2017 APLU Commission on International Initiatives (CII)

Executive Committee Candidates

DeAndra Beck, Michigan State University

Michael Benedik, Texas A&M University

Roger Brindley, University of South Florida

Gonzalo Bruce, Boise State University

Lorna Jean Edmonds, Ohio University

Ahmad Ezzeddine, Wayne State University

Cornell Menking, New Mexico State University

Sukant Misra, Texas Tech University

J. Pablo Morales-Payan, University of Puerto Rico

Dragana Nikolajevic, University of California System

Daniel Palm, Northern Arizona University

Linda Robertson, Kent State University

Curt Rom, University of Arkansas

Janaka Ruwanpura, University of Calgary

Jim Scott, University of Missouri

R. Anderson Sutton, University of Hawaii at Manoa

Carrie Wojenski, University of Albany SUNY

Please vote for four (4) of the candidates above <at this link> by 5:00 PM Eastern September 26, 2017.

DeAndra Beck, Michigan State University DeAndra Beck is the Associate Dean for Research, Michigan State University,

International Studies and Programs, where she has responsibility for facilitating

international research opportunities for MSU faculty and students. She currently

co-chairs MSU’s Council of Research Deans, co-chairs MSU’s Global Travel Registry

Working Group and advances MSU’s international data acquisition and analysis

efforts. Dr. Beck serves on the CRDF Global Advisory Council and is a member of a

National Academy of Sciences committee convened to consider the future of

science, technology, and innovation at the U.S. Agency for International

Development.

Formerly a Program Director in the National Science Foundation’s Office of

International Science and Engineering, she managed NSF’s Developing Country

initiatives and the Middle East and Africa portfolios. While at NSF, she worked with the U.S. Agency for

International Development to bridge the interests of science and development, initiating the design and

implementation of the Partnerships for Enhanced Engagement in Research (PEER) initiative to support

developing country scientists who are collaborating with NSF-funded scientists. She served as an Expert Group

member for the OECD Global Science Forum’s initiative to advance research collaboration between developed

and developing countries. Also at NSF, Dr. Beck co-managed Science Across Virtual Institutes (SAVI), a

mechanism to foster global research networks, and served on NSF’s INSPIRE working group in support of

transformative, multidisciplinary research. In cooperation with CRDF Global, she was instrumental in launching

Newton’s List as a platform to publicize funding opportunities for international research collaboration, and she

initiated an International Funding Agency Seminar to facilitate dialog among global science funding agencies.

Prior to NSF, Dr. Beck served as the acting Managing Director for Environment and Social Assessment at the U.S.

Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC). At MCC, she participated in the negotiation of multi-million dollar

Compacts with Ghana, Armenia, and Mongolia and managed a team of professional staff responsible for

environment and social assessment issues, including gender, across the full spectrum of MCC eligible countries.

Previously, Dr. Beck served as Assistant Director for Policy, U.S. Forest Service International Programs, where she

represented the interests of the U.S. forestry community in international negotiations, including the UN Forum

on Forests, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization, the International Tropical Timber Organization, and the

Montreal Process. These positions flanked her foray into the private sector as chief executive officer of a

biotechnology start-up company. Dr. Beck held positions as an international research administrator at the USDA

Foreign Agricultural Service and as an AAAS Fellow at the U.S. Agency for International Development. She

earned a B.S. and Ph.D. in biochemistry from Texas A&M University.

Michael Benedik, Texas A&M University AS vice provost, Dr. Benedik serves as an advisor to Provost and President by

providing leadership for campus-wide initiatives in concert with the provost,

academic deans, vice president for research, and dean of faculties. Dr. Benedik

currently facilitates multi-college interdisciplinary curricular programs and academic

strategic initiatives, such as the University Grand Challenges (strategic research

initiatives identified as uniquely positioned strengths), Big Data, “Lead by Example”

capital campaign and Texas A&M University proposals to the Governor’s University

Research Initiative. Dr. Benedik also serves as the senior international officer,

convener of the International Programs Committee, global operations of service

units and external International Advisory Board.

