Smith College Lewis Global Studies Center Annual Report 2013 - 2014

SMITH COLLEGE

THE PHOEBE AND JOHN D. LEWIS GLOBAL STUDIES CENTER

Photograph by Beall Taylor ‘13

Annual Report 2013 — 2014

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Introduction The academic year 2013-14 was the first full year for the recently endowed Phoebe and John D. Lewis Global Studies Center. Established as the Global Studies Center in 2010-11, the center was officially named in 2013, with Phoebe and Jack Lewis attending a warm reception in their honor in October.

The Lewis Center continues to deepen its role on campus as the heart of international and global programming and endeavors. President Kathleen McCartney’s October 2013 inaugural address championed the Lewis Center when she identified global priorities as the second of four central initiatives for the college—along with Smith’s mission as a women’s college, technological innovation, and expanding access. President McCartney said: Throughout its history, Smith has served as a leader and model in international education. With its Sister colleges, Smith helped found schools and colleges for women in Asia and Europe. We welcomed to our faculty refugee scholars exiled by war and civil unrest. We established pioneering study-abroad programs, and set national records for Fulbright Fellows. Smith students won 23 Fulbright fellowships this year alone—a remarkable accomplishment. We founded the Lewis Global Studies Center, which has already become a crossroads for international and domestic students and a forum for discussions of global issues.

We will extend our work, because the challenge for this century is clear: We must prepare students to live and work in a global community with cultural fluency and full engagement.

2013-14 at the Lewis Center was as dynamic as previous years. It was highlighted by significant curricular innovation. First, after two years of careful planning, in close collaboration with faculty in foreign language departments, the center established a Concentration in Translation Studies. The concentration will capitalize on Smith’s longstanding commitment to study abroad, student participation in internships and research while abroad, an international faculty across the disciplines with experience in translation, and a growing population of international students who can serve as resources and concentrators. In its first year, the concentration accepted 14 concentrators. Student interest and curiosity was evident at information sessions, so we expect that 2014-15 will see still more concentrators.

The second curricular development within the Lewis Center was the beginning of a decennial review of the American Studies Diploma Program. For more than fifty years, Smith has hosted hundreds of “diplomats” from around the world for a rigorous one-year certificate program to study American culture and society in a global context. For “diplomat alumnae” now in a wide array of professions and positions of influence, their year at Smith College was a formative, life-changing experience – their “junior year abroad” as young adults. The American Studies Diploma Program is now looking toward the future of American Studies in close collaboration with the American Studies Program, international partners such as Smith’s longstanding programs abroad in Geneva, Hamburg, Paris and Florence, and consortia in Córdoba (Spain), Madurai (India), and Kyoto (Japan). The rigorous self-study involves consultation with alumnae, faculty and outside evaluators and is expected to be completed in fall 2014.

A third curricular development is the deepening of the Lewis Center’s role in mounting and managing Global Engagement Seminars, now in their fourth year. This year saw a return to Greece for “Greek History and Archaeology in their Geological Context” with professor of geology John Brady and professor of classics Scott Bradbury. Global Engagement Seminars are prized opportunities for students to earn 5 academic credits in an experience that combines a predeparture course, an intensive seminar on-site, and an internship or service-learning experience.

Planning began for new Global Engagement Seminars in 2015, with one going to Kenya to study the gender politics of participatory democracy and development, and the second to India to study

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philosophical and economical investigations of modernity alongside cultural and religious identity.

In keeping with President McCartney’s emphasis on technological innovation in her inaugural address, the center launched three new initiatives in 2013-14. First, it acquired Horizons, a software database to manage student applications for study abroad and international experience opportunities, known to students as SITES, (Smith International Travel Experiences System).

Students now submit and manage their applications online, rather than the clunky, paper-based system of the past, and faculty can complete recommendations on-line instead of printing and sending confidential envelopes through campus mail. This is a remarkable change that required significant amount of person hours. Yet in the heat of impatient deadlines this year Horizons proved its mettle.

Second, the Lewis Center employed an On Campus Internship Program (OCIP) intern, Geneva Ruppert ’14, and will do so again in 2014-15. The OCIP intern is responsible for promoting the center through social media and on-line newsfeeds. For her part, Geneva focused primarily on establishing and nurturing the Lewis Center’s Facebook page through the photo contest voting, calendar reminders and frequent posting of event announcements and photos.

A third, exciting technological innovation was the launch of Global Impressions, an online journal by Smith students “of and for the world.” The first issue appeared in the Spring 2014 and is accessible directly from the Lewis Center website (www.smith.edu/global). It features stunning photographs from the 2013 International Photo Contest and Exhibition. The center is very much a part of the college’s effort to deepen its online, virtual presence, and Global Impressions is sure to be a contribution to students’ expression of their global insights and experiences.

In terms of faculty scholarship, a new initiative in the spring 2014 was Global Books. The sessions provide opportunities for Smith faculty to discuss recently published books that treat global themes, with a faculty counterpart serving as a guest interlocutor. One session, in fact, was conducted in French: Visiting Lecturer in French Studies Alfred Babo presented his new book, L”Étranger” en Côte d’Ivoire: Crises et controverses autour d’une categorie sociale (The “Foreigner” in the Ivory Coast: Crises and Controversies Concerning a Social Category).

Ibtissam Bouachrine, associate professor of Spanish and Portuguese was the guest interlocutor.

Future sessions will undoubtedly be presented in English and other languages, too, as faculty members showcase their scholarly productivity.

The Lewis Center also experienced a significant change in personnel. Most notably, after more than 30 years at Smith College as a dean for international students and scholars, Hrayr Tamzarian retired in January. Known as “Dean T” to the students, Hrayr embodied a global outlook in terms of his own biography—born in Syria and educated throughout the Middle East before coming to the US as a young adult. Hrayr walked the walk, too, in terms of his commitment to global studies. He welcomed and shepherded hundreds of international students in his decades of service. He was a mentor and a passionate advocate for the students, and his role and service only increased in recent years with the growth of the international student population.

Caitlin Szymkowicz replaced Hrayr as the new Associate Dean for International Students and Scholar. “Dean Caitlin,” as the students quickly called her, joined the Lewis Center staff after extensive experience in the Admissions Office at Amherst College. In addition, in an important restructuring of administrative lines, Caitlin now reports directly to Lewis Center co-director Rebecca Hovey, instead of the previous reporting line to the Dean of Students. This development reflects deliberation within the new center since its advent in 2010 about more efficient and effective administrative reporting.

Two additional changes in personnel include the arrival of Sara Kortesluoma as the administrative coordinator in International Study; Sara worked in Temple University’s International Programs office before her arrival at Smith. Additionally, at the end of the year Janie Vanpee succeeded Greg White as the Faculty co-Director of the center. Greg completed his

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three-year term and returns to the Government Department and the Environmental Science & Policy Program. Janie is a Professor of French Studies and Comparative Literature and was instrumental in the early planning for the Lewis Center.

Other central developments include the role the Lewis Center played in the successful mounting of a Women in Public Service Project Institute in May-June 2014. Mount Holyoke, Simmons and Smith Colleges coordinated efforts to mount a WPSP Institute on “Reconstructing Societies in the Wake of Conflict: Transitional Justice and Economic Development”– www.smith.edu/wpsp. On the Smith campus, the Lewis Center collaborated closely with the Project for Women in Social Change, the Provost’s Office, Smith College Executive Education Program, and College Relations. Events at Smith included a brilliant staging by students of the superb play Seven; a keynote address by Gloria Steinem ’56 with participation by the Sophia Smith Collection’s activist in residence Sara Gould and professor of history Darcy Buerkle; and a screening of the Academy Award winning documentary Saving Face, including a session with director Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy ’01.

