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Published: MAY 5, 2005 - 11:46AM PST

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MAY 5, 2005 EXCHANGES SUPPLEMENT
by John Brown

C) WEEKLY EXCHANGES SUPPLEMENT

The following articles are related to educational and cultural exchange programs. Specific topics in this supplement include USG-funded exchange programs (e.g., Fulbright scholarships, Ron Brown Fellowship, International Visitors) as well as issues relating to student visas, study abroad, and NGOs involved in exchanges. The articles are aggregated weekly by MS. STACY MICHELLE GLASSGOLD, USC CENTER ON PUBLIC DIPLOMACY.

C.1) USG-FUNDED EXCHANGE PROGRAMS
(SCROLL DOWN TO SECTION C.2 FOR OTHER TOPICS)

1. TWO PROFESSORS RECEIVE FULBRIGHT AWARD, MICHAEL SUTPHIN (COLLEGIATETIMES.COM APRIL 28TH 2005): The Fulbright Scholar Award was given to two Virginia Tech Pamplin College of Business professors, Mahmood Khan and Larry French, who will take their teaching and researching expertise overseas next summer. Khan, professor of hospitality and tourism management, will travel to Chennai, India, to teach at the Indian Institute of Technology and lecture on franchising, international service management and marketing in several cities across the country. French, associate professor of management, will join the faculty at the Instituto Superior de Ciéncias do Trabalho e da Empresa in Lisbon to research the labor practices of family-owned businesses.
http://www.collegiatetimes.com/index.php?ID=5840

2. WMU ECONOMIST HEADS FOR AFRICA ON FULBRIGHT (WMU NEWS MAY 3RD 2005): As part of the Fulbright Senior Specialist Program, Western Michigan University economist Dr. Sisay Asefa is taking his expertise on African development to the University of Ethiopia in Addis Ababa for six weeks on May 7th. Asefa plans to build on existing informal academic linkages with scholars in that nation, give seminars on such topics as economic development, rural development policy, political economy and applied microeconomics, and conduct a needs assessment of that nation’s economic development challenges. Finally, he will co-direct the Third International Research Symposium on Development Studies in Africa.
http://www.wmich.edu/wmu/news/2005/05/004.html

3. FULBRIGHT GRANT SENDS UAA GRAD TO ECUADOR, ROSE COX (ANCHORAGE DAILY NEWS MAY 1ST 2005): Cassie Iutzi Mitchell, a 20-year-old University of Anchorage graduate will extend her senior thesis on the language and cultural barriers faced by Spanish-speaking patients seeking health care in Anchorage internationally. She plans to research the effects cultural and linguistic differences might have on medical care provided to the Quechua-speaking natives of Ecuador.
http://www.adn.com/news/alaska/story/6441130p-6320533c.html

4. IVY TECH OFFICIAL CHOSEN FOR FULBRIGHT PROGRAM IN EUROPE, STEVE CHAPLIN (COURIER-JOURNAL.COM APRIL 28TH 2005): Ivy Tech admissions director Mindy Steinberg will be the only Indiana educator to participate in the Fulbright International Education Administrators program. This fall she will join 18 other higher education administrators on a month-long trip to Germany and Poland.
http://www.courierjournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050428/NEWS02/504280387/1008/NEWS01

5. 2ND FULBRIGHT CONFERENCE HELD (DAILYTIMES.COM)
The second National Fulbright Alumni Conference was held at LUMS. The conference was organized by the United States Education Foundation, Pakistan. According to Vice Chancellor Dr Syed Zahoor Hassan, 19 LUMS graduates were awarded the scholarship this year.
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_1-5-2005_pg7_18

C.2) OTHER NEWS ON EDUCATIONAL AND CULTURAL EXCHANGE ISSUES

6. OVERSEAS RECRUITING A COMPLETELY DIFFERENT GAME, ALAN GOLDENBACH (WASHINGTON POST, MAY 2ND 2005): Tightened visa restrictions imposed by the U.S. government following the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks have hindered the ability of elite high school athletic programs to recruit international players. Schools have had to reconcile the desire to recruit top overseas talents with tighter immigration scrutiny from the State Department and Department of Homeland Security, and a much more thorough visa process.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wpdyn/content/article/2005/05/01/AR2005050100771.html

7. INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS COULD LOSE FUNDING, CHRIS GARDNER (USFORACLE.COM APRIL 28TH 2005): The Florida House of Representatives will soon vote on House Bill 21 that would forbid state funds from being awarded to international students and would redirect them to in-state students, in turn, deterring such students from attending Florida schools. The bill says that all state funds, about $8million per year, would not be used to financially assist any student holding an F-1 visa, the most common among USF’s international students.
http://www.usforacle.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2005/04/28/4270e68b8db3e

8. CAPITALIZING ON CHINA’S ECONOMY: WHITTIER RESIDENT CARVES NICHE WITH CULTURAL EXCHANGE PROGRAM, BILL BELL (WHITTIERDAILYNEWS.COM, APRIL 29TH 2005): Casey Hazelton, 55, is director of U.S. programs with the nonprofit World American Cultural Exchange, in which she takes groups to China and her Chinese counterpart, Wukang Li, brings Chinese groups here. In addition, Hazelton is dedicated to a unique educational exchange program called the “One to One Program.”
http://www.whittierdailynews.com/Stories/0,1413,207~12026~2843848,00.html