Dr. Benedik’s research and teaching focuses on basic biological problems using

molecular genetic methods with simple microbial systems. Additionally, his lab is developing novel microbial

approaches for biotechnological applications. He has led multi-country short courses internationally in Asia and

Africa. In 2010 was named the American Society for Microbiology International Professor for Africa.

Roger Brindley, University of South Florida Roger Brindley, Ed.D., leads USF World overseeing system-wide global

engagement for the University of South Florida (USF), currently ranked

32nd among public institutions in the U.S. by the Times Higher Education

World Rankings and Top 50 for public universities in the U.S. by the

Academic Ranking for World Universities, Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

In 2013, USF was a recipient of the Senator Paul Simon Award for Campus

Internationalization. During the 2015-16 year, the university was

recognized as a 2016 Peace Corps Top College for undergraduate

volunteers and in 2016-17 as the third ranked graduate school for Peace

Corps volunteers in the United States. Most recently, the Fulbright Commission has announced USF as the

number one producer of Fulbright Faculty Scholars for 2017 across all universities in the United States.

A USF professor for 21 years, Brindley has received the Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award and the USF

President's Award for Faculty Excellence, and he was identified as an Honored Professor by the National Society

of Collegiate Scholars in 2001. Brindley has written numerous articles in North American and European

publications on policy and practice in higher education, has served as editor for three national/international

journals, and frequently speaks at international conferences around the world. In 2014, Brindley was elected to

the Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities (APLU) Commission on International Initiatives, and has

spoken at national conferences of the APLU, the Association International Education Administrators, as well as

the British Council Going Global conference. In 2015, he was elected APLU Executive Chair for the Commission

on International Initiatives.

In the 2016-17 academic year Dr. Brindley continued his Vice Presidential leadership at USF while serving as

Interim Dean to the College of Education as the college transitions to new leadership. Today, he leads USF World

and the international student success initiatives for over 5,000 students from 145 countries and the 2,250

outgoing faculty, staff and students completing academic experiences abroad, while documenting the global

footprint of over 1,200 USF faculty who conduct teaching, scholarship and research overseas.

Gonzalo Bruce, Boise State University Gonzalo Bruce is Assistant Provost for the Center for Global Education at Boise State

University. In this capacity, he serves as Senior International Officer and provides

leadership in areas of strategic internationalization, international recruitment and

admissions, education abroad, ESL and international student services. He has more

than 17 years in leadership roles in international education at public and private

higher education institutions, both in the U.S. and in Chile. Prior to joining Boise State,

Gonzalo served as Dean of International Education at Emporia State University

(Kansas), where he developed credit articulation agreements, expanded and

diversified the international student population, created pathways to academic

studies through the intensive English Program and grew student involvement in study

abroad.

Gonzalo earned his Ph.D. in Higher Education Administration from The Ohio State University. His dissertation

entitled “Institutional Design and the Internationalization of U.S. Research Universities” explores how

institutions structure themselves to address the need for comprehensive internationalization. His M.A. in

International Public Affairs is from the Graduate School of Public Affairs at the University of Pittsburgh. He

completed an internship at the UNICEF Emergency Operation Program; is a Fulbright grantee, and was a special

guest of the Department of State to promote internationalization among higher education leaders in Bolivia.

Gonzalo is passionate about outdoor lifestyle and when he is not in Boise or traveling, he is hiking the Idaho

mountains and enjoying the beauty of the Boise Forest.

Gonzalo Bruce is Assistant Provost for the Center for Global Education at Boise State University. In this capacity,

he serves as Senior International Officer and provides leadership in areas of strategic internationalization,

international recruitment and admissions, study abroad, ESL and international student services. He has more

than 17 years of work experience in leadership roles in international education at higher education institutions

in the U.S. and Chile. A Fulbright scholar, Gonzalo earned a Ph.D. in Higher Education Administration from The

Ohio State University and the M.A. from the Graduate School of Public Affairs at the University of Pittsburgh.

Lorna Jean Edmonds, Ohio University Dr. Lorna Jean (LJ) Edmonds is the Vice Provost for Global Affairs and

International Studies at Ohio University. She joined the university in 2013

and also serves as a Professor, Department of Interdisciplinary Studies,

College of Health Sciences and Professions. She received her Ph.D. in

development studies at the University of East Anglia, UK, her master’s in

health administration (M.H.A.) at the University of Ottawa, CAN, and her

B.A. (Sciences) at Queen’s University, CAN.

