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6 JapaneseAmbassadorSpeakson150YearsofU.S.-JapanRelations

8 SmithSchoolLaunchesNewProgramsinChina Jeff Heebner, Robert H. Smith School of Business

9 EducationProfessorReceivesJapaneseOrderoftheRisingSun

10 PresidentMoteTestifiesonVisaPolicyBeforeSenateForeignRelationsCommittee

12 EducationProfessorReceivesGrantforU.S.-BrazilConsortia

13 CenterforTeachingExcellenceFellowConductsWorkshopsinSouthAfrica

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In July , University of Maryland President C.d. Mote,

Jr. visited Brazil and Argentina, meeting with a number

of university and government off icials and touring

technology-related sites. He was accompanied by Saúl

Sosnowski,directoroftheOfficeofInternationalPrograms.

PresidentMote’sstayinBrazilbeganinthestateofRio

deJaneiro.AtFluminenseFederalUniversity(UFF),located

inNiterói across the bay from the city ofRiode Janeiro,

hesignedanagreementwiththeuniversity’srector,Cicero

MauroFialhoRodrigues.The followingday,he returned

to the city of Rio and visited COPPE (the Alberto Luiz

Coimbra Institute - Graduate School and Research in

Engineering),oneofthefourunitscomprisingtheFederal

University of Rio de Janeiro’s Technology Center. There

hemetwithCOPPE’spresident,AngelaUller,anditsVice

directorofAcademicAffairs,LuisFernandoRochinha.

Mote also signed an agreement of cooperation with

CandidoMendesdeAlmeida,presidentofCandidoMendes

University. They were joined by José Raimundo Romeo,

theformerpresidentofUFFanditscurrentProRectorfor

InternationalAffairs;andthepresidentsofotherRio-based

universities.

Before leaving for São Paulo the next day, Mote

visitedthePontificalCatholicUniversityofRiodeJaneiro

andattendeda lunch inhishonorhostedby theBrazilian

AcademyofSciences.

That evening, Mote met with José Teixeira Coelho

Netto,chairofCulturalPolicyandActionattheUniversity

of São Paulo’s School of Communications and Arts and

a 2002-2003 Post-doctoral Fellowship recipient at the

University of Maryland’s Latin American Studies Center;

AlfonsMartinell,directorGeneralofCulturalandScientific

RelationsatSpain’sMinistryofForeignAffairs;andMónica

AllendeSerra,thepresidentoftheLatinAmericancultural

associationArtWithoutBorders.

The following day, Mote met with José Goldemberg,

Secretary of the Environment for the state of São Paulo

andformerrectoroftheUniversityofSãoPaulo;Francisco

E.B.Nigro,directorofthestateofSãoPaulo’sInstitutefor

TechnologicalResearch;andGeraldodiGiovanni,advisor

tothepresidentoftheStateofSãoPauloFoundationforthe

SupportofResearch(FAPESP).

FromSãoPaulo,MotewenttoBuenosAires,Argentina.

OnadaylongtouroftheNationalUniversityofSanMartín,

MotewasaccompaniedbyMarceloCavarozzi,deanofthe

university’sSchoolofPoliticsandGovernment,andRoberto

Patricio Korzeniewicz, Associate Professor of Sociology

and Associate director of Latin American Studies at the

UniversityofMaryland.(Korzeniewicz,anativeofArgentina,

wasaSeniorFulbrightScholarattheNationalUniversityof

San Martín in 2000, and has taught winterterm courses

thereforUniversityofMarylandstudents.)Mote’sitinerary

attheuniversityincludedtheInstituteofBiotechnological

Research, the Jorge Sabato Institute of Technology, the

SchoolofScienceandTechnology,andtheTechnologyPark.

Later,hemetwithdanielMalcolm,rectoroftheUniversity.

FollowingameetingwithJuanCarlosPugliese,secretary

foruniversitypoliciesatArgentina’sMinistryofEducation,

Science,andTechnology,Moteattendedaneventhostedby

NewLeadershipforademocraticCulture.Thisprogramis

a collaborative effort of four Argentine nongovernmental

organizations, theUniversityofMaryland, twoArgentine

universities (the University of Belgrano and Torcuato di

TellaUniversity),andtheInstituteforthedevelopmentof

ArgentineBusinesses.

