Annual Report of the International Education Committee FY 2014Prepared by Gail Kellersberger

The International Education Committee FY 2014 was convened to respond to the needs of Global Citizenship Month, which includes International Education Week. The committee was composed of the following members and chaired by Gail Kellersberger:

Raquel ChiquilloPeter DeVriesJohn DillardKrista GehringSara JahansouzGail KellersbergerDavid RydenRachna SadanaBarry Sullender

David Ryden served as recording secretary for Minutes. The committee’s main activity was to plan, prepare for and execute activities for International Education Week. A report submitted to the Provost on that event is appended at the end of this report.

On March 6, Vice President and Provost Hugetz requested that the Study Abroad Committee and the International Education Committee be merged and a new charge written. The charge was co-written by Sara Jahansouz and Gail Kellersberger and sent to the membership list of the two separate committees for approval. A new name was also suggested by committee members to encompass both committees: The International Education Advisory Committee. All members had voted in agreement on the new description, charge and name of the committee by April 4, 2014 through email exchange.

Name: The International Education Advisory Committee

Composition: Membership consists of two faculty members from each degree-granting college, one staff representative, five students, the coordinator of International and Study Abroad Programs, and the director of the English Language Institute.

Charge: Reviews student requests for financial awards for credit-bearing study abroad experiences. The committee will provide recommendations to the Provost regarding trends for study abroad, exchange programs, and international education as well as the creation and implementation of International Education Week.

A determination was made by the chair and Provost and agreed upon by the committee to wait until theupcoming academic year for the new combined committee to meet for additional conduct of business.

Appended: Agendas for three meetings: October 18, October 24, November 7Minutes for three meetings: October 18, October 24, (committee combining, naming

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Report on International Education Week

International Education Committee 10/18/13 Agenda

1. Our general purpose and particular dutiesa. Support university’s strategic goals for international educationb. Create and manage the activities for International Education Weekc. Make policy suggestions, procedural documents, respond to upper administration

requests in the arena of international education, support study abroad and exchange

d. Maintain UHD International Website2. Our agenda

a. A presentation from the Assistant Dean of Students Liza Alonzo and the Executive Director, Center for Public Service and Family Strength, Dr. Noel Bezette-Flores concerning Citizenship Month

b. A summary of last year’s activities, former chair Dr. Rachna Sadanac. Notification of our possible involvement in the visit by AASCU Chinese University

Presidents during International Education Week d. The selection of a Chair and Recording Secretary

i. Chair receives charge from university as to our duties specific to this year, directs our activities and assumes responsibility for the success of our projects, and writes year-end report for the President

ii. Recording Secretary takes the minutes at each meeting and emails them to each member after the meeting so that they can be corrected and ratified at the following meeting

e. The selection of a meeting day, time and frequencyf. Possible: words from our Chair, discussion of the year’s endeavors, issues raised by

members

International Education Committee 10/24/13 AGENDA

1. Review Program Events for a final event schedule2. Schedule Program Events according to venues available3. Discuss advertising for International Education Week and events

a. Display Signageb. Skylinec. Banner(s)d. Posterse. Email to Gatormail and UHD staff/facultyf. Co-advertise with Lizag.

4. Develop a budget for IEW a. Advertisingb. Foodc. Movie rental if selected as an eventd. Decoratione.

Assign Committee members as monitor/troubleshooter for each day or event

AGENDA IEC November 7, 2013

1. Review Events2. Review Description of Events3. Mr. Hugetz’ discomfort with extra credit or presentation assignments4. Food list and vendors5. Events managers

Speakers introduced?Students managing sign-in sheets?Posters on easels near event rooms or spaces?AV set upKey check-out and returnVan check-out and return

6. Advertising managersFacebookBannerGatormail blastALL DT emailSkylineUHD webpage

7. Do we want a logo?8. Possible expansion of committee tasks re. Mr. Hugetz

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Present: Raquel Chiquillo, John Dillard, Sara Jahansouz, Gail Kellersberger, Rachna Sadana, Barry Sullender, and David Ryden

The committee elected a chair: Gail Kellersberger as Chair. David Ryden agreed to serve as meeting secretary.

The committee learned the committee's charge, which is, in part, to plan activities for Int'l Week, Nov 18-22 . The committee asked for clarification of full scope of the charge, from the provost. The committee also asked the chair to inquire, from the provost, if there could be a budget assigned to the committee for its activities.

Ideas for Int'l week were proposed, including the profiling of past and present trips. Spencer Lightsy will help with a list of past trips and Sara Jahansouz will help organize the profiling of future trips. Raquel Chiquillo noted that she will contact the Spanish language student organization to see what they can do to contribute to the success of Int'l Week.

The committee agreed to meet on next Thursday at 1 pm. Gail K. will be contacting the committee with room number.

The committee adjourned at 11:00 am.

Minutes of Meeting 10/24/13

Meeting called to order at 1:06 pm in 612 North on 10/24/13

Present: Rachna Sandana; Kip Dillard; Barry Sullender; Krista Gehring, David Ryden, Sara Jahansouz, Gail Kellersberger

The committee reviewed the schedule drafted by Gail.

Discussion turned on the possibility for food, transportation for possible field trip ( Sara is checking with club sports/scholar's academy to see if a field trip).

Sara mentioned that food purchases could be made by a Procurement Card, and charged to a particular budget.

Sara is to touch base with Hudson regarding GBLT event.

The committee discussed the need to have a contract if we are giving an honorarium to the dance group: the committee resolved that the group would receive a gift bag, since contracting would take too much time.

The committee resolved not to do a college bowl event, because of the long list of events scheduled.

Gail will go forward and circulate the schedule to the members via email.

The committee then submitted to Gail what days they can help run the events

The committee then discussed Advertising...Skyline, posters, facebook, etc.

Budget was discussed: it was resolved that we do not need a flag or decoration budget and concluded that we do not need an advertising budget. However, food budget was approved: The committee resolved to propose a $2,000 budget to the provost.

The meeting was adjourned at 215 pm.

Summary of Meeting 11/7/13

Meeting called to order at 1:04 in N612

Present: Krista Gehring, Raquel Chiquillo, Barry Sullender, Gail Kellersberger, Peter DeVries, Rachana Sadana

The committee reviewed the planned events for IEW. Written descriptions for each event were reviewed.

Foods were reviewed. Sales were suggested by Raquel Chiquillo as a way for her students to make support their organization.

Rachna Sadana suggested the use of the Hindi temple for samosas and volunteered to pick up samosas for each day. Rachna also offered to get henna and support a henna painting event.

Barry Sullender will get the paperwork complete to drive a van to the farmer’s market.

The committee decided that speakers could be introduced or not as requested by the speaker. Sign-in sheets will be at the door.

Gail will create posters for easels and manage AV setups. Any special requests should go to her this week.

Krista will manage the Facebook page. Sara had already agreed to handle the Gatormail blast. Gail will submit information to Skyline and ask Communications to manage the webpage ad and send the all DT email. She will also design and order the banner. Logo ideas were viewed and the possibility of asking Joe Wynne to prepare a logo was put forward.

The committee asked what might follow IEW in terms of duties. Mr. Hugetz will be contacted concerning additional tasks since the committee had never received a formal charge.

The committee adjourned at 2:10 p.m.

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International Education Week 2013 Report International Education Committee

International Education Week 2013 was developed and delivered by the International Education Committee. We were asked to co-brand our events with Global Citizenship month, which included a request for a large number of events, the posting our events on the Global Citizenship calendar, and the combining of a showcase display with a Global Citizenship event.

In general, the week was successful. Student turnout could have been better, especially at the lectures and student panels. We had a strong turnout for the food and the several hours of dancing each day that occurred spontaneously – Arabic dances, the Macarena and Salsa -- along with Martial Arts. Students were much more active in those things where they could participate actively instead of passively. What follows is a report on each event:

Bill Nowak – a small gathering of students attended, but from them 5 students signed up for more information on his upcoming study abroad trip.

IIE Representatives – had 14 students very interested in student exchange with 4 of them definitely applying.

Aaron Gillette – had a very satisfying turnout at his History Majors and Study Abroad exhibit and was pleased to have attracted more students to a history major. Dr. Gillette was also the contact for IIE.

Leena Kumar – had about 30 students at her presentation, as reported by Dr. Leveille who introduced her session. Leena also had 4 student presenters.

Stacie Defreitas and Vida Robertson – had a couple of students appear, but they gave a fine presentation and talked to the students about study abroad.

Paul Mandell – presented to about a dozen students and a couple of professors, and followed the presentation with a spirited discussion of how language is learned (explaining why Rosetta Stone hasn’t replaced him).

