Here’s the January 2024 Update from Vietnam from Mark A. Ashwill, Ph.D
Warm greetings from Vietnam! I’d like to take this opportunity to wish you and your families a Happy, Healthy, Successful, & Peaceful New Year! For those of us in Vietnam and elsewhere, the countdown continues to the Lunar New Year, or Tết, on February 10th.
Hi everyone and wishes for a very Happy and Healthy New Year! I want to remind everyone that we have our 1st CC-EA meeting on Thursday Jan. 18 at 4:00 pm. I hope that you can all attend.
The Community College in France team is still accepting applications for the 2024 Bootcamps until January 31, 2024. Application forms are available on their website.
What do our graduates need to thrive in our globalized, highly connected world? Cross-cultural competencies, Digital citizenship and fluency with global technologies, Experience working in international and collaborative teams
Ralph Angeles, from the TLS Research and Scholarship Subcommittee, spoke with Rosalind Latiner Raby, director of California Colleges for International Education, about her ongoing research on community college internationalization and her comparative studies of similar organizations in different countries.
CCIE is pleased to share that California community college students received 3 FEA Scholarships to Study Abroad. Congratulations!
FEA Breakout Scholarship: Katherine Rodriguez, Cosumnes River College, Italy
J. Scott Van Der Meid Memorial Scholarship: Mohammed Sarwary, Fullerton College, France
AIFS Access Partner Scholarship: Isabella Moreno, Mt. San Antonio College, Spain
For more information on the Fund for Education Abroad and the next round of scholarships contact: www.fundforeducationabroad.org
Spring Institutional Grant DUE: April 1, 2024
CCIE INSTITUTIONAL GRANT COMPETITION
CCIE hosts two institutional grants annually. The purpose of the grant is to provide start-up funding for institutions wanting to either create a new international program or augment an existing international program. Grants can target any type of international education including funding for international student programs, virtual programs, internationalization at home programs, and education abroad programs. Award recipients will help to create a new cohort of CCIE international education mentors. CCIE Institutional Grants for 2023-2024 will be up to $ 2,500 each and will be competitively awarded to CCIE members current with their dues. Please note that only colleges current with their dues can apply.
Spring Applications DUE: December 11, 2023 by 5:00 pm/Pacific
Summer Applications DUE: March 31, 2024 by 5:00 pm/Pacific
Dr. Donald R. Culton was the first-full-time administrator for international education at a California community college and laid the groundwork for community college study abroad that expanded opportunities for more students to have an internationalized experience.
Thank you for those of you who sent this survey to your students. We have extended the survey date to December 5. So, if you can do another push, we are at 48 responses and it would be so good to get more.
I would so appreciate it if you can send a reminder to your students to complete this survey by December 5.
https://melbourneuni.au1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_b2G2p4Daix5oXie
And the 2023 Award Finalists Are…
Drum roll, please! The following organizations and institutions have been selected as 2023 finalists of The Forum on Education Abroad’s Award for Advancing the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) through Education Abroad: