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Strategic Initiatives for University Internationalization
May 22-23, 2008
The Morris & Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation Conference Center, George Washington University
Washington, DC
For more information, contact Dr. Cheryl Matherly, Associate Dean for Global Education, University of Tulsa:
600 S. College Avenue
Tulsa, OK 74104
Tel: 918.631.3225
Fax: 918.631.2158
cheryl-matherly@utulsa.edu
Strategic Initiatives for University Internationalization, conducted in Washington, DC and Tokyo, Japan, is a two-phase symposium that brings together leaders from U.S. and Japanese universities for substantial discussions about best practices for campus internationalization. The symposium especially considers the unique role that science and engineering education plays with regards to research universities' internationalization strategies.
The first meeting is scheduled in Washington, DC for May 22-24, 2008, to be held in advance of the annual conference for NAFSA: International Educators Association. Through a series of panel discussions, symposium participants will examine comparative approaches toward strategic planning, assessment and evaluation, opportunities for student and research mobility, and approaches for developing international research consortia.
A second meeting is scheduled in Japan for December 1-5, 2008, beginning in Tokyo and including travel to universities in other parts of Japan. During this meeting, participants will visit the universities selected by the Ministry of Education for the pilot Strategic International Headquarters program. (A separate application for the December program will be released in June 2008.)
This symposium is timely as both higher education systems in the U.S. and Japan examine the best approaches to internationalize. Experts in the U.S. and Japan are similarly concerned with ensuring that their graduates will be competitive in a global economy. At the same time, scientific inquiry, which increasingly demands sophisticated transnational collaborations, has placed pressures on universities to support international research activities. As U.S. and Japanese higher education systems consider issues related to internationalization, this program presents a valuable opportunity for key decision makers to gain a firsthand look into each country's academic infrastructure and culture. This program aims to improve cooperation between U.S. and Japanese institutions with regards to academic research and educational exchange. Participants will gain a new perspective on the need to internationalize U.S. and Japanese campuses and insight into how it can be done.
Abstracts from the May symposium are available here.
Day One: Thursday, May 22, 2008
7:30 AM - 8:30 AM: Breakfast and Registration
—Cafritz Center, Room 3108:30 AM – 10:00 AM: Opening Plenary
Ambassador Robert Gosende, Associate Vice Chancellor, State University of New York
—Cafritz Center, Room 308
10:30 AM– 12:00 NOON: Sessions 1 and 2
"What is an internationalized university?: U.S. and Japanese perspectives"
Session One, Cafritz Center, Room 301
Dr. William Brustein, Associate Provost for International Affairs, University of Illinois- Urbana-Champaign; "It Takes and Entire Institution: A Blueprint for the Global University”
Dr. William DeLauder, President Emeritus, Delaware State University; "The Impact of Internationalization on the Education of the U.S. College Student"
Professor Akira Ninomiya, Executive Vice-President for Research, Professor, Comparative and International Education, Graduate School of EducationHiroshima University ; "Theorizing Internationalization of Higher Education in Japan"
Discussant: Ambassador Robert Gosende, Associate Vice Chancellor, State University of New York
Session Two, Cafritz Center, Room 309
Dr. Kay A. Thomas , Director of International Student and Scholar Services, University of Minnesota; "Forging an International University: the U of Minnesota Experience"
Dr. Futao Huang, Professor and PhD, Research Institute for Higher Education, Hiroshima University; "The Internationalization of University Curriculum in Japan”
Shingo Ashizawa, Business Officer, Keio Academy of New York; "The Role of Professionals and Third Parties in International Education"
Discussant: Dr. Mark Scheid, Fulbright Senior Specialist in Higher Education Administration, Rice University
12:00 NOON – 1:00 PM: Lunch & Networking
— Cafritz Center, Room 310
1:15 PM – 2:45 PM: Sessions 3 and 4
"Comparative policy initiatives in U.S. and Japan for promoting internationalization"
Session Three, Cafritz Center, Room 301
Carl A. Herrin, Senior Partner with Global Education Solutions LLC; Principal, Herrin Associates; "US Policy Approaches at the US and State Level"
Dr. Vaughan Turekian, Chief International Officer, American Association for the Advancement of Science; "Policy Issues Affecting Internationalization Science and Engineering"
Tsutomu Kimura, President, National Institution for Academic Degrees and University Evaluation; "Current Initiatives and Future Challenges for Enhancing Student Mobility"Discussant: Dr. Larry Shuman, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, School of Engineering, University of Pittsburgh
Session Four, Cafritz Center, Room 309
Taku Ujihara, Deputy Director, International Science and Technology Affairs Division, Science and Technology Policy Bureau, Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology; "University Internationalization Policies in Japan"
Hiroshi Ota, Research Advisor, JSPS Project Team for Supporting University Internationalization, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Associate Professor, Office for the Promotion of International Relations, Hitotsubashi University; "Strategic Fund for Establishing International Headquarters in Universities: Challenges and Prospects"
Dr. Larry Weber, Senior Program Manager in the Office of International Science & Engineering; "NSF Programs to Stimulate University Internationalization"
Discussant: Junichi Mori, Director, the International Center, Kyoto University;
3:00 PM – 4:30 PM: Sessions 5 and 6"Institutional approaches to campus internationalization: Creating strategy, establishing goal setting, and assessing outcomes"
Session Five, Cafritz Center, Room 301
Dr. Darla Deardorff, Executive Director, Association for International Education Administrators; "Assessing Outcomes in International Education: Approaches for Measuring Student Learning Outcomes"
Professor Akira Ninomiya, Executive Vice-President for Research, Professor, Comparative and International Education, Graduate School of Education Hiroshima University; "Attractiveness and Popularity of Hiroshima University: How Can We Make a Difference?"
Dr. Richard F. Vaz, Dean, Interdisciplinary and Global Studies, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; "A Scalable and Sustainable Model of Internationalization"Discussant: Christa Olsen, Associate Director, American Council on Education
Session Six, Cafritz Center, Room 309
Dr. Barbara M. Olds, Associate Vice President for Educational Innovation, Colorado School of Mines; “Assessing the Impact of Internationalization on Institutions and Students”
Dr. Susan Sutton, Associate Vice Chancellor of International Affairs, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis; "Organizing Campus Internationalization through Strategiv Partnerships"Professor Toshifumi Nagamatsu, Associate Professor, Education Center, Tottori University; "International Strategy of Tottori University"
Professor Shinobu Yume Yamaguchi, Professor at Global Scientific Information and Computing Center, Tokyo Institute of Technology; "Process and Approaches of Internationalization of Universities: A Case of Tokyo Institute of Technology"
Discussant: Dr. Cheryl Matherly, Associate Dean for Global Education, University of Tulsa
6:30 PM – 9:00 PM: Networking Reception & Dinner
Acadiana
901 New York Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20001
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Note: a cash bar will be available through the duration of the reception and dinner.
