University of Wisconsin–Madison
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Amy Stambach, (608) 262-1760, aestambach@wisc.edu MADISON – Scholars from UW–Madison and other institutions will meet early in February to discuss the intersections of religion and education in the United States and around the world. Faith in Schools: Religion and Education in Comparative and International Perspectives, the fifth annual conference sponsored by …
by Jennifer Price For the State Journal, December 22, 2007 NAIROBI, Kenya — After almost a year here, Susan Gold missed a lot of things. Her 2-year-old grandson Jack back home in Madison. The Saturn Vue parked in her garage in University Heights. Hot chocolate from the Froth House on Allen Street. But what she …
By JJ HERMES, The Chronicle of Higher Education Mustafa Khattab speaks excellent English for someone who grew up on a farm in Egypt and was the first in his family to attend college. That skill enabled him to teach Islamic studies in English at one of the world’s oldest universities, Al-Azhar, in Cairo. But the …
By Karen DeYoung Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, December 13, 2007; A26 Diplomatic posts at the State Department and U.S. embassies worldwide will be cut by 10 percent next year because of heavy staffing demands in Iraq and Afghanistan, Director General Harry Thomas informed the foreign service yesterday. The decision to eliminate the positions reflects …
Next week, four UW–Madison international students will appear on WPR’s “Here on Earth,” hosted by Jean Feraca. The students–from East Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and South Asia–are the winners of an essay contest that asked international students to describe their own and their country’s perception of the US, and how their personal perceptions have …
Making the college experience more international, forging stronger ties with India, and selling Canadian higher education overseas were among the hot topics at the annual conference of the Canadian Bureau for International Education, which wrapped up here last week. The conference, which attracted 500 academics from around the country, focused on study abroad, international-student recruitment, …
From The Wall Street Journal, 11/30/2007 One myth dogging the immigration debate is that employers are fibbing (or grossly exaggerating) when they claim that hiring foreign professionals is unavoidable because U.S.-born Ph.D.s are hard to come by. But a new report on doctorates from U.S. universities shows they’re telling the truth, and then some. Foreign-born …
From WMTV News 11/28/2007. Click here to watch the video. Madison: The UW campus is being used as a model for a new university in the middle east. Officials from Kuwait University were on campus Wednesday. The University of Wisconsin is one of only six American colleges being looked at as a model of what …
From UW–Madison Communications During a Madison Friends of International Students (MFIS) Thanksgiving dinner, hosts Eng and Bill Braun (left), along with their son Paul (far left), talk with their guests, Shoji Shimomura and his wife, Manami (center); Muhamad Hafizul (far right); and Sun-Hyeh Kung (foreground right). From UW–Madison Communications During a Madison Friends of International …
by Mark Ignatowski, UW–Madison Communications The United States and the world face severe shortages of engineers by the year 2025, according to research based on U.S. Bureau of Labor data. The challenge of developing leaders in the changing engineering and technical workforce will be explored during the third annual UW–Madison Engineering Executives Forum. The event, …