Thenextday,Mote signedanagreementwithdaniel

Scioli,Argentina’svicepresidentandthepresidentofitssenate.

HethenvisitedtheUniversityofSanAndrés,meetingwith

its rector,EduardoZimmerman, and severalof its leading

facultyanddeans.Thatafternoon,Moteattendedagathering

ofUniversityofMarylandalumniinBuenosAires.

The Buenos Aires stay concluded with a lunch in

honorofPresidentandMrs.Mote,hostedbySilviaUranga,

presidentofCONCIENCIA,oneofthefourNGOsinvolved

intheNewLeadershipforademocraticCultureprogram.

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A s p a r t of the Off ice of International Programs’

AmbassadorialLectureSeries,HisExcellencyRyozoKato,

AmbassadorofJapantotheUnitedStates,spokeoncampus

inSeptember.

PresidentMoteintroducedtheambassador.describing

theAmbassadorialLectureSeriesashavingaveryimportant

focus given the nature of our global society, Mote

highlightedtheUniversityofMaryland’sstrategic location

nearWashington,d.C.anditscommunityofinternational

diplomats.Henoted thatmore than10%ofUM students

are international students, includingover70 students from

Japan,andthattheuniversityisextendingitsstudy-abroad

programs to Japan by launching a language and culture

programinKyoto.

MotesaidthattheUniversityofMarylandisproudofits

tieswithJapan,particularlythefactthatMcKeldinLibrary

ishometothePrangeCollection,themostcomprehensive

collectioninexistenceofpublicationsprintedinJapanfrom

1945to1949.Healsomentionedthatdr.BarbaraFinkelstein

of the department of Education Policy and Leadership

recentlyreceivedJapan’sOrderoftheRisingSun(seestory,

page9),andthatlastyear,dr.JamesYorke,distinguished

University Professor of Mathematics and Physics, won

the JapanPrize forhiswork in themathematical studyof

nonlineardynamicsystems(afieldforwhichYorkecoined

theuseoftheterm“chaos”in1975).

AmbassadorKato,whohasservedinhiscurrentposition

since2001,beganhisspeechbyreflectingthatatthetimeof

the1854treatybetweentheU.S.andJapan,thetwocountries

musthave seemedverydifferent toone another,butnow,

“ourtwoworldshavemergedintoone.”Notingthatwiththe

exceptionofWorldWarII,the150-yearperiodhadbeena

timeofpeacebetweenthetwocountries,Katosaid,“Never

has the relationship been stronger, and never has it been

requiredtobesostrong.”

Addressingtheissueofeconomicrelationsbetweenthe

U.S.and Japan,Katorecalled that tenyearsago therehad

beenconsiderabletension,withAmericancompaniesfeeling

thatJapanesecompaniesweredeliberatelykeepingmarkets

closed.Katosaidthatincontrast,therearenow“American

storeseverywhere,”FordownsMatsuda(Mazda),andthere

hasbeenanincreaseinforeigninvestment.

Citing examples of cultural intermingling ranging

fromsportstofood,Katoobserved,“Japanhasalwaysbeen

fascinatedwiththingsAmerican.”Healsopraisedthesuccess

of exchangeprograms like theMansfieldProgram,which

brings U.S. federal employees to Japanese government

ministries, and the JET Program, which brings recent

graduatesfromtheU.S.andothercountriestoJapantoteach

insecondaryschoolsandtoworkforlocalgovernments.

KatosaidthatJapan“isevolvingfromamoreintroverted

country into a more international one,” mentioning that

JapanesetroopshaveservedaspeacekeepersonUNmissions

and in other international relief operations. He drew a

parallelbetweenpost-WWIIAsiaandtheMiddleEasttoday,

expressinghopethatdemocracycouldtakerootinthelatter

asithadintheformer.HementionedthatJapansupported

thewarinAfghanistan,andthatthecountryhadprovided

economicassistancetoMiddleEasterncountries,including

$5 billion toward reconstruction in Iraq. despite recent

threatstoJapanesehostages,Katosaid,“Japanwillnotwalk

awayfromIraqandleaveAmericatherealone.”

discussing North Korea, Kato described the country

as a “serious threat,”noting thatNorthKoreahadfired a

missileatJapanin1998.HecharacterizedtheNorthKorean

governmentasaregimeofrepressionandsecrecy.Katosaid

thatJapanwillnormalizerelationswithNorthKoreaonly

when issues related to nuclear security and to the North

KoreanabductionofJapanesecitizensareresolved.

