Inside this issue:

AIE Summer Board Meeting

1

Annual NAFSA Conference

2

2017 AIE State Meeting Recap

2-3

Inaugural AIE Leadership Awards

4

International Students Who Changed America

4

AIE Leadership Changes

5

Field Advocate Positions

5

Weaving Together Civic Engagement & International Education

6

May 2017

Volume 5, Issue 2

NAFSA Annual Confer-ence, Los Angeles —May 28-June 2

AIE Board Meeting,

Phoenix — June 10

Visit Arizona International Educators (AIE) Online: http://arizonaie.org

AIE is on the move, already thinking about and planning for the next State Meeting and other activities for 2017-2018. The annual AIE planning workshop is scheduled for June 10, 2017 at Grand Canyon University. We invite you to join in this activity and bring your ideas and thoughts about how AIE can move forward with its mission to spread international education across Arizona! We need your participation and contributions. The day’s agenda will be divided into two half-day sections:

9:30- Noon – AIE in its current form – review of policies, procedures, and changes needed; and planning of ad hoc activities such as Lunch Forums and short-term workshops for 2018

12:00 – 1:00 – Lunch (will be provided) 1:00- 4:00 – AIE 2018 State Meeting planning

Please RSVP by email to Deborah.Parris@erau.edu by Tuesday, June 6, 2017 by 12:00 noon to let us know you will attend. We will send those responding di-rection and more information on the afternoon of June 6. We hope you can participate at this workshop and welcome your suggestions, creative ideas, expression of concerns, and thoughts on how we need to change! Debi Parris Chair, Arizona International Educators

AIE Summer Board Meeting — June 10th

Arizona International Educators (AIE) is a professional organization for educa-tors who are committed to supporting and enhancing the ideals and practices of international education in the State of Arizona. Since its inception, AIE members have worked together as professional colleagues, avidly promoting educational principles and curricula that stretch across cultures and national boundaries.

NAFSA Annual Conference

If you are planning on attending the NAFSA Annual Conference and Expo in Los Angeles, California May 28-June 2, please be sure to write down notes and important information relevant to the field of international education to share with AIE members who are not able to attend. Please send any information gathered to DeeAnn Resk, AIE Director at Large & Newsletter Editor, by emailing reskd@erau.edu. Also, if you plan on attending the conference, be sure to mark your calendar to participate in the NAFSA Re-gion II Update Meeting on Wednesday, May 31 from 5:30-6:30 PM in LACC, Room 409. We hope to see you there!

2017 AIE State Meeting A Success

On Friday, March 3, 2017 the annual Arizona Interna-tional Educators (AIE) State Meeting took place at Ari-zona State University—Thunderbird School of Global Management. The theme for this event was “Better Together, We, The Change!” ASU’s Kent Hopkins, Vice President of Enrollment Man-agement and Services, welcomed the crowd of over 100 attendees with a dynamic and interactive opening session. He credited his early roots in international ed-ucation as a boy in Iowa, when he begged his parents to be a host family for some international students.

Later, as a young man, he joined the global education program Up with People and said after that, the inter-national bug never left. Today, he is responsible for enrollment strategy and operations of the International Students and Scholars Center at ASU, among many oth-er responsibilities. One of the most noteworthy as-pects of Mr. Hopkins’ opening session was when he asked senior international educational career veterans who have served at least 2-3 decades to stand followed by asking professionals who are brand new to the field to rise. Each person briefly shared their own story, much like he had, of how they entered the profession, including what motivates and sustains them. A powerful trio of panelists took the stage following the welcome session that capitalized on the state meeting’s theme. Panelist Dr. Ricardo Castro Salazar from Pima Community College spoke about the im-portance of connecting worlds, promoting diversity and global learning through international students; panelist Mr. Holly Singh, from ASU shared about “global citizens, one story at a time;” and panelist Ms. Chelsea Olson, from Thunderbird School of Global Management, spoke about how education is more than a piece of paper and discussed, what she called, “the future of micro-credentials and badges.” (Continued on page 3)

(Continued from page 2) The day followed with interactive workshops, leadership awards, and net-working sessions, ending with the traditional raffle featuring door prizes and the famous (or infa-mous!) AIE rattle. Afterwards, many AIE members stayed for the optional happy hour at the Thun-derbird Pub for additional networking and socializing, which we hope turns into a new tradition at the end of each State Meeting. Overall, a great day was had by all! We already look forward to the 2018 State Meeting which will be hosted by our colleagues on Friday, March 2, 2018 at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff.

The 2017 AIE State Meeting’s theme was “Better Together: We, the Change!” How can we

create change and make a positive impact for our field of international education?

Read below for some members’ answers...

