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Dear Colleagues,
With this first newsletter of 2020, I hope your year is off to a great start. Looking back on 2019 as we officially wrapped up our 100th year, we are more hopeful and convinced of the importance of international education moving into our next 100 years. As always, thank you for your partnership that makes our work possible. We look forward to moving ahead together in this new year and new decade.
Wishing you all the best,
Jonathan Lembright, PhD, Regional Director for Southeast Asia
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IIE Announces Winners of 2020 Andrew Heiskell Awards for Innovation
IIE recognized the winners of the annual IIE Andrew Heiskell Awards for Innovation in International Education on January 27. The programs that are receiving these prestigious awards are at the frontier of developing new models to build international partnerships, internationalize campuses, and promote study abroad. Read more.
The four winners and three honorable mentions represent the broad diversity of higher education institutions in the IIE Network. They include a community college and major research universities and institutions from Pennsylvania to the South Island of New Zealand. The programs these institutions run take their students all over the world and bring international issues to campus. They demonstrate the important work being done to prepare students for a competitive labor market that prizes the ability to work across cultures and encourage them to develop a better sense of their own roles as global citizens.
Internationalizing the Campus
- Rice University. Since its founding in 2012, Brasil@Rice has served as a hub for meaningful connections between Brazil and the university.
- Honorable Mention: Texas A&M International University. Reading the Globe. Texas A&M International University’s signature Freshman Common Read program, creates student awareness of the importance of global learning, cultural tolerance, and development of social and personal responsibility through an international memoir that is read and discussed in their University seminar.
Internationalizing the Community College Campus
- Harper College. The Global Region of Focus Initiative is the engine that drives Harper College’s internationalization efforts. A three-year cycle of interdisciplinary programs and area studies centered around a region of the world, GRF embodies an integrated, intentional, and strategic approach to the internationalization of the students, faculty, curricula, and programs of the college.
Partnerships
- Lehigh University. Fifteen years ago, Lehigh University launched the Lehigh University / United Nations Partnership, becoming the sixth university in the world to be accredited by the UN as a non-governmental organization and the partnership with the UN continues to grow.
- Honorable Mention: Kansas State University. The Australian Initiative and Oz-to-Oz Program makes Kansas State University the first U.S. educational institutional partner of the Australian-American Fulbright Commission.
Study Abroad
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IIE-Scholar Rescue Fund (SRF) 2019 Year in Review
IIE-SRF supported nearly 200 scholars from 29 countries, in partnership with more than 120 higher education institutions and other partners in 23 countries. Following is a summary of the tremendous work accomplished through this program in 2019:
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New IIE Yangon Office Opens in Myanmar
On Friday, February 7, 2020 IIE celebrated the opening of a new office in Yangon, Myanmar. The office will be primarily dedicated to leading the Lincoln Scholarship Program in partnership with Thabyay Education Foundation and funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). The program provides scholarships for graduate studies in the U.S. for young Myanmar scholars of diverse backgrounds.
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MOU Signing with BEAM Education Foundation
Earlier this month, IIE Bangkok signed an MOU with the BEAM Education Foundation, a registered non-profit educational foundation based in Chiang Mai, Thailand. The BEAM Foundation was created in response to the rising educational needs of marginalized people, migrants, and refugees most of whom are from Myanmar. This partnership will serve to benefit displaced students in the region area who aspire to pursue university studies.
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TOEFL ITP at Sarasas Witaed Affiliated Schools
On January 23, 2020, Sarasas Witaed Affiliated Schools Group hosted the TOEFL ITP exams at its Bangbon and Thonburi campuses. Several hundred Grade 12 students sat for the TOEFL ITP as an internal assessment to gauge their English proficiency after going through their 3-year bilingual program. With scores separated into the three sections of the TOEFL ITP – Listening Comprehension, Structure and Written Expressions, and Reading Comprehension – students were able to measure their skills in these three core competencies, as well as match the scores with detailed descriptions according to the CEFR criterion. The Sarasas Witaed Group has embraced the TOEFL ITP as its global-standard English assessment, and will serve as a role model for other high schools with bilingual programs throughout the country.
For more information about the TOEFL ITP, please visit the IIE Southeast Asia website
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Partnership Established with New AI University in Abu Dhabi
IIE has recently undertaken a partnership with Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI) to provide outreach and screening services in Southeast Asia for potential graduate applicants, universities, and partner organizations throughout the region.
Established in Abu Dhabi in 2019, MBZUAI is the first graduate level, research-based AI university in the world. The university will provide all admitted students with a full scholarship, plus benefits such as a monthly allowance, health insurance, and accommodation. Applicants can now apply via MBZUAI’s website, with the first class of students set to commence coursework in September 2020.
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EducationUSA Southeast Asia Fair Tour 2020
EducationUSA in Southeast Asia is looking forward to starting off the New Year with a variety of student engagement opportunities, regional events focused on student recruitment, and participation in global conferences on behalf of the network. The next big agenda items for EducationUSA are the Spring college fairs taking place throughout the months of February and March. The EducationUSA Southeast Asia Fair Tour 2020 will visit 10 countries and 19 cities across Southeast Asia from February 11 – March 21. The fair tour will promote undergraduate and graduate programs from some of the top U.S. schools seeking international student enrollments.
In addition EducationUSA will also host a pavilion at the Asia Pacific Association for International Education 2020 (APAIE) conference held in Vancouver, Canada from March 22-26. Over a dozen U.S. schools have registered to collaborate with EducationUSA at the booth space as they plan to identify partnership opportunities with local institutions from the East Asia and Pacific region. Our EducationUSA advising staff are looking forward to a successful year ahead as we continue to promote higher education in the United States!
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Publications and Research
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The Changing Role of the SIO: New Directions in Internationalization and Student Success
SIOs have been at the forefront of many important changes in international education, but do they have the same role today? In the Fall 2019 issue of the IIENetworker magazine, The New Student: Shifting the Global Education Paradigm, Joanna Regulska - University of California, Davis, and winner of IIE's Inagural SIO Award - discusses how SIOs must adapt to today's shifts to be able to prepare all students.
Print copies of the IIENetworker are available in IIE's online bookstore. Share your thoughts with @iieglobal on Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter using #thenewstudent.
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Events and Upcoming Deadlines
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Asia-Pacific's most comprehensive international higher education conference will take place next month for the first time in North America. The event will bring together 50+ countries, 350+ exhibitors, and 2,500 delegates.
IIE will be represented and be sure to mark your calendar to attend our session on "Refugees in Asia Pacific: How Can Universities be (Better) Engaged?", taking place at 4:30 PM on Tuesday, March 24th! Visit https://apaie2020.org/ for more information.
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2020 IIE Excellence Awards – Southeast Asia
June 11, 20202 | Bangkok
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Going Global
June 29-30, 20202 | London
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EducationUSA Forum 2020
July 28-30, 20202 | Washington, DC
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