KatoconcludedhisspeechbysayingthatJapanisproud

tobeAmerica’sfriendandally.Hethenansweredquestions

from the audience on subjects including nuclear weapons,

Japanese-NorthKoreanrelations,Japan’slackofapermanent

position on the UN Security Council, the U.S.-Japan

relationship, Japanese-Chinese relations, and the growing

prominenceofthePacificRim.

Launched in 2001, the Ambassadorial Lecture Series has brought to

campus the ambassadors of China, Bangladesh, Brazil, Argentina,

Denmark, Afghanistan, Israel, Egypt, Turkey, France, South

Africa, Japan, and Mexico. For more information on the series, see

www.intprog.umd.edu/amb.html.

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Smith School Launches New Programs in China

In October , the University of Maryland’s Robert H.

Smith School of Business announced its intent to expand

itsExecutiveMBA(EMBA)program inChina to include

Shanghai beginning in November 2005. The school also

announced that it has reached an agreement to deliver a

custom MBA program for Otis Elevator China, one of

China’s fastest-growing multinational corporations. The

announcements were made in Shanghai, where Howard

Frank,deanof theSmithSchool,was participating in an

Asian economic development mission led by Maryland’s

GovernorRobertL.Ehrlich,Jr.

TheplannedShanghaiEMBAprogramfollowsSmith’s

successfullaunchofanEMBAprograminBeijinginJanuary

2003.LiketheBeijingprogram,theShanghaiEMBAwillbe

taughtbySmithSchool faculty.The18-monthprogramis

designedspecificallyformid-tosenior-levelexecutives.

Announcing theShanghaiprogram,Frank said,“The

launchof theSmithSchool’sBeijingEMBAprogramwas

anexcitingmilestoneforSmith,asitmarkedourentryinto

theChinamarket.The success of that programhas given

theSmithSchoolagreatdealofmomentumtoexpandour

offeringsinChina,andweintendtomakeShanghaiamajor

baseofoperationforourcontinuedexpansion.”

Similar to theSmithSchool’sEMBAprograms in the

UnitedStates,theEMBAinShanghaiwillconsistofthree

integratedmodules: foundation,mastery, and experiential

learning. The foundation module consists of the Smith

School’scoreMBAprogram.Themasterytrack,dealingwith

aspectssuchascommunications,innovation,leadership,nego-

tiations,andethics,buildsonthisfoundationandprovides

studentswiththeskillsrequiredtobesuccessful leaders in

the21st-centuryglobaleconomy.Theexperientiallearning

moduleintegratesthefoundationandmasterycomponents

ABOVE Fifteen students from the Beijing EMBA program’s first cohort came to Maryland for Smith commencement activities in May 2004.

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Education Professor Receives Japanese Order of the Rising Sun

InJune,dr.BarbaraFinkelstein,professorintheCollegeof

Education’sdepartmentofEducationPolicyandLeadership,

received the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with

Rosette award at a ceremony at the residence of Japan’s

ambassador to the United States, His Excellency Ryozo

Kato.

FinkelsteinistheFoundingdirectoroftheInternational

Center forTransculturalEducation (ICTE)and thedirec-

tor of ICTE’s Mid-Atlantic Region Japan in the Schools

(MARJiS) Program. An initiative of the department of

Education Policy and Leadership, ICTE began a quarter-

century ago as the International Center for the Study of

EducationPolicyandHumanValues.MARJiS,itsflagship

program, was established in 1985. Through its research

partnerships, leadershipprograms,publications,andprofes-

sional development initiatives, MARJiS prepares regional

andnationalleadersintheU.S.andJapantointegratetrans-

culturaldimensions intoprimaryandsecondaryeducation

programs.

OnbehalfofJapan’sEmperorAkihito,AmbassadorKato

presentedFinkelsteinwiththeawardinhonorofherefforts

tofosterculturalexchangebetweenJapanandtheU.S.The

Orderof theRisingSunwas thefirstorderestablished in

Japan.Beginningin1981,foreignnationalshavereceivedthis

awardfortheircontributionstopromotingrelationsbetween

Japanandothercountries.

