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▪ CIES Regional Conferences are coming up. Mark your calendars! 1) Midwest 2) Western 3) Northeastern |
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▪ CIES 2010:
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▪ Call for Manuscripts:
Special 2010 Issue of the Comparative Education Review, Educators and the Environment: World Lessons for a Sustainable World |
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| ▪ Have you registered to participate in the CIES forum? This is a space designed for ongoing discussions. Please go to: www.cies.us/forum | ||||
| ▪ Call for Nominations for CIES Higher Education SIG Awards Committee | ||||
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Miscellaneous Announcements: | |||
| ▪The Center for International Comparative Education at Bowling Green State University has created CEIMA—Comparative Education Instructional Materials Archive: | ||||
| ▪ Scholarship for Doctoral Research Year from The Sheikh Saud Bin Saqr al Qasimi Foundation [PDF1 and PDF2]. For more information, please visit www.alqasimifoundation.com | ||||
▪ Launch of Gulf Comparative Education Society at CIES Conference in Charleston, SC |
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CIES members' publications and/or updates:
-Dr. Carol Lee, President of the American Educational Research Association (AERA) appointed Beverly Lindsay (Professor and Senior Scientist of Higher Education and International Policy Studies at Penn State University) as a member of the AERA Presidential Commission on International Relations. Dr. Lindsay, designated as Chair-Designee of the Commission, will become the chair from 2009-2012. The International Relations Commission will expand it's work from including leading scholars and policymakers from throughout the world on the annual AERA Program to the development and presentation of policy briefs and papers to senior government and foundation officials throughout the globe. Of particular interest, will be a focus on university engagement in domestic and international settings. Currently working with colleagues from six continents, Dr. Lindsay is writing her seventh book, "Universities and Global Diversity; Preparing Educators for Tomorrow, via a grant from the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (AACTE).
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| ▪ Vacancy: MasterCard Foundation- Director, Youth Learning | ||||
| ▪ The Center for International Comparative Education at Bowling Green State University has created CEIMA—Comparative Education Instructional Materials Archive. | ||||
| ▪ Boston College Center for International Higher Education Announces Experts Database:
The Center for International Higher Education at Boston College now hosts an expert database that allows visitors to find scholars and practitioners around the world who have expertise in specific areas of international higher education. This new searchable database can be accessed from the CIHE homepage: www.bc.edu/cihe
For anyone who would like to be listed in the database, there is a form online at:
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| ▪ CIECER Conference on Comparative Education in Viet Nam: Registration and submission of papers (June 1, 2009)) should be sent to: Dr Pham Thi Ly, Director, Centre for International Education Culture Exchange and Research, 280 An Duong Vuong, District 5, HCM City, Viet Nam; or via email: ciecer@hcm.vnn.vn. Tel: 848-8355100 Fax: 848-8110308 / http://www.ciecer.org |
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| ▪ IAIE/HMPI/IASCE/University of Macedonia- 2009 Conference in Athens, Greece, June 2009 | ||||
| ▪ Binational Conference in Mexico City, Mexico (July 2-3, 2009) - " The Students We Share: New Research from the United States and Mexico" La Casa de California, Mexico City. Please contact Ana Soltero (anaksoltero@ucla.edu) for more information. | ||||
| ▪ The 7th International Conference on Comparative Education and Teacher Training, organized by the Bulgarian Comparative Education Society will be held in Sofia, 30 June - 3 July 2009. Click here for more information. | ||||
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