| The E-Newsletter of the International Partnership for Service-Learning and Leadership May 2008 |
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IPSL Launches Membership Program
To increase cooperation with its
sending institutions and with partners across the world, IPSL has launched a
membership program. Benefits include an annual Members’ meeting, discounted
consulting services, free and discounted IPSL publications, a quarterly
Members’ newsletter, and more. Launched in January, the program has already
attracted 17 institutional members from the U.S., Indonesia,
the Philippines, Sierra Leone, and South Africa.
We invite your institution to become a
member of IPSL. As a member, you will join like-minded institutions in broadening the
dialogue on international service-learning, engage in contact and collaboration
with your peers around the world, receive information, ideas and assistance from
IPSL, and have opportunities to provide your knowledge, experience, reflections
and questions as peers to your fellow members as well as to IPSL as it fulfills
its dual mission of advocacy and program development in the field.
The
annual fee for institutional membership is US$500 for institutions from OECD
nations, $250 for institutions in other nations. The date of the
Consultation (see above) has been provisionally fixed for November 13, 2008.
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IPSL
IPSL Launches Membership Program
IPSL Welcomes New Trustees
Conferences & Workshops
Service-Learning Conference Held in Italy
3rd Annual Service-Learning Conference at IUPUI
IPSL at NAFSA
Programs
M.A. in International Service
Undergraduate Program News
Alumni Happy Hour on May 29 in Washington, DC
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IPSL Welcomes New Trustees
IPSL is
pleased to welcome two well-known U.S. educators to its Board of Trustees:
Andrew F. Smith was president from 1981 to 2005
of The American Forum for Global Education, Inc., a national, not-for-profit,
non-partisan education organization dedicated to helping American youth better
understand the world. Prior to his work at The American Forum for Global
Education, Smith served as Director of the Center for Teaching International
Relations in the Graduate School of International Studies at the University of
Denver; Executive Director, California Council for the Social Studies; and
Supervisor of Teacher Education, University of California, Riverside. He has
taught international education courses in the extension divisions of five
universities. Smith has served on the Board of Trustees of AFS International/
Intercultural Programs, the Executive Council of the American Society for
Journalists and Authors (ASJA), the Board of Directors of the Longview
Foundation, and the Council for the Advancement of Civic Education. He is
currently a freelance writer and chairs of The Culinary Trust, the
philanthropic arm of the International Association of Culinary Professionals
(IACP). Smith holds a BA from Loyola University and an MA from the University
of California, Riverside.
Margo Marshak has spent her adult life serving
institutions of higher education. Early
in her career she worked at the University of Michigan, the University of
Pennsylvania, and the University of San Diego. Later, she spent a decade at the
University of Pennsylvania Law School in the position of Vice Dean, and a
decade at New York University in the position of Vice President for Student
Affairs. Most recently, she has served as Vice President and Dean of Students at
the University of Chicago, and as Vice President for Student Affairs at the
California Institute of Technology (Caltech), where she was the first female Vice President in its
history. In many of her
positions, Marshak provided oversight to international programs and
study-abroad offices. Marshak earned the Bachelor of Arts degree in English
Literature from the University of Rochester, the Master of Arts degree in
Higher Education from the University of Michigan, and the degree of Juris
Doctor from the California Western School of Law.
IPSL Board of Trustees
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Service-Learning Conference Held
in Italy
On April 12, 2008, Siena Italian
Studies, L'Associazione Culturale Ulisse, and the International Partnership for
Service-Learning and Leadership presented a conference aimed at exploring the
relationship between volunteerism and academic institutions. The conference, which
attracted approximately 60 participants from institutions in Italy and the U.K., facilitated
discussion between Italian and foreign academic institutions in Italy and
agencies working with volunteers. The day consisted of presentations, workshops and small group
discussions. Topics included:
Basic Principles of Service-Learning and its Development Around the World; The
Service-Learning Experience in Italy; The Tradition of Volunteerism at the
Misericordia di Siena; Examples of Service-Learning Implementation in the
Sienese Context; and FICCS (Full Immersion: Culture, Content and Service) in
Theory and Practice.
In partnership with Siena Italian
Studies, IPSL offers undergraduate service-learning programs in Siena, Italy,
for the semester or summer (two month-long summer sessions). Students are fully
immersed in Italian culture through intensive language studies at the
beginning, intermediate or advanced levels, volunteer service in a local
agency, and a homestay with a local family.
