CIEE Study Center Program Evaluation
At their spring 2007 meeting in Portland, Maine, the CIEE Academic Consortium Board (ACB) approved the ACB Evaluation Report for the Critical Studies Program at the CIEE Study Center in Paris, France.
To view this report, and all others, please click here (select Evaluations and Reviews and then ACB Evaluation from the dropdown lists). A complete list of evaluations will appear.
For more information on the work of the ACB as it relates to program monitoring and evaluation of CIEE Study Center programs, please click here.
CIEE Annual Conference
Thanks to all who dropped off their business card at the NAFSA conference in Minneapolis. Congratulations to the four winners of a free registration to the CIEE Annual Conference in Toronto this November!
Liz Partolan-Fray, Western Washington University
Janet Alperstein, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Karen Boucias, The University of Maine at Orono
Rhonda Hinkle-Shabbir, DePauw University
Register Online
Online registration for the 2007 CIEE Conference is now open at www.ciee.org/conference. We hope you can join us in Toronto to discuss this year’s theme, Challenging Assumptions: evaluating study abroad’s past, fashioning its future. We’ll look at where study abroad has been and where it’s going. As we celebrate our 60th year, it seemed an opportune time to reflect and plan for the future. Be sure to register now to receive the early bird rate.
CIEE Staff News
Portland, Maine
Please welcome Sheila Stovall as the Billing Coordinator. Sheila takes over from Chris Wilson who is now the Supervisor of Enrollment Data Services. Sheila comes to CIEE with 15 years of processing and customer service experience in the insurance field. She's a graduate of University of Southern Maine, and also worked at the USM School of Business for three years.
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Eveline Zwikker, Resident Director of the CIEE Study Center in Amsterdam, has left CIEE to pursue a second masters degree, this one in international development. Hannah Huber, previously Assistant Resident Director, will take over as Acting Resident Director of the program beginning with the summer 2007 program.
Prior to joining CIEE in 2005, Hannah Huber worked at the Royal Netherlands Embassy in Washington, DC. Hannah then moved to Amsterdam where she received her master's in American Studies from the University of Amsterdam (UvA) with her thesis: Securing Country or Résumé: The History of Drivers for Study Abroad in the United States. In addition, she holds a minor in Educational Policy and Management from the UvA and a bachelor’s degree from Dickinson College in American Studies. Hannah brings with her a rich background in international educational exchange, having the experience as an exchange student to the Netherlands through the Rotary program and to Italy and England through Dickinson College.
iNext Travel Card
We hope you had a chance to visit the CIEE booth at NAFSA and learn about iNext, the next travel essential. The iNext card offers students a host of insurance coverage, from accident, sickness, and hospital to baggage and document. A 24-hour hotline provides students assistance with emergency and everyday needs, such as medical and travel questions or concerns. Please visit www.inext.com to learn more. If you have specific questions, please call Spencer Jones at 1.207.553.4147.
Teach Abroad
CIEE is pleased to accept applications for our second annual Teach in Chile program. In Chile, CIEE collaborates with several institutions to host American university graduates to teach English for the 2008 Chilean academic school year, starting in late February. These institutions include local private schools in Santiago, Universidad de Chile in Santiago, and DuocUC, a non-profit private institution of Higher Education, established in 1968 by the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. CIEE participants help Chilean students meet their language goals by sharing their native English language skills and cultural backgrounds with them.
The application deadline is September 1, 2007. Click here for specific program information, or e-mail teach@ciee.org.
CIEE is Moving!
CIEE is building a new headquarters in Portland, Maine. Starting in mid-September, all U.S. staff will be working together in Portland, right next door to our existing office. As of September 15, please send all mail to our new address:
CIEE
300 Fore Street
Portland, ME 04101
Toll-free phone and e-mail contact information remain the same: 1.800.40.STUDY and studyinfo@ciee.org. Visit www.ciee.org soon for updated individual phone and fax numbers.
CIEE Study Center Catalogs
New 2008 CIEE Study Center catalogs will arrive on campuses in mid-August. To place an advance order for the new catalogs, please click here.
For a preview of new CIEE Study Center programs opening in Spring and Summer 2008, please click here.
Passport Delays
According to the U.S. State Department, routine processing for passports may take as long as ten to twelve weeks. This is due to the Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative, a law requiring airline passengers entering the U.S. from within the Western Hemisphere to possess a valid passport.
It has taken many of our students studying abroad this fall twelve weeks or more to get a new passport. Spring 2008 students need to have their passports by early November in order to apply for a visa. CIEE strongly recommends that they expedite their passport applications. Please help them to remember that their passports must be valid for at least six months after the end date of their program.