Day Two: Friday, May 23, 2008
8:30 AM - 9:00 AM: Breakfast
— Cafritz Center, Room 307
9:00 AM – 10:30 AM: Sessions 7 and 8"International collaboration and consortia"
Session Seven, Cafritz Center, Room 302
Professor Yuji Kishimoto, Special assistant to the President, Clemson University; "International Collaboration at Clemson University"
Professor Tsutomu Nomizu, Advisor to the President Director, Academic Consortium 21 General Secretariat, Professor of Engineering and Academic Coordinator Nagoya University Program for Academic Exchange (NUPACE) Education Center for International Students, Nagoya University; "The Consortium Experience: Opportunities and Challenges"
Dr. Raymond Wright, Interim Dean, College of Engineering, University of Rhode Island; "Dual Degree Program with University of Rhode Island and University of Braunschweig"
Discussant: Anne Emig, Program Manager, National Science Foundation
Session Eight, Cafritz Center, Room 301
Dr. James R. Mihelcic, Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Michigan Tech; "Internationalizing Graduate Engineering Education: A Unique University Partnership with the U.S. Peace Corps and Developing World Communities"
Junichi Mori, Director, the International Center, Kyoto University; "Promoting Internationalization through Consortia - The Experience and Future Perspective of Kyoto University"
Professor Mitsuhide Shiraki, Professor, Faculty of Political Science and Economics; Dean, Center for International Education, Waseda University; "Becoming a Global University: WASEDA's Second Founding Principle and the Path to Global Contribution"
Discussant: Dr. George Joseph, Secretary for International Affairs, Yale University
10:45 AM – 12:15 PM: Sessions 9 and 10"Mobility of students and researchers "
Session Nine, Cafritz Center, Room 302
Dr. Cheryl Matherly, Associate Dean, Global Education, University of Tulsa; "NanoJapan: US-Japan Cooporative Research & Education"
Professor Satoshi Ogihara, Professor, Graduate School of Science, Office for International Planning and Programs, Osaka University; "JSPS International Training Program: A Practice at Osaka University" "Collaboration Project with the EU Erasmus Mundus Program for the Internationalized Education and Research of Basic Science"Dr. Larry Shuman, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, School of Engineering, University of Pittsburgh; "Internationalizing the Engineering Curriculum"
Discussant: Dr. Mark Scheid, Fulbright Senior Specialist in Higher Education Administration, Baker Institute, Rice University
Session Ten, Cafritz Center, Room 301Dr. D. Joseph Mook, Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University at Buffalo, State University of New York; "Mobility Challenges and Opportunities in International Engineering Exchanges"
Shinnosuke Obi, Director, International Center Keio University;"Implementation of double-degree programs at Keio University"Dr. Toshiyuki Sameshima, Institute of Symbiotic Science and Technology Division of Advanced Electrical and Electronics EngineGraduate School of Engineering Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering Faculty of Engineering, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology; "International Program for Training Pre-Tenure-Track Young Researchers in Nano-Materials"
Discussant: Hiroshi Ota, Research Advisor, JSPS Project Team for Supporting University Internationalization, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Associate Professor, Office for the Promotion of International Relations, Hitotsubashi University
12:30 PM – 1:30 PM: Lunch
— Cafritz Center, Room 307
1:45 PM – 4:00 PM: Roundtable Sessions
JASSO: Japan Student Services Organization; Sadayoshi Takagawa, Executive director, Student Exchange DepartmentJAFSA: Japan Network for International Education; Makoto Hattori, Standing Director
— Cafritz Center, Room 301
American Council on Education, Christa Olsen, Associate Director
IAESTE United States,Pamela Ruiz, Director and National Secretary
— Cafritz Center, Room 302
JSPS: Japan Society for the Promotion of Science; Kotaro Kodera, Deputy Director, JSPS Washington Office
The Japan Foundation, Melanie Standish, Program Associate
— Cafritz Center, Room 309
Association for International Education Administrators; Darla Deardorff, Executive Director
— Cafritz Center, Room 310
ABET, Kathryn Aberle, Deputy Executive Director
— Cafritz Center, Room 401
The Forum on Education Abroad; Brian Whalen, President and CEO
— Cafritz Center, Room 402
Institute for International Education; Dr. Sabine U. O'Hara , Vice President
— Cafritz Center, Room 404
4:00 PM – 6:00 PM: Closing PlenaryLessons Learned from U.S. Initiatives to Promote International Education:
Michael McCarry, Executive Director, Alliance for International Educational and Cultural Exchange
— Cafritz Center, Room 308
Kathryn Aberle, Deputy Executive Director, ABET
Kathryn Aberle is the Deputy Executive Director of ABET (formerly known as the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology), responsible for ABET’s relationships with governmental and non-governmental organizations (both domestic and international) involved in accreditation and ABET’s headquarters operations.
She is one of ABET’s representatives to the Washington Accord, an international agreement among 12 engineering quality assurance organizations. She participates in the Engineering for the Americas (one initiative is intended to develop engineering accreditation systems throughout South and Central America) and serves as ABET’s liaison to the Council on Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA).
She is responsible for ABET’s Leadership Development Series which includes issues identification, environmental scanning and strategic planning for her Board of Directors.
From 1989 to 1995, Ms. Aberle was at the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE), an international organization. She was the Professional Development/Sections Manager and was responsible for programs and services to 136 sections and 81 student chapters, the majority outside the U.S.
Kate Aberle is a Certified Association Executive (CAE). She is a member of the American Society of Association Executives (ASAE), Past Chair of the CAE Commission and the CAE Exam Committee. Ms. Aberle received her BA from the U. of California at Riverside and her MBA from the U. of Texas at Austin.
Shingo Ashizawa, Business Officer and Treasurer at Keio Academy of New York.
Shingo Ashizawa is Business Officer and Treasurer at Keio Academy of New York. He has worked to advance international education both as an administrator and as a scholar for the last two decades. He studied at Harvard Graduate School of Education as a Fulbright Scholar from 1995 to 1996. His research field is the comparative study of higher education management and quality analysis of the internationalization review process at universities. He previously taught at Osaka University as an Associate Professor. While there, he spearheaded the Global Campus Network (GCN) Osaka project, an online interactive community for international scholars and students. He also initiated a large-scale project on the comparative study of foreign credential evaluation.
Dr. William I. Brustein, Associate Provost for International Affairs, Professor of Sociology, Political Science, and History, and Alumni Professor of International Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Before coming to Illinois, he was Director of the University Center for International Studies at the University of Pittsburgh. Dr. Brustein has published widely in the areas of political extremism and ethnic/religious/racial prejudice. His most recent books are The Logic of Evil: the Social Origins of the Nazi Party, 1925 to 1933 (Yale University Press, 1996) and Roots of Hate: Anti-Semitism in Europe Before the Holocaust (Cambridge University Press, 2003).
