News - April 2010

Silvia Iranzo, Secretary of State of Commerce, to present the Student Ambassador Award at the 2nd Study in Spain Annual Meeting

The event seeks to recognize the work done by the top Student Ambassadors of the Study in Spain program, with the highest award to be given to the best SiS Student Ambassador of the year.

This year’s event celebrates a Reencuentro España-New York with representatives of local U.S. higher education institutions in attendance, directors and coordinators. Student participation is also welcome.

The event takes place at the King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center, at NYU, starting at 10:30 a.m. on Thursday, May 27th.
For more information, contact the Embassy of Spain-Trade Commission Miami, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. , tel 305-446-4387

Universidad Carlos III Madrid signes two double degree agreements with prestigious US Universities
7/04/2010

In Business Administration with Clemson University (South Carolina) and in Economics with the State University of New York (New Paltz). The agreements include the academic exchange of students from all three institutions.

In a further sign of the commitment of US and Spanish higher education institutions to enhance international opportunities for their students, Universidad Carlos III Madrid has convened a total of 9 spots for mobility for 2010-12, out of a total of 30 that should be covered in a 4 year period with Clemson University (South Carolina) and the State University of New York at New Paltz.

The program with Clemson University, dubbed “Transatlantic Double Degree in International Business”, has been possible thanks to the United States-European Union Atlantis Program, and includes a stay at Aarhus University (Denmark) for a semester, and immediately after a stay at Clemson University for one academic year (junior year). The students, rigorously selected by an academic committee, will spend their senior year at Universidad Carlos III Madrid in order to complete the credits necessary to obtain the double degree in International Business by Clemson University and Universidad Carlos III Madrid.

Students will pay tuition fees at their home institution, and those from UC3M will be granted financial aid from the Erasmus program and an additional monthly allowance at Clemson University.
The program with SUNY comprises two academic years in the US, after which, having achieved academic excellence, the students will obtain the Double Degree in Economics by Universidad Carlos III Madrid and SUNY.

Similarly to the Degree with Clemson, students will pay tuition fees at their home institution. Banco Santander is the sponsor of this program, granting financial support for the selected students.

Representatives from all four institutions (UC3M, SUNY, Clemson and Aarhus) have shown their enthusiasm for the bright academic and professional opportunities that these programs will bring to their students.

Eight American Institutions receive awards for campus internationalization efforts
15/04/2010

The Association of International Educators has enounced the winners of the 2010 Senator Paul Simon Award for Comprehensive Internationalization. Eight institutions were awarded, five of them for their excellence in campus internationalization: Carnegie Mellon University in Pennsylvania, Hobart & William Smith Colleges in New York, Loyola University Maryland, Northeastern University in Massachusetts, and the University of San Francisco in California. Three additional institutions were recognised with the 2010 Senator Paul Simon Spotlight Award for a specific international program or initiative on campus. They are the Borough of Manhattan Community College in New York, La Roche College in Pennsylvania, and the College of the Atlantic in Maine.

Senator Simon was an American politician borned in Illinois in 1928. He served in the United States House of Representatives from 1975 to 1985 and United States Senate from 1985 to 1997. He later served as director of the Paul Simon Public Policy Institute at Southern Illinois University Carbondale in Carbondale, starting in 1997. He was a vibrant supporter of international education and foreign language learning.

Code of Ethics for Education abroad
15/04/2010

The Forum on Education Abroad presented this initiative that is intended to guide institutions and organizations involved in education abroad experiences. The ultimate goal of this code is to make educational experiences as rich as possible.

The Code is the result of exhaustive researches, discussions, and consensus among the members of the Forum and establishes high standards and ethical guidelines that involve contributions from more than 300 institutions and organizations, whom represent 80% of the US Students abroad.

This Code will become part of the Forum’s Standards of Good Practice for Education Abroad which forms the basis for the Forum’s Quality Improvement Program (QUIP).

To get more information, please click here:
http://www.forumea.org/documents/ForumonEducationAbroadCodeofEthics.pdf