In addition to all of these developments, the center was super busy with the usual day to day events and sessions, including Global Salons, What’s Happening Around the World (WHAW) sessions, and myriad information sessions. Students continue to rely on the Lewis Center as a resource to answer a multitude of questions about study abroad, to complete necessary paperwork as international students, and to take advantage of events and connections to international issues. The center provides support for international engagement through Global Outreach Grants, the Global STRIDE Fellows Program, International Experience Grants (IEGs), Anita Volz Wien ’62 Global Scholars Fund, and Blumberg Traveling Fellowships.

For its part, the Office for International Students and Scholars oversaw the arrival of 108 international students in 2013. In 2014, the college boasts 357 international students from 73 countries, or about 13.7 percent of the student population. And the Office for International Study (OIS) supports students in their varied efforts to study abroad. In addition to supporting the college’s study abroad programs in Geneva, Hamburg, Florence, and Paris, OIS continues to encourage international study around the world and expand opportunities for students majoring in the natural sciences. In 2013-14, 273 students studied overseas in 36 countries for either a semester or full academic year.

These and other activities detailed in this report are part of the Lewis Center’s mission: to integrate, enrich and promote opportunities for the critical study of global issues… in order to prepare women for global leadership. The center's offices—namely the Office for International Study, the Office for International Students and Scholars, and the Diploma Program in American Studies—continue to be a busy hub of activity providing support to students, faculty and staff's engaged in global work.

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Academic Initiatives Global Engagement Seminars These intensive, credit-bearing seminars are taught off-campus during the summer, followed by a required internship or service learning experience.

GES 303 Greek History and Archaeology in their Geological Context.

This seminar will explore the relationship between the historical and cultural development of Ancient Greece and the underlying geology of the Greek islands (Crete, Santorini, Syros, Delos) and mainland, (Athens/Attica, Delphi). The pre-seminar in spring 2014 will include research and writing integral to the work of the traveling summer seminar and internship.

Visits to key sites and museums to examine the art and archaeology of prehistoric and classical Greece as well as field study of the prominent geological features of each region.

Students will study first-hand the celebrated monuments and masterpieces of the Minoan, Mycenaean and Classical Greek civilizations, and explore the region's spectacular geological features, which had a dramatic, occasionally catastrophic, impact on the course of these civilizations. Some hiking over rough terrain, including one 11-mile hike.

Following the seminar, students will remain in Athens for six-week internships in fields relevant to the seminar: geology, archaeology and museum studies. Insofar as possible, students will receive internships in a field of interest.

Faculty: Scott Bradbury (Classics), John Brady (Geosciences)

Global STRIDE Fellows In the fall, four Global STRIDE fellows met weekly in the seminar room of the Lewis Global Studies Center with their faculty mentor, Professor Hélène Visentin. One student had to withdraw from the College at the end of the fall semester. Students examined issues of second language acquisition, adaptation to different cultures, and intercultural sensitivity. At the beginning of the year each fellow worked on filling out the European Language e-portfolio, an in-depth record of assessing linguistic and intercultural learning and progress developed by the European Union.

The fellows attended the annual Smith in the World conference and reported back concerning the presentations they had heard.

As in the past seven years, the Global STRIDES undertook two projects—meeting and interviewing the AMS diploma students, (interviews posted on the Lewis Global Studies website) —and a research inquiry in the Archives, the results of which will be submitted on Smithipedia, and potentially the Smith online journal Global Impressions. One of the articles, based on the Bessie Boies Cotton papers from the Smith Archives and related to an alumna who travelled to Russia in 1917-19, might be published in an academic journal due to the quality of the research. In April, the group participated in Open Weekend, presenting a poster of the program and their activities and two of the fellows spoke at the panel for accepted students who had received a STRIDE offer.

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The summer after their first year, the fellows study in programs around the world: this year they included Hefei (China), Geneva, and Saint Petersburg. The group kept a collective blog during their study abroad experience. After their intensive summer study abroad, each student updates their European Language e-portfolio. Finally, they begin lining up internships for the second year.

For a full list of study abroad destinations, internships, and archive projects see Appendix B.

Global Outreach Grants The Lewis Global Studies Center invites proposals to support enrichment of the college’s curricular offerings with global perspectives. In recent years the center has sought to provide incentive and support for a wide array of initiatives. This year, the Lewis Center offered Global Outreach Grants to the following faculty members:

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Payal Banerjee, assistant professor of Sociology, for travel to India for the development of a new course “Genealogies of Globalization.”

Charles Gooding, visiting professor of Engineering and visiting design clinic director, for support of student travel to Panama as part of the Engineering Design Clinic capstone course.

Tom Rohlich, professor of East Asian Languages and Literatures, for travel with students to Japan for EAL115j Kyoto Then and Now. Carolyn Shread, lecturer in French Studies and professor of CLT The Art of Translation, the gateway course for the new concentration in Translation Studies, to participate in the American Translation and Interpreting Studies Conference.

Funding for International Experiences International Experience Grants (IEGs) The Office for International Study oversees the award of Smith College International Experience Grants (IEGs). These grants provide partial funding ranging from $500 to $3,500 toward study, research, internships or volunteer projects outside of the United States during J-Term or the summer.

In January 2014, 35 awards totaling $53,349 were granted. These included support for students participating in several faculty-led inter-term programs: Tibetan Studies in India, Kyoto Then and Now, the Geosciences Carbonate Systems and Coral Reefs of the Bahamas trip, and the ADEMES/Proyecto Ademas in the Dominican Republic.

For the Summer 2014 term, 42 awards totaling $90,113 were granted. Among the awards were grants for students participating on Smith’s exchange program with Ewha Women’s University in South Korea, intensive language learning in a number of countries, the Oxford Summer Seminar, and two internship placements in the Pillay Brain and Spine Clinic in Singapore.

Blumberg Traveling Fellowships The Janet Mitchell Blumberg Traveling Awards were established by Professor Phillip I. Blumberg and his children in 1976 in honor of his late wife Janet Mitchell Blumberg '39, who spent her junior year with the Smith program in Florence, Italy. For many years, this fund has supported enhanced cultural learning opportunities associated with Smith's programs in Florence, Geneva, Hamburg and Paris. The Blumberg Award allows students to augment their study abroad experiences by undertaking faculty-mentored research projects that encourage intellectual growth and cultural appreciation.

The Blumberg Awards highlight the power of international study to expand students’ perspectives and disciplinary knowledge through the direct insights gained from travel and field study.

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The 2014 Blumberg Fellows were: Nora Nadire ’14, Hamburg Laura Seegerer ’14, Florence (deferred) Fu Ji ’14, Paris Elizabeth Henle ’14, Florence Emilia Gambardella ’14, Florence

“Observing the Culture of Opera” “Chinese Integration in Italy” “Chinese Artists in Paris” “Travels in Search of Arrighi” “Italy's "Southern Question"

In 2013, Fu Ji was the recipient of the supplemental Blumberg Scholar Prize, an additional award made available to the most promising project resulting from the Blumberg fellowships. Fu Ji’s project focused on the cosmopolitan art scene of Paris in the Inter-War years of the 20th century, with special attention on the Chinese architect Liu Jipiao. She utilized her supplemental award to invite the daughter of Fu Ji to visit Smith and in a special curated exhibit of 20 th century Asian art at the Smith College Museum of Art, in conjunction with Community Collaborations. This special event was proudly co-sponsored by the Lewis Global Studies Center.

