--- Forwarded Message from "Straight, H. Stephen" <[log in to unmask]> ---
>From: "Straight, H. Stephen" <[log in to unmask]>
>To: "Straight, H. Stephen" <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: October Conference on "Internationalizing the Curriculum: Content and Language"
>Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 17:23:26 -0400
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> Dear Languages-Across-the-Curriculum-Interested Colleagues:
>
> While it goes without saying that we have all been gravely affected
> already and will continue to experience effects in the coming weeks and
> months, I hope that you and yours were spared from bodily harm in the
> immediate tragedy. The magnitude of the immediate effects on member of
> the Binghamton University community has yet to be tallied, but a campus
> having 300 alumni with World Trade Center business addresses, nearly 500
> enrollees with Manhattan addresses, and over 5000 with Metro New York home
> addresses, we are of course preparing for the worst. As the father of a
> young father who works in the Financial Center and escaped home to
> Brooklyn on foot as the towers collapsed, I speak with personal urgency
> when I say that the last ten days have heightened both the difficulty and
> the importance of efforts to increase the international content of the
> undergraduate curriculum and to build the global competencies of our
> graduates.
>
> The conference announcement below (after my signature) is being
> distributed far and wide. Please forward it to anyone you choose. Note
> that the sessions themselves are free and open to anyone (though there is
> a fee for each of the meals). However, we would like all would-be
> attendees to fill in the online registration form so that we can make sure
> that the rooms (and coffee urns!) are large enough.
>
> If you have any questions, please address them to me or Debbie Dunn or Liz
> Abate. We hope that many of you will be able to come.
>
> Best. 'Bye. Steve
> _______________________________________________
> H Stephen Straight, mailto:[log in to unmask]
> Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education
> Binghamton University, State University of New York
> Box 6000, Binghamton, New York 13902-6000, USA
> Secretary: Debbie Dunn, mailto:[log in to unmask], 607.777.2150
> Asst for UG Ed: Liz Abate, mailto:[log in to unmask], 607.777.2146
> Fax (Provost's Office): 607.777.4831, Private Voice Mail: 607.777.2824
>
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> ANNOUNCEMENT OF CONFERENCE (and Follow-Up Workshop)
>
> "Internationalizing the Curriculum: Content and Language"
> Friday-Saturday 26-27 October 2001
> Binghamton University/The State University of New York
>
> In conjunction with its participation in the American Council on
> Education's 2000-2001 national project on "Promising Practices:
> Institutional Models of Comprehensive Internationalization", Binghamton
> University is hosting a conference focusing on faculty leadership in the
> design and delivery of innovative ingredients of internationalization.
>
> With the help of team members from other Promising Practices institutions,
> plus a number of national figures in the field of international education,
> the conference will focus especially on the roles that faculty have played
> and can increasingly play in the comprehensive internationalization of
> higher education. Additionally, team members from the LxC Select
> institutions, a multi-campus dissemination project involving seven
> campuses in the SUNY System, plus leading figures in the fields of
> content-based language instruction and languages across the curriculum,
> will assess the role of language study and language use in the
> internationalization effort.
>
> For up-to-date details on the conference program and an online
> registration form for the conference and follow-up workshop (see below),
> please visit the following Webpage:
>
> http://undergrad.binghamton.edu/lxc_conference.html
>
> Optional Follow-up Workshop: If there is sufficient interest, on the
> morning following the conference (Sunday 28 October) Binghamton will host
> a workshop in which participants will learn the details of Binghamton's
> unique LxC program (see http://lxc.binghamton.edu), in which international
> graduate students lead study groups devoted to the discussion of
> discipline-specific assignments focusing on materials in languages other
> than English. Participants will perform sample LxC assignments and
> receive guidance regarding how the LxC model might be adapted for use at
> the participants' home campuses.
>
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