Brustein is immediate past-president of the Association of international Education Administrators (AIEA) and serves on the Board of Directors of the Association for Studies in International Education, the editorial advisory boards of the Journal of Studies in International Education and the International Education Report. He also serves on the executive committee of the Commission on International Programs of the National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges (NASULGC). He is Chair of the Academic Affairs Committee of NASULGC’s Commission on International Programs. In 2003 he was appointed to the NASULGC’s Task Force on International Education and helped draft the published report entitled A Call to Leadership: The Presidential Role in Internationalizing the University.
Dr. Darla K. Deardorff, Executive Director, Association of International Education Administrators (AIEA)
Darla K. Deardorff is the Executive Director of the Association of International Education Administrators (AIEA) based at Duke University, where she also teaches cross-cultural courses. She has worked in the international education field for over 15 years and previously has had experience in study abroad, international student services, cultural programming, administration and ESL teaching/teacher training, as well as teaching graduate courses in international education and intercultural communication. She has published widely on international education and is editor of the forthcoming Handbook of Intercultural Competence (Sage, 2009). She has given invited talks around the world on intercultural competence and assessment, most recently in Japan and Germany, and serves as a consultant on these topics. She received her masters and doctorate degrees from North Carolina State University.
Dr. William B. DeLauder, President Emeritus, Delaware State University
On July 1, 2003, Dr. DeLauder retired after serving sixteen years as President of Delaware State University. During his tenure on the Dover campus, Dr. DeLauder centered his efforts on quality academic programs and enhancement of the institution’s growth and development.
Before his appointment at Delaware State University, Dr. DeLauder was Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at North Carolina A&T State University in Greensboro, North Carolina. Prior to his appointment as Dean in 1981, he served as professor and chair of the Department of Chemistry at N.C. A&T. Dr. DeLauder served as an officer (highest rank was Captain) in the U.S. Army for about four and one-half years.
Dr. DeLauder now serves as a consultant in higher education and is Senior Counselor to the President of the National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Universities (NASULGC). In 2004, he chaired a NASULGC Task Force on International Education that released the report, A Call to Leadership – The Presidential Role in Internationalizing the University. He was Executive Director of the Commission on the Abraham Lincoln Study Abroad Fellowship Program from December 2004 through February 2007. In November 2005, the Commission issued the report, Global Competence & National Needs – One Million Americans Studying Abroad.
He is a member of the Board for International Food and Agriculture Development (BIFAD), the Executive Committee of the Partnership to Cut Hunger and Poverty in Africa, the Senior Council of the Delaware State Chamber of Commerce, the Executive Committee of the Grand Opera House and serves on numerous other civic and social organizations.
Dr. DeLauder previously served on the North Carolina Board of Science and Technology; the MARC Review Committee and the National Advisory Council of the National Institute of General Medical Sciences of NIH; the Board on Agriculture of the National Research Council, the Board of Directors of the National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges (NASULGC); the Board of Directors of the Council on Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA); member, the Middle States Commission on Higher Education of the Middle States Association of Schools and Colleges (served two years as chair), the USDA/1890 Task Force (served as chair for several years), and has been a member of numerous other committees or commissions of higher education associations.
In March 1994, Dr. DeLauder was the recipient of the Thurgood Marshall Award for outstanding contributions to the higher education of African Americans. The editors of Jet and Ebony Magazines presented this award at a nationally televised Black Achievement Award Program. In 1995, the Delaware Chapter of the National Conference of Christians and Jews honored him. In 1999, he was awarded the Educational Leadership Award of the Thurgood Marshall Scholarship Fund. Governor Ruth Ann Minner (State of Delaware) presented Dr. DeLauder with the Order of the First State Award on November 22, 2002. He was awarded the Wesley Medal by Wesley College in Dover in May 2005. He has honorary doctorate degrees from Kent State University and the University of Delaware, and numerous other awards and honors.
Dr. DeLauder earned the BS degree in chemistry from Morgan State College (now University) and the Ph.D. degree in physical chemistry from Wayne State University. He did post-doctorate research in physical biochemistry at Centre de Biophysique Moleculaire du C.N.R.S. in Orleans-La Source, France.
He is married to Vermell Faulk and has two children, Ellen and William Jr., and three granddaughters.
Ambassador Robert R. Gosende, Associate Vice Chancellor for International Programs, State University of New York
Ambassador Gosende came to the State University in 1998 after 35 years as a Foreign Service Officer. He joined SUNY as Special Assistant to the Chancellor for International Programs. In July of 2001 Mr. Gosende was appointed Associate Vice Chancellor for International Programs. Ambassador Gosende's career in the Foreign Service of the United States in the U.S. Information Agency and the Department of State was extensive and varied. His overseas experience included tours of duty as a Cultural Affairs Officer in Libya, Somalia, and Poland and as Minister-Counselor for Public Affairs in South Africa and in Russia. Mr. Gosende was President Clinton's Special Envoy to Somalia during the height of the security and humanitarian crisis in that country in 1992-93. On tours of duty in Washington, D.C., he served as the Associate Director of the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs of the U.S. Information Agency and as that agency's Deputy Director and Director for Sub-Saharan African Affairs. During 1994 he was Senior Advisor to the Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, directing the US Government's public affairs activities in support of the first multi-racial elections held in South Africa in April of that year.
During the 1978-79 academic year, Mr. Gosende was a Fellow at the Center for International Affairs and the Ukrainian Research Institute at Harvard University. For the fall semester of the 1992-93 academic year, he served as a Diplomat in Residence at the Institute for the Study of Diplomacy at Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service, teaching an undergraduate/graduate course in Public Diplomacy and conducting seminars on Southern African and Eastern European Affairs. Mr. Gosende served as the Edward R. Murrow Professor of Public Diplomacy at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University for the 1994-95 academic year. While at Fletcher he taught a course on Public Diplomacy and initiated two research projects with Fletcher and the Woodrow Wilson School of International Studies at Princeton University which explored the lessons learned from the U.S. intervention in Somalia and the role of ethnicity and self-determination in national and international affairs in the post-Cold War era.
A native of Springfield, Massachusetts, Ambassador Gosende received his B.A. and M.A. degrees from American International College in that city. American International College awarded him an honorary doctorate in 1991 in recognition of his work promoting international educational and cultural exchange. He was the 1989 recipient of the Annual Distinguished Service Award from the American Institute of Polish Culture and Art for his contributions to the expansion of educational and cultural relations between the US and Poland. Mr. Gosende received Presidential Awards from Presidents Bush and Clinton for his service as USIA's Director for African Affairs and as the President's Special Envoy to Somalia.