First Generation of Chinese Artists in Paris and Their Legacy Saturday, April 12, 1:30 p.m., Museum of Art An installation opening talk with Jennifer Wong, granddaughter of artist/architect Liu Jipiao, and Joan Lebold Cohen '54, acclaimed historian of Chinese modern art. Growing out of the Blumberg Fellowship and the capstone project of Museum Concentration student Fu Ji '14, this multimedia installation explores the history of Chinese artists in Paris during the interwar years, as well as their legacy in modernizing China and promoting cross-cultural exchange.

Anita Volz Wien '62 Global Scholars Fund The Anita Volz Wien '62 Global Scholars Fund (Wien Global Scholars) is a merit-based award to encourage Smith students who are U.S. citizens to study abroad in non-English speaking countries, in combination with an internship or similar experience either before or after the study abroad period. Preference is given to students planning to study abroad for a full year; exceptions are made for science or engineering majors intending to study abroad for one semester in combination with an accompanying internship experience. The grant includes: up to $10,000 toward Smith College tuition (tuition credit or financial aid offset); $3,500 stipend for an international internship during the summer; and travel reimbursement of up to $1,500.

2011-2012 Elizabeth Williams ’13 Amelia Murphy ’13

2013-2014 Kristen DeLancey ‘15 Yolana Pollack ’15

2012-2013 Alexandra Neff ’14 Laura Leung ’14

2014-2015 Isabella Galdone ’16 Idia Irele ’16

In 2014, the selection committee named Idia Irele ’16 and Isabella Galdone ’16 the Anita Volz Wien '62 Global Scholars for 2014-15. They were selected by a committee from a highly competitive pool of applicants.

Idia is a sophomore double major in Government and Spanish & Portuguese and will spend her junior year in Madrid studying African immigration to Spain and Europe. She lived and worked in Madrid during the summer of 2013, and is keen on returning for next year. Idia plans to obtain an internship working in immigrant services.

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Isabella is a double major in French and Art History and will be on the Smith program in Paris.

She plans to obtain an internship with the French Heritage Society.

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Offices and Programs Office for International Study 2013-2014 was a year of several key achievements for the Office for International Study (OIS): implementation of a long-anticipated on-line study abroad approval application, development of new programming options associated with the Smith Programs Abroad, and the transition to a new organizational model of our Smith program in Geneva Switzerland. Of greatest significance, however, has been the shift of the International Students & Scholars reporting lines (ISSO) within the Lewis Global Studies Center and the resulting integration with OIS staff and functions. With the start of 2014 and hiring of new Associate Dean Caitlin Szymkowicz, her position was restructured to report to Rebecca Hovey, co-Director of the Lewis Center/Dean for International Study. (Previously the ISSO Associate Dean reported to the Dean of Students, with administrative support within Student Affairs.) This shift realizes an original goal of the Lewis Center to house the various offices supporting international education at Smith.

The Lewis Center had already just concluded a 2012-13 Human Resource organization audit, conducted by Jenny Silver and Rebecca Hovey, of three administrative positions within the Center: the Budget Coordinator, Global Studies Program Coordinator, and the Study Abroad Administrative Coordinator. These changes aimed to streamline functions within the Center by reducing redundancies across positions. For example, instead of two different positions having the function of Office Manager, this role was assigned to a single position; similarly budget reporting responsibilities of the two offices were assigned to a single individual.

With the transition of the ISSO, a half-time administrative staff position was approved to replace ISSO support previously provided from Student Affairs. In consultation with the new Associate Dean for ISSO, the responsibilities of this administrative staff position have been reallocated to current staff members of OIS and the Lewis Center. By increasing one staff position from parttime to full-time and revising staff job descriptions, the outcome has been an integrated team structure that supports both international study and international students. The enthusiastic response of our staff, and the understanding that both sets of students are engaging in transformative intercultural learning, has made this integrated structure a positive move forward that will shape programming of our two offices and enhance the Lewis Center’s mission to promote increased global perspectives and engagement across the campus.

Key Achievements: 1.

Implementation of an on-line study abroad credit approval software program (Horizons): a. OIS initiated the acquisition of Horizons study abroad software, a product of Symplicity, in 2012 and began developing the workflow and internal programming in the summer of 2013. By mid-fall, we beta-tested the credit approval application process with the small number of Spring-semester study abroad applicants. Further fine-tuning allowed us to fully launch the on-line application in the February 2014 when we experience the heaviest load of over 300 applications. The launch went smoothly with few errors and minimal confusion among students. Indeed, accessing and submitting forms on-line is the new norm and was well-received. Faculty are also able to submit their student recommendations on-line, easing the challenges of submitting by hard copy mail. b. The next phase of the Horizons implementation will be the inclusion of confirmation forms and program evaluations through the on line software. We intend for this to be completed this fall. A third phase will be the development of a more robust reporting feature with statistical analysis of enrollment trends and history.

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Acquisition of new International travel insurance (AIG Travel Guard) and development of a new Travel Registry for short-term international travel: a. In the summer of 2013, Smith College and other participating Five College institutions ended a long-standing travel insurance policy with International SOS (ISOS). One of the key features of the ISOS policy was a travel monitoring software that aimed to identify college travelers in crisis locations that might need assistance in risk assessment or evacuation. This program had not proven to be effective and the four participating colleges sought an alternative program. An RFP was circulated, insurance company proposals considered, and finally AIG’s Travel Guard program was selected to provide most features of international travel assistance and medical evacuation. AIG did not offer a travel registry, so Smith and other schools decided to use the travel registry feature of Horizons as an alternative. b. The Smith Travel Registry was built and during the 2013-2014 academic year, and beta-tested in the spring of 2014 with sponsored student summer travel. A review of the beta-test was conducted in 2014, and a formal launch with a new website and guidelines for approving offices and departments will take place in FY15.

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Transition to a permanent resident director of the Smith program in Geneva, Switzerland and negotiation of new institutional agreements with key institutions in Geneva: a. The JYA White Paper circulated in 2011-2012 recommended a move to a more permanent resident director and regional manager model in Geneva Switzerland, with the intentions of providing more stable program leadership and addressing the need for improved regulatory compliance and risk management at our Smith programs’ sites. After considerable deliberation with the JYA ad hoc advisory committee, the decision was made to move to a Resident Academic Director model in Geneva, supported by a Faculty Liaison to be based in Northampton. Denise Rochat served as the faculty director in 2013-2014 while the transition to the new model was implemented. Howard Gold, Government, was selected to serve a three-year term as Faculty Liaison. He participated in the search for the new Resident Director and has been critical in identifying curricular needs and local instructors to support the program. In April, Genevieve Piron, the current Associate Director, was offered the position as our first permanent Resident Academic Director to begin serving in academic year 2014-2015. A search for her replacement as Associate Director resulted in the hiring of Elsie Chantre also to begin in 2014-2105. b. As part of the shift to a permanent director, our office initiated conversations with local counsel regarding the appropriate organizational structure needed to permanently hire a local manager in Geneva. We set up a new non-profit entity known as Association Smith College, legally conformed to conduct business for the college in Switzerland. At the same time, due to changing financial sector relationships between the US and Switzerland, we changed our bank affiliation in Geneva and are now fully established as a Smith College association in Switzerland. c. The need for a permanent director was also associated with a long overdue need to renegotiate our affiliation agreement with the University of Geneva (UniGe). With rotating faculty directors and no single department at Smith “owning” the relationship with the program, the request to renegotiate seemed to begin anew every year. The transition to a new model, and the presence of Howard Gold as faculty liaison to address ways in which Smith could collaborate with UniGe propelled negotiations forward to a point where we now anticipate teaching a joint course (tentatively planned as Political Psychology to be taught by Ashley Thornton, our internship coordinator); will accept up to three UniGe exchange students at Smith, and will continue to benefit from UniGe’s visa sponsorship of our students in Geneva – a critical element that allows us to operate an education program in Switzerland. d. An additional transition in Geneva involved significant changes to our longstanding institutional relationships. For over 50 years, Smith College had enjoyed a

