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The Global AggieOffice of International and Border Programs
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Time for phase two
CELP offers more flexibility, continues commitment to student success
We are revving things up a bit at the Office
of International and Border Programs.
I spent my first year-and-a-half here reorganizing IBP and getting the pieces in place so we can have a sustainable fu-ture for comprehensive interna-tionalization at the university.
The Office of Study Abroad was renamed the Office of Education Abroad to reflect its broader mission of international study, interning, service and research abroad. We brought International Student and Scholar Services back to IBP, and also transformed the Center for Intensive Training in English
into the Center for English Lan-guage Programs. CELP is now designed to be a self-sustaining, revenue-generating program for NMSU. We’ve also established a new office of International Initiatives to help us seize entre-preneurial opportunities abroad.
Now we are ready to put it in next gear. We hope to see our international enrollment numbers increase, particularly graduate student numbers. We hope to see our engage-ment with Mexico bounce back after the years of violence. We are really trying to re-engage on the border and live up to our name of International and Border Programs. We also want
to continue to strategically build partnerships around the world, and we are trying to balance the globe – something for everyone, everywhere.
Finally, the International Program Advisory Committee has been rebranded and will be re-launched as the International and Border Programs Advisory Council. The council will have representatives from every college – many of them deans – as well as a few other key personnel who will advise me on comprehensive internation-alization strategies. We will meet for the first time in early spring. For me, that’s a very important milestone. It means engaging
people and having real transfor-mative experiences on the part of faculty, students, everybody. This is where it gets exciting.
A program aimed at providing intensive English-language education to non-Eng-
lish speakers is undergoing major changes.Formerly called the Center for Intensive
Training in English (CITE) housed in the College of Arts and Sciences, the program was renamed the Center for English Language Programs (CELP) in January 2013 and is now operated through the Office of International and Border Programs.
“The CITE program had been underfunded and understaffed for many years when (Associate Provost for International and Border Programs Cornell Menking) arrived, and he felt that the university should be using the program to a greater extent to feed international students into the university,” said Colin Large, interim director for the Center for English Language Programs.
Large said one of the primary differences between CITE and CELP is that CITE was a “for-credit” program only for conditionally admitted NMSU students. Beginning in August, CELP will no longer offer credit for any of its courses. In addition, the courses will be available in a more flexible format and will serve a wider population.
However, like CITE, CELP remains devoted to ensuring that NMSU serves the needs of its international and domestic students whose native language is not English. This means not only intense English-language instruction, but also U.S. cultural learning. CELP provides multiple levels of English instruction divided into smaller components comprised of listen-ing, writing, reading, grammar, speaking and pronunciation.
Page 2Faculty-led International ProgramsSpring 2014 Gilman Scholarships
Page 3International Student and Scholar Services International Club of NMSU
Page 4By Golly We’ve Gone Global International Student Clubs relief effort
Page 5Go Teacher ProgramDelegation travels to Ecuador to formalize partnerships
Page 6International Education Week
Cornell H. Menking (center), his wife Mona and NMSU President Garrey Carruthers during the Mil-lionaire Researchers event. Menk-ing was recognized for bringing in more than $4 million through the Go Teacher Program projects.
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Bringing the World to Southern New Mexico
Flipping over FLiP
Gilman Scholarship program helps students study abroad
Since its inception in 2012, the International and Border Programs’
Faculty-Led International Programs (FLiP) has proven popular with faculty, students and now, the public.
Operated through the Office of Edu-cation Abroad, FLiP faculty members take groups of students abroad while simultaneously teaching a course. The trips are planned to coincide with school breaks so students can partici-pate without interrupting their regular semester courses on campus.
Research Associate Professor Ed Boles with the College of Agricultural, Consumer and Enviornmental Sciences is a FLiP co-coordinator. He said the seed for FLiP was planted seven years ago out of the Belize Field School started by FLiP co-coordinator Kristi Drexler. Back then, the courses dealt mostly with environmental sciences. For the 2014 spring break and Maymester, 13 FLiP courses will cover archaeology, ecology, history and art in Mexico, Belize, Costa Rica and China. Summer break courses will include French-language commu-nication, architecture, agro-forestry and nursing, with FLiP groups visiting Peru, Kenya, Ethiopia and China.
