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HECUA’s 2007-2008 photo competition is now accepting entries.
Winner of the 2006 IIE’s Heiskell Award for Best Practices in International Education
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HECUA’s 2007-2008 photo competition is now accepting entries.
Alumni who want to earn some pocket money and share a visually stunning image documenting their time in a HECUA program are encouraged to submit a photograph to the 2007-2008 annual photo competition. A committee of HECUA staff, faculty and board members will be assembled for the judging. The theme of this year’s competition is “Local Identity in our Global Community.” Submissions that capture this theme will be judged using three major
categories:
1. Visual Impact
2. Photo Composition
3. Story Telling Ability
Entries will be accepted until November 2nd (Friday), 2007.* No photograph will judged by the review committee without an entry form accompanying the submission. Questions about the competition should be directed to the Marketing and Recruitment Coordinator, Mary Delorié, at mdelorie@hecua.org or 651/287-3310. For more details about the entry requirements, awards, or timeline download the entry form.
*All photographs should be submitted with the understanding that HECUA may use the photos in promotional items including, but not limited to Web site, student catalogs as well as other print materials. Your information or photo will not be sold to third parties.
HECUA seeks to hire two highly motivated, enthusiastic, and organized Recruitment Associates who will join the Marketing, Recruitment, and Student Services team to promote HECUA's innovative off-campus study programs.
Applications are due May 22nd with a hire date set for July 9th. For more information, including a detailed job description, visit http://www.hecua.org/jobs.html .
HECUA to co-host workshops along with having an exhibit booth at the NAFSA: Associate of International Educations at the annual conference in Minneapolis, May 27-June 1.
HECUA welcomes all NAFSA attendees to the annual conference in Minneapolis! We hope you will enjoy your stay in the Twin Cities and will be able to visit our office while you are here. Call to set up tours and/or appointments, 651-646-8831.
We have scheduled several activities for NAFSA attendees to learn more about HECUA:
- The Marketing, Recruitment, and Student Services team will sponsor an exhibit booth at the Expo Hall, highlighting our study-abroad and off-campus study programs – stop by to learn about our unique programs focused on education for social justice.
- HECUA is also taking part in creating and facilitating conference workshops on experiential education and the students’ transformative experience.
To learn more about this conference, or to register, visit the NASFA: Association of International Educators website
MORE INFORMATION ON HECUA WORKSHOPS
Global-Local Nexus: Exploring Globalization through Experiential Study in Twin Cities Communities
Date/Time: Monday, May 28, 2007 - 8:00 am-6:00 pm & Tuesday, May 29, 2007 - 8:00 am-1:00 pm
Thread: How Can International Educators Work More Effectively and Creatively
Description: We speak of making the global local, but too rarely do our study abroad programs, international student programs, or on-campus courses use local resources to help students understand global systems. Building on pre-workshop readings and an introductory plenary discussion, participants divide into smaller groups to visit two Twin Cities sites of interest (such as a trade advocacy group, an anti-globalization activist organization, an outsourcing corporation, an immigrant neighborhood, a public interest research group). They then regroup to reflect on insights gained into the globalization debate and to analyze experiential education techniques used during the workshop.
Session Objectives:
- Gain first-hand knowledge of the Twin Cities community
- Observe how global issues work themselves out locally
- Increase understanding of debates on globalization and on immigration
- Become more knowledgeable of pedagogical principles/practice in experiential education
- Improve skills in experiential education logistics
Session Trainers/Speakers:
- Phillip Sandro, Director, Metro Urban Studies Term, Higher Education Consortium for Urban Affairs (HECUA)
- Trainers
- Martha Malinski, Director, Community Work and Learning, College of St. Catherine
- Karen Ho, Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Minnesota
- Laurel Hirt, Director, Service Leaning & Community Involvement, Career and Community Learning Center, University of Minnesota
- Jim Trelstad-Porter, Director of International Student Advising, Office of International Programs, Augsburg College
- Chip Peterson, Assistant Director, Learning Abroad Center, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
Limit: Limited to 40 participants
Hearing from Students: How “Transformative” Education Really Changes Lives
Date/Time: Thursday, May 31, 2007 - 4:00 p.m. - 5:15 p.m.
Description: Alumni of experiential study abroad programs focused on social justice issues reflect on their learning. How have their ways of understanding the world changed? What analytical tools have they acquired? How have their overseas experiences affected their civic engagement in the U.S.? Participants include recent and older returnees alike.