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special arrangement with the Institut De Hautes Études Internationales Et Du Développement (IHEID, or simply The Graduate Institute) allowing Smith students to enroll in their graduate level courses. We were informed in 2011 that this arrangement would end as of the 2014-2105 academic year, which resulted in the need to identify new options for students needing to take English-language instruction courses, especially in the fall semester with other Universities extend into late January. IHEID director Phillipe Burrin proposed an alternative special study abroad program at the Institute with Smith serving as an administrative partner, however after some analysis we determined that the costs would be prohibitive and Smith did not want to serve in merely an administrative capacity.

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NEW joint BA/MA with Smith College and IHEID:

a. In addition to the study abroad proposal from IHEID, Burrin proposed a fiveyear joint BA/MA degree in which students will study at IHEID one semester during their final two years at Smith, and a fifth year at IHEID. The details of this new degree option were finalized in the summer of 2014 and are available from the Office for International Study. Students interested in this innovative new option will be recruited in the fall of 2014, with the first semester at IHEID to start as early as spring 2015.

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Approval of two new study options aligned with the Smith program in Paris: a. Les Sciences à Paris: After two years of planning, a task force chaired by Joe O’Rourke, Associate Provost, led to the successful approval of a new track for science students in Paris. Beginning in 2014-15, the Les Sciences à Paris option is a yearlong program with coursework and research opportunities enabling science students to experience the rich scientific traditions of France. As an effort to expand access to more science students, often unable to complete the normally required five semesters of French for Smith’s program in Paris, the Les Sciences program is designed to enroll students with at least 2 semesters of college level French. The first cohort of seven students are enrolled for the academic year 2014-2105. b. Architectural study at the Ecole Normal Superieure d'Architecture Val de Seine: A long-identified need for unique architecture study abroad offerings, and a result of Art Department Chair Brigitte Buettner’s 2010-2011 year as Faculty Director of the Paris program, the Smith program in Paris now offers the opportunity to study at the premier architecture school in Paris, the Ecole Normale Supérieure d’Architecture Val de Seine (ENSAVDS, or “Val de Seine”). Students will be fully immersed in a rigorous design program with studio opportunities that engages with the architecture and urban history of Paris. Smith and Five College students of architecture and art history must have completed at least one studio architecture course and one course in architectural history or the built environment at the time of application. Smith’s agreement with Val de Seine will also result in the exchange of one Val de Seine student attending Smith for a semester as a teaching assistant in Architecture with the Art Department.

New “Core Faculty” structure at the heart of the Smith program in Florence:

a. In 2012, a new labor law in Italy altered the employment practices of almost all

U.S. study abroad programs by severely restricting the issuance of short-term contracts, i.e. “adjunct” teaching instructors. Smith sought legal counsel on how best to address this law, including an in-depth analysis of the costs of moving to long-term employment contracts. In consultation with the Italian Studies Department and several faculty directors, we initiated a two-year pilot of creating a core faculty with initial two-year contracts. The long-term plan will be to retain this core faculty with qualifications to teach the core courses at the Smith Center. This model began in 2013-2014 and will need to be evaluated in FY15.

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Challenges: The principal argument of the 2012 JYA White Paper was that the environment of study abroad was one of increasing risk management and compliance requiring additional resources and enhanced management of Smith’s own programs as well as the broader field of international education.

The field of international education has expanded and transformed dramatically over the past several decades as study abroad has become a mainstream component of an undergraduate education. Over the past decade, the number of students going abroad has more than doubled, from 129,000 in 1999-2000 to 270,000 in 2009-10. The field of international education itself has become a professional discipline of research, training, qualifications and standards for quality programming and risk management.

Administrative structures have shifted from the informal nature of many earlier faculty and student exchanges to a more highly scrutinized and professionally managed world of study abroad. With this globalization of higher education have come new international regulations on trade in services, greater scrutiny of international funds transfers, increased local control of education accreditation and programming, and professional expectations that programs comply with local regulations, especially labor practices, tax codes and financial auditing.

The field of international education has also seen an exponential rise in security concerns for off-campus programs, creating a new set of expectations for risk management. Health and safety concerns have always been an important component of study abroad logistics, but a number of factors have increased the challenges for risk assessment and management. Post9/11 security concerns around threats to American institutions abroad require regularly updated contingency planning and country risk monitoring. At the same time, as study abroad becomes an expectation for an undergraduate degree (as it has at Smith), programs need to find ways to educate and support an ever more diverse population, including students with learning differences, mobility needs and challenging mental health conditions. At the same time, the noted “Millennial” generation includes the baby-boomer parents who seek to be more engaged and involved in students’ choices, and demand an increasing amount of responsiveness from the administrative staff and faculty.

The demands articulated above require that the International Study Office monitor compliance with regulations both in the United States and abroad, check for appropriate credit transfer to the home institution, maintain relations with international institutions abroad and departments on the home campus, and evaluate programs across diverse regions with unique cultural norms. Staff must be prepared to monitor and comply with the demands of government regulators abroad, provide student services, and maintain relations with local institutional partners.

JYA White Paper January 25, 2012

As we face 2014-2015, these challenges are even more acute. Recent changes to Title IX regarding sexual assault responsiveness, and Clery Act reporting requirements including international sites are two of the most pressing new regulations that impact our office’s need to strengthen our incident reporting protocols and training. The labor laws mentioned in the note regarding the Florence program highlight the need to monitor and ensure that our employment practices at all sites are consistent with current regulations in each country. A banking crisis in Switzerland resulting in the closure of our account underlines the need to carefully scrutinize who has access to our accounts and how the accounts are structured vis-à-vis Smith College authorized signatories.

These issues continue to be at the forefront of our operations, since we must first ensure the health and safety of the students in order to ensure a constructive environment of cultural learning abroad.

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Student Study Abroad Destinations by Country Argentina (6) Australia (9) Bolivia (1) Brazil (8) Canada (1) Chile (4) China (12) Costa Rica (1) Cuba (3) Cyprus (1) Czech Republic (2) Denmark (17) France (19) Germany (9) Greece (1) Hungary (4) India (6) Ireland (7) Israel (3)

Italy (16) Japan (8) Jordan (3) South Korea (3) Morocco (2) New Zealand (15) Norway (1) Russia (3) Samoa (1) South Africa (4) South Korea (3) Spain (19) Switzerland (25) Thailand (1) Turks & Caicos, British (2) United Kingdom (63) United Arab Emirates (1)

Student Study Abroad Destinations by Country

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Office for International Students and Scholars

Overview For the academic year 2013-2014, Smith matriculated 357 international students from 73 foreign countries (including 16 graduate & AMS students).

Of these students 35 studied abroad: 16 for the full academic year and 19 for one semester only.

Many international students engaged in summer research with faculty on campus. Nineteen students participated in summer Curricular Practical Training (CPT) in off-campus jobs, which result in a 1-credit special studies course for the Fall 2014 semester based on their summer work experience. Our office works with these students and faculty to give authorization to work offcampus and maintain their F-1 visa status. Many also took advantage of Smith funding to complete Critical Language programs, International Experience Grants, Praxis Internships, and Global Engagement Seminars during the summer months.