One of this spring’s FLiP courses will welcome members of the community. Public participation helps to further defray students’ costs, Boles said. More importantly, it allows generations to come together to learn.
“This approach also helps to open our university to the larger community and engage lifelong learners,” Boles said. “As stories are told of travel and learning adventures, more people will look upon the university as offering opportunities to our larger community.”
(L to R) Cornell H. Menking and his wife Mona with Giannina and Mario Allegri, NMSU dis-tiguished alumnus award recipient.
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Six NMSU students will be studying abroad this spring thanks to Benja-
min A. Gilman International Scholar-ships facilitated through the Office of Education Abroad (OEA).
Gilman Scholarships are given to U.S. undergraduate students with financial need who wish to pursue academic stud-ies or credit-bearing internships abroad. To qualify, students must be studying or interning abroad for a minimum of four weeks and must receive a federal Pell Grant during the term they will be abroad.
One of the six winners is Jesse Carde-nas, whose $3,000 scholarship will allow
him to study at the Universidad Pablo de Olavide in Seville, Spain. Cardenas is majoring in international business and general business, with a concentration in management.
“I hope to learn more about globaliza-tion, environmental factors and diversity, especially in the business world,” he said. “That is something I can bring back with me and apply it to my current studies.”
Erica Nikolaisen, an international education adviser with the OEA, said the Gilman Scholarships go to academically outstanding students who understand that international education is a tremendous advantage in our increasingly
global economy. She added that Cardenas embodies that spirit.
“Jesse is very globally minded and I have no doubt that he will fully utilize his time abroad and return to NMSU with a new perspective on the world,” Niko-laisen said.
Luis Arreola, BrazilJesse Cardenas, Spain
Javonne Goodman, ItalyFrancisco Jaquez, Belize
Victorina Segura, South KoreaRuth Woo, Argentina
Spencer Herrera, associate professor in the Department of Languages and Linguistics, during his FLiP Spanish Conversation class in Costa Rica.
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NMSU Executive Vice President and Provost Daniel J. Howard (center) with Jesus Enrique Seañez Sáenz (right), president of Universidad Autónoma de Chihuahua, and Eduardo Duarte Jácquez (left), president of Universidad Autono-ma de Ciudad Juárez during the first bi-national Summit on Values and Culture of Lawfulness.
Congratulations to our spring 2014 Gilman Scholarship recipients:
Club brings internationalstudents together
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Making friends, learning about different cultures and building
bridges are the cornerstones of the International Club of NMSU.
Open to all students, the organiza-tion, formerly called the International Students Club, allows international students to learn about U.S. culture, while American students are exposed to the customs of other countries.
The club’s new president is 24-year-old business management major Omed Noori. He arrived at Doña Ana Community College in 2011 after working with NMSU’s Afghanistan, Water, Agriculture and Technology Transfer (AWATT) project as an IT specialist for more than two years.
Although he had joined the club dur-ing his first year in Las Cruces, it wasn’t until 2013, when Noori transferred to NMSU, that he became actively
involved with the organization. Noori said from the time interna-
tional students arrive club members help them to acclimate to their new surroundings. They also get a chance to connect with other members through the club’s various multicul-tural events. Finally, the club organizes social activities.
Since fall 2013, Noori said the International Club has registered 200 new members and has more than 500 followers on its social media sites. In-ternational members hail from Africa, the Middle East, the Far East, the Americas and Europe.
“It is a wonderful experience that lets me be more globally aware and also serves as a gateway to help the new and continuing international students blend into the community,” he said.
International Club of NMSU members at one of the many events held throughout the year.
ISSS helps studentfrom Belize make major move
Monica Manzur of Belize was deter-mined to attend New Mexico State
University.A junior studying human resource
management, Manzur spent two years at a junior college in Belize. She was introduced to NMSU through the experiences of one of her Belizean professors who had studied at NMSU through an exchange program between the college and NMSU. Intrigued by the experiences this professor had at NMSU, Manzur decided she also wanted to study in Las Cruces.