Jeffrey Adams and Cho Nguyen – only one student appeared and they talked with that student at the table outside of the auditorium.

John Linantud – approximately 10 students attended this presentation. We had hoped to see a class take this topic on but it did not happen.

Azar Rejaie and Sandy Dahlberg – three students appeared for this presentation.

Barry Sullender – His Latin American exhibit was strongly attended and was a very nice showing.

Canino’s Fieldtrip – Barry Sullender’s trip to Canino’s had low attendance but was enjoyed by everyone who went.

John Hudson – His presentation drew approximately 30 students who were fascinated with the topic and data.

Sigma Delta Pi – ran a very successful food sale and Latin America booth; after costs, students made $115.00. This group was supported by Dr. Chinquilla.

International Student Organization – signed up more students, both academic and ELI; ran several spontaneous dance sessions lasting several hours each and attracting a number of international and native students; gave a Martial Arts demo and then worked with volunteers on self-defense; developed a Dateline article from the event; showed videos of the dancing at the new Andalucia Media Center. They were very pleased.

International Food Fair – Wildly successful at all three buildings (with native students eying their seaweed or stuffed grape leaves in suspicion and saying “I’m supposed to eat this?!” before discovering it was good).

Korean music and dance – wonderful performers, but the event was combined with a Global Citizenship event and there were some issues with staging, timing, and space. A number of ELI students participated in the Global Citizenship event and enjoyed it.

Henna Art -- This was a very successful event. Over 50 hands were painted and female students were enraptured at the results and fascinated by the tradition! This event was created and managed by Dr. Sadana.

Student Panels – the Panama and Costa Rica panels did not draw an audience. We rescheduled them for the following day but again there was not much response. The ELI panel drew a number of ELI students and a few others. It was very successful.

Recommendations for Next Year’s International Education Week:

1. Advertising This year, we advertised in the following ways:

Email to faculty/staff asking them to encourage students to attend Skyline article UHD Webpage slide of events each day UHD Webpage slide International Education Facebook Site and encouragement of students to “like” it

(created by Krista Gehring) Gatormail blasts prior to the start of the week with the full schedule and then each

day with that day’s schedule (managed by Dean Jahansouz) Posters and banner once the week started International Education Committee Logo

Our advertising wasn’t enough to draw students to the events for study abroad. There should be a campaign in October to talk up Study Abroad in academic classes. Then, when direct information about it comes up in November, students will have some idea of what it is about, how it can and does apply to them, and that money is available for this activity. They will be much more likely to attend these presentations as a result.

2. Study Abroad -- another possibility is that a half-day should be devoted just to Study Abroad, with break-out sessions for the various countries/purposes. An international meal could be the draw for attendance and university professors could be contacted ahead of time to encourage student attendance and make absence from class possible to support attendance.

3. For a program with a lot of events, as requested by Dr. Noel Bezette-Flores and Liza Alonzo, a large staff is needed to deliver the activities. I diverted most of the ELI’s staff resources to pull off this year’s events (myself, an office manager, and three staff members, plus several instructors and their classes.) The future chairs of the International Education Committee need to be folks who can call on a large staff or have a staff provided for the activities.

4. The food fairs are expensive in terms of time and money. On the other hand, they are the draw that brings the students to the events and ideas we are advocating. This was the first year that a budget was provided for the International Education Week. We were provided with $2,000.00, which was spent almost exclusively on food. The ELI contributed about $500.00 to the event, as well, covering some food, session posters, the banner (which can be reused and for which we created an International Education Week logo), the henna for

the hand painting, and associated items needed such as serving tools, gloves, service ware, and so on. A budget is necessary for a successful week-long event, and should be written into the larger provost’s budget annually to accommodate the week. (A full accounting of expenses and ELI expenditure will be forthcoming.) As UHD’s student population grows, so should the budget.

5. Events that involve student participation – such as the henna painting, the global awareness games (not delivered this year), the Global Citizenship democracy event – draw a better and more engaged crowd of students. We recommend more of this type of event.

Commentary:

The International Student Organization (ISO) was very engaged in this event, which went a long way toward making it successful. They provided several students to help us with the food tables and manned a table advertising their organization which blossomed into the spontaneous dancing on the first day that was so successful that it was copied on each succeeding day. They drew a number of UHD students into the delightful chaos and also achieved more outreach to ELI students. Having an active ISO and including them in the week’s events is to the advantage of the university.