2003 CIEE Awards
Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Field of International Education
This Award was established by the Board of Directors of CIEE to acknowledge professional commitment to international education and educational exchange over an extended period of time.
Michael Delaney received the CIEE Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Field of International Education. For his more than twenty-five years of service to the field, CIEE recognizes the extensive service that Michael has performed for CIEE as a member of the Board of Directors; host of the CIEE Annual Conference; founding member of the CIEE Academic Consortium Board (ACB); first Chair of the ACB Evaluation Committee; and creator of evaluation procedures for CIEE Study Centers, the first transparent professional and inclusive review procedure for any consortial study abroad program. CIEE also recognizes Michael's many contributions to NAFSA, SECUSSA, and the Forum on Education Abroad.
CIEE Student Recognition Awards
Paula Eichenbrenner, Tulane University St. Petersburg, Russia, Fall 2002
At the beginning of her semester in St. Petersburg, Paula asked about possibilities for working with children in St. Petersburg. Over the course of the semester, Paula managed to organize a Toys for Tots campaign that raised hundreds of dollars and dozens of toys for the children's home that CIEE is connected to called Mercy House. Paula put in untold hours both at the children's home and drumming up support and donations.
Robin Reineke, Bryn Mawr College; Hannah El-Silimy, Oberlin College; Allyn Steele, Wofford College Khon Kaen, Thailand, Fall 2002
The three students above exemplified the best of “service learning” by committing themselves, body and soul, to getting the struggle of the Pak Moon villagers registered within the human rights community. Through their work documenting a violation of the political and civil human rights of Pak Moon villagers on 18 September 2002, and through their efforts to place the Pak Moon issue within a framework of economic, social, and cultural rights, these three students made a modest but significant contribution to this issue.
They learned skills and developed an awareness and sensitivity for the silenced in society. They entered into a vastly different world, a vastly different culural place. They were touched and moved by it, by the faces of the elderly that were beaten, by the immensity of the struggle of thousands of villagers that have fought to open the Pak Moon dam gates. And they acted upon it.
In a short, four-month study abroad experience, what more could we expect than this in creating “concerned global citizens ”?
CIEE Resident Director of the Year Award
The CIEE Resident Director of the Year Award was created to recognize Resident Directors in their contribution to the success of CIEE programs. The goal is to recognize a Resident Director who by their energy, skill, leadership, and effort has distinguished themselves in their work.
Maritheresa Frain, Resident Director of the CIEE Study Center in Seville, Spain, is the 2003 CIEE Resident Director of the Year. Maritheresa is not only Resident Director of the Liberal Arts and Advanced Liberal Arts programs, but serves as nominal Resident Director for the Business and Society and Language and Society programs of the Seville Center, CIEE's largest program operation. In the last year, she has also performed essential negotiation work with the University of Alcala, with the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in establishing CIEE's new center in Barcelona, and with the University of Ferrara on CIEE's new center in Italy. She has transformed the staff of the Sevilla center into a close-knit and efficient team, and has spearheaded CIEE's move into a beautiful new space.
Since Maritheresa took over the management of the CIEE Study Center in Seville, many of our clients have commented how much the programs have improved. Maritheresa is responsive and communicative, sometimes sending even more information than we bargained for! She maintains excellent communication with the sending schools in a proactive way as well as dealing with on-site student issues. Even though the Seville programs are very successful, Maritheresa never stops looking for ways to make them better and motivates her on-site staff to do the same. She has endless amounts of energy and a good sense of humor about the job.