Monday, April 26th, 2021
WKU student Isabel Eliassen will use a $50,000 Rotary Foundation Global Grant Scholarship to pursue a master’s degree in Taipei, Taiwan. Eliassen’s application was sponsored by the Rotary Club of Bowling Green in District 6710.
Eliassen, daughter of Ruth Hemmer and James Eliassen, is from Edgewood. After graduating with degrees in international affairs and Chinese, as well as a Mahurin Honors College self-designed degree in linguistics, she will enroll in the International Master s Program in Asia-Pacific Studies (IMAS) at National Chengchi University.
In Taiwan, Eliassen will study how the disadvantages ethnic minorities face in economic stability and quality of education in Taiwan affects their access to English language education, a project fundamental to developing effective language education programs equally available to all students in Taiwan.
Summary Description of the Position
Based in the MENA with periodic travel to AMIDEAST host countries as necessary, the Regional Director of English Language Programs (RDEL) will support the development, management, quality control, and expansion of AMIDEAST’s English language training activities. S/he will provide expertise and guidance on AMIDEAST’s fee-based and funded English language programs and services, including in the areas of market analysis, strategic planning, business planning, marketing, program design, curriculum development, teacher management, staff professional development, and monitoring and evaluation. Working closely with country directors (CDs) and field office English language managers, coordinators, and other staff, as well as HQ directors of AMIDEAST’s main program units, s/he will help promote and develop best practices in English program planning, implementation, and evaluation. The RDEL will also support AMIDEAST business development by providing E
by Daniel Opacki / February 9th, 2021
When I arrived in Rangoon in 2008, I felt as though I stepped into the pages of a forgotten colonial story within a musty old book. As I looked around Rangoon on my daily walks outward from central Rangoon, I saw the city was fully developed but neglected and abused by a lack of electricity and repair. Staunch British colonial architecture often sat behind rusted barbed wired fence pinched by wild-grown landscape and tall cackled trees. Absent in the decayed city was an overabundance of cars on the streets. Generators on curbsides everywhere belched exhaust into sweet jasmine air and shot power into buildings. Still, most people had no generators, and for them, the Dictatorship doled out stingy amounts of current late at night, usually between one to five in the morning. Burma’s people lived without basic necessities everyone in the modern world took for granted. Life moved slowly among street markets and sidewalk teashops that edged into the
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Feb. 5, 2021
Framingham State University is proud to announce an historic agreement with the Chile Massachusetts Alliance (ChileMass) to provide an educational program that supports and enhances the linguistic and pedagogic skills of educators in Chile s K-12 schools in spring and fall of 2021.
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ChileMass emerged as a result of the 2011 Agreement known as the Chile-Massachusetts Plan which was initiated by Chile s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, CORFO the agency for economic development and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The purpose for establishing the Agreement was for building a bridge of technology and knowledge transfer between Chile and Massachusetts to promote sustainable development and improve the quality of life for people in both countries.