For more on MARJiS, see www.intleducenter.umd.edu/japan/marjis.

throughastrategicmarketingsimulation,acomprehensive

businesssimulation,andreal-worldopportunities.

TheSmith-OtisMBAprogramwasdevelopedinpart-

nershipwith theBeijing-basedUniversityof International

BusinessandEconomics,whichearlierpartneredwithSmith

to deliver the Beijing EMBA program. The Smith-Otis

programbeganinNovemberandincludesseniormanagers

fromOtis’soperations throughoutChina.Thecurriculum

is similar to thatofSmith’sShanghaiEMBA,but includes

additionalcourseworkdevelopedspecificallytoaddressthe

particularbusinessneedsofOtisChina.Coursesaretaught

bySmithSchoolfacultyatthecompany’strainingcenterin

Tianjin.

“Wehavebeenworkinghardoverthepastseveralyears

toexpandourexecutiveeducationofferingsinChina,and

notonlyinthelargestcitiesofShanghaiandBeijing,”said

ScottKoerwer,associatedean forexecutiveeducationand

marketingcommunicationsattheSmithSchool.“Thelaunch

of theOtisElevatorprogramhasbeenagreat success.We

look forward to continuingour expansion inChina as its

demandforhighlytrainedexecutivescontinuestogrow.”

TheSmithSchool’sEMBAprogramsinChinaarebased

onthecurriculumofSmith’sfull-timeandpart-timeMBA

programs,whichareconsistentlyrankedamongtheworld’s

best. The Financial Times’ 2004 rankings placed Smith’s

MBAprogramat#27intheworldand#18intheU.S.,while

theWallStreetJournal’s2004rankingslistedSmithas#1for

managementconsulting;#3fortechnology,telecommunica-

tions,andtheInternet;#7forinformationtechnology;and

#10forentrepreneurship.

For more information on executive education at the Robert H. Smith

School of Business, see www.rhsmith.umd.edu/execed. To read the

Maryland International Spring 2003 Vol. II article on the launch of Smith’s

Executive MBA program in Beijing, see page 4 of www.intprog.umd.edu/

mi/pdf/2003_Spring_v2.pdf.

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On October 6 ,UniversityofMarylandPresidentC.d.

Mote, Jr. testified before the Senate Foreign Relations

Committee as part of the hearing “Addressing the New

RealityofCurrentVisaPolicyonInternationalStudentsand

Researchers.”

Others who testif ied at the hearing included the

presidents of Purdue University and Indiana University;

thedirectorofdukeUniversity’sInternationalOffice;and

leaders from the Instituteof InternationalEducation (the

higher education and professional exchange agency that

administerstheFulbrightProgram),NAFSA:Associationof

InternationalEducators,andAMIdEAST(America-Mideast

EducationalandTrainingServices).

PresidentMoteexpressedtheUniversityofMaryland’s

belief that complying with security measures and admin-

istering education and research programs should not be

“mutuallyexclusivemandates.”Hecreditedthepresenceof

foreignstudentsashavingcontributedtotheU.S.’scurrent

worlddominanceinfieldssuchasengineering,biosciences,

andcomputerandnaturalsciences.Motecautioned:“The

consequencesofunduerestrictionsthathinderourabilityto

recruitoutstandingtalentfromothernationswilldegrade

thetechnicalstrengthoftheU.S.substantially.”

Noting that theUniversityofMaryland’s experience

reflectsthatofothermajoruniversities,Motesaidthatinthe

pasttwoyearstheuniversityhasseena36%dropinapplica-

tions fromprospective international graduate students, as

wellasadropinenrollmentofthoseaccepted.Heattributed

thedeclinetothreefactors:“greatlyincreasedproblemswith

gettingvisaapprovalfromtheUnitedStates,”competition

fromothercountriesseekingtoattractforeignstudents,and

effortsbythestudent-exportingcountriestoencouragetheir

studentstopursuegraduatestudyathome.