9. US AMBASSADOR BEGINS FAR EAST TOUR IN VLADIVOSTOK, NELSON THACKER AND ALYONA SOKOLOVA (VLADIVOSTOK NEWS ONLINE, APRIL 28TH 2005): US Ambassador Alexander Vershbow met with Vladivostok veterans, exchange students, officials and businessmen as part of his third visit to Primorye since taking the post in 2001. Vershbow emphasized key areas of Russian-American cooperation including academic relations, praising the educational exchange program that has brought 50,000 Russian students to the US over the past 10 years.
http://vn.vladnews.ru/News/upd28_2.HTM

10. EDUCATION OFFICIAL CALLS ON US TO SIMPLIFY STUDENT VISA PROCEDURES, JAVID HASSAN (ARABNEWS.COM MAY 3RD 2005): In Riyadh, an official of the Ministry of Higher Education has stressed the need for easing US visa restrictions on Saudis in order to pave the way for the exchange of students, academicians and researchers between the two countries.
http://www.arabnews.com/?page=1&section=0&article=63138&d=3&m=5&y=2005&pix=kingdom.jpg&category=Kingdom

11. US VISA ISSUANCE TO CHINA HITS NEW HIGH, XINHUANET (SHANGHAI DAILY NEWS, APRIL 28TH 2005): Despite widespread speculation that the United States has tightened visa policies in recent years, the US Consulate General Shanghai announced that it had issued an all-time high number of visas in the city over the past 12 months including a 16 percent increase in student visas.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-04/28/content_2888904.htm

12. RETAIL EXECUTIVES FROM BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA TO VISIT DOWNTOWN CHICAGO 7-ELEVEN STORE, YAHOO.COM (PRNEWSWIRE, APRIL 29TH 2005): Seven retail food-marketing executives from Bosnia-Herzegovina are in Chicago for two weeks as a part of a training program funded by the United States Agency for International Development. As part of the program, Heartland International, a non-profit organization that manages educational exchange programs, has arranged for them to learn from their American counterparts through seminars and site visits to leading retailers in the area.
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/050429/nyf043.html?.v=7

13. CONNELLSVILLE STUDENTS LEARN ABOUT SOUTH AFRICA, JACKIE BERANEK (HERALD-STANDARD, MAY 2ND 2005): Dr. Nancy J. Priselac, dean of student development and director of distance learning at Garrett College, Md., said that this multi-cultural exchange between South Africa and the Unites States will provide insight into curriculum reform in mathematics and science as studied by both United States and South African educators.
http://www.heraldstandard.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=14451249&BRD=2280&PAG=461&dept_id=480247&rfi=6

14. MACAO SETS UP CHINESE CULTURAL EXCHANGE ASSOCIATION (PEOPLE’S DAILY ONLINE, MAY 1ST 2005): The Chinese Cultural Exchange Association was set up in Macao to promote cultural exchanges between the two sides of the Taiwan Strait. According to Daniel Tse Chi Wai, president of the association, the main objective will be to function as a cultural bridge between the Chinese mainland and Taiwan by promoting educational, scientific, technological and artistic exchanges.
http://english.people.com.cn/200505/01/eng20050501_183441.html

15. FRANCE-VIETNAM CULTURAL EXCHANGE PRAISED, VIETNAM NEWS AGENCY (VNANET, APRIL 28TH 2005): Paul Fromonteil, Vice President of Poitou-Charentes region and member of the France-Viet Nam Friendship Association executive board, asserts that ties between France and Vietnam could be an engine for exchanges between European and Asian cultures and civilizations as well as Europe-Asia dialogues. According to Fromonteil, France-Vietnam ties could be regarded as a model to build cooperative relations based on mutual development for sustainable development and close solidarity.
http://www.vnagency.com.vn/NewsA.asp?LANGUAGE_ID=2&CATEGORY_ID=34&NEWS_ID=148916

16. INDIA AND CROATIA SIGN NEW CULTURAL EXCHNAGE PROGRAM (PRESS INFORMATION BUREAU, GOVERNEMNT OF INDIA, APRIL 27TH 2005): Under the Cultural Agreement Signed in 1999 between India and Croatia, a new Cultural Exchange Program (2005-2007) has been signed by the two countries in New Delhi.
http://pib.nic.in/release/release.asp?relid=8810

17. TOGO REMAINS TENSE; GERMAN CULTURE CENTER TORCHED, TAIPEI TIMES (ASSOCIATED PRESS, MAY 1ST 2005): The Library of the Goethe Institute German cultural center was torched in Lome, Togo, as the latest in the string of violent attacks since the country’s disputed presidential elections. Through films, book-lending and language lessons, the center promoted cultural exchange with Germany, Togo’s one-time colonial master.
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2005/05/01/2003252699