“The best way to do this is by creating understanding, showing students that we

care, and really focusing on the individual student.” – Abou Touré, Coordinator

for International Admissions, Northern Arizona University

“Some of the workshops at AIE were really helpful in exchanging ideas and services

on how we can make a positive impact, to help integrate and see how we can im-

prove our own departments in order to best serve international students. Yet

there’s more services and programs to be created.” – Alyaa Al-Maadeed, Sponsored

Student Advisor, Mesa Community College

“We can make an impact by really trying to understand the different cultures we work

with and build from there.” – Pepe Santos, International Student Advisor, Arizona State

University – Thunderbird School of Global Management

““If we would like to draw more international students to Arizona as a whole, AIE could

start a scholarship program that is funded by Arizona businesses, corporations, and

non-profit organizations that believe in the value of international education and cultur-

al exchange. At the annual meeting, we would announce the scholarship recipients and

if possible have the award winners participate in our workshops. Of course, this would

require a whole new set of AIE volunteers to manage the fundraising campaign and

administer the scholarship application and selection process. It would be a great way,

though, to make more people in Arizona aware of the fact that AIE exists and it would

introduce them to the wonderful work that we do.” – Kerstin Alicki, Assistant Director

of Graduate Admissions, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University

Inaugural AIE Leadership Awards

The inaugural AIE Honors & Awards Program, announced in the Summer of 2016, recognized Outstanding Inter-national Educators during the 2017 AIE State Meeting. Kathryn Howard, who has served as Program Manager for the Department of International and Intercultural Education in the Maricopa Community Colleges District since 2006, won the first ever Exem-plary Global Leadership and Service Award. Long-time supporter, Account Executive from Cultural Insurance Ser-vices International, and AIE Field Ad-vocate for Global Health and Safety, Mark Hough, won the first ever Dis-tinguished Contributions to Global Initiatives in Arizona Award. These will now be annual awards to honor other outstanding International Educators in the state of Arizona, so be thinking of who you would like to nominate next year! Nomination in-formation will go out later this year.

In honor of MaryLee Carter’s signifi-cant contributions to the field of In-ternational Education, including the leadership of AIE, the AIE Board sur-prised her with a special Lifetime Achievement Award during the 2017 State Meeting. Congratulations to all the winners!

Photos: Howard and Hough (above) stand with their awards with some of the AIE Leadership Team during the 2017 State Meeting; Carter (below) enjoyed the surprise award via video as she was unable to attend in per-son due to medical reasons.

International Students Who Changed America Voice of America “Ever used Zoosk, the online dating community? Or traded files with classmates or teachers on Dropbox, an online storage service? Dream of owning a Tesla one day or flying to the moon on SpaceX? All those companies have a common thread: Their founders were legal immigrants or first-generation immigrants. And many founders of successful U.S. companies were international students at American universities first.” Read the full article at: http://blogs.voanews.com/student-union/2017/04/12/international-students-who-changed-america/

Did You Know?

Field Advocate Positions

AIE Leadership Changes

AIE members elected new board leaders by electronic vote in November 2016. Newly elected board leaders began their terms of leadership on March 3, 2017. The new members of the leadership team includes: Chair—Debi Parris, ERAU, two-year term, until March 2019. Chair-elect — Daisy Rodriguez Pitel, Pima CC, two-year term, until March 2019. Secretary — Paige O’Connor, GCU, three-year term, until March 2020. Treasurer — Jessica Hoffert, Scottstdale CC, three-year term, until March 2020. MaryLee Carter relinquished her role as Chair, as of March 3, 2017, and moved to the AIE Board of Directors.

Opportunities for leadership in AIE are always available. All AIE members are welcome to join the team as Field Advocates to support their particular areas of concern, to help with planning and implementing the Annual State Meeting, and/or to propose new directions for the organization. We would like to welcome Therese Tendick as our newest Field Advocate for Community Engagement & Ad-vocacy, Civic Engagement, and Service Learning. Therese serves as the Director at the Center for Civic & Global Engagement at Scottsdale Community College. Other Field Advocate positions that are currently open include: International Student & Scholars Services Admissions & Recruiting Study Abroad Please consider volunteering for one of these important roles! To learn more about the AIE Field Advocate program, please contact Debi Parris at parrisd3@earu.edu or visit our website at http://arizonaie.org.

Photos (Left to Right): Debi Parris, Daisy Rodriguez Pitel, Paige O’Connor, Jessica Hoffert, and Therese Tendick

Weaving Together Civic Engagement and International Education By Therese Tendick, Director,

Center for Civic & Global Engagement at Scottsdale Community College

A civically-responsible citizen is globally-aware. Haven’t you found in your profession as an interna-tional educator that you are more aware of your responsibilities to our democracy, more attentive to changing dynamics in your community, more knowledgeable about working with students of cul-turally-diverse backgrounds? Interlacing civic and community engagement with our global educa-tion endeavors is an important part of the fabric we weave here at Scottsdale Community College. For example, international students in our Community College Initiative Program, which is spon-sored by the U.S. Department of State and administered by SCC’s Center for Civic & Global Engage-ment, work side by side American citizens in our student government, volunteer 120 hours in our community per year, and learn about democracy in their cohort. “Through volunteerism, students can see how American communities tackle social and environmental problems, giving them new perspectives to take back to their home countries,” states Megan Young, SCC’s CCI College Coordi-nator. And American students participating in our Service-learning programs which connect classroom in-struction with real-world experience may find themselves delivering household goods to a newly-arrived refugee family or learning about global hunger issues in their service to Welcome to Ameri-ca Project and Feed My Starving Children. “Engaged students are more likely to retain --- retain to memory, retain to service and retain to completion. At SCC, we are engaging our students in their learning through many methods, with the ultimate goal being an involved and educated student global citizen,” states Dr. Becky Bradley, Director of Service-learning & Leadership. Do you have programs on your campus which weave civic engagement and international education together? Let Arizona know by writing to Field Advocate Therese Tendick at therese.tendick@scottsdalecc.edu.

Photo: International students from Brazil, Pakistan, India and Indonesia complete a Service Learning Sustainability Project conducted through their Communication class at Scottsdale Community College.