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American Councils Holds Talks with Ukrainian First Deputy Minister of Education and Senior Higher Education Delegation
02/06/12
From December 9-10, 2011, Dr. Dan Davidson, President of American Councils for International Education, met with Yevgen Sulima, the Ukrainian First Deputy Minister of Education, Science, Youth, and Sports, to discuss the role of standardized testing in university admissions in Ukraine. First Deputy Sulima and a delegation of Ukrainian government officials visited the American Councils Washington, D.C. office during a U.S. State Department-funded International Visitor Leadership Program trip to the U.S.
International Delegation of Professors Convenes in Kansas For Program Orientation
01/30/12
LAWRENCE, KS, January 9-11, 2012 - Forty-two university faculty from fourteen countries in Eurasia and Southeastern Europe met with their U.S. colleagues at the University of Kansas (KU) to mark the beginning of the 2012 Junior Faculty Development Program (JFDP). Hosted by KU's Office of International Programs, the orientation familiarized the JFDP fellows with U.S. higher education and American culture, in preparation for spending a semester at a U.S. university.
FLEX Alumni Facilitate Exchange Between Orphans and Elderly
01/23/12
In December 2011, four alumni of the Future Leaders Exchange (FLEX) program, administered by American Councils for International Education, brought young orphans and elderly people together in an act of American-style volunteerism. For three days, the alumni met with developmentally disabled orphans from Moscow's Boarding School No. 8 to make small gifts and practice songs, which they then presented to residents of an elderly care home. By organizing more than 500 volunteer events in 2011 alone, FLEX program alumni are changing the perception that community-based volunteerism is rare in Russia. The Moscow Times highlighted this volunteer project as a part of a news series on the FLEX program.