The Vice Provost of Global Affairs and International Studies oversees the

pan-university strategy and mainstreaming of the globalization of higher

education. She leads the offices of global affairs (strategy, performance

metrics, partnerships, communications and incoming and outgoing

delegations), international student and faculty services, office of global opportunities (all student mobility

programs). She is also the director of the academic center for international studies (over 300 undergraduate,

graduate and certificate students) studying area and/or development and communication studies).

Prior to her time at Ohio University, Dr. Edmonds worked at four of Canada’s research intensive universities. She

served as the University of Toronto’s Assistant Vice President, International Relations, the Executive Advisor,

Research, University of Ottawa, the Executive Director, International Research and Advancement, Western

University, and the Director, Research Services and the Director, International Center for the Advancement of

Community Based Rehabilitation, Queen’s University.

Dr. Edmonds is an active participant and contributor to the internationalization of higher education, university-

public/private sector collaboration, international development, and new frontiers in science and scholarship.

Her research interests are in the field of space and universal governance and implications on higher education’s

role for producing global talent and scholarship to meet the needs of this emerging field. She is active publishing

her work and serves on several international boards including National Academy of Sciences, Engineering and

Medicine International Research Collaborations Working Group, the Illuminate Consulting International

Academic Advisory Board, Queen’s University Council, AIEA Strategic Issues Committee, and the National Space

Society ‘Enterprise in Space’ working group. She has taken part as participant and/or speaker in APLU CICEP and

CII, NAFSA, AIEA and IAU events. Previously she assisted with strategy and conference organization with the

Canadian Bureau of International Education (CBIE) and the Association of Universities and Colleges (AUCC) in

Canada.

Through more than 25 years of experience in academia, government and international relations and

international development, she has worked in and visited more than 60 countries in Asia, the Americas, Europe

and Africa. In this period, she has witnessed the growth and diversification of higher education, research and

innovation across the disciplines and among our public and private sector institutions.

Ahmad Ezzeddine, Wayne State University Dr. Ahmad Ezzeddine is the Associate Vice President for Educational Outreach

and International Programs at Wayne State University (WSU). In this capacity,

he leads the university’s academic national, global, and corporate educational

outreach programs.

Dr. Ezzeddine brings an entrepreneurial approach to his work at the University.

He has shepherded new programs to the University, including the Goldman

Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses and the Blackstone LaunchPad, a program to

help students explore entrepreneurship as a career option and to assist them in

launching their own ventures. And by turning his attention to international

partnerships as WSU’s Senior International Officer, he has created innovative

partnerships with institutions in the Middle East, Latin America, Korea, and

China which have led to new educational and research opportunities for students and faculty. In 2014, he was

elected to the Executive Committee of the Association of Public and Land Grant University's Commission on

International Initiatives and has served as secretary in 2016-17.

In addition to his role as Associate VP, he serves as senior Associate to the President for Special Initiatives. A firm

proponent of the crucial role that universities play in driving economic and community development, he is

aggressively forging linkages with organizations in the City of Detroit and the Region and supporting community

engagement and economic development initiatives. This includes the launch of the Detroit Revitalization Fellows

Program, a two-year program designed to attract, develop and retain promising young professionals who will

help lead the economic revitalization and development of Detroit.

Named one of Crain’s Detroit Business 40 Under 40 Class of 2007, Ezzeddine is committed to serving the

community since his arrival to the Detroit area more than 20 years ago. He is past Chairman of the International

Visitors Council of Metropolitan Detroit. He also serves on the Boards of Directors of Southwest Economic

Solutions, ACCESS, and Reading Works.

Cornell Menking, New Mexico State University Cornell H. Menking is the Associate Provost for International and Border Programs,

and an Associate Professor in the College of Education, at New Mexico State

University in Las Cruces, NM. He often presents on topics at numerous

internationally-oriented professional conferences (AIEA, APLU, CONAHEC, AMPEI,

etc.) pertaining to comprehensive internationalization and most recently has been

working at the national level to address comprehensive internationalization

challenges that minority-serving institutions face in the United States.