PresidentMoteprovidedanumberofexampleswhere

studentsadmittedtotheUniversityofMarylandandscholars

invitedbytheuniversity(aswellasparticipantsintraining

programssuchasIGCA’sExecutivedevelopmentProgram)

havehaddifficultyreceivingvisasfromtheirconsulateson

atimelybasis.Inadditiontogeneralcaseswhereconsulates

failedtoissuevisaswithintheexpectedtimeframe,hecited

instancesspecifictothe“VisaMantis”process,underwhich

visa applications from students and scholars in potentially

sensitivefields receiveextra scrutiny.Moreover,henoted

that theVisaMantis systemaffects studentsalreadyinthe

U.S.inadditiontothoseseekinginitialentrance;theclear-

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anceprocessmayberequiredofthosereturninghereaftera

triphome.

Expressinghisconcernthatthecurrentimplementation

ofpost-9/11visapoliciesandpracticesharmsthecountryat

large,notjustforeignstudents

and the institutionswhowish

tohost them,Mote remarked,

“Thestudentsweintentionally

keep out or scare away today

could well be the world’s

leading scientists, engineers,

anddoctorsoftomorrowwho

mighthavechoseninpastyears

tomaketheUnitedStatestheir

home,toourlastingbenefit.”

He also emphasized the

ideologicalandpracticalvalue

of educating foreign students

who return to their home

countries, saying that the

current situationthreatens the

loss of “an entire cohort of

students whose education in

Americacouldproduce future

friendsandalliesinthespread

of democracy,” and that the

U.S.“cannot afford toproject

an image that alienates inter-

national studentswhowill be

leadersinfieldsweneed.”

Moteproposedanumberof

measurestoremedythecurrent

problems. He reiterated a

summer2003recommendation

hehadmadetothemembersoftheAmericanAssociationof

UniversitiesthattheydevelopasystemtorateU.S.consulates

thathandlevisaapplications,inorderto“identifyconsulates

thatconsistentlyuseunreasonabledelayingtacticsandarbi-

trarydeterminations”withregardtostudentsandscholars.

Inadditiontothisratingssystem,Motemadeanumber

ofrecommendationsforpolicychanges.Withregardtothe

VisaMantisprocess,hesaidthatthe“categoryofvisasrequir-

ing[this]clearancemustbebetterdefined,”asitiscurrently

includesa“largeandunfocusednumberofacademicareas.”

Heurgedthattheclearanceprocessbe“timelyandpredict-

able,”notingthatintheUniversityofMaryland’sexperience,

it often takes much longer than the one-month period

withinwhich95%ofclearancesaresaidtobeprocessed.He

alsorecommendedthattheclearance—currentlyvalidonly

for one year—last instead for

the duration of a student or

scholar’sacademicprogram.

Motewarnedthatcurrent

immigrat ion pol icies are

endangeringU.S.preeminence

in science and technology.

He noted that the situation is

especiallycriticalbecausefewer

Americansarepursuingscience

careers, and that practices

that substantially decrease the

number of foreign students at

U.S. universities are therefore

“restrictions that [would] kill

oureconomicfuture.”

Mote also cautioned that

currentpoliciescouldendanger

the long-term prospects for

Americanresearchuniversities

themselves, as they rely in

partonaflowofinternational

graduatestudentswhogoonto

becomefacultyintheU.S.He

noted thatof the tenure-track

faculty in the University of

Maryland’s A.J. Clark School

ofEngineering,morethanhalf

are foreign-born,andamajor-

ityof thosedid theirgraduate

work in theU.S. Similarly, threeUniversity ofMaryland

deans—those of the Clark School of Engineering; the

CollegeofComputer,Mathematical,andPhysicalSciences;

andtheCollegeofLifeSciences—areforeign-bornandU.S.-

educated.Motecharacterizedthispictureasrepresentative

of researchuniversities across the country, andwarnedof

the“enormousnegativeimpactunreasonablevisarestrictions

can have on the nation’s entire research and technology

enterprise.”

Emphasizing the global interconnectedness of today’s

world, Mote said,“[L]ike businesses, top universities are

“Toremaincompetitiveinthecomingdecades,wemustcontinuetoembracethemostcapablestudentsandscholarsofothercountries.Oursecurityand

qualityoflifedependonit.”

President C.D. Mote, Jr.

