Download - Bechtel International Center - Stanford University

make use of the many resources of the campus
and local community
• Offered individual advising to family members
of international community at Stanford on a
wide range of issues impacting their experience
here (career continuity, continuing education,
local schools and child care, volunteer opportunities,
cultural adjustment, and individual
concerns
• Involved in leadership roles in Professional
Organizations including Chair of National
Conference Planning Committee, Member of
Regional Conference Planning Team, Member of
the Cooperative Grants Committee, Member of
the Advisory Board of the Forum for Education
Abroad, and elected member of the Board of
Directors: NAFSA Association of International
Educators
• Hosted 4 art exhibits
• Supported 21 programs to international student
organizations, sponsored by the Billie Achilles
Program Fund
FURTHER INFORMATION ON I-CENTER ACTIVI-
TIES 20002-03
STAFF INVOLVEMENT IN CAMPUS, LOCAL AND NATIONAL
COMMITTEES, CONFERENCES AND PROGRAMS
CAMPUS COMMITTEES
- Bridge Advisory Committee
- Community Committee for
International Students Board
Meetings
- Non-Resident Alien Committee
- Rhodes/Marshall/Churchill/Fulbright
Scholarship Committees
- Student Health Insurance Committee
- Help Center Advisory Board
- Institutional Compliance Committee
LOCAL AND NATIONAL COMMITTEES AND ORGANIZATIONS
• NAFSA: Association of International Educators
-Member of the Cooperative Grants Committee
(which selects recipients of grants funded by
the U.S. Department of State for the purpose of
enriching educational exchange through
student community linkages)
- Elected Member of Board of Directors: NAFSA:
Association of International Educators
-Chair 2003 Conference Planning Committee
-Member: Section on U.S. Students Abroad Sub-
Committee on Health and Safety in Education
Abroad
• Member: Consortium on Higher Education
Immigration Issues. A coalition of institutions in
the U.S. concerned with advocacy in the area of
immigration legislation and regulations
• Member: Interassociational Task Force on
Health and Safety in Study Abroad
• Advisory Board Member: FORUM on Education
Abroad.
• Bay Area Foreign Scholars Advisers Group
• Member: Ivy League Plus Two International
Offices
• Advisory Board Member: Institute of Study
Abroad-Butler University
• Advisory Board Member: American Institute for
Foreign Study Academic Programs
• Advisory Committee. Bay Area Senior Fulbright
Committee
ATTENDANCE AT CONFERENCES 2002-03
• NAFSA National Conference, Salt Lake City
• NAFSA Regional Conference, San Jose
• NAFSA District Conference, San Francisco
• NAFSA Winter Leadership Meeting, Washington
D.C.
• Liaison Meetings with Immigration Service
Offices, Laguna Niguel and San Francisco
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