Cornell has also advised the Colombian and Ecuadorian governments on topics

ranging from accreditation, the internationalization of higher education, and

English for speakers of other languages in those countries.

Before coming to NMSU, Menking was the Assistant Vice President for

International Affairs at Kentucky State University, Chief International Officer at Western Kentucky University,

and a professor of education and administrator (Director of International Programs, and Director of Graduate

Programs in Education) at Universidad San Francisco de Quito in Ecuador (2001-2008).

Cornell is a former Peace Corps volunteer - Sierra Leone, West Africa (1988-91), lived in the Sakha Republic

(Siberia), Russia (1993-96), and has travelled throughout Central Asia, India, and Latin America working in the

areas of rural community development and sustainable leadership.

He received a bachelor’s degree from Southern Methodist University (1986), as well as a Master’s (1998) and

Ph.D. (2003) from the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, NM.

Sukant Misra, Texas Tech University Dr. Sukant Misra is the Associate Vice Provost for International Programs at Texas

Tech University (TTU), sharing responsibilities with the Provost of International Affairs,

for the oversight of the Office of International Affairs (OIA). His responsibilities

encompass all functions of the divisions of International Education and Enrollment

Management (international recruitment, international undergraduate admissions,

international student life, sponsored students, and study abroad), International

Student and Scholar Services, International Research and Development (research

collaborations, grants administration, international partnerships, and export control

administration), International Alumni Relations, and International Outreach and

Operations (K-12 Global Education Outreach, community outreach, and the Passport

office), as well as our academic center in Seville, Spain. He provides leadership in the

development of OIA Strategic Plan and preparation of annual Strategic Plan

Assessment Reports, and is also responsible for other administrative activities (budgets, infrastructure and

technology, communication and marketing, alumni relations, fundraising, etc.).

Previous to that, he served as the Associate Dean for Research for the College of Agricultural Sciences and

Natural Resources (CASNR) from 2002 to 2014. He has served Texas Tech University in various faculty and

administrative capacities since his initial employment as a faculty member in the Department of Agricultural and

Applied Economics in 1993. Prior to joining Texas Tech, he was a researcher at the University of Georgia for

three years. Beyond his service to the Office of International Affairs, CASNR, and TTU, he has served on several

local, state, regional, and national organizations involved in the advancement of higher education.

He received his Bachelor and Master's degrees in Analytical and Applied Economics from Utkal University, India,

in 1979 and 1981, respectively. He obtained a second Master of Science degree in 1986 and his doctorate in

Agricultural Economics in 1989, both from Mississippi State University. Misra has published more than 100 peer-

reviewed journal articles, technical and invited papers, and book chapters and has received more than $2.2

million in external funding as a PI/Co-PI.

Misra has experience in managing and coordinating many large, faculty-driven, research programs and

international initiatives and has many contacts at international institutions, including leading universities in

Brazil, China, Costa Rica, Czech Republic, Ethiopia, India, Mexico, Romania, Tajikistan, and Turkey. Misra has

visited over 20 countries and has worked closely with faculty and administration of many international

institutions. He is currently responsible for the overall coordination of a university-wide effort to open TTU’s first

international degree-awarding campus in Costa Rica. Significant amounts of time and effort have been invested

in this initiative, and the first cohort should begin classes in five degree and two certificate programs in the Fall

of 2018.

J. Pablo Morales-Payan, University of Puerto Rico J. Pablo Morales-Payan is currently Director of International

Programs of the College of Agricultural Sciences at the Mayaguez

Campus of the University of Puerto Rico (UPR). Dr. Morales-Payan

came to that position as Interim in the fall of 2014, and was

confirmed as Director in 2015. He has been involved in international

agriculture from the start, being a native of the Dominican Republic

that pursued his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in the USA (Rutgers