NMSU welcomes about 1,200 students from more than 80 nations every year. Inter-national Student and Scholar Services (ISSS) coordinates international students’ applica-tion and admissions, as well as oversees their legal status in the U.S. Manzur is grateful to ISSS.
“Even before I got to NMSU, they were very helpful,” Manzur said. “They were able to meet my parents and guide us in moving around Las Cruces. When it came to (ISSS), it was another blessing.”
Luckily for Manzur, about a month after she started, her college in Belize told her she had received a scholarship that will cover her tuition for her remaining two years at NMSU. After earning her bachelor’s and master’s degrees, Manzur plans to return to Belize.
“Good things don’t come easy,” she said. “With a little hard work and dedication, it is attainable.”
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to NMSU,they were very
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Everyone needs a little TLC now and then and, by golly, the Office
of International and Border Programs provides it.
In what has become an annual NMSU tradition, the By Golly We’ve Gone Global event helps to raise funds that the Study Abroad Ambassador Club uses to provide welcoming care packages to international exchange students. About 200 members of the NMSU and Las Cruces community at-tended the By Golly event in November.
“The care package has evolved much
from being the extra items in a Study Abroad Ambassador’s parent’s closet, to being a bonafide package containing a bed-in-a-bag, towel, pillow, pan or pot, cup, silverware, toilet paper, and any extra items the ambassador wants to give their student,” said Clinton T. Hourigan, the incoming exchange adviser for the Office of Education Abroad (OEA).
The care packages go to more than 100 foreign exchange students who spend a semester or a year at NMSU.
Hourigan credits Kristian Cher-venock, director of OEA and interim
director of the Office of International Initiatives, for developing the By Golly event in 2007. But Hourigan credits the Study Abroad Ambassador Club and the International Club of NMSU with trying to expand the project to the approximately 1,200 international students on campus who are earning their degrees.
“We would very much like to provide every international student a care package, along with greater integration into Las Cruces and the Southwest,” Hourigan said.
Our 2014 Student Ambassadors
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By golly, IBP cares
Typhoon mobilizes international student clubs
When Typhoon Haiyan tore through the Philippines in November, it killed more than 6,000 people and left
tens of thousands more homeless and lacking food, water and basic medical care.
It didn’t take long for NMSU’s international student groups to mobilize and raise money for disaster relief efforts.
The Study Abroad Ambassador Club pledged a percentage of the proceeds from its By Golly We’ve Gone Global event, which raises money to provide welcoming care packages to international exchange students, to typhoon relief efforts.
Along with the By Golly event, the Study Abroad Ambassa-dor Club and the International Club of NMSU joined forces to raise even more funds to help typhoon victims.
“Together they made $1,046.63,” said Clinton T. Hourigan, the incoming exchange adviser for the Office of Education Abroad (OEA). “This was all made from literally asking every single person who walked by different locations around campus if they would like to donate.”
Hourigan added that while the international student groups’ efforts were praiseworthy, so was the generosity of all NMSU students.
“I believe it speaks volumes about the NMSU student body’s capacity for care and empathy,” he said. “Both of the clubs were facilitators toward channeling this emotion and were instru-mental in showing that global events are, all the while, local and national events as well.”
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Go Teacher goes after success
Delegation travels to Ecuador to formalize partnerships
After a successful debut in 2013, NMSU has entered its second year as a Go Teacher institution.
Facilitated through the Office of International and Border Programs and administered through the Center for English Language Programs (CELP), Go Teacher trains dozens of Ecua-dorean teachers to improve their English-language skills so they can obtain certification to teach English as a second language in their home country. The instructive component of the program is delivered by faculty in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at the College of Education.
The Ecuadorean Ministry of Higher Education, Science, Technology and Innovation is funding the $10 million, three-year program that aims to bring 3,000 Ecuadorean teachers to North America for training. Kansas State University is the lead Go Teacher institution, with the University of Kentucky and Valparaiso University also taking part. NMSU also has its own direct link to Ecuador; Associate Provost of International and Border Programs Cornell Menking worked for many years at the Universidad San Francisco de Quito in Ecuador.
