June 24, 2008
New CIEE Study Center Programs
CIEE is pleased to announce the following new CIEE Study Center programs for 2009. Complete information about each program will be available on the CIEE website in early August. In the meantime, please click here for details.
Opening Spring 2009:
- Australia, Perth: Sustainability and the Environment
- China, Beijing: Advanced Chinese Studies
- Belgium, Brussels: Advanced Liberal Arts
- Costa Rica, Monteverde: Sustainability and the Environment
- Nicaragua, Managua: Liberal Arts
Opening Summer 2009:
- Botswana, Gaborone: Community Public Health
- Portugal, Lisbon: Language and Culture
Opening Fall 2009:
- Sweden, Uppsala: Arts and Sciences
- Tanzania, Dar es Salaam: Arts and Sciences
New Program Names
In an effort to better differentiate CIEE programs–both within a CIEE Study Center and across the globe–CIEE has named all CIEE Study Center programs effective spring 2009. Please click here to download a PDF where you’ll find both the former program names and the new program names. These new program names will appear in the 2009 catalogs available in August.
The CIEE Student Learning Program
This fall, CIEE will launch the “Student Learning Program” at thirteen CIEE Study Centers. Resident staff will teach a pilot course, the “Seminar in Living and Learning Abroad” that is designed to teach concepts and skills that will help students learn to interact effectively and appropriately with host country nationals.
Each of the thirteen programs will enroll a limited number of students in the Seminar this fall, in one of two ways. At programs with relatively large enrollments, a relatively small number of students will elect to participate, while at smaller programs, all enrolled students will complete the Seminar. Final decisions about which students will participate in the larger programs will be made at those sites shortly after the programs begin.
The thirteen pilot programs are:
- Argentina, Buenos Aires; Liberal Arts
- Brazil, São Paulo: Liberal Arts
- China, Beijing: Intensive Chinese Language
- China, Nanjing: Intensive Chinese Language and Culture
- China, Shanghai: China in a Global Context
- Dominican Republic, Santiago: Liberal Arts
- Hungary, Budapest: Central European Studies
- India, Hyderabad: Arts and Sciences
- Netherlands, Amsterdam: Social Sciences
- Senegal, Dakar: Language and Culture
- South Africa, Cape Town: Arts and Sciences
- Spain, Alicante: Liberal Arts
- Spain, Sevilla: Liberal Arts
We’ll periodically update you as we move forward and incorporate additional CIEE Study Centers into this project. In the meantime, please contact Mick Vande Berg at mvandeberg@ciee.org with questions.
Ping Doctoral Research Fellowships
CIEE is pleased to announce that two Ping Doctoral Research Fellowships, in the amount of $20,000 each, have been awarded for the 2008-09 year. The Fellows and their dissertation projects are:
Chelsea Bailey Shea, Warner School of Education, University of Rochester
Prospectus title: "Factors that Affect American Students’ Participation in Study Abroad"
Brief project description (from the Prospectus): "Participation in study abroad has been found to produce positive outcomes such as improved language skills, enhanced job possibilities, and increased minority retention and graduation rates. Yet with all of the benefits, less is known about how students choose to study abroad. This study will offer insight into the variables that impact students’ decisions to study abroad, and provide colleges and universities with information to examine and parse out the significant factors that influence students’ decisions to go abroad or not. The goal of this project is to offer colleges and universities practical and applicable information about what factors affect student participation in this educational opportunity, so that they may apply this to evaluating their institutional programs, policies, and recruiting techniques."
Jinous Kasravi, College of Educational Policy and Administration, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
Prospectus title: "Factors Influencing the Decision to Study Abroad for Students of Color: Moving Beyond the Barriers"
Brief project description (from the Prospectus): "Overwhelming amounts of empirical and anecdotal literature have identified the barriers [that dissuade] students of color from studying abroad. . . . Few studies have attempted to move beyond the barriers, and examine students of color that have recently decided to participate in a study abroad program and explore the factors that influenced their decision. . . . The purpose of this study is to move beyond the barriers and outcomes of study abroad, and focus on those students of color that have made the decision to participate and the factors that influenced their decision. . . . Three factors that affect students' decisions to study abroad will be explored: personal, social, and institutional."
CIEE Study Center Catalogs
New 2009 CIEE Study Center catalogs will arrive on campuses in mid to late August. To place an advance order, please click here.