University in NJ and University of Florida-Gainesville, respectively)

as a foreign student. At the UPR his faculty appointment is 50%

teaching and 50% research, which involves organic horticulture,

germplasm evaluation and physiological management of

horticultural crops, as well as international issues in horticulture. At

UPR he has had graduate students that come from Ecuador, Peru, El Salvador, and the Dominican Republic, as

well as from Puerto Rico and Hawaii. During his professional career he has worked in international projects

involving El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Costa Rica, Haiti and several islands in the

Lesser Antilles. He has organized or assisted in the organization of several scientific meetings of international

attendance in Horticulture, Plant Protection, and General Agriculture. He is currently a representative of the

UPR in the Caribbean Council for Higher Education in Agriculture, and has held leadership positions in

international aspects of horticulture in the American Society for Horticultural Science and the Inter-American

Society for Tropical Horticulture. As Director of International Programs, one of his goals is to contribute to the

expansion of international involvement of UPR in general and its College of Agricultural Sciences in particular.

Dragana Nikolajevic, University of California System In her Research Policy Manager role, Dragana has been working on

identifying and developing resources for systemwide support for

University of California’s international activities, and the UC International

Activities Policy. Her activities also include annual bringing together UC

campus stakeholders engaged in international operations, and building a

website/one stop shop for UC faculty, students, and staff support with

their international activities: UCGO.org. Recently she has been working

with UC leadership on defining and delivering on UC priorities for

internationalization, one of which is doubling the current number of UC

students engaged in international academic activities.

As a member of APLU CII Planning Committee, Dragana has helped plan

programs for CII Summer and Annual Meetings for the past three years, highlighting international research,

compliance, and operations topics.

Dragana holds M.Sc. in Cognitive Psychology from the University of Novi Sad, Serbia, and an M.P.A. in

International Development from Syracuse University, NY. However, life got in the way of her completion of the

PhD in Cognitive Sciences at ELTE University, Budapest, Hungary (ABD).

Prior to University of California, Dragana worked for Freedom House, UNDP (Serbia), and Central European

University (Budapest, Hungary). She also consulted on European Commission projects on Roma Education in

Europe.

Daniel Palm, Northern Arizona University Daniel Palm is the Executive Director of the Center for International Education and Special Advisor to the President for Global Initiatives at Northern Arizona University (NAU). In this capacity he is responsible for leading the internationalization efforts on campus and designing and implementing strategic initiatives with partner universities and stakeholders around the world. In his ten years at Northern Arizona University Mr. Palm has played a pivotal role in advocating for access to international opportunities for underrepresented students, internationalization of campus curricula to

include global perspectives increasing enrolled of international students, creation of an international Scholars’ Academy which welcomes nearly forty international scholars each year and establishing dual-degree partnership in China and around the globe. Mr. Palm holds an M.A. in Leading Innovation and Change from York St. John University, York, England and a B.A. in History with an East Asian emphasis from Northern Arizona University. He is a speaker of Mandarin Chinese and has lived or worked in China for the past thirteen years, two of which he engaged in research and study at Beijing International Studies University. Under his leadership the NAU Center for International Education was recently awarded the 2017 IIE Andrew Heiskell Award for Innovation for International Education for the Interdisciplinary Global Program.

Linda Robertson, Kent State University In reflection as to what to include in a biography, I realized I am like

water. . .think of water and all its flexibility, its persistence, is life giving

and changing properties. My life has allowed me the privilege of an

ever-changing environment; of being in the life giving professions, and

adapting to new and varied roles. As a ranch child living five miles

from the nearest neighbor in NW Wyoming, my early life helped me

understand the millions of people living in under resourced, rural, less

developed parts of the world. Water here was a commodity to be

traded, coveted, and regulated. Dry land farming, rural medicine, one

room schoolhouses, and distrust of government were part of the

landscape. My international involvement has also taught me that

millions still exist in these kinds of environments today.

Contrast this early beginning with crossing of the Atlantic Ocean to live in walled Berlin in 1969. Suddenly I was

living in the hottest place in the Cold War. Like water behind a dam, I saw the pressure building in the people

behind the wall deprived of their civil liberties and freedoms. Water is persistent, and if water cannot go

through an obstacle, it goes around it. Freedom and democracy, like water, were persistent and found a way

around that Wall. I realized then and still value the struggles of millions are fleeing their homelands for a better

life. Today I continue this journey by assisting the State Department in their European School Administrators

Project for Refugees and being on the Cleveland Committee for Foreign Policy.

