Best Practices Conference in June, 2001

Macalester College

Participants:

• Jim Laine
• Michael Monahan (Task Force member)
• Ahmed I. Samatar
• Jan Serie
• Katherine Yngve

Project Title:

Project Description:

Participants:

Name: Jim Laine

Title: Professor of Religious Studies

E-mail: Laine@macalester.edu

Biographical Information:

Name: Michael Monahan (Task Force member)

Title: Director of the International Center

E-mail: monahan@macalester.edu

Presentation: Internationalism: The Macalester College Experience, Friday, 1:30-3:00

Biographical Information: Michael Monahan has served since 1994 as director of International Center, a comprehensive center responsible for foreign students, study abroad, and selected international faculty programs. Previously he served for five years as Asst. Director of International Education at the University of Iowa and had worked for eight years for the School for International Training, including four years in study abroad administration in Vermont and four years based abroad as Academic Director in Mexico, Spain, Ireland and Denmark. He has undertaken independent study on nationalism and ethnic conflict in Northern Ireland, Sri Lanka, and Quebec; has participated in faculty development seminars in Hungary, Brazil, and South Africa; has evaluated study abroad programs in some two dozen countries; and, outside of higher education, has worked on issues of Cuban and Haitian refugee resettlement in Florida. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Political Science and Spanish from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and a Master's degree from the American Graduate School of International Management. His intellectual and professional interests are in the areas of international liberal learning, educational philosophy, faculty development, and ethnic conflict in deeply divided societies.

Name: Ahmed I. Samatar

Title: James Wallace Professor and Dean Of International Studies and Programming

E-mail: Samatar@macalester.edu

Presentation: Internationalism: The Macalester College Experience, Friday, 1:30-3:00

Biographical Information: Author/editor of five books and over two dozen articles, Ahmed Samatar is the founding editor of Macalester International as well as Bildhaan -- the first publishes two of the college's yearly academic and internationalist initiatives; the latter is the first new and refereed international journal of Somali Studies. Samatar has lectured at numerous academic institutions that include: University of London, Harvard, Toronto, Amsterdam, Otago, Cornell, Wellesley, Oslo, Iowa, LSE, Somali National University, and the Institute of the Arab and Islamic World (Paris). Samatar, who teaches both introductory and senior seminars for international studies at Macalester, has created and led the biennial Macalester Faculty Development International Seminars to Hungary, Brazil, South Africa, and, in January 2002 to Malaysia -- the last two with Michael Monahan.

Name: Jan Serie

Title: Professor of Biology

E-mail: Serie@macalester.edu

Biographical Information:

Name: Katherine Yngve

Title: Study Abroad Coordinator

E-mail: yngve@macalester.edu

Presentation: Technology, Global Competence and Generation Y: The Meta-Issues, Saturday 1:30-3:00

Biographical Information: Katherine Yngve has worked in higher education since 1990, and now serves as Study Abroad Coordinator at Macalester College. She has presented workshops on Technology and Study Abroad at state, regional and national conferences of NAFSA: Association for International Educators; served as founding chair of the SECUSSA standing Committee on Technology; and continues to sit on the steering committee of NAFSA's Technology Special Interest Group. Her experience overseas includes residence in Britain, study in France and in Israel, and circumnavigation of the globe. She is a graduate of Indiana University and the University of Chicago.