October 6, 2004

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Dr. Ellen S . Fab ian , director of the Rehabilitation

Counseling Program and Associate Professor in the

department of Counseling and Personnel Services in the

College of Education, was recently awarded a $208,000

grantby theU.S.departmentofEducation’sFundfor the

Improvement of Post-Secondary Education (FIPSE). The

program, “Consortia for Future Leadership: U.S.-Brazil

SpecialProjects,”willlastthrough2008.

The Consortia is composed of four universities: the

University of Maryland; the University of Wisconsin at

Milwaukee;FederalFluminenseUniversity(UFF), located

inNiteróiinthestateofRiodeJaneiro;andtheUniversityof

SãoPaulo.TheConsortiaalsohasaffiliatedpartners,among

themtheBrazilianAcademyofSciencesandtheAmerican

InstitutesforResearch.

The Consortia was formed to address the common

challengestheU.S.andBrazilfaceintheareasofpolicyand

programdevelopmentforpeoplewithdisabilities,andtohelp

prepare future leaders. Fabian’s grant proposal noted that

sincethe1981UNdeclarationoftheInternationalYearof

thedisabled,therehasbeengrowinginternationalawareness

oftheneedtoimproverehabilitationprogramsforadiverse

globalpopulation.Over400millionpeoplewithdisabilities

liveinpoverty,withoutaccesstothetrainingnecessaryto

become economically self-sufficient. As a result, they are

marginalizedacrossa rangeof settings, fromhousehold to

nation.

TheConsortiawillestablishastudentexchangeproject

between the U.S. and Brazil to provide opportunities for

comparativestudyandpost-secondarytrainingindisability

policies, program administration, and program evaluation.

Throughresearchandteachingactivities,theConsortiawill

explorethechangingrelationshipsamongthepublic,private,

andnonprofitsectors;engagethesectors’currentandfuture

leaders; encourage effective cross-sector collaborations

withineachcountryandbetweenthetwo;andimproveeach

sector’scapacitytoservecitizenswithdisabilities.

Fabian’s research interests center on psychiatric

rehabilitationandcareerdevelopmentandrehabilitation.This

isher thirdgrant fromtheU.S.departmentofEducation,

following a $279,000 grant on long-term training for

rehabilitation counseling (2003-2005) and a $2.5 million

grant for a continuing education program for community

rehabilitation providers in five states and the district of

Columbia(2000-2005).

For more on Ellen Fabian, see www.education.umd.edu/EDCP/

facultystaff/Fabian.

Education Professor Receives Grant for U.S.-Brazil Consortia

global in scope, responsibility and competitiveness.” He

stressedthatforAmericanuniversitiestomaintaintheirposi-

tioninaglobalplayingfield,theymustbeabletodrawfrom

aglobalpoolofstudents.

Mote concluded his testimony by pronouncing, “To

remaincompetitiveinthecomingdecades,wemustcontinue

toembracethemostcapablestudentsandscholarsofother

countries.Oursecurityandqualityoflifedependonit.”

In aNovember8 follow-up roundtable event,Valerie

Woolston, director of International Education Services,

spoke before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

Other panelists represented Indiana University, Purdue

University,dukeUniversity,GeorgetownUniversity, and

variouseducationalassociations.

Woolstonmadeanumberofrecommendations:increasing

consular staff to keep up with visa demand, developing

strategiestocounternegativeperceptionsofU.S.consulates

andthevisa-grantingprocess,andchangingvisalawtoease

approval for frequentvisitors andalso toallow short-term

studywithoutastudentvisa.

To read the complete testimony of President Mote and the other

panelists from the October 6 hearing, see http://foreign.senate.gov/

hearings/2004/hrg041006a.html.

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Dr. James Greenberg ,facultyfellowattheUniversity

ofMaryland’sCenterforTeachingExcellenceanddirector

ofCTE’s internationalprograms,recentlyreturnedfroma

six-weekvisittoSouthAfrica.Thisvisitwasmadepossible

byaFulbrightSeniorSpecialistsgrantinEducation.

Greenberg conducted consultations, workshops, and

meetingsatfiveinstitutionsinSouthAfrica’sEasternCape

province:BorderTechnikon,EasternCapeTechnikon,Fort

HareUniversity,theUniversityofTranskei(alsoknownas

UNITRA),andRhodesUniversity.Threeofthese—Border

Technikon,EasternCapeTechnikon,andtheUniversityof

Transkei—are intheprocessofmergingtobecomeWalter

SisuluUniversity.