Wyoming, my birth state, is the headwaters of many of our nation’s great rivers. If we are influenced by where

we geographically live, then perhaps that is the reason that leadership and organizations are my scholarship

areas. Like the headwaters that influence the water systems below, a leader influences his organization. I was

named Ohio School Principals of the Year, but it is more important that my school earned the National Blue

Ribbon of Excellence. While my dissertation focused on university presidential leadership, the study was

embedded in the global challenges of today’s interdependent world. A leader is only effective when the system

works; what happens downstream is vital to organizations and river systems, too.

With heat, water turns to steam. The national and international situation is steaming-- global warming, internal

and cross border conflicts, trade and strategic alliances are being reformed. First level diplomacy may be

difficult to achieve in many places. However, through level two diplomacy among academics globally, there is

hope for the world. As a founder of a second-tier diplomacy project, the Tigris Euphrates Initiative for

Cooperation, I know that academics can assume leadership to contribute to understanding and progress. Like

water being persistence and life giving, we in higher education have opportunities and responsibility for a better

tomorrow through our leadership, policy advocacy, research, and vision.

Curt Rom, University of Arkansas Curt R. Rom was born (1956) in Madison, Wi, and soon moved with his family to

Fayetteville, AR, where his father was employed as a faculty member and professor at

the University of Arkansas. Curt was raised on a small family farm (10 acres) which

produced apples for sale on‐farm, local markets, and the famous Fayetteville Farmers

Market. The farm provided inspiration for an academic career in horticulture

specializing in fruit sciences, farming systems, and food systems at land grant

universities.

He attended the University of Arkansas graduating with a BS Degree in Horticulture

Sciences (1980). He attended graduate school at The Ohio State University where he

was awarded the MS and PHD degrees (1982, 1984 respectively). His first career

position was at Washington State University (1984‐1989) subsequently returning to

the University of Arkansas (1989). He managed an active research program and is the program leader of the

National Strawberry Sustainability Initiative. He has taught numerous courses, both undergraduate and graduate

with a recent focus on sustainability and resiliency. He was a co‐director of the UA Division of Agriculture Center

for Agricultural and Rural Sustainability. He served his college as co‐chair of the international agriculture

program and taught courses in international agriculture. He has been recognized for professional

accomplishments with the honorific title of University Professor. He was involved in significant leadership

positions on campus, including Chair of Campus Faculty, Chair of Faculty Senate, and Chair of Campus Council,

and within his professional societies and is a Fellow of the American Society for Horticultural Science. He has

served as Vice President, President, and Board chair of the ASHS, and similar positions in the American

Pomological Society. He currently holds a leadership position in the International Society for Horticultural

Science. He served as a Fulbright senior lecturer at the University of Padova, Italy (2008).

He has completed both the USDA ESCOP/ACOP leadership development program (1992‐94) and the Kellogg

funded, APLU managed Food Systems Leadership Institute (2015). In 2012, he was appointed the Director of

Honors Programs for the College of Agricultural, Food and Life Sciences. In 2014, served as Interim Dean campus

Honors College. In 2015, he was appointed as the first Associate Dean for International Education and campus

Senior International Officer reporting to the Graduate School and International Education. He currently

supervises units of the Offices of International Recruitment, Admissions, Sponsored Student Programs,

International Students and Scholars, Study Abroad and Exchange, and manages an international education

residential study center in Rome. He collaborates with and provides support leadership to the Spring

International Language Center that provides intensive language and cultural training and experiences for

student matriculating to the UA. He provides additional support to graduate programs and the School. He is

currently a Presidential Fellow of the Association of International Education Administrators.

Janaka Ruwanpura, University of Calgary Janaka Ruwanpura is the Vice-Provost - International (VPI) at the University of Calgary.

He was a full Professor and Canada Research Chair (CRC) in Project Management

Systems (2007-13) in the Schulich School of Engineering at the University of Calgary

(UofC) before he became the VPI. He is the Founding Director of the Centre for Project

Management Excellence and has been the Director of Project Management since 2005.

