--- 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 ------------------ > 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 > > ******************************************************************* > > 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. >