Smith graduated 76 international students in May 2014 and an additional 11 early graduates in January 2014; 41 of these students found (or continue to seek) jobs in the US under PostCompletion Optional Practical Training (OPT), as allowed by their F-1 visa status. Our office guides students through the process of applying for OPT, since this authorization must come from United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS). Eighteen students will attend graduate school in the US, and we’ve helped to transfer their visa records to the new programs.

The remaining students have elected to return home.

The Office also supports visiting scholars and faculty to the college, helping them to secure visas and ensure appropriate work status. While the number of scholars tends to be small, we invest the time to make sure each finds his/her way on campus, has necessary health insurance coverage, and has a sense of resources available on campus. We would love to see our scholars become even more integrated into the life and events of the Center as we move forward.

This year Smith also welcomed the largest-ever first-year international class, boasting 108 international students from 38 countries. Including the AMS exchange students, these figures increase to 117 students from 44 countries. We have seen a large increase in the number of Chinese nationals enrolling at Smith, with this year’s count at 50 students with Chinese citizenship. After China, our best-represented countries are Korea and Malaysia, with 8 and 4 students, respectively.

International Undergraduate Exchanges Programs This office also coordinates the undergraduate exchange programs with a small number of overseas universities and accepts undergraduate international students to study at Smith for one academic year. Exchanges are processed through our office with the collaboration of the Office for International Study. We maintain contact with the international offices at each of the universities that nominate students for the exchange. We review the student file and accept the students for a one-year study at Smith.

Doshisha Womens College- Kyoto, Japan Ewha University- Seoul, Korea Killam Foundation-Ottawa, Canada

1 student*, academic year 2013-2014 0 students 1 student, spring 2014

* This student had US Permanent Residency status.

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Staffing Changes This year was one marked by change and transition. Dean Hrayr Tamzarian retired from the college in January 2014, and Caitlin Szymkowicz joined us as our new Associate Dean for International Students & Scholars. With “Dean T’s” departure and Caitlin’s arrival, the college restructured the reporting lines to better align International Students & Scholars within the Lewis Center umbrella. During the months of February, March, and early April 2014, Dean T worked limited hours to aid the college in its transition and to allow Caitlin time to learn the regulations and systems at Smith. Ashavan continued to provide administrative support to Caitlin throughout this spring ’13 semester, after which he was slated to return to Student Affairs as a full-time administrative assistant. As of June 2014, the Lewis Global Studies Center has begun to reassign these duties among the existing Lewis Center staff. We are very excited to become more connected to our International Students on campus and to integrate our efforts across offices moving forward.

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International Student Citizenship by Country Afghanistan (7) Albania (2) Argentina (1) Austria (1) Bangladesh (8) Belgium (1) Bolivia (1) Bosnia-Herzegovina (1) Botswana (7) Brazil (1) Bulgaria (2) Canada (11) China (133) Colombia (1) Ecuador (2) El Salvador (1) Ethiopia (1) France (4) Georgia (2) Germany (3) Ghana (2) Greece (3) Haiti (1) Honduras (2) India (21)

Indonesia (1) Iraq (2) Italy (1) Ivory Coast (1) Jamaica (3) Japan (6) Jordan (3) Kenya (7) Kuwait (2) Macedonia (1) Malawi (2) Malaysia (7) Mexico (2) Mauritius (1) Mexico (1) Moldova (3) Mongolia (1) Morocco (1) Mozambique (1) Myanmar (2) Nepal (3) Netherlands (1) New Zealand (1) Nigeria (2) Pakistan (6)

Panama (1) Russia (3) Rwanda (2) Saudi Arabia (1) Senegal (1) Sierra Leone (1) Singapore (7) Slovakia (1) South Africa (1) South Korea (35) Spain (2) Sri Lanka (1) Switzerland (1) Taiwan (3) Tanzania (1) Thailand (3) Trinidad and Tobago (1) Tunisia (2) Turkey (1) United Arab Emirates (1) United Kingdom (6) Vietnam (8) Zambia (1) Zimbabwe (6)

International Student Citizenships by Country

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American Studies Diploma Program The American Studies Diploma (AMS) Program (is dedicated to historical and critical study of American society and culture, which is both historical and critical. It contributes to a deeper, more specialized understanding of American society, as well as possibilities for life-long lessons and friendships. In keeping with the tradition of wide-ranging, interdisciplinary research in American studies, diploma students arrive at Smith with a diverse array of scholarly interests and work together to fashion an extraordinarily vibrant and creative intellectual community.

A majority of the post-graduate participants are exchange students associated with one of Smith’s programs abroad (Geneva, Paris, Hamburg and Florence), or our consortial programs PRESHCO in Cordoba Spain or Associated Colleges of Kyoto program in Japan. Students take a full course load throughout the entire academic year, including a special one-semester seminar for the American Studies Diploma Program, "American Society and Culture," and three courses in the student's field of specialization. Most students prepare a diploma research proposal (subject to approval) in their fall semester, and complete this project or equivalent research in the spring.

The AMS program has undertaken a decennial review in 2013-2014 which will continue into 2014 with an invited consultant to advise on new directions for the program, including an option to reconsider the interdisciplinary background of “American Studies” in the direction of a focus on transnational and global studies.

Visiting Scholars in Residence Miri Talmon, Tel Aviv University Hosted by Ellen Kaplan, Jocelyne Kolb, and the Jewish Studies Program Aasma Salih, Baghdad University Hosted by Robert Merritt and the Department of Biological Sciences

Events Featured Event Women in Public Service Project From May 25 - June 6, 2014, Mount Holyoke, Simmons and Smith Colleges co-hosted “Reconstructing Societies in the Wake of Conflict: Transitional Justice and Economic Development.” The Institute was conducted in partnership with the Women in Public Service Project, an initiative founded by a group of visionary women, including then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, in partnership with five preeminent women’s colleges: Barnard, Bryn Mawr, Mount Holyoke, Smith and Wellesley. In three short years it quickly evolved and matured to include more institutions, including the partner for the summer 2014 institute, Simmons. Shortly after the 2012 election, the WPSP moved out of the State Department and is now housed at the Wilson Center.

Smith hosted its own institute in Paris in the fall 2012, but teamed up with Mount Holyoke and Simmons for the 2014 institute. It brought together emerging women leaders, primarily from Asia, who are working to rebuild their communities and promote sustainable economic livelihoods following political violence and human rights violations. The Lewis Center was privileged to be at the heart of planning efforts for the 18 months leading up to May 2014, and Smith College did itself proud during the institute. For full details see www.smith.edu/wpsp and http://womeninpublicservice.wilsoncenter.org/

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Signature Events Global Salon Caste, Class, and Religion in India: Engaging with Ambedkar on Equality and Liberation Dr. Maya Joshi, Associate Professor of English at Lady Shri Ram College for Women, New Delhi, India Tuesday, September 24, 2013, at 12:00 p.m.

The Tenth Parallel: Dispatches from the Fault Line between Christianity and Islam Eliza Griswold, award-winning journalist and poet Wednesday, September 25, 2013, at 4:00 p.m.

Germany's Elections on September 22: What Follows Now? German Consul General for the New England States Thursday, September 26, 2013, at 3 p.m.

Women in Indian Bureaucracy: An Uncertain Glory Aditi Mehta ‘75, Adviser to the Indian Institute of Crafts and Design Monday, September 30, 2013, at 12:10 p.m.