He earned his Bachelor of Science (Honours) in Quantity Surveying from the University

of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka in 1992, a Master of Science in Construction Management from

Arizona State University in 1997, and a Ph.D. in Construction Engineering and

Management from the University of Alberta in 2001.

A former US Fulbright scholar, he has developed many best practices and tools that

have been successfully implemented in the construction industry for productivity

improvement, project management, project planning, construction management and risk management. He has

published over 180 technical papers in refereed journals and conference proceedings. Janaka has been

recognized with many national and international awards for teaching, research, service, leadership, graduate

education and internationalization. This includes “Industry Partnership Award” in 2012 for his contribution to

Canadian Construction Industry, Walter Shanly career award for construction engineering from the Canadian

Society for Civil Engineering and the Brian D. Dunfield Education Service from the Association for the

Advancement of Cost Engineering in 2012. In 2016, he was honoured with “Immigrants of Distinction Award” for

his contributions in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math from Immigrant Services Calgary and Life Time

Achievement Award from SL Foundation in Los Angeles.

During his 4 ½ years as VPI, he has brought new initiatives to the University of Calgary. This includes developing

and implementing collaborative degree models for undergraduate and graduate levels, offering customized

training and capacity building programs, co-developing Global Research Initiatives and Sites in China and Mexico

and raising funding for research and infrastructure (over $55 Million), establishing and promoting new research

opportunities and partnerships in number of countries (USA, UK, Germany, China, Mexico, Norway, India, etc.),

promoting and developing new funding models (over $1 Million per year) for opportunities for students’

international experience and to enhance international exposure for faculty and staff and securing and lobbying

for international development grants (over $14 Million). Because of these initiatives, Canada Bureau for

International Education (CBIE) recognized University of Calgary with a “Comprehensive Internationalization”

award and Canada China Business Council with a Bronze for “Excellence in Education” in 2016. He recently

developed an International Partnership Assessment Rating Index (IPARI) to assess existing university

partnerships, identify top partners in each country and develop strategic partnerships which was presented at

APLU CII Meeting held in Kananaskis in July 2017 where he also served as the Co-Chair of the planning

committee.

He is a licensed professional engineer (P.Eng) in Alberta, a professional quantity surveyor (PQS) in Canada and a

Professional/Chartered Member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, UK (MRICS).

Jim Scott, University of Missouri James K. Scott, Ph.D. is Interim Vice-Provost for International Initiatives, and

Director of the International Center at the University of Missouri (MU). The

International Center serves all international students and scholars, assures

compliance with related federal regulations, manages university study abroad

programs, and fosters emerging campus international initiatives. As Senior

International Officer (SIO), Scott works extensively with campus deans and

directors as well as the Offices of the Provost and Chancellor. He chairs MU’s

Council on International Initiatives (CII). This Council, including faculty

representatives from all major MU academic divisions, provides advice and

assistance to the Provost regarding key and emerging international opportunities

and challenges. He is actively engaged in developing major new MU initiatives in

Kenya, Ghana, South Africa, Brazil and India.

Dr. Scott participates in several professional associations related to international education, including AIEA,

NAFSA, the Institute for International Education (IIE), the European Association for International Education

(EAIE), and the Association of Public and Land-grand Universities (APLU) and its Commission on International

Initiatives as a Member of its Executive Committee. He is a member of the Board of Directors for three

different NGOs registered in Ghana, Kenya and Belgium. Scott also served as the US delegate to the

International Steering Committee of the European Rural University, an association of rural policy makers,

practitioners and scholars from EU Member States. In 2008, he was one of twelve US academic leaders selected

to participate in the AIEA-EAIE Transatlantic Policy Dialogue. He is a Senior Fellow in MU’s Transatlantic Center.

Prior to his current position, Scott served as Director of the MU European Union Center. This Center convened

more than thirty transatlantic conferences in Missouri on issues such as food and agricultural policy, food safety,

animal rights, human security, privacy policy and transatlantic trade and foreign direct investment.

Dr. Scott holds joint research faculty appointments in MU's Truman School of Public Affairs and the Department

of Rural Sociology. He has published numerous articles and research reports on rural and regional development

policy, and the use of digital technology by local governments.

