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Finding Leadership For The Internationalization Of U.S. Higher Education, Michael Smithee
Finding Leadership For The Internationalization Of U.S. Higher Education, Michael Smithee
Michael B. Smithee
The internationalization of U.S. higher education has depended on leadership from a variety of sources in different strengths and purposes over time. The leadership shifted from President Lyndon Johnson's sponsorship of legislation, as part of a trilogy of legislation known as the Great Society, to a collaborative and at times competitive leadership marked by a struggle to establish international education as legitimate focus for higher education institutions. Leadership came in the form of advocates for international education who were drawn from the stakeholders. These advocates included practitioners, researchers, professional organizations, and alliances. Leader-advocates also contended with philosophical changes in the …
Editor: 2009 Annual Conference Abstracts, Michael Smithee
Editor: 2009 Annual Conference Abstracts, Michael Smithee
Michael B. Smithee
The publication includes abstracts and contact information from papers presented at the Phi Beta Delta 2009 Annual Conference.
Why An International Honor Society?, Michael Smithee
Why An International Honor Society?, Michael Smithee
Michael B. Smithee
This article identifies the relationship between the Honor Society and international education on campuses through recognition, synergy, internationalization, and globalization.
Risk Management In International Education: Host And Visitor Concerns, Michael B. Smithee
Risk Management In International Education: Host And Visitor Concerns, Michael B. Smithee
Michael B. Smithee
This presentation reviewed issues associated with accepting, accommodating, and teaching international students in a university setting. It explored the roles of the insittution and the international student adivsor, as well as managing crises during the international student sojourn.
The Teaching Fellow Program Of The Syracuse University Graduate School, Michael Smithee, Stacey Tice
The Teaching Fellow Program Of The Syracuse University Graduate School, Michael Smithee, Stacey Tice
Michael B. Smithee
This chapter proposes that international teaching assistants upon entering the U.S. to assume their duties be oriented in such a fashion that they become conversant with the pedagogy, culture, and organization of U.S. education. The Teaching Fellow Program of Syracuse University is designed to provide a teaching, guiding and mentoring relationship of seasoned Teaching Assistants specially chosen to assist these new domestic and international student Teaching Assistants.
Creating An Intensive Learning And Support Environment For International And Domestic Students, Michael B. Smithee
Creating An Intensive Learning And Support Environment For International And Domestic Students, Michael B. Smithee
Michael B. Smithee
This presentation reviews the framework of serivces for international and domestic students. It comments on skills, attitudes, and behaviors needed for success in understanding and helping international students.
U.S Classroom Culture, Michael Smithee, Sidney Greenblatt, Elisa Eland
U.S Classroom Culture, Michael Smithee, Sidney Greenblatt, Elisa Eland
Michael B. Smithee
U.S. Classroom Culture addresses issues of the American classroom for international students coming to the U.S. for study, as well as to acquaint faculty, teaching assistants, and international office staff of the problems international students may face in the U.S. classroom. These issues include but are not limited to: academic rules and policies, standards, expectations of U.S. faculty, variation in teaching and learning methods, American student perceptions of the classroom, grading, tests, terminology, and plagiarism.
Coping With The Death Of A Student, Michael Smithee, Gary Althen, David Austell, Jane Howard, Peter Maramaldi, Lynn Reilly
Coping With The Death Of A Student, Michael Smithee, Gary Althen, David Austell, Jane Howard, Peter Maramaldi, Lynn Reilly
Michael B. Smithee
This chapter applies a crisis management plan to a specific type of crisis: the death of an international student. It explores the crisis from the view of accidental death, murder, and suicide. It identifies the stakeholders: institutional, community, and agrieved. It reviews specific actions that can be taken to reach a closure of the crisis.
Crisis Management In A Cross-Cultural Setting, Michael Smithee, William Hoffa, Patricia Burak
Crisis Management In A Cross-Cultural Setting, Michael Smithee, William Hoffa, Patricia Burak
Michael B. Smithee
This article reviews the elements of a crisis management plan.