Climate Change: The Indispensable Perspective of the Global South Mukul Sanwal, Committee on Strategic Research on Climate Change in India Thursday September 19, 2013, at 12:00 p.m.

Caste, Class, and Religion in India: Engaging with Ambedkar on Equality and Liberation Maya Joshi, Associate Professor in the Department of English at Lady Shri Ram College for Women, New Delhi, India Tuesday, September 24, 2013, at 12:00 p.m.

Human Rights Research and Activism: Reflections on Genocide and Justice in Guatemala Elizabeth Oglesby, Associate Professor, Geography and Center for Latin American Studies at the University of Arizona Thursday, October 24, 2013, at 12:00 p.m.

The Syria War and the Regional Perspective Vehbi Baysan, Director of Institute for the International Education of Students Abroad, Istanbul, Turkey Thursday, October 24, 2013, at 4:00 p.m.

World Cinema, Local Film: A Conversation with Mariette Monpierre Mariette Monpierre, award-winning filmmaker and Smith alumna (AMS '85) Friday, October 25, 2013, at 12:10 p.m.

Theatre and Dance in South Asia Maya Krishna Rao, Director, Performer, Drama teacher, and a trained Kathakali Dancer Part of a 4-day Residency sponsored by the Smith Theater Department, Fine Arts Fund, EKTA, South Asia Concentration, Office of Diversity and Equity, Lecture Committee Thursday October 31, 2013, at 4:00 p.m.

China at a Crossroads Mike Chinoy, journalist with award-winning documentary Friday, November 1, 2013, at 12:10 p.m.

Writing on the Margins: Women and Media in Post-colonial Zimbabwe

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Edna Machirori, journalist, editor, and 2013 recipient of the International Women's Media Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award Wednesday, November 6, 2013, at 4:00 p.m.

Life on this Tumultuous Planet: A View from Brazil through the Lens of Poetry & Faith Brazilian poet Adélia Prado Wednesday, November 13, 2013, at 12:10 p.m.

Finding a safe place to squat: Inadequate sanitation infrastructure as a major engineering, social, and health problem for children in developing countries Clair Null '01, Assistant Professor of global health at Emory University.

Thursday, November 21, 2013, at 4:00 p.m.

Hip-Hop and Social Activism in Senegal Members of Bideew Bou Bess, Gokh-bi System, and The Senegal-America Project Monday, February 24, 2014, at 12:10 p.m.

The Afro-Brazilian Body in Dance and Performance: a Conversation with Dance Choreographer Amélia Conrado.

Brazilian dance choreographer and Five Colleges Latin American, Latino/a and Caribbean Visitor Amélia Conrado and Lucía Suárez, Amherst Associate Professor of Spanish Wednesday, March 5, 2014, at 12:10 p.m.

Tibetan Refugees Living Half a Century in Limbo Dr. Barry Kerzin, doctor to high lamas and the poor in Dharamsala Tuesday, March 25, 2014, at 4:00 p.m.

Cultural Tradition in Pakistan: The Politics of Sufi Music within the Islamic Tradition Qawwal singer Asif Ali Khan and his group of musicians from Pakistan; co-sponsored by the Asian Arts and Culture program at University of Massachusetts, Amherst Friday, March 28, 2014, at 4:00 p.m.

Don't Make Any Assumptions: A Conversation about the Vital Role of Listening in Resolving Conflict Lisa Gossels, award-winning filmmaker and member of the Selah Leadership Network Tuesday, April 1, 2014, at 12:00 p.m.

Obsession with China, Obsession with Nobel Prize Shelley Chan and Howard Choy, Professors of Chinese Language and Cultural Studies at Wittenberg University.

Friday, April 11, 2014, at 12:10p.m.

Why I Spent Six Years Following Jeffrey Sachs around Africa Nina Munk ’88, author of The Idealist: Jeffrey Sachs and the Quest to End Poverty Tuesday, April 15, 2014, at 12:00 p.m.

What’s Happening Around the World (WHAW) The Syria Crisis: Calculations and Implications Donna Divine, Professor of Government, and Jon Western, Five College Professor of International Relations Tuesday, September 17, 2013, at 12:00 p.m.

Religions and the Challenges of Globalization Karl P. Donfried, Elizabeth A. Woodson 1922 Professor Emeritus of Religion and Biblical Literature

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Monday, October 7, 2013, at 12:10 p.m.

Typhoon Haiyan: Disaster Relief and Recovery in the Philippines Richard T. Chu, Five College Associate Professor of History, and Josh Miller, Associate Dean and Professor, Smith School for Social Work; opening remarks by President McCartney Monday, November 25, 2013, at 12:00 p.m.

The American Studies Association's Academic Boycott of Israel Michael Thurston, Professor of English and Director of American Studies, Donna Divine, Professor of Government, and Elliot Fratkin, Professor of Anthropology Thursday, January 30, 2014, at 12:00 p.m.

Is Germany too Powerful for Europe?

Rolf Schütte, German Consul General for the New England States Monday, February 10, 2014, at 12:10p.m.

Christine Lagarde and the International Monetary Fund Payal Banerjee, Associate Professor of Sociology, Simon Halliday, Roisin O'Sullivan, and Vis Taraz, Associate Professors of Economics; co-hosted by the Center for Women and Financial Independence Friday, February 28, 2014, at 12:10 p.m.

Ukraine: Regional and Global Implications Brent Durbin, Assistant Professor of Government, Smith College, and Sergey Glebov, Assistant Professor of History, Smith and Amherst Colleges Wednesday, April 23, 2014, at 12:10 p.m.

Report Back Global Seminar: Women's Health in India Students who took the semester-long course and J-term travel component to India, Lisa Kelley ’14, Tatenda Mahlanza ’15, and Charis (Michelle) Deadwyler ’14 Monday, March 3, 2014, at 4:30 p.m.

Global Books L'"Étranger" en Côte d'Ivoire: Crises et controverses autour d'une catégorie sociale (The "Foreigner" in the Ivory Coast: Crises and Controversies Surrounding a Social Category) Author and visiting lecturer in French Studies and Anthropology Alfred Babo, Ibtissam Bouachrine, Associate Professor of Spanish & Portuguese; session conducted in French Thursday, February 27, 2014, at 12:00 p.m.

Nothing Happened: Charlotte Salomon and an Archive of Suicide (University of Michigan Press, 2013) Author and associate professor of History Darcy Buerkle, Kevin Quashie, associate professor of Afro-American Studies, and Karen Remmler, professor of German Studies at Mount Holyoke College Co-sponsored by the Department of History and the Program for the Study of Women and Gender.

Thursday, March 13, 2014, at 12:00 p.m.

Black Ethnic: Race, Immigration, and the Pursuit of the American Dream (Oxford, 2014) Author and professor of Political Science at Fordham University Chrissie Greer and discussant Daphne Lamothe, associate professor of Afro-American Studies.

Friday, April 4, 2014, at 12:10 p.m.

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Workshops and Information Sessions

Global Praxis Reflection workshop, Saturday Sept. 7, 9-3:30 Partnership with the Lazarus Center for Career Development

Information Session: Global Engagement Seminar GES 303 Greek History and Archaeology in their Geological Context Wednesday, October 30, 2013, at 4:30 p.m.

Presentation of Translation Concentration Thursday, November 7, 2013, 4p.m.

Translation Concentration e-portfolio workshop Thursday, January 23, 2014, 10 am - 2/ 3 p.m.

Translation: The Ethics of Interpretation Friday, January 24, 2014, at 8:30 a.m. - 2:30 p.m.