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3rd Annual
International Service-Learning Conference Held at IUPUI
The third
annual International Service-Learning Conference, entitled “Advancing Research
and Practice,” was held at Indiana University–Purdue University at
Indianapolis (IUPUI) from February 29 to March 1, 2008. The conference
brought together approximately 110 practitioners, researchers, and scholars to
critically examine international service-learning as an intentionally designed
curriculum for engaging American students in educationally meaningful
international service experiences focused on developing civic skills,
knowledge, and dispositions.
Plenary
speakers included: Humphrey Tonkin, University Professor of the
Humanities and President Emeritus at the University of Hartford; Richard
Kiely, Faculty Director of the Cornell Urban Scholars Program
(CUSP) at Cornell University and Academic Director, Amizade Global
Service-Learning; and Mabel Erasmus, Centre for
Higher Education Studies and Development, University of the Free State, South
Africa.
Plenary and breakout sessions focused on: conceptual and theoretical
frameworks for developing and understanding international service-learning;
research on outcomes for students, host countries, faculty, and institutions;
principles of best practices and program guidelines for international
service-learning; strengthening the academic component of international
service-learning; institutional assessment strategies for international
service-learning; and partnership development to support international service-learning.
Link to keynote addresses and presentations from the conference
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IPSL at NAFSA
IPSL will be involved in several activities at the
NAFSA: Association of International Educators annual conference being held in
Washington, DC, from May 26 through May 30, 2008.
- IPSL will have a booth in the Expo
Hall. Please stop by Booth #735 to say hello, introduce yourself, and
learn more about what’s happening at IPSL.
- IPSL’s annual breakfast will take place on
Wednesday, May 28th, from 7:30am - 9am in the J.W. Marriott Hotel, Salon K, 1331
Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, D.C. Invitations have been sent via
email. Contact Maureen Brady for more information.
NAFSA Sessions with IPSL speakers:
- Volunteering and Service-Learning Abroad: Maximizing Positive
Impact on Host Communities. Martha Merrill, Dean of Academic Programs. Thursday, May 29th
8am-9am.
- Exploring Indigenous Cultures through International Education:
Global Perspectives. Nevin Brown, President. Friday, May 30th
8am-9:15am.
- Work, Internships & Volunteering Abroad (WIVA) Poster
Fair. Romelle Horton, Director of Student Programs. Thursday, May 29th
3-5 PM.
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M.A. in International Service:
Congratulations 2008 Grads!
 On March
5, 2008, the IPSL Master of Arts in International Service students received
their diplomas from Roehampton University in London. Congratulations to
Virginia Brisley, Amanda Curley, Eva Dittrich, Susanna Ebiasah, Erika Hamer, Colleen Hinds, Jean
Manney, Tamera Pack, Kathy Peacock, Trinisha Samuels, Nicole Surko, and Tracy Warde. The
cohort began their studies and service at Universidad Autonoma de Guadalajara,
Mexico, or the University of Technology, Kingston, Jamaica, in Fall 2006 and
continued for the spring 2007 term at Roehampton University. Graduates
completed dissertations in September 2007 on various topics including
psychological effects of hurricanes, educational equity and reform, and
comparative study of dramatherapy for education and healing.
More information on the M.A. in International Service program
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Undergraduate
Program News
 IPSL is pleased to report record enrollment for the Summer 2008 programs
in Siena, Italy, and Guayaquil, Ecuador.
Beginning
in Spring 2009, IPSL international service-learning programs will operate under
two different models: (1) our core undergraduate programs, offered for a
semester or summer, and (2) customized programs specially arranged with an
institution for its students. Core programs will continue to run in Ecuador (Galapagos, Guayaquil and Quito), India, Italy, Jamaica, Mexico,
Thailand, and with the Lakota Nation in South Dakota, USA. Customized programs
may be arranged in England, Scotland, Russia, the Philippines, and with the
Lakota Nation in South Dakota, USA. The IPSL France program and Czech Republic
programs will no longer be offered.
More details on customized programs will be
available by the fall. If you are interested in discussing the possibilities
for a customized international service-learning program through IPSL, please
contact Martha Merrill, IPSL Dean of Academic Programs, at mmerrill@ipsl.org.
More information on IPSL Undergraduate
Programs
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Alumni Happy Hour on May 29 in Washington, DC
 IPSL invites all DC/Baltimore metro area alumni to a happy hour on May 29. Reconnect with old friends and meet new ones!
Thursday,
May 29, 2008
6 -7:30
pm
America
Restaurant – Main Bar, Union
Station
50 Massachusetts Avenue, Washington, DC
RSVP to
Barbara Wanasek, bwanasek@ipsl.org or
212-986-0989, by May 23.
IPSL Alumni Center
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