Taking advantage of the Twin Cities location of three leading sets of experiential/social justice study abroad programs - those of Augsburg College, Higher Education Consortium for Urban Affairs (HECUA), and the U of Minnesota, MSID - session brings student voices to the discussion of learning outcomes. Although returnees often describe study abroad as life-changing, they tend to couch what this means in generalities: broadened horizons, respect for other cultures, heightened self-assurance, etc. This session hones in on a more specific sub-set of outcomes. What have students learned about how to learn? What analytical tools have they gained? How do they think differently about power, privilege, and justice? How have their passions evolved? How will they live their lives differently as a result? And how does this all relate to program structure, content, and pedagogy?
Session Objectives:
Participants will:
- Gain insights into the relationship between pedagogy and learning outcomes
- Increase their appreciation of the power of good program design to foster civic engagement
- Reflect on the relationship between study abroad experiences and career paths
- Think about how to help students develop important “soft skills”
- Reexamine stated learning objectives in their own programs
The format of the session:
3 min: Chair describes session objectives and format, then introduces the professional panel
5 min: Reps summarize their organization’s program models, then introduce corresponding returnees on the student panel
45 min: Panelists and audience pose questions to students
12 min: Audience poses questions to program reps
10 min: Chair and reps identify main themes and suggest further issues for though and research
As of February 22, 2007, all students wishing to participate in the Globalization and Resistance in Latin America program based in Ecuador and Bolivia must enroll through the Colorado College Summer Session office rather than through HECUA.
Academic credits will be awarded by Colorado College directly, and students are required to pay Colorado College tuition fees in addition to the HECUA program fee of $3,950.
Note that the appropriate program application is a Colorado College Summer Session 2007 Application, which can be downloaded here as a pdf. Further application instructions can be found on the form. A full program description can be found on the Colorado College website. You’ll need to include the Colorado College course number when completing the application form.
An on-line application process is also available. Please visit the below link to get started:
http://www.coloradocollege.edu/SummerPrograms/SummerSession/online_07app.asp
If you have questions about the program or the application process, call 1-877-894-8727 or send an e-mail to [email protected]
City Arts faculty get published in Art Education: The Journal of the National Art Education Association
William Reichard, Director of the City Arts program, along with Christa Olson the co-teacher from 2001-2005, recently had an essay they co-authored published the July 2006 edition of Art Education: The Journal of the National Art Education Association. Their article, “The Idea of America: Four Questions for Student Artists” delves into how students develop their artistic identity here in the United States. “...While artists and academics have produced a wide range of work trying to understand national and individual identity, very little has been written about the experiences of student artists as they work to make sense of their particular political, social, and artistic identities and put them to work in the world.” Using the City Arts program, based in Minneapolis/St. Paul, as a medium to explore with their students, Reichard and Olson challenge students to “expand and negotiate” ideas of America. The four framing questions - What is American? Who are American artists (or artists in America)? What are the politics of artistic production? and Who can claim America? - serve to frame the program. City Arts is taught in spring semester and open to students of all majors from any school.
Winner of the 2006 IIE’s Heiskell Award for Best Practices in International Education
The Institute of International Education (IIE) created the Andrew Heiskell Award for Study Abroad in 2001 to promote and honor the most outstanding initiatives being conducted in international higher education by IIE Network member universities and colleges. HECUA’s, “Development & Community In Bangladesh” program is the 2006 recipient.
IIE’s Heiskell Awards showcase the most innovative and successful models for internationalization of campuses, study abroad, and faculty program sin practice today. The organization is particularly interested in highlighting initiatives that remove institutional barriers and broaden the base of participation in international teaching and learning.
HECUA’s Bangladesh J-Term program is in its sixth year and has been guided by the leadership of Professor Haroun Er Rashid and an advisory group of faculty ember from HECUA member institutions. Rashid holds graduate degrees in geography and economic development at the Independent University of Bangladesh (IUB) and directs the School of Environmental Science and Management. For several years he has had major responsibility for IUB’s “Live-In-Field Experience” which sends urban –based Bangladeshi students into rural village to experience the socio-economic realities faced by local people with less privilege. It should come as no surprise that Rashid’s life work fits beautifully with the mission of HECUA – collaborative action that equips students to become effective citizens and agents of change.
To learn more about the award and the distinct features of the program visit www.iienetwork.org.
Read back issues of HECUA newsletter, newsLINE
Do you want to learn about community building projects, HECUA program accomplishments, groundbreaking student/alumni initiatives? Download either our 2006 newsLINE or our new spring 2007 newsLINE which will hit the public end of May, 2007.
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