A one-day multidisciplinary workshop featuring theorists and practitioners of translation, including students working in translation studies. Panelists with a wide array of expertise and interests will discuss the ethics, politics, and practice of translating words, thoughts and ideas from one language and culture into another.

May Faculty Development Workshop on Global Collaborations through On-line International Learning Wednesday, May 14, 2014, from 9:00 am – 3:00 pm This workshop offered an opportunity for faculty to explore global initiatives that integrate online partnerships and global voices with teaching, scholarship and campus life. Jon Rubin and Sarah Guth of the Center for Collaborative On-line International Learning (COIL) presented strategies for building effective global curricular partnerships. Sponsored by the Lewis Global Studies Center and the Office of the Provost.

Events of the Office for International Study Study Abroad Fair Tuesday, September 24, 2013, at 11 a.m. - 2 p.m., Chapin Lawn Global Encounters: The Lewis Global Studies Center Photography Contest Exhibition Smith students share their international experience through photographs depicting cultural encounters, daily life, and more.

October 16 – 30, 2013, Wright Hall Lobby Summer Opportunities Abroad Fair Tuesday, February 18, at 11:30 - 1:30 p.m., CC 103/104 and 102 Pre-departure Orientations GES Student pre-departure: April 11, 3 p.m.

JYA (and others) Faculty Director pre-program workshop Fri, April 11, 4 p.m.

Approved Programs Students Mon, April 14, 5 – 8 p.m.

GES Faculty pre-departure: Tue, April 15, 11 a.m.

JYA Students Wed, April 16, 5 – 8 p.m.

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Events of the Office for International Students and Scholars and the International Students Organization ISP - August International Student Pre-Orientation continues to grow, and this year was no exception. One hundred and thirty-four (134) students participated this year, including graduate, AMS, and transfer students. Students are introduced to a number of offices on campus during the week-long program, including presentations from Residential Life, the Jacobson Center, Health Services, Financial Aid, and Payroll. In addition, students have a chance to settle in and be guided through necessary procedures for being in school abroad, such as opening a bank account, securing a Social Security number, and buying dormitory essentials at local stores. Our ISP staff of 13 students was invaluable in making the week a welcoming, positive time for our participants.

This coming year, as Caitlin Szymkowicz assumes oversight of the program, we look forward to some changes and new perspectives on a program that has run for many years.

American Studies Diploma Program Students welcome reception – September For the first time, the Lewis Center hosted an official welcome reception to introduce students of the AMS Diploma Program and staff of the Lewis Center.

International Student Day - November IS Day was once again held in early November to avoid conflicts with Family Weekend. This has been a joint effort between our office and the International Student Organization for many years, with students charging a nominal fee for samples of homemade food from around the world.

Students worked with Dining Services staff throughout the weekend before to cook recipes collected over the past several years, then held the event during lunchtime on Monday in the Campus Center. The turnout was great as usual, and students were able to represent their countries to the campus in a fun, well-loved event.

Fall & Spring Break Trips – October/March ISSO helps the International Student Organization to coordinate day trips to Boston and New York each year for fall and spring breaks, respectively. As usual, Dean T met students in Boston to join them for tourist activities and to ensure students board the bus back to campus safely. This year’s trips were a success, though in the staff transition we do not have many specific details about attendance at either program.

Thanksgiving Meal Residence Life coordinated a community Thanksgiving dinner for international students this year. Staff ordered pre-made turkey dinners through BigY and delivered them to five houses on campus. Students were invited to sign up and dine together, but the program had poor attendance. As a result, Residence Life does not plan not to repeat the program. We will need to think about whether our office would like to schedule any programming during that time for our international constituents.

In addition, Jan Morris (Student Affairs) organized a Thanksgiving match program with volunteer faculty and staff families. Students are matched in pairs to local families for the thanksgiving meal. It’s still a relatively small program, but it has grown every year. Responses from participants are very positive, and it may be something for the GSC to support in the future.

Winter Recess – December/January We continue to have an overwhelming demand for students staying on-campus during Winter Recess. This year we had nearly 100 students stay on campus for the break. We opened 44 & 54 Green Street, and Dawes House. In addition, students could find a friend’s room to stay in for Northrop House and Gillett House. It was challenging to monitor five separate houses. Dean T

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continued to have discussions with Residential Life staff about opening a different and much larger house for Winter Break.

Rhythm Nations – March A large number of international students participate in this annual event of music, dance and performance pieces. The performances included the senior class skit, several individual and small group performances, and participation from many cultural organizations on campus, including SC Masti, EKTA, SACSA, and KASS. This year groups from Mount Holyoke, University of Massachusetts, and Hampshire College helped to round out the set list and showcase the diversity of the Five College Consortium.

Chinese Language Partners This year, the ISSO continued to partner with the Department of East Asian Language and Literature to help students in Chinese 110 find conversation partners for language practice. Fifty students taking beginning Mandarin were paired with first-year Chinese students to practice communication skills on a weekly basis. Students had one 2-hour session in Mandarin and one 2hour session in English. The students continued to meet in pairs as well as in small groups until the end of the semester. Everyone who participated was eager to continue in the spring semester and several new students volunteered to participate in the program. This has been a very successful program and we hope to continue next year.

Supported Events Missionaries in Colonial India: The Case of Satyanand Stokes Lecture by Professor Maya Joshi Sponsored with the South Asia concentration, in connection to Prof. Nalini Bhushan's Presidential Seminar PRS 302: The Indian Renaissance and Its Aftermath.

Tuesday, September 24, 2013, at 4:00p.m.

The Tenth Parallel: The Global Encounter of Christianity and Islam Sponsored with the Smith College Center for Religious and Spiritual Life Part of the 3rd Annual Grace-Immanuel Lecture Series Wednesday, September 25, 2013, at 7:00pm The Tryst Betrayed: Social Justice Programs and Indian Democracy Lecture by Aditi Mehta ‘75 Sponsored with the South Asia concentration and Smith College Alumnae Association Monday, September 30, 2013, at 7:30p.m.

Film screening: Elza With director Mariette Monpierre AMS ‘80 Sponsored with the Department of French Studies Tuesday, October 22, 2013, at 7:00p.m.

Guest Lecture at the University of Massachusetts Amherst Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Elizabeth Oglesby, Associate Professor of Geography and Latin American Studies at the University of Arizona Sponsored with the Department of Government Thursday, October 24, 2013, at 4:00p.m.

The Political Economy of Health Service Delivery in Kenya Lecture by Peter Anyang' Nyong'o, Senator for Kisumu county, Kenya, Gro Harlem Brundtland Senior Leadership Fellow at the School of Public Health, Harvard University.

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Sponsored with the Five College African Studies Council, Smith College African Studies Program Thursday, November 7, 2013, at 4:30p.m.

Writing on the Margins in Post-Colonial Zimbabwe Public Talk with award-winning journalist Edna Machirori and discussant Fungai Machirori Sponsored with the Mount Holyoke Journalism, Media, and Public Discourse NEXUS, Departments of History, Africana Studies, and Gender Studies, the University of Massachusetts Amherst Departments of Communication and Journalism, and the Five College African Studies Council Tuesday, November 5, 2013, at 4:30p.m.

Poetry Reading: The Alphabet in the Park With Brazilian poet Adélia Prado Sponsored with the Poetry Center Tuesday, November 11, 2013, at 7:30p.m.