Carl A. Herrin, Senior Partner with Global Education Solutions LLC; Principal, Herrin Associates
Carl A. Herrin, senior partner with Global Education Solutions LLC and the principal of Herrin Associates, is a recognized expert on international education and exchange policy and practice. His professional experience includes advocacy projects on nonimmigrant visa issues, tax policy, and study abroad financial aid and programmatic initiatives. He has been active in NAFSA: Association of International Educators (he is a past-chair of NAFSA’s Education Abroad Knowledge Community); was a founding member for the Forum on Education Abroad; and is a public member of the Commission on English Language Program Accreditation (CEA). His consulting practice has a government relations and international education focus. His clients have included the Academy for Educational Development, American Councils for International Education: ACTR/ACCELS, Council on International Educational Exchange (CIEE), Gustavus Adolphus College, International Research & Exchanges Board (IREX), Montana State University, Ursinus College, Webster University, Westfield State College, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, the Commission on the Abraham Lincoln Study Abroad Scholarship Program, and NAFSA.
His has also chaired NAFSA’s Strategic Task Force on Education Abroad, led the Interorganizational Task Force on Safety and Responsibility in Study Abroad, and been board chair for the Council on Standards for International Educational Travel (CSIET). Carl’s work experience includes director of AED’s Education Abroad Initiative; government relations director for the American Councils for International Education; deputy director of the Alliance for International Educational and Cultural Exchange; executive director of the International Exchange Association, and staff director of government relations at NAFSA. He began his career with the International Student Exchange Program, then at Georgetown University.
Carl writes on international exchange policy issues, including topics as varied as U.S.-Japan exchange relations, the J Exchange Visitor Program, and the D.C. political scene. A 1981 graduate of Georgetown University, Carl is a study abroad product, studying at the University of Kent at Canterbury and at the University of Heidelberg.
Dr. Futao Huang, Professor in Research Institute for Higher Education, Hiroshima University, Japan.
Futao Huang is professor in Research Institute for Higher Education, Hiroshima University, Japan. He had worked in several Chinese universities before he came to Japan. His major research interests include: (1) a comparative study of university curricular development; (2) policy changes, organizations, structures and governance patterns relating to higher education in China and Japan; (3) internationalization of higher education in East Asia. He published widely in Chinese, Japanese and English langauages.
His recent publications include “Internationalization of Curricula in Higher Education Institutions in Comparative Perspectives-Case Studies of China, Japan and the Netherlands-” (Higher Education, 2006), “Qualitative Enhancement and Quantitative Growth: Changes and Trends of China’s Higher Education” (Higher Education Policy, 2005), “Internationalization of Higher Education in an Age of Globalization - Historic and Comparative Perspectives” (Peking University Education Review, 2003, in Chinese), “University Ideals and Undergraduate Curriculum Reforms: Historic and Comparative Perspective” (Daigaku Ronsyu, 2007, in Japanese). Besides, in the last three years he also edited one Japanese book “Reforms and Trends of Chinese Higher Education since the 1990s” (2005) and one English book “Transnational Higher Education in Asia and the Pacific Region” (2006).
George Joseph, Secretary for International Affairs, Yale University
George Joseph has been Yale University's Secretary for International Affairs (Asia) since 2005. He is responsible for supporting a broad array of activities that advance Yale's presence and reputation in Asia, including admissions, development, and relations with alumni, corporations, governments, media, and overseas educational institutions. He also has responsibility for developing Yale's leadership training programs for foreign governmental officials, having most recently served as director of the ongoing Japan-Yale Senior Government Leadership Program and the India-Yale Parliamentary Leadership Program. Joseph holds undergraduate and graduate degrees from Washington University in St. Louis and graduate degrees from Yale University.
Tsutomu Kimura, President, National Institution for Academic Degrees and University Evaluation
Tsutomo Kimura serves as the President of National Institution for Academic Degrees and University of Evaluation. Previously, Tsutomo Kimura has retired from the Tokyo Institute of Technology as Professor Emeritus, having worked as President, Dean of Engineering, and Dean of the Students Office. He was a research fellow at University of Cambridge and University of Strathclyde. He was awarded his Doctoral degree from Tokyo Institute of Technology.
Professor Yuji Kishimoto, Special Assistant to thePresident of Clemson University; Professor of Architecture
Yuji Kishimoto serves as Special Assistant to the president as well as Professor of Architecture professor of architecture at Clemson University. Mr. Kishimoto is also the Director of Exchange programs between Clemson University and many universities in Japan.
Mr. Kishimoto is the recipient of many awards, including the Clemson University Board of Trustees Award for Faculty Excellence, the South Carolina Ambassador for Economic Development, and the Consul General of Japan Commendation Award for US-Japan relations in the Southeast United States among other awards.
Mr. Kishimoto enjoys oil painting, classical guitar, and running marathons in his free time. He his married to Toshiko Kishimoto, a Professor of Japanese Language, with whom he has one Daughter, Kyo Kishimoto Brown of Atlanta, Georgia.
Michael McCarry, Executive Director, Alliance for International Education and Cultural Exchange
Michael McCarry joined the Alliance for International Educational and Cultural Exchange as its executive director in 1994.
Previously, he spent 18 years with the U.S. Information Agency as a Foreign Service Officer. He served as Cultural Attaché in Beijing in the years immediately following the Tiananmen Square events of 1989, and led negotiations to restore the Fulbright program and Peace Corps after their suspension by the Chinese government. He also served in Thailand, in both Bangkok and Chiang Mai. He speaks Mandarin Chinese and Thai.
McCarry also has worked as a Congressional aide and as a journalist.
He received an MA from the University of Texas, Austin, a BA from Notre Dame, and studied at Melbourne University in Australia as a Rotary Graduate Fellow.
Dr. Cheryl Matherly, Associate Dean for Global Education and Applied Assistant Professor of Education, University of Tulsa
Dr. Cheryl Matherly is Associate Dean for Global Education and Applied Assistant Professor of Education at the University of Tulsa, where she directs the institution’s international study, work, and volunteer programs. She is currently directing the university’s strategic initiatives with universities in China. Dr. Matherly’s special area of interest is the impact of globalization on the workplace. She currently co-directs the INNOVATE conference, which involves students from five countries in the study of globalization and technology in Asia, and the NanoJapan program, funded by the National Science Foundation in order to expand international research opportunities for science and engineering majors. NanoJapan was recognized by the Institute for International Education in 2008 with the prestigious Andrew Heiskell Award for Innovations in Study Abroad. Dr. Matherly has written numerous articles for national publications on international work opportunities. She is the recipient of two Fulbright grants for international education administrators (Germany and Japan).
Dr. James R. Mihelcic, Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Michigan Technological University
Dr. James R. Mihelcic is a Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering at Michigan Technological University. In August of 2008 Dr. Mihelcic is moving to the University of South Florida (USF) where he will be a Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering and a State of Florida 21st Century World Class Scholar. At USF he will be actively involved with the Dr. Kiran C. Patel Center for Global Solutions. He is currently a PI on several million dollars of research grants related to sustainability. Dr. Mihelcic is the current President of the Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors (AEESP) and is a past recipient of the AEESP-Wiley Interscience Award for Outstanding Contributions to Environmental Engineering & Science Education. He has also received several departmental teaching awards. Dr. Mihelcic is also a member of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Science Advisory Board Environmental Engineering Committee.
