, co-authored Chapter 3, Ocama-Daca Taíno (Hear me, I Am Taíno): Taíno Survival on Hispaniola, Focusing on the Dominican Republic, along with Pedro Ferbel-Azcarate and Jorge Estevez. The chapter appears in Indigenous Resurgence in the Contemporary Caribbean: Amerindian Survival and Revival, a book edited by Maximilian C. Forte and released by Peter Lang. The book is a collection of fourteen essays about “individuals and communities reasserting their identities as indigenous peoples, from Carib communities in the Lesser Antilles, the Garifuna of Central America, and the Taíno of the Greater Antilles, to members of the Caribbean diaspora.” To learn more, please click here.
CIEE Study Center Catalogs
New 2007-08 CIEE Study Center catalogs will arrive on campuses in mid-August. To place an advance order for the new catalogs, please click here. Order forms will also be available at NAFSA.
For a preview of new CIEE Study Center programs opening in Spring, Summer, and Winter 2007, please click here.
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