Under Go Teacher, the Ecuadorean students come to NMSU for seven months, during which time they take intensive English classes and teacher preparation courses. They also visit schools in the Las Cruces Public School District to observe teaching methods.
“Teachers must not only learn what can be done in the class-room, but they must also see it in action, and then take time to visualize and reflect on how they can implement what they are learning in their own classrooms,” said Ashley Ryan, the CELP liaison to the College of Education.
The Go Teacher students also are exposed to the local culture and participate in trips to various cities in the state.
“One of my favorite parts of the job is taking them on cultur-al excursions around New Mexico and teaching them all about our diverse Native/Hispanic culture,” said Sara McCormick, a senior programs specialist with CELP. “I also help coordinate
presentations they do all around campus and in the community, sharing information and musical and dance performances from Ecuador. They make wonderful ambassadors and help bring the world to NMSU.”
In 2014, the Go Teacher program received 75 students from Ecuador in January, with another group of 70-80 students set to arrive next year.
“Go Teacher simultaneously addresses many of the objectives of comprehensive internationalization at NMSU,” Menking said. “It brings very interesting international visitors to campus, gives our community a chance to interact with them, allows our faculty to make a significant difference in another country and helps generate some revenue that can be reinvested into interna-tionalization activities that benefit our students and faculty.”
Omed Noori (center), president of NMSU’s International Club, and Meng-lin Xu (right), CELP graduate assistant, with a group of recent graduates of the second co-hort of Go Teachers.
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An NMSU delegation traveled to Ecuador in January to formalize
an exchange of ideas and resources with higher education institutions.
The delegation included Daniel J. How-ard, executive vice president and provost; Cornell H. Menking, associate provost for International and Border Programs; Kristian Chervenock, director of NMSU’s Office of Education Abroad; and Janet Green, director of NMSU’s School of Ho-
tel, Restaurant and Tourism Management.The group stopped by Yachay, Ciudad
de Conocimiento in Urcuquí, where Howard and Yachay CEO Hector Rodri-guez signed a memorandum of under-standing opening up opportunities for innovation and exchange for both institu-tions. A second signing ceremony with Ximena Amoroso, Subsecretaría General de Ciencia y Tecnología for SENESCYT, focused on the 12 students from Urcuqui
that will be attending NMSU this year.The delegation also spent a day at
Universidad San Francisco de Quito (USFQ), where Menking was a professor and administrator from 2001-07. USFQ President Carlos Montufar, Chancellor Santiago Gangotena and the delegation discussed opportunities for collabora-tion. A general exchange agreement was recently signed allowing students to begin traveling between both universities soon.
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Discover IBP
International Education Week promotes NMSU’s strategic plan
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Our international students participate in a variety of activities.
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tion of all things global at NMSU.
Sponsored by the Office of International and Border Programs, the week features a variety of events and pre-sentations that highlight the benefits of an international education, whether it’s Ameri-can students talking about their experiences studying overseas, international stu-dents sharing their culture or learning about global efforts taking place throughout the university’s various colleges.
In 2013, International Ed-ucation Week also included a day in which representatives
from the Peace Corps, U.S. State Department, FBI and U.S. Immigration and Cus-toms Enforcement discussed career opportunities.
“International Education Week captures the essence of comprehensive internation-alization efforts at NMSU,” said Kristian Chervenock, director of the Office of Education Abroad and in-terim director of the Office of International Initiatives.
Part of NMSU’s “Vision 2020” strategic plan, interna-tionalization efforts are aimed at preparing students for a global society by providing effective outreach and support to international organizations
and communities; boosting and supporting international student enrollment; promot-ing international research, study, scholarship and service; and offering globally focused academic programs, curricu-lum and learning opportuni-ties.
International Education Week offers a snapshot of all of the university’s internation-alization initiatives.
“The week is focused pri-marily on those members of the NMSU community who come from foreign countries or have traveled abroad and returned to NMSU as more enriched global citizens,” Chervenock said.
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