Dr. Mihelcic directs the Master’s International program in Civil & Environmental Engineering. It is the only program of its kind in the U.S. and allows students to combine graduate school with 2+ years of overseas engineering service in the U.S. Peace Corps.
He is the lead author of three textbooks: Fundamentals of Environmental Engineering (John Wiley & Sons, 1999), Environmental Engineering: Fundamentals, Design, Sustainability (John Wiley & Sons, 2008) and Field Guide in Environmental Engineering for Development Workers: Water, Sanitation, Indoor Air, (American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Press, 2008). He has studied environmental policy as an AAAS-U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Environmental Fellow and traveled extensively in the developing world to conduct research and work on development issues related to water, sanitation and global health.
Dr. D. Joseph Mook, Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York
Dr. D. Joseph Mook is Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York. He was Department Chair of MAE from 2004-2007, and in addition, he was the Assistant Dean for International Education for the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences from 1997-2007. In the latter role, he created numerous innovative new programs and greatly expanded UB engineering student participation in international activities.
Dr. Mook also serves as the Chair of the Executive Committee of the Global Engineering Education Exchange (Global E3). The Global E3 facilitates student exchanges and study abroad programs between approximately 100 leading universities in 19 countries, and is the world’s largest organization of its kind for engineering student exchanges.
Dr. Mook has received two SUNY Chancellor’s Awards from the 64-campus SUNY system – one for Excellence in Teaching, and one for Internationalization. He has also received the Milton Plesur Award, the highest University at Buffalo teaching award decided entirely by students. He is also a past recipient of an Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship from Germany, and a Senior Research Fellowship from the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science.
Dr. Mook holds a Ph.D. in Engineering Mechanics from Virginia Tech. His research work spans topics in optimal estimation, system identification, and controls, with applications including spacecraft and aircraft guidance and navigation, flight controls and automatic landing systems, several topics in ground vehicles, and even air separation plants. He has authored or co-authored approximately 100 publications and has served as PI on dozens of sponsored programs from numerous sources, with the biggest support coming from NASA, Ford, the Navy, and the Air Force.
Dr. Junichi Mori, Director and Professor, The International Center, Kyoto University
Professor Junichi Mori has been director of the International Center (IC) of Kyoto University since April 2007. Before joining the IC as a professor in April 2004, he worked at the Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi and the Institute for International Monetary Affairs, and was engaged in financial business and research. Professor Mori has worked for various development assistance projects for Asian countries. He currently lectures in Development Economics at the IC. He is very active in promoting international student exchange and is a member of the University International Strategy Council of the JSPS (Japan Society for the Promotion of Science).
Prof. Toshifumi Nagamatsu, Associate Professor at Tottori University
Toshifumi Nagamatsu is associate professor at Tottori University. He has been research fellow of Japan Foundation on Media Art research in New York City (2005). He has served on the selection committee of supporting program for good practice appointed by Japan University Accreditation Association (2004-2007). Professor Nagamatsu has published many articles on sociology and university education and has authored or edited over ten volumes. His most recent publication, University in Reform (Tottori University Bulletin, 2006), has attracted the importance of effective allocation of academic resources in the university.
Dr. Akira Ninomiya, Executive and Vice-president (Research, International Relations, and University-Community Collaboration) at Hiroshima University, and professor of comparative and international education.
Akira Ninomiya (62) is the Executive and Vice-president (Research, International Relations, and University-Community Collaboration) at Hiroshima University, and a professor of comparative and international education. He directed the Center for the Study of International Cooperation in Education (CICE) at Hiroshima University. He has been one of the members of the Government Scholarship Students Selection Committee for the past 15 years, and the member of the Special Committee for Foreign Students of the Central Council for Education at MEXT since 2007. He has authored some books as Schools in the World (2006), Theories of Citizenship Education (2007), etc. He co-chaired the Vice-president Forums of the University Mobility in Asia and the Pacific (UMAP) and also co-chaired the Japan-South Africa Vice-president Forums in 2007 and 2008. He has some experiences of internationalization programs for higher education not only in Japan but also in the world-wide dimensions.
Dr. Tsutomu Nomizu, Advisor to the President and Professor, Nagoya University
Tsutomu Nomizu, starts to serve as the Advisor to the President and the Director of International Strategic Planning Office on April 1, 2008. He also serves as the Director of Academic Consortium for the 21st Century (AC21) General Secretariat since September 1, 2006. The AC21 was established in 2002 with 24 world’s leading educational and research institutions at the International Forum 2002 hosted by Nagoya University. Since then, Nagoya University continues to host the AC21 General Secretariat. He has also been in charge of Nagoya University’s student exchange program (NUPACE) as the Academic Coordinator since 1996. NUPACE provides its participants (more than 70 students a year) with the flexibility to study in a variety of academic fields. He also belongs to the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, the Graduate School of Engineering where his major is instrumental analytical chemistry. He is especially interested in the instrumentation of new principles such as magnetic chromatography and techniques for detecting ultra-trace elements in materials and environmental matters and for separating and characterizing submicron particles.
Dr. Shinnosuke Obi, Professor and Director, International Center, Keio University,
Professor Obi is Director of the International Center at Keio University in Tokyo, Japan. Prior to his current appointment he was Deputy Director of the center from 2003-2005 and Chairman of the Committee for International Affairs at the Faculty of Science and Technology from 2001-2005 where he was deeply involved in launching the International Graduate Programs on Advanced Science and Technology.
He has a BSc and MSc (mechanical engineering) from Keio University, and a Dr.-Ing. from the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg in Germany. Concurrent with his position in the International Center, he is a professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Science and Technology. He is a member of the Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers, Japan Society of Fluid Mechanics, Heat Transfer Society of Japan, Gas Turbine Society of Japan, and the Japan Society of Civil Engineers.
Professor Obi’s research focuses on fluid mechanics, turbulence modeling, computational mechanics, heat transfer, and flow measurement technique. He has published numerous articles and reviews in academic journals, edited books and refereed proceedings in Japanese and English, and has delivered over 100 presentations at Japanese conferences and meetings.
