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College Students Not Deterred from Studying Abroad Despite Turmoil

College Students Not Deterred from Studying Abroad Despite TurmoilCONCORD, N.H.Last month’s attacks on the East Coast haven’t dissuaded Melissa Palombo, a 21-year-old Spanish major, from her plans to a semester-long study abroad in Costa Rica. But Palombo, a senior at Washington and Lee University in Virginia, says her mother isn’t too thrilled about her going […]

International Education Week Set for November

International Education Week Set for NovemberWASHINGTONThe U.S. Departments of Education and State have joined NAFSA: Association of International Educators and a diverse group of organizations worldwide to declare the second annual International Education Week. This year’s national celebration of the importance of international education and exchange will take place Nov. 12-16.“International educators are encouraged by […]

G8 Passes International Digital Divide Plan

G8 Passes International Digital Divide PlanGENOA, ItalyThe world’s big eight powers approved an action plan to bridge the “digital divide” with the poorest countries. Leaders at the Group of Eight summit held in July endorsed a task force report on how to harness technology in the cause of development. In 2000, the G8 summit established […]

Discovering Heritage and More by Studying Abroad

Discovering Heritage and More by Studying AbroadThe argument frequently made to encourage students to study abroad is that it is a chance to learn about a different culture. Study abroad is a time for discovering something new about people with different values, a different language and a different lifestyle. But many students who study abroad […]

Groups Form International Foundation

Groups Form International FoundationTo Bridge Digital DivideWASHINGTONThe U.S.-based Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT) and Belgium-based Internews organizations last month announced the launch of the Global Internet Policy Initiative (GIPI). The GIPI is a foundation established to assist developing countries on enacting policies that narrow the digital divide. Jim Dempsey, CDT’s director of technology, told […]

Reconfigured Devices to Narrow International Digital Divide

Reconfigured Devices to Narrow International Digital DivideSALZBURG, AustriaIn a bold use of technology to narrow the digital divide, business leaders in the World Economic Forum (WEF) have begun working on a plan to distribute at least 100,000 high-capacity computer game consoles equipped with satellite links to schools and in homes in Third World nations. “With […]

International IT Assistance Takes Form

International IT Assistance Takes Form In Content Transfer Debate Continues Over Whether Poor Countries Should Worry Less About IT, More About Basic NeedsWhether international organizations and Western institutions can help poor nations use advanced information technology tools, such as the Internet, for economic and social development is a question that’s getting serious discussion in the […]

Faculty & Staff

Go Abroad, and Save the Excuses

Go Abroad, and Save the ExcusesI had no idea the day I left Los Angeles in 1979, to begin a six-month study abroad program in Bogota, Colombia, that the experience would be one of the most profound of my undergraduate career and subsequent life. Not only was it deeply rewarding on a personal level, but […]

Faculty & Staff

A World-Class Education

A World-Class EducationRewards abound for those who dare to teach or study abroad.By Robin V. SmilesWhen information about Brethren Colleges Abroad’s international seminars for faculty and administrators came across Dr. Amee Carmines’ desk, she glanced at it quickly and put it aside. Caught in the middle of a hectic semester advising senior English majors and […]

AP Students With ‘3 or Higher’ Outperform Advanced Math, Physics Students Both in U.S., Abroad

AP Students With ‘3 or Higher’ Outperform Advanced Math, Physics Students Both in U.S., AbroadNew YorkA College Board-commissioned study by the TIMSS International Study Center shows that Advanced Placement students who score three or higher on physics and calculus AP Exams outperform physics and advanced math students from the United States and other countries in […]

Faculty & Staff

Taking Your Education Global

Taking Your Education GlobalLooking back over my undergraduate education, my one big regret is that I did not study abroad my junior year. I was one of those people Cheryl D. Fields writes about in “BI Forum” (see page 28) who have all kinds of excuses about why they can’t go abroad — finances, lack […]

International Education Congress to Focus on Plans for Bilingual University

International Education Congress to Focus on Plans for Bilingual University MIAMIEducators and others from throughout the United States, Latin America and the Caribbean are being invited to attend the International Education Congress 2002, which will focus on plans for the creation of Florida’s first fully bilingual university.Those attending the conference, scheduled for April in Miami, […]

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