Best Practices Conference, June 14-17, 2001

List of Conference Participants and Team Projects

• ACM colleges
• ACS colleges
• GLCA colleges
• Best Practices Task Force
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Team Project: Comprehensive Internationalization: One Department at a Time

Team Project: "I'm a Stranger Here Myself": A new course integrating intercultural learning within the academic context.

Team Project: Internationalizing the Curriculum

Team Project: The Summer Intercultural Experience

• Jim Henderson, Professor of Mathematics
• Sarah Kawano, Director of International Programs
• Victor Nelson-Cisneros, Associate Dean of the College

Team Project: Creating Global Citizens: Integrating Students' International Experiences

Team Project: Integrating Internationalism into Science and Health-related Study

• Jim Laine, Professor of Religious Studies
• Michael Monahan, Director, International Center (Task Force member)
• Ahmed I. Samatar, James Wallace Professor and Dean Of International Studies and Programming
• Jan Serie, Professor of Biology
• Katherine Yngve, Study Abroad Coordinator

Team Project: Strategy for integrating international studies with long-term curricular vision

• Susan Dagit, Director of Advancement for Corporate/Foundation Grants
• Judy Peterson, Assistant Professor of Political Economy and Commerce
• Tom Sienkewicz, International Studies Coordinator & Professor of Classics

Team Project: Teaching students intercultural principles using the family as first culture

• Joe Hatcher, Professor of Psychology
• Dominique Poncelet, Visiting Assistant Professor of French
• Marguerite Parks, Associate Professor of Education

Team Project: Designing a strategy for enhancing international components of on-campus programs; template for off-campus internships.

• Jolene Jacobson Barjasteh, Director of Foreign Languages Across the Curriculum (FLAC) & Associate Professor of French
• Rick Fairbanks, Associate Professor of Philosophy and Associate Dean of Humanities
• Patrick Quade, Director of International and Off-Campus Study (Task Force member)
• Helen Stellmaker, Coordinator of Advising and Student Activities
• Anne Walter, Associate Professor of Biology

Team Project: Improving integration of foreign students into campus community

• Nancy Davis, Honors Program Director and Associate Professor of Psychology
• Ed LaMonte, Director of Office of International Programs & Professor of Political Science
• Anne Ledvina, Associate Director, Office of International Programs (Task Force member)
• Amy McDermott, Director of Residence Life
• Renee Norrell, Chair of International Studies Committee & Associate Professor of French

Team Project: Global Semester

• Grace Bareikis, Director of Intercultural Affairs
• David Havird, Associate Dean of the College & Associate Professor of English
• Maureen McKenna, Assistant Professor of Spanish

Team Project: Orientation & Re-entry

• Ken Keffer, NEH Distinguished Professor of the Humanities and Professor of Modern Languages
• Milton Reigelman, Director of International Programs & Professor of English
• Nancy Lackey, Vice President and Dean of Student Life

Team Project: Languages Across the Curriculum at Davidson College

• Dennis Appleyard, Professor of International Studies and Economics
• Carolyn Ortmayer, Study Abroad Coordinator
• Homer Sutton, Director of the Dean Rusk Program in International Studies & Professor of French

Team Project: Natural Science and Study Abroad

• Joyce Hardin, Associate Professor of Biology; Chair of Natural Sciences Area
• Wayne Oudekerk, Associate Professor of German; Coordinator of International Programs

Team Project: Utilizing Existing Campus Resources and Local Partnerships: Creative Approaches to Internationalization

• Jesse Beeler, Else School of Management
• Lyn Fulton-John, Director of the Center for International Initiatives

Team Project: The Atlanta University Center Intensive Foreign Language Program, based at Morehouse College

• Julius Coles, Director of the Center for International Studies
• Gwen Wade, Director of International Student Services and Study Abroad Programs

Team Project: Service-Learning Pedagogy as a Strategy for Intercultural Learning

• Joe Favazza, Associate Professor of Religious Studies
• Michael McLain, Professor of Religious Studies

Team Project: Creating a unified vision for Rollins' international programs

• Roger Casey, Dean of the Faculty and Professor of English (Task Force member)
• Roy Kerr, Weddell Professor of the Americas, Chair of Spanish Program, Director of Spanish for Professors Program
• Thomas D. Lairson, Gelbman Professor of International Business and Professor of Political Science
• Pedro Pequeno-Rossie, Professor of Anthropology & Coordinator of the Latin American and Caribbean Affairs Program
• Luis Valdes, Coordinator of International Relations Program and Professor of Politics

Team Project: An examination of critical aspects of a study abroad program which facilitate intercultural learning (joint project with Lawrence University)

• Melissa Johnson, Assistant Professor of Anthropology & Sociology
• Thom McClendon, Assistant Professor of History
• Sue Mennicke, Director of Study Abroad and International Student Services (Task Force member)

Team Project: Trinity's Proposed International Studies Program

• Brooks Hill, Professor of Speech Communication & Chair of Speech and Drama
• Donald Clark, Director of International Studies & Study Abroad Programs & Professor of History and International Studies
• Mark Moody, Assistant Director of Admissions and International Admissions Coordinator

• Andrzej Bloch, Director of Antioch Education Abroad; Professor of Economics

Denison University

Team Project: Development of pre- and post-off-campus study learning components which take place on campus

• Patti Brown, Assistant Dean of Off-Campus Programs (Task Force member)
• Gabriele Dillmann, Assistant Professor of German
• J. Eduardo Jaramillo-Zuluaga, Professor of Modern Languages (Spanish)

• Dorothy Guyot, Director of International Education and Off-Campus Study

• Howard Lamson, Professor of Spanish
• Patty Lamson, Director of International Programs
• Joanna Swanger, Resident Director for Border Studies Program

Team Project: Articulation and integration of the study abroad experience into Kalamazoo's stated mission and curriculum

• Joseph L. Brockington, Associate Provost for International Programs & Director of the Center for International Programs
• Zaide Pixley, Assistant Provost for Advising & Director of the First-Year Experience at the College

Team Project: Summer-school service-learning opportunity in Hungary

• Carrie Lippert, Director of Career Services
• Clifford G. Cook, Professor of Accounting
• Stephanie L. Merkel, Assistant Professor of Humanities
• Elizabeth McCaffrey (Ohio Wesleyan/Hope), Director of Marketing & Recruiting, Philadelphia Center
• R. Blake Michael, Associate Dean of Academic Affairs (Task Force member)

Team Project: Setting the Agenda for Comprehensive Internationalization

• Karen Edwards, Assistant Dean of Students for International Affairs
• Thomas M. Falkner, Dean of the Faculty & Professor of Classical Studies
• Jeffrey S. Lantis, Chair of International Relations Program & Assistant Professor of Political Science

• Michael Monahan, Director, International Center, Macalester College
• Patrick Quade, Director of International and Off-Campus Study, St. Olaf College

• Roger Casey, Dean of Arts and Sciences, Rollins College
• Anne Ledvina, Associate Director, Office of International Programs, Birmingham-Southern College
• Sue Mennicke, Director of Study Abroad and International Student Services, Southwestern University

• Patti Brown, Assistant Dean of Off-Campus Programs, Denison University
• R. Blake Michael, Associate Dean of Academic Affairs, Ohio Wesleyan University

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