High Life Saturday Night: Popular Music and Social Change in Urban Ghana Lecture by Nate Plageman, Assitant Professor of History, Wake Forest University Sponsored with the Departments of History, Music, African-American Studies, the Study of Women and Gender, Global South Development Studies, the African Studies Program, and the Smith College Lecture Committee Thursday, November 14, 2013, at 5:00p.m.

Maya Rao in Residence at Smith College Maya Rao, Performer and Teacher Sponsored with the Center for Religious and Spiritual Life, Student Event Committee, Office of Student Engagement Fine Arts Fund, South Asia Concentration, EKTA, Department of Theatre, Wurtele Center for Work and Life, and Office of Institutional Diversity and Equity Wednesday – Saturday, October 30-November 2, 2013 TALK and Q & A: Challenges Indian Women Face as Theatre Artists Wednesday, October 30, 2013, at 6:30p.m.

Kathakali Workshop: Opening the Imagination through Principles of Indian Tradition Saturday, November 2, 2013, at 11:30 a.m.

Music Is Our Revolution: Hip Hop and Social Activism in Senegal Residency including the band Bideew Bou Bess, Abiodun Oyewole (of The Last Poets), female performance poet Tantra Zawadi, American percussionist Tony Vacca, and Senegalese-American band Gokh-bi System Sponsored with the Smith College Music Department, the Office of Student Engagement, the Lecture Committee, the Office of the Provost/Dean of the Faculty, the Office of Institutional Diversity, the Smith College Anthropology Department, the Five College African Studies Program, the Five College Ethnomusicology Program, the Amherst College Black Studies Department, and the Mount Holyoke College Music Department Saturday – Tuesday, February 22-25, 2014 Black Queer Born Frees in South Africa Zanele Muholi, South African Photographer and Visual Activist Sponsored with the Smith College Department of Afro-American Studies and the Williams College Museum of Art, in collaboration with the Smith College Office of Student Engagement, Office of Multicultural Affairs, Program for the Study of Women and Gender, Department of Art, Department of Comparative Literature, Smith College Museum of Art, Smith College Lecture Committee; & UMass History Department, Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, UMass Interdisciplinary Studies Institute, and the Five Colleges African Studies Council

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Tuesday, February 4, 2014, at 5:00 p.m.

Why Shall I Stop Eating Pork?: Eating Together in Difference Rahel Wasserfall, Director of Evaluation and Training at CEDAR and Resident Scholar at the Women’s Studies Research Center at Brandeis University Sponsored with the Program in Jewish Studies Thursday, February 20, 2014, at 5:00 p.m.

Traditional Eastern Medicine Barry Kerzin, monk and physician to many high lamas Research Colloquium sponsored with the Kahn Liberal Arts Institute Thursday – Saturday, March 27-29, 2014 Archiving the African Revolution: Kwame Nkrumah and the Women in Question Jean Allman, J.H. Hexter Professor in the Humanities and Professor and Chair of History at Washington University, and Jeffrey Ahlman, Assistant Professor of History at Smith College Sponsored with the Departments of History, Afro-American Studies, the Archives Concentration, Programs in African Studies, Study of Women and Gender, the Connections Fund, the Five College African Studies Program, and the Smith College Lecture Committee Tuesday, March 25, 2014, at 5:00 p.m.

Curating a Continent: African Art at the Newark Museum Christa Clarke, Curator of the Arts of Global Africa at the Newark Museum, in conjunction with temporary exhibition curated by with a temporary exhibition curated by Mellon Five College Postdoctoral Fellow in African Art and Architecture Amanda Gilvin Sponsored with the Smith College Lecture Fund, the Smith College Art Department, the Smith College Museum of Art, and the Five College African Studies Council Monday, April 7, 2014, at 5:00 p.m.

Curating a Continent: African Art at the Newark Museum Lecture by Christa Clarke, Curator of the Arts of Global Africa at the Newark Museum Sponsored with the Department of Art Monday, April 7, 2014, at 4:30p.m.

What Makes Mo Yan a Nobel Prize Winner in Literature?

Shelley Chan, Associate Professor of Chinese Language and Cultural Studies at Wittenberg University, and Howard Choy, Associate Professor of Chinese Literature at Wittenberg University Sponsored with the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures, the Comparative Literature Program, the Lecture Committee and the Five College Center for East Asian Studies Friday, April 11, 2014, 4:30 p.m.

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Appendix A: Organizational Structure

Offices and Programs Office for International Study • Rebecca Hovey, Dean for International Study • Lisa Johnson, Assistant Dean for International Study • Sara Kortesluoma, Administrative Coordinator • Sue Pouliot, Budget Coordinator Office for International Students and Scholars • Hrayr Tamzarian/Caitlin Szymkowicz, Associate Dean for International Students • Ashavan Doyon, Administrative Assistant American Studies Diploma Program • Lane Hall-Witt, Director Lewis Center Staff • Rebecca Hovey, Dean for International Study and Director • Gregory White, Professor of Government and Elizabeth Mugar Eveillard ’69 Faculty Director • Lisa Morde, Program Coordinator

Advisory Committees Advisory Committee 2013-2014 Rebecca Hovey, Dean for International Study, Director Gregory White, Professor of Government, Faculty Director (2014) Mlada Bukovansky, Associate Professor of Government (2012) Margaret Bruzelius, Associate Dean of the College (ex officio) Justin Cammy, Associate Professor of Jewish Studies and Comparative Literature (2014) Elliot Fratkin, Professor of Anthropology (2013) Chris Golé, Professor of Mathematics and Statistics (2013) Susannah Howe, Senior Lecturer in Engineering (2014) Roger Kaufman, Professor of Economics (2014) Maureen Mahoney, Dean of the College (ex officio) Hrayr Tamzarian, Associate Dean for International Students and Scholars (ex officio) Janie Vanpée, Professor of French Studies (2012) Sujane Wu, associate professor of East Asian languages & literature Student Advisory Committee 2013-2014 Sadaf Ahmad '17 Catherine (Catie) Cain '16 Gaetan Davis '14 Maria Cristina Del Valle '16 Madeleine Duchêne '16 Idia Irele '16 Yutong (Sunny) Jiang '16 Tina Yaan Tu '15 Ke Zhang '16 Tingyu Zhang '15

Appendix B: Global STRIDES’ Archive Projects This year, the Fellows focused their archives research and paper on the experiences of a Smith student experience abroad: • Sarah Liggera: on Anne Morrow Lindbergh’28 who became the first licensed female glider pilot in the USA and did exploratory flights in China • Emily Paruolo: on Bessie Boies Cotton’1903 who worked for the YMCA in Russia in 191719 • Varsha Subramaniam: on Jean Winans Coe’48 who studied in the JYA Geneva program in 1946-47

Global Summer study abroad, 2014 STRIDE Fellow, 2013-14 Sarah Liggera

Emily Paruolo

Internship 2014-15

Anhui Agricultural University in Hefei, China through Hampshire College: 8 weeks

Research study on cognitive language development (Mandarin) Mentor: Jill de Villiers

$2,000 grant from Dean’s Office= Summer Intensive Language Initiative $600 Student Aid Society Bard-Smolny Summer Language Intensive in Russian: 8 weeks

Editorial Board Global Impressions Online Journal Mentor: Janie Vanpée Editorial Board Global Impressions Online Journal and potentially student assistant to Nancy Stenbach, next year Global STRIDE Mentor

$ 400 Student Aid Society Varsha Subramania m

University of Geneva, Ecole de langue et de civilisation françaises (ELCF): 3 weeks $400 Student Aid Society

Mentor: Janie Vanpée Research Assistant in neuroscience Mentor: Adam Hall