Dr. Satoshi Ogihara, Professor and International Relations Coordinator, Director, International Training Program (ITP) at Osaka University
Satoshi Ogihara is a professor and international relations coordinator who helps young talents enhance their ability and potential in academic fields. A director of International Training Program (ITP) at Osaka University now, Ogihara started working on the ITP in 2007 to help young scholars broaden their views in intercultural settings. Apart from the ITP, Ogihara has spent over twenty years on education and research at Department of Biology and Graduate School of Science at Osaka Univeristy. His education backgrounds are; B.A. International Christian Univerisity, M.Sc and Ph.D. Osaka Univerisity, Postdoctoral fellow at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, USA. While teaching as an experienced professor, Ogihara is now actively involved finding new channels for education and research exchanges between Osaka University and higher institutions in Europe through ITP to strengthen existing ones. In addition to the ITP, he has lately launched an international education program to welcome international students from oversea universities. The program, entitled “FrontierLab@OsakaU” puts a great and attractive emphasis on hands-on experiences and learning in practice communities in a variety of frontier research fields in science and technology.
Dr. Sabine U. O'Hara, Executive Director of CIES, Vice President of IIE
Dr. Sabine U. O’Hara began her tenure as Executive Director of the Council for International Exchange of Scholars (CIES) and Vice President of IIE in July 2007. A respected author, researcher and professor, she is well known for her expertise in sustainable economic development and global education. She has lectured around the globe, including Australia, Brazil, Costa Rica, France, Germany, Tunisia and the UK and is the author of two books and numerous peer-reviewed articles, book chapters and research reports. In addition, she has developed and taught numerous undergraduate and graduate courses, many related economic development, sustainability and economics and ethics.
Dr. O’Hara is a strong advocate of higher education, who believes that education is not simply about having one’s questions answered but about having one’s answers questioned. Learning from and serving others, cultural and environmental context awareness, and questioning standard solutions in order to solve problems creatively are key not only to finding a successful career, but to leading a meaningful life.
Before joining CIES/IIE, Dr. O’Hara was President of Roanoke College in Salem, Virginia. Serving as the college’s 10th president she led Roanoke through a successful strategic planning process and established a new focus on integrative learning to guide curricular, co-curricular and facilities innovations. Prior to joining Roanoke, Dr. O’Hara held faculty and administrative positions at Concordia College in Moorhead, Minnesota, at Green Mountain College in Poultney, Vermont, at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York, was a visiting scholar at Harvard University and director of public policy for the New York State Council of Churches in Albany, New York.
Dr. O’Hara is a native of Germany and completed her undergraduate and graduate studies at the University of Gottingen, where she also received a doctorate in environmental economics. She serves on the board of directors of several national organizations, including the Association for Social Economics and as president of the United States Society of Ecological Economics.
Dr. Barbara M. Olds, Associate Provost for Educational Innovation and Professor of Liberal Arts and International Studies, Colorado School of Mines
Barbara M. Olds is Associate Provost for Educational Innovation and Professor of Liberal Arts and International Studies at the Colorado School of Mines (CSM) where she has been on the faculty since 1984. From 2003 to 2006 she was on leave at the National Science Foundation where she served as the Division Director for the Division of Research, Evaluation and Communication (REC) in the Education and Human Resources Directorate.
During the 2006-2007 academic year, Olds was a part-time visiting professor in Purdue University’s Engineering Education Department. Her research interests focus primarily on understanding and assessing engineering student learning, including recent work developing concept inventories for engineering topics with colleagues from CSM and Purdue. She has participated in a number of curriculum innovation projects and has been active in the engineering education and assessment communities.
Olds is a Fellow of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE), currently serving as the Chair of the International Advisory Committee of ASEE. She is also a member of the Advisory Committee for NSF’s Office of International Science and Engineering, and was a Fulbright lecturer/researcher in Sweden.
Dr. Hiroshi Ota, Associate Professor and Director, Office of the Promotion of International Relations, Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo
Research Advisor, Project Team for Supporting University Internationalization, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
Hiroshi Ota is currently Associate Professor and Director of Office of the Promotion of International Relations, Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo and Research Advisor of Japan Society for the Promotion of Science’s Project Team for Supporting University Internationalization. Prior to his current position, Ota worked for the Office of International Education at State University of New York at Buffalo from 2000 to 2002 and the International Programs Office at Toyo University, Tokyo from 1988 to 1999.
Ota has published several articles and delivered many conference papers on international education policies and practices in comparative perspective. He is presently involved with two major research projects, which are “Strategic Fund for Establishing International Headquarters in Universities” and “Future Prospects of International Student Exchanges in Japanese Universities” funded by the Japanese government.
Ota earned his B.A. from Kokugakuin University, Tokyo and his Ed.M. in Social Foundations of Education (Comparative and Global Studies in Education) from State University of New York at Buffalo. Also, he has just completed his doctoral program of SUNY-Buffalo and the title of his dissertation is “Changing Policies and Practices of Japanese National Universities Toward International Students in Light of Financial and Demographic Challenges and the New University ‘Corporatization’.” In addition, he was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to study international education administration in the U.S. in 1996.
Pamela Ruiz is the Director and National Secretary of IAESTE United States.
Pamela Ruiz is the Director and National Secretary of IAESTE United States. In addition to representing the United States internationally in IAESTE A.s.b.l, Ms. Ruiz has also developed strategies for corporate partnership and institutional membership within IAESTE United States, while also introducing the Global Education Initiative (a program that introduces international culture and exchange to middle school children) in Howard County, Maryland. Ms. Ruiz has initiated and developed IAESTE United States’ current partnership with the National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE), in an effort to internationalize NSBE membership and further broaden and diversify the membership and opportunities for IAESTE United States. Prior to joining IAESTE United States, she worked as a Language Specialist for Cendant Mobility (now Cartus), an international relocation company, facilitating language training for inbound and outbound executives and their families, and also has previous experience in the translation industry. Ms. Ruiz graduated from James Madison University with a Bachelors degree in Art History, and has lived and studied in Italy.
Dr. Toshiyuki Sameshima, Professor, Graduate School of Engineering, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology
Toshiyuki Sameshima has been teaching and conducting his research at the Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology (TUAT) in the electrical engineering area for 13 years. He has been leading the TUAT “International Program for Training Pre-Tenure-Track Young Researchers in Nano-Materials” since 2007 as its program leader. Prof. Sameshima has a M.Sc. and PhD from Shizuoka University. Before becoming a faculty member of TUAT, he has worked for Sony Corporation Research Center, Yokohama Japan as a research scientist in the semiconductor device area for 13 years. He has research experiences at the Max-Planck-Institute, Stuttgart, Germany for one year in 1994 as a visiting scientist. He has published more than 200 refereed journal original papers and international conference papers, and has approximately 80 patents. He is the Fellow of the Society of Japanese Applied Physics and Physical Society Japan. He had served as the program chair of the international conference of Active Matrix Liquid Crystal Display in 1999, the conference chair of the international conference of polycrystalline semiconductors VII in 2002, the conference chair of the thin film materials and device meeting in 2004, and a chair of the advisory committee of the thin film materials and device meeting from 2005 to 2008.
Dr. Mark Scheid, Fulbright Senior Specialist
Dr. Mark Scheid is a Fulbright Senior Specialist in higher education structure and administration, currently serving as consultant to a number of US and international universities.