Now being renamed “universities of technology,”

technikons in South Africa are career-focused institutions

of higher education with programs covering specialized

occupations in applied engineering; biological, chemical,

and physical sciences; applied commercial sciences; the

humanities;thearts;andeducation.

TheinstitutionsGreenbergvisited—somewithmultiple

campuses—arelocatedinfivedifferentcitiesintheprovince,

necessitatingatighttimetableforthevisit.

At Border Technikon, Eastern Cape Technikon, and

UNITRA, Greenberg held workshops on the basics of

teachingand learning, andonassessment for learning.He

also held joint workshops for faculty from Border and

EasternCapeoncognitivedevelopmentandlearning,andon

problem-basedlearningandgrouplearning.Inaddition,he

metindividuallywithleadersfromthethreeinstitutionsto

discussstudentdevelopmentandprofessionaldevelopmentin

thecontextoftheirmergerasWalterSisuluUniversity.

Greenberg led an additional workshop-discussion

sectionatUNITRAfocusingoncreatingavibrantlearning

environment.AtBorderTechnikon,heconductedaconsultation

onneedsassessmentandcurriculumdevelopmentforanew

initiativeintheschool’sartandfashiondesignprograms.

At Rhodes University, Greenberg led workshops on

professional development and on the growing issues of

dealingwithlargeclasses,diversityofthestudentbody,and

activelearning.AtFortHareUniversity,heledworkshopsat

theschool’sAliceandEastLondoncampusesondiversityand

activelearning,andinEastLondongaveakeynoteaddressto

twogroupsofstudentleadersandgraduatesofthatcampus’s

outreachprofessionaldevelopmentprograms.

TheFulbrightSeniorSpecialistsProgramofferstwo-to

six-weekgrantstoleadingU.S.academicsandprofessionalsto

supportcurricularandfacultydevelopmentandinstitutional

planning at academic institutions in140 countries around

the world. By offering this short-term option in addition

tothetraditionalFulbrightScholarProgram,whosegrants

rangefromtwomonths tooneyear, theSeniorSpecialists

Programaimsatincreasingthenumberofscholarswhohave

theopportunitytogoabroadonaFulbright.TheFulbright

Program as awhole is sponsoredby theU.S.department

ofState’sBureauofEducational andCulturalAffairs, and

managed by the Council for International Exchange of

Scholars.

Center for Teaching Excellence Fellow Conducts Workshops in South Africa

BELOW Discussion activity at Border Technikon

ABOVE Small group at Eastern Cape Technikon


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The Univers ity Press ofMarylandrecentlypublished

thereferencebookEast Asian Calligraphy Education,co-edited

by dr. Tsung Chin, Associate Professor in the Chinese

languageprogramintheUniversityofMaryland’sdepart-

mentofAsianandEastEuropeanLanguagesandCultures.

Publication was supported by the Office of International

Programs,aswellastheCalligraphyEducationGroupand

theBoardmanFamilyFoundation.

EditedbyChinwithdr.WendanLioftheUniversityof

NorthCarolina,East Asian Calligraphy Educationconsistsof

atotalof46articlesinninecategories,sixgeneralandthree

country-specific:theintersectionsofcalligraphywithartand

culturerespectively; thedefinitionofChinesecalligraphy;

teachingmethods;programsofcalligraphyeducation;calli-

graphicscripts;andcalligraphyinTaiwan,Korea,andJapan.

Three of the authors have University of Maryland

affiliations. Chin contributed “The Story of Zì [Chinese

characters].” dr. Jason Kuo, Associate Professor of Art

History,isrepresentedwith“ModernChineseCalligraphy

andItsTraditions.”JamesR.Lilley,theauthorof“Calligra-

phyandOverseasChinese:MyExperiencewiththeChinese

Culture,”wasFoundingdirectoroftheInstituteforGlobal

ChineseAffairs.(Lilley,aformerU.S.ambassadortoChina

and Korea, is currently a Senior Fellow at the American

Enterprise Institute. He spoke at a February 2002 IGCA

forumexaminingU.S.-China relations in the early1970s,

andmostrecentlyataSeptember2004IGCAeventfocusing

onhisrecentlypublishedbookChina Hands: Nine Decades of

Adventure, Espionage, and Diplomacy in Asia.)

