International Activities
Cortland has recently established a dual
degree exchange program that
will bring business economics students from
Turkey’s Izmir University to
Cortland
2005-08
Professor Barbara Wisch, Art and Art History, lectured and worked at the University of Sydney, Australia, supported in part by a National Endowment for the Humanities grant.
Professors Jeremiah Donovan and Vaughn Randall, Art and Art History, traveled to China to study Chinese art and culture.
Professors Broyles, Rivest, (Biological Sciences) Miller (Geography) and Pasquarello (Political Science) continued to take students to Belize for Winter session courses in Marine Biology, and Ecology and Economy of Belize.
The Department of Economics hosted Professor Ayla Ogus from Izmir University of Economics to discuss further developments in the dual diploma program.
Professor Jiguo Xia, Professor of History at Capital Normal University in Beijing, China was a visiting scholar hosted by the Department of History.
Professor Paul Van der Veur, Communications Studies, spent the Fall semester on a Fulbright Scholarship in Namibia. He produced a number of educational videos and a DVD on the AIDS epidemic in Africa.
SUNY Cortland's chapter of Phi Beta Delta, the international honor society, held its second annual induction ceremony.
Professor Mohammed Ghouse Nasuruddin was a Fulbright Scholar in Residence and visiting artist from Malaysia, hosted by the Department of Performing Arts. He gave a number of performances and lectures during his stay.
Professor Wenying Li, Director of the Jingdezhen SanBao Ceramic Art Institute, China gave workshops on ceramics. Her visit was sponsored by the Department of Art and Art History.
Professor Jeremiah Donovan, Art and Art History, traveled to China as a Chancellor's Awardee for Internationalization to study Chinese art and culture. The award supported the development of a study abroad program for students.
The Department of Economics co-sponsored, with Izmir University of Economics, an International Conference on Economic and Human Resources. Dean Prus and Professor Haight traveled to Izmir in May to participate in the conference.
The International Studies program, coordinated by Dr. Sharon Steadman continues to grow. There are currently over 40 declared majors in the program.
2003-05
With thanks to Dr. Henry Steck, Director of the James M.
Clarke Center for International Education. His 2005 summary of
international activities college-wide is the basis for this group of
highlights:
- Exchange program in Turkey. Recent agreements have been established to bring TESOL students from Anadolu University in Turkey --Turkish students will be entering a dual degree program starting in the fall of 2006.
- Masters students from Pultusk University in Poland will join Cortland students in the TESOL program next year.
- The Department of International Communications and Culture recently received approval from SUNY to offer a Bachelor of Arts in Teaching English as a Second Language (TESOL).
- Professor Jeremiah Donovan (Art) continues his coursework in China each summer, bringing Cortland students to study ceramic arts in Jingdezhen.
- Through the development of Dr. Donovan’s network in China, a distinguished Chinese ceramicist, Jackson Li, served as a Teacher in Residence in the Spring of 2005.
- The International Communications and Culture Department has expanded its range of language courses to include both Italian and Arabic.
- With the help of a major grant from the Department of State, Cortland’s Political Science Department will conclude, in the fall of 2005, a three-year exchange relationship with the University of Nis in Serbia. Several distinguished Serbian faculty have visited the Cortland campus, providing guest lectures on a varitey of issues related to government and development in Eastern Europe. Cortland faculty have been major participants each year in a Summer Institute for graduate students offered in Nis.
- Two of Cortland’s online journals feature extensive coverage of international issues and cross-national collaboration. Neo-Vox is a student-run online general-interest magazine headquartered on the Cortland campus; students from around the world also contribute. At present Neo-Vox has desks in Australia (University of the Sunshine Coast), Peru (Peruvian Institute of Advertising-IPP), Romania (Babes-Bolyai University), Slovakia (Janos Selye University Centre) and Venezuela (VEN-USA Language Institute). A second journal, Wagadu, is devoted to transnational issues involving women and gender studies. Wagadu is edited by Professor Mechthild Nagel (Philosophy), assisted by faculty in Political Science, Communication Studies, Geography, Art and English.
- Over 50 foreign students entered Cortland in the fall of 2005, a new record for our international student population.
- Through Cortland’s Project on Eastern and Central Europe (PECE) two “Junior Faculty Development Program” faculty, sponsored by the American Council on International Education, have taught on our campus: Prof. Larissa Titarenko from Belarus State University and Prof. Ilie Rad a visiting professor of Journalism from Romania.
- With the benefit of online course management software, several Cortland classes have been made available around the world. Dr. Craig Little (Sociology) has offered a Sociology course uniting students in three campuses: Cortland, Belarus State University, and Moscow State University. Dr. Henry Steck (Political Science) has participate in a SUNY Learning Network (SLN) course linking Fredonia with London Metropolitan University.
- Other Cortland courses include Study Abroad as an integral part of the academic experience, e.g., Dr. Steven Broyles (Biology) and Dr. Tom Pasquarello (Political Science) have brought students to Belize to student the relationship between public policy, environment and development. Similary, Dr. Steck (Political Science) frequently takes students in his “Euro-sim” class to Europe in order to participate in a simulation of European Union government.
- In 2003-04 Cortland was host to two Fulbright Scholars, Sergei Shirobokov (Russia) and Zdenka Kalnicka (Slovakia).