He began his career as a professor of English at Texas Southern University and went on to serve in the administration of Rice University as assistant vice-president for student affairs, interim vice-president for enrollment, executive director of international
programs and scholarships, and assistant to the president. He is
concluding a two-year appointment as managing director for programs and internationalization at Rice's Baker Institute of Public Policy, a time period which saw the institute being named to the "top thirty" think tanks in America.He is a founding board member of the Forum on Education Abroad and an inaugural member of the Partnership Council of the School for International Training, the advisory board to the Alliance for Education
Abroad and the NAFSA working group on consular and visa affairs.
His most recent presentations include seminars on crisis management at several national conferences, and his most recent publication is a co-authored paper on "The Georgetown University Consortium Project," the
first major multi-institutional, multi-disciplinary, and multi-language evaluation of outcomes assessment among US study-abroad students.
Dr. Mitsuhide Shiraki, Professor, Faculty of Political Science and Economics; Dean, Center for International Education, Waseda University
Dr. Mitsuhide Shiraki is a Professor in the Faculty of Political Science and Economics at Waseda University. Dr. Shiraki also serves as Dean for the university's Center for International Education. Shiraki maintains a background in International Human Resource Management.
Dr. Matsuhide Shiraki serves as Executive Vice President for both the Japan Society of Human Resource Management and the Japan Academy of International Business Studies, and maintains membership in the Labor Policy Council, Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare.
Dr. Larry J Shuman, Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, School of Engineering, University of Pittsburgh and Professor of Industrial Engineering
Larry J Shuman is Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, School of Engineering, University of Pittsburgh and Professor of Industrial Engineering. Dr. Shuman’s research has focused on improving the engineering educational experience through the development of learning and assessment methodologies. Specific studies have included the use of models and modeling for both learning and assessment, the development of methodologies to assess student problem solving strategies, assessing students’ abilities to resolve engineering related ethical dilemmas, and the offshoring of engineering functions and the implications for engineering education. In addition, he is currently involved in studying responses to large scale disasters through the use of simulation methodologies.Within the School of Engineering, Dr. Shuman has led the development of a very successful cooperative engineering education program and an innovative study abroad program. These latter initiatives have included a program for engineering and business students interested in the global supply chain on the summer Semester at Sea voyage and the “Plus3” integrated field trip abroad for rising engineering and business sophomores, which received the 2005 Heiskell Award from the Institute for International Education for “Innovation in Study Aboard.”
Dr. Shuman has also helped develop and implement an integrated curriculum for engineering freshmen that links together mathematics, physics, chemistry, writing and engineering. Current educational projects are focused on expanding the study and work abroad experiences of engineering students and the development of interdisciplinary undergraduate engineering degrees.
Dr. Shuman has published widely in the engineering education literature and is a co-author of Engineering Ethics: Balancing Cost Schedule and Risk - Lessons Learned from the Space Shuttle (Cambridge University Press, 1997). He and his colleagues regularly present papers at both the American Society of Engineering Education Annual Meeting and the annual Frontiers in Education Conference. Dr. Shuman is the founding editor of ASEE’s Advances in Engineering Education and served as a Senior Associate Editor and a member of the Editorial Review Board for the Journal of Engineering Education. He has been principle or co-principle investigator on thirty sponsored research projects funded from such government agencies and foundations as the National Science Foundation, the Fund for the Improvement of Post Secondary Education (FIPSE), US Departments of Health and Human Services and the Department of Transportation, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and Engineering Information Foundation.
Dr Shuman holds the Ph.D. in Operations Research from the Johns Hopkins University and the B.S.E.E. from the University of Cincinnati. He served as the Academic Dean for the “Semester at Sea” for the Spring 2002 semester, is currently a visiting Fellow at the Kanazawa Institute of Technology and is a Fellow of the American Society of Engineering Education.
Dr. Susan Buck Sutton, Associate Vice President of International Affairs, Indiana University
Susan Buck Sutton is Associate Vice President of International Affairs for Indiana University (IU) with both system-wide and campus-specific responsibilities. With respect to the latter, Sutton also holds the title of Associate Vice Chancellor of International Affairs for IU’s urban campus, Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI). At IUPUI, she leads campus efforts in all aspects of internationalization, from international student admissions and services to curriculum internationalization.
Sutton has particular expertise with respect to international partnerships, comprehensive internationalization across the campus, and international service learning. She has worked closely with the Internationalization Collaborative of the American Council on Education on these matters, serves on the Executive Committee of the Association of International Education Administrators, and is the in-coming Chair of the International Education Leadership Knowledge Community of NAFSA. Sutton is also Chancellor’s Professor of Anthropology and the current President of the General Anthropology Division of the American Anthropological Association. As an anthropologist, Sutton’s research has focused on migration, tourism, and community in contemporary Greece. She has published three books and several dozen articles on these topics.
Sutton received her BA from Bryn Mawr College and PhD from the University of North Carolina.
Ujihara Taku, Deputy Director for the International Science and Technology Affairs Division of the Science and Technology Policy Bereau, MEXT.
Ujihara Taku serves as Deputy Director for the International Science and Technology Affairs Division of the Science and Technology Policy Bereau, MEXT. Taku has previously worked as Guest Research Scholar, Program of STS, School of Humanities and Sciences at Stanford University, as Deputy Director, Office for Materials Science and Nanotechnology Development, Basic and Generic Research Division, Research Promotion Bureau, MEXT, Senior Specialist for Nuclear Emergency Planning, Science and Technology Policy Bureau, MEXT, Unit Chief, Nuclear Safety Division, Science and Technology Policy Bureau, MEXT, Unit Chief, Research and Coordination Division, Science and Technology Policy Bureau, MEXT, and in the Nuclear Waste Management Office, Electricity and Gas Industry Department, Agency for Natural Resources and Energy, METI
Dr. Kay A. Thomas, Director of International Student and Scholar Services Office, Office of International Programs, University of Minnesota
Dr. Kay Thomas leads the International Student and Scholar Services for the University of Minnesota, an office that recruits and supports 4700 international students and scholars from over 130 countries. She is also faculty in the Counseling and Student Personnel Psychology program in the Department of Educational Psychology and regularly teaches Cross Cultural Counseling. She holds a PhD in Educational Psychology from the University of Minnesota.
As an active member of NAFSA: Association of International Educators, she has held numerous leadership positions at the regional and national level including serving as the organization’s national president in 2000-2001, and most recently as the first chair of the Teaching, Learning, and Scholarship Knowledge Community.
She has been an invited speaker and consultant in Japan, Korea, and Singapore and to numerous colleges and universities in the United States on issues of international education and student services. She has received two Fulbright awards; one to Japan and another to Korea.
Dr. Vaughan Turekian, Chief International Officer, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
Dr. Vaughan Turekian is the Chief International Officer for the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). In this role he leads, develops and coordinates the broad range of AAAS's international activities.
Prior to this position, Dr. Turekian served as Special Assistant to the Under Secretary of State for Democracy and Global Affairs, where and was her lead advisor on international science, technology, environment and health issues, including, clean energy, sustainable development, climate change, scientific outreach and avian influenza. He is the two time recipient of the Departmentâ s Superior Honor Award for his work on climate change and avian influenza.
Prior to his time at the State Department, Dr. Turekian worked at the National Academy of Sciences (NAS). In 2001, he was the Study Director for the White House requested NAS report on climate change science. He has published a numerous articles on the linkages between science and international policy.
Dr. Turekian received his masters and doctorate in atmospheric geochemistry from the University of Virginia, where he focused on applying stable isotopic tracers to characterize aerosol sources and chemistry in the marine boundary layer and was awarded the Maury Prize as the Outstanding Student in Environmental Sciences. He is a graduate of Yale University with degrees in Geology and Geophysics and International Studies.
Dr. Richard F. Vaz, Dean of Interdisciplinary and Global Studies, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Richard F. Vaz received the PhD in electrical engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), focusing on signal analysis and machine vision. He held systems and design engineering positions with the Raytheon Company, GenRad Inc., and the MITRE Corporation before joining the WPI Electrical and Computer Engineering faculty in 1987.
Vaz is currently Dean of Interdisciplinary and Global Studies at WPI, with oversight of WPI’s nationally-recognized Global Perspective Program, through which over 500 students per year complete research projects at one of 24 Project Centers located in Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, and the Americas. He also leads an academic unit focusing on teaching and research in regional and local sustainability. His interests include experiential learning, engineering design and appropriate technology, and internationalizing engineering education. He has developed and directed interdisciplinary and technical student research projects in Australia, England, Ireland, Italy, Morocco, Namibia, the Netherlands, Thailand, and the United States.
Vaz is a member of IEEE, ASEE, Sigma Xi, and Eta Kappa Nu, and since 2004 has served as a Senior Science Fellow of the Association of American Colleges and Universities. He has published and presented widely and is the recipient of numerous teaching and advising awards, including the WPI Trustees’ Awards for Outstanding Teaching and for Outstanding Advising. His interests outside of academia include golf, cooking, wine, and the Boston Red Sox.
Dr. Larry H. Weber, Senior Program Manager, National Science Foundation
Larry H. Weber is currently serving as Senior Program Manager in the Office of International Science & Engineering (OISE) East Asia and Pacific Program. He served as Head of the NSF Tokyo Office from January-August 2007 and as Acting Deputy Director of OISE from March 2005 through February 2006. In 1999-2000, Weber was a fellow in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, where he worked on issues related to global change, carbon sequestration, polar research, ocean science, and environmental education. Weber served as Director of the NSF Tokyo Office in the American Embassy in Japan from 1991-1996.
Before joining NSF in 1987, Weber was a research oceanographer at Texas A&M University, with international collaborations on projects in the Antarctic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea.
Weber received a B.S. in Biology from Brigham Young University – Hawaii Campus, and a Ph.D. in Biological Oceanography from Texas A&M University.
Brian Whalen, President and CEO of the Forum on Education Abroad
Brian Whalen serves as the President and CEO of the Forum on Education Abroad, a global membership association of over 300 institutional members, and the only organization whose exclusive purpose it is to serve the field of U.S. education abroad. He is also Associate Provost, Associate Professor of International Studies and Executive Director of the Office of Global Education at Dickinson College. He has been involved in international education for over 20 years, and has served as a resident director in Italy for five years. He is the founding editor of Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad, and continues to serve as its editor and publisher. Brian holds B.A., M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in psychology.
Dr. Shinobu Yume Yamaguchi, Professor at Global Scientific Information and Computing Center, Tokyo Institute of Technology.
Shinobu Yume Yamaguchi is Professor at Global Scientific Information and Computing Center, Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech). Having served as Assistant to the University President for International Affairs, and as a member of International Planning Office, she participates in formulation and implementation of internationalization strategy of the university for providing series of opportunities of international activities.
During 15 years of experience overseas, she received Ph.D. in Economics of Education from Columbia University, New York. Before taking up her appointment at Tokyo Tech, she worked for United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization as an education expert. She was mainly involved in development of higher education and HRD projects in China, Mongolia, Thailand and Pakistan, with particular interest in distance education to promote human resources development. She is currently conducting research in the areas of education and information technology, as well as developing globally collaborated projects. She is teaching graduate courses at the Department of International Development Engineering Systems at Tokyo Tech, and also is an invited lecturer at the Foundation of Advanced Studies on International Development.
With her international background, she is active in working with external agencies as a committee member to promote international activities of Japanese higher educational institutions. She also serves as a management committee member for the Joint Graduate Course of United Nations University.
For Japanese Participants and Speakers
For U.S. Speakers
For U.S. Participants
The second phase of the symposium “Strategic Initiatives for University Internationalization” will take place in Japan from December 1-5, 2008. The purpose of the program is to bring together leaders from US and Japanese universities who have responsibility for campus internationalization in order to share best practices and encourage collaborations. The symposium especially considers the unique role that science and engineering education plays with regards to research universities’ internationalization strategies. The December program, like the Phase I meeting in May 2008, will involve faculty and administrators from the 20 Japanese universities that have received funding from the Ministry of Education (MEXT) to establish international strategy headquarters in Japanese universities. The December program will provide participants an overview of developments in Japanese higher education and opportunities for in-depth discussions with institutions regarding cooperative projects. US delegates will also participate in the two day symposium organized for Strategic International Headquarters (SIH) universities and will be invited to present on topics related to internationalization activities at their home campuses.
The National Science Foundation has provided funding for 12 US faculty and administrators to participate in the program, including roundtrip airfare to Japan, ground transportation in Japan, lodging and meals. (Individuals selected for the delegation will be responsible for their own airfare to the Houston, the departure city for the group flight to Tokyo. US departure is scheduled for November 29, 2008.) Priority will be given to individuals who participated in the May symposium and who are with institutions that have a demonstrated interest in collaborations in Japan. If you are interested in being considered to participate in the December program, please submit the following information by August 22, 2008 to:
Dr. Cheryl Matherly
Associate Dean, Global Education
University of Tulsa
800 S. Tucker Dr.
Tulsa, OK 74104
cheryl-matherly@utulsa.edu
Tel: 918-712-9298
Fax: 918-631-3189
Application materials should include:
• Current CV
• Description of your institution’s/organization’s current international activities, with special attention to collaborative programs in Japan and initiatives targeting science and engineering education
• A personal statement summarizing your goals for participation. Please address your previous experience in Japan. Also include a summary of topics about which you could present as part of the symposium organized for the Strategic Fund for Establishing International Headquarters in Universities (SIH) Symposium 2008: “Universities International Strategies”
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