ArticlesinEast Asian Calligraphy Educationcomeprimar-

ily from theFirst InternationalConferenceonEastAsian

CalligraphyEducation,organizedbyChinandheldatthe

UniversityofMaryland inApril1998with the supportof

theOfficeofInternationalPrograms.Attendedbyover200

participantsfromCanada,China,HongKong,Japan,Singa-

pore,SouthKorea,Taiwan,andtheU.S.,theconferencewas

a program of the Calligraphy Education Group, founded

byChinin1991asaspecial-interestgroupoftheChinese

LanguageTeachersAssociation.

For inquiries about East Asian Calligraphy Education or to purchase a

copy, please contact Tsung Chin at [email protected].

Calligraphy Education Book Published

ABOVE Photos from the book East Asian Calligraphy Education

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THE CITY IN FILMFREE

EVERYFIRSTWEdNESdAYAT7PM

THEHOFFTHEATER

The 2004-05 International Film Series is

co-sponsored by the School of Languages,

Literatures,andCultures,theCollegeofArts

and Humanities, the Office of International

Programs,andtheHoffTheater.

duringthefallandspringsemesters,filmsare

shownonthefirstWednesdayofeverymonth

at the Hoff Theater in the Stamp Student

Union.Eachfilmbeginsat7pmwithabrief

introduction by a University of Maryland

facultymember.AllfilmsareFREEandare

subtitledinEnglish,andareshownin35mm.

2 0 0 4 -2 0 0 5 I N T E R N A T I O N A L F I L M S E R I E Swww.intprog.umd.edu/film.html

International Film Series Continuesin Spring

F E b r u a r Y 2 , 2 0 0 5 a N E v E N I N g o F S I L E N T F I L M

w I T H M u S I C a L a C C o M p a N I M E N T

Man with a Movie Camera (Chelovek s kino-apparatom) IntroductionbyJohnFuegi,departmentofComparativeLiterature

ThisexhilaratingrompthroughurbanSovietlifeinthelate1920sshowsaheroiccameramanwhowilldoanything—climbundertrains,jumpontoambulances,dodgefactorymachinery—togettherightshot.ThefilmissimultaneouslyadocumentaryofadayinSovietlife,adocumentaryofitsownfilming,andadepictionofanaudiencewatchingit.(SilentwithRussianandEnglishtitles.dir.dzigaVertov,USSR,1929,80min.)

M a r C H 2 , 2 0 0 5

High and Low (Tengoku to jigoku)IntroductionbyGretchenJones,departmentofAsianandEastEuropeanLanguagesandCultures

InpostwarTokyo,anexecutivelearnsthathissonhasbeenkidnapped.Preparingtopaytheransomusingmoneyhehadraisedforacriticalbusinessdeal,helearnsthatitisactuallyhischauffeur’ssonwhohasbeenabducted,nothisown.Whileheweighstheethicsofthesituation,thepolicedepartmentworkstosolvethecrime.(InJapanesewithEnglishsubtitles.dir.AkiraKurosawa,Japan,1963,142min.)

a p r I L 6 , 2 0 0 5

Cyclo (Xich lo)IntroductionbyEricZakim,departmentofAsianandEastEuropeanLanguagesandCultures

InthisfilmbythedirectorofTheScentoftheGreenPapaya,ayoungmanwhoekesoutalivingwithhisbicycletaxiinHoChiMinhCity(theformerSaigon)isintroducedtotheworldoforganizedcrime.(InVietnameseandItalianwithEnglishsubtitles.dir.AnhHungTran,Vietnam/France,1995,120min.)

M a Y 4 , 2 0 0 5

rosenstrasseIntroductionbyPeterBeicken,departmentofGermanicStudies

Basedonatruestory,thisdramafocusesontheAryanGermanwomenwhoquietlybutinsistentlyprotestedthedetentionoftheirJewishhusbandsduringWorldWarII.(InEnglishandGermanwithEnglishsubtitles.dir.MargarethevonTrotta,Germany/Netherlands,2003,136min.)


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Documents

MARYLAND · Mote was accompanied by Marcelo Cavarozzi, dean of the university’s School of Politics and Government, and Roberto Patricio Korzeniewicz, Associate Professor of Sociology