R. Anderson Sutton, University of Hawaii at Mānoa Since August 2013, Dr. R. Anderson Sutton has held dual

administrative positions at the University of Hawaʻi at Mānoa

(UHM), as Dean of the School of Pacific and Asian Studies and

as Assistant Vice Chancellor for International and Exchange

Programs. He serves on the Board of Directors of the Asia

Pacific Association for International Education (APAIE) and as

the UHM’s Senior Staff representative for the Association of

Pacific Rim Universities (APRU). As Assistant VC at UHM he

oversees (1) the Study Abroad Center, which supervises

faculty-led semester-long study abroad programs in Europe,

Asia, and Latin America, (2) the Manoa International Exchange

Office, which handles all MOAs and MOUs with foreign

institutions and supervises all of our student exchange programs, as well as short-term (one semester or

summer) visiting students, (3) Faculty and Scholar Immigration Services, which handles visas and all

immigration-related matters relating to our 400-plus international employees and visiting scholars, (4)

International Student Services, which handles F-1 and J-1 visas for students, and provides advising support for

our 1,000-plus international students, and (5) the National Student Exchange, which handles 30-50 outbound

and 80-100 inbound exchange students annually from a large consortium of North American universities. He

also chairs the 40-member Manoa International Education Committee, meeting monthly to address a wide

range of issues around internationalization, from recruiting and study abroad to research collaborations across

all disciplines.

For much of his career he served on the faculty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, beginning in 1982, after

completing his doctorate at the University of Michigan. At Wisconsin he also served three terms as the director

of the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at Wisconsin, and co-directed a research circle on Media,

Performance, and Identity in World Perspective from 1998-2004. As Center director, he won three rounds of

Title VI funding from the US Dept. of Education, several Luce Foundation grants, and an endowment from

Mellon Foundation.

Dr. Sutton’s research interests have been Asia-focused. He has lived and studied in Indonesia on numerous trips

for a total of more than four years, and in Korea for shorter periods. Beginning as a master’s student at the

University of Hawai’i in the 1970s and continuing through much of his career at Wisconsin, he specialized in

musical traditions of Central and East Java and, from the 1990s, the performing arts of South Sulawesi. He is the

author of three books: Calling Back the Spirit: Music, Dance, and Cultural Politics in Lowland South Sulawesi

(Oxford, 2002), Traditions of Gamelan Music in Java: Musical Pluralism and Regional Identity (Cambridge, 1991)

and Variation in Central Javanese Gamelan Music (Northern Illinois, 1993). From 2001 he expanded his research

to investigate recent cultural developments in South Korea, and was contributing editor for the two-volume

series Perspectives on Korean Music (Ministry of Culture, 2010, 2011). In addition, he has published numerous

journal articles and book chapters on media and the arts in Indonesia and Korea, including aspects of cultural

hybridity in both countries.

Carrie Wojenski,University of Albany SUNY Dr. Carrie Wojenski is the Associate Vice Provost for Global Academic

Programs in the Center for International Education and Global Strategy with

the University at Albany. In this capacity, Dr. Wojenski provides leadership

for all aspects of the Global Academic Programs, including education

abroad, international scholarships, and globally-focused academics. Prior to

joining the University at Albany, Dr. Wojenski served as the senior

international office at Sacred Heart University, a mid-sized comprehensive

institution. During this time, she led the University to win an IIE Heiskell

Award institutional recipient honorable mention in the category of study

abroad, as well as receive a Seal of Excellence from IIE for surpassing its

Generation Study Abroad goal in under three years. Additionally, Dr.

Wojenski was the driving force behind the University’s comprehensive

internationalization efforts and acceptance into the American Council on Education’s Internationalization

Laboratory. Dr. Wojenski also worked at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, serving multiple roles

within education abroad. Her research focuses on collaborative online international learning (COIL) design and

intercultural competency outcomes. Dr. Wojenski holds a B.A. in Anthropology from Wheaton College in

Massachusetts, a M.A. in International Education from the SIT Graduate Institute and an Ed.D. in the Design of

Learning Environments from Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey.