The Spring NCAGE Forum touched on every element of our mission. We discussed a local intercampus collaboration (between UC Davis and Sacramento City College); we learned about Title VI grant proposals at member institutions (building the programs, writing the grants, and care and feeding the grantors); introduced David Schmidt as the new President-Elect for 2007; heard from faculty and students talking about the risks and opportunities in study abroad; and we had a great speaker, Michael Becker, talking about management and the cutting edge of communication technology in global context.
    NCAGE now has ten institutional members and more individual members, so our finances are solid. Please remember that June 1 is the deadline for the next round of Mini-Grants of up to $500. Please visit our website for application information.
    The last section of this newsletter provides important news about the California Colleges for International Education conference that will take place October 5-7 in Fremont.

Intercampus collaboration

    The Spring NCAGE Forum touched on every element of our mission. We discussed a local intercampus collaboration (between UC Davis and Sacramento City College); we learned about Title VI grant proposals at member institutions (building the programs, writing the grants, and care and feeding the grantors); introduced David Schmidt as the new President-Elect for 2007; heard from faculty and students talking about the risks and opportunities in study abroad; and we had a great speaker, Michael Becker, talking about management and the cutting edge of communication technology in global context.
    NCAGE now has ten institutional members and more individual members, so our finances are solid. Please remember that June 1 is the deadline for the next round of Mini-Grants of up to $500. Please visit our website for application information.
The last section of this newsletter provides important news about the California Colleges for International Education conference that will take place October 5-7 in Fremont.
    For the upcoming International Education Week (November 13 - 17, 2006) UC Davis and Sacramento City College will be collaborating on an expansion of UCD's Outreach Program. Dennis Dutschke has created a program of student ambassadors for his campus, and Sacramento City College is adapting that program and building an outreach effort that will complement the one by Dennis. We will be sending students who have traveled abroad, along with international students and faculty, out to visit local high schools.
    Please join us! Too few high school students know anything about study abroad (perhaps 15%). We want them to be thinking about study abroad as a part of their college plans – we want them to plan study abroad as they choose their college or university. Since the U.S. Senate has proclaimed this the "year of study abroad," we have a real opportunity to reach out and convince students and their families that they benefit enormously from study abroad and that in fact study abroad is a real option for almost every college student.
    Let us know if you'd like to make an outreach effort this fall. Dennis Dutschke has shared some great documents for creating what he calls "Student Ambassadors for Multi-Culturalism and Internationalization" (SAMI). He and I would very much like to build alliances around Sacramento and across the state. (Don Palm)

Title VI grant proposals at work

    San Jose City College and San Jose State University shared with us their experiences with Title VI grants–both colleges have received grants in the last two years: San Jose City for their program of Vietnamese Studies (culminating in an educational travel experience in Viet Nam), San Jose State for developing their Global Studies program. They emphasized the importance of extensive planning and groundwork before applying, and they offered themselves as resources.

Studyabroad

    We had a spirited conversation about research presented by Bruce LaBrack and Eric Tarbell from the University of the Pacific. They talked about the safety issues students reported in surveys they've been doing over the last few years. Audience members asked whether students perceived new risks because they were in dangerous environments, because they were in foreign and unknown cultural settings, and/or if they were experiencing urban lifeways for the first time. All of that conversation led us to talk about the benefits of travel education and study abroad, which led naturally to the last segment of presentations.
    Sue Strow and Terry Cumes of Intrax Education Abroad presented on fundraising options for students to study abroad. Vanessa de los Reyes, Natasha Greenhouse, and Lorena Carrasco, students from San Jose State and Mission College, shared with us their lived experiences – good and bad, and very contrasting – of study abroad.
    Our guest speaker was Michael Becker, the Chief Technology Officer of iLoop Mobile, who shared with us his experience as an executive in Japan and in the United States, and his insights on the future directions of technology (technology is all about process, and the key question is to what extent a technology is scalable) and management (where strategic alliances are the key) in a wide ranging talk.

California Study Abroad Web site

    NCAGE joined a number of other higher ed entities in California to help compose and disseminate information about all study abroad programs in the state. The joint Web site just rolled out this spring, so everyone should bookmark it and use it for next year’s programs. Also make students aware of it. Besides being very useful, it’s actually a very attractive site.

CCIE Conference

    California Colleges for International Education (CCIE) announces the 3rd Biennial Conference, October 5-7 in Fremont, California at the Fremont Marriott Hotel.  The 2006 CCIE Conference will be co-hosted by NCAGE: Northern California Advocates for Global Education; SOCCIS: Southern California Consortium for International Studies and the CIES (Comparative and International Education Society) Western Region.
    CCIE is happy to announce that there is a special Pre-Summer Registration rate that will be available until June 30. For Registration and more information visit: http://dev.ohlone.edu/org/foundation/ccie
    This conference will allow attendees the opportunity to share strategies and lessons learned as efforts to advance community college international education. Specifically the following themes will be explored as they relate to Community Colleges as well as to all post-secondary institutions:

* Internationalizing the Curriculum
* International Economic Development
* Study Abroad: Logistical, Health, Safety and Legal Issues
* Integrating International Student Programs on campus
* Importance of Including International Education Programs on your Campus
* Internationalization through networking
* Building Partnerships with four-year institutions

CCIE will be accepting paper/panel proposals until June 24.  Please contact Rosalind Raby at rabyrl@aol.com if you are interested in presenting. Students are strongly encouraged to participate.