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International Leadership
In Education Program Scholars
SPECIAL EDITION, SPRING 2009
ILEP Visiting Scholars! Assia Benamara - Algeria
Kazi Rashid - Bangladesh
Badrun Nahar - Bangladesh
Alexandre Olivera - Brazil
Jose Santos - Brazil
Marwa Saleh - Egypt
Monte Pariat - India
Zulfa Sulaiman - Indonesia
Bayu Widyatmoko - Indonesia
Yaser Abuhmaid - Jordan
Mercy Labial - Philippines
Ana Mirana - Philippines
El Ismaila Diouf - Senegal
Patrick Mnisi - South Africa
Houssin Zayri -Tunisia
Ebed Sulbaran - Venezuela
In this special issue:
Meet New Scholars:
ILEP Scholars
Meet New Scholars:
Dr. Kim and Dr. Heu
Reporting Back:
CIIE events and
International Travel
Fast Forward:
Future Events
NEW Feature! Opinion
Funded by the U.S. State Department of
State, International Leaders in Education Pro-
gram brings exceptional secondary teachers from
the Middle East, South Asia, Africa, and Latin
America to the U.S. to help them develop exper-
tise in their subject areas and learn about the U.S.
This semester CIIE is hosting sixteen
ILEP scholars from twelve countries. They take
courses relative to their subject areas as well as
special courses in English and advanced technol-
ogy. Additionally, they do internships in public
schools of the Kent area.
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Meet New Scholars
SPECIAL EDITION, SPRING 2009
Assia Benamara
Algeria Assia is a talented teacher of
English in a secondary
school. Becoming a teacher
was her biggest dream. She is
enjoying her time at Kent
State while interning in Stow.
Assia has three children.
Kazi Rashid Bangladesh
Kazi has been
teaching computer
science in a secondary
school for the last 13
years. He has two
daughters and is an
author of six textbooks
in Bangla and English.
He is also Head
Examiner on the
Board of Education.
Badrun Nahar Bangladesh Badrun (means full
moon in Arabic)
teaches English at a
boarding school in
Tangail. She has a
daughter who goes to
a university back
home. She likes
Bangla and Indian
music. Badrun is
interning at
Crestwood High
School.
Alexandre Oliveira Brazil
Alex is from Rio de Janeriro. He has been a teacher
for 19 years and is really passionate about being a
teacher. He teaches English to high school students
in his home country.
He loves music and believes in using it to empower
his students.
Jose Santos
Brazil Jose comes from Teresina City where she teaches
English. She is a graduate of University of Piaui
in Brazil. She hopes to initiate changes in her field
upon returning to Brazil. Jose is an intern at
Hudson High School.
Marwa Saleh Egypt
Marwa teaches at a girl's college in Alexandria,
Egypt. One of the reasons she became a teacher
was because of the influence of her primary
science teacher when Marwa was in secondary
school. She is fond of reading in English and it is
one of the activities she enjoys in her free time.
ILEP Scholars
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Meet New Scholars
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Meet New Scholars
Monte Pariat
India
Monte is a high school Social
Studies teacher. He is a board
directors member of the Young
Men’s Christian Association
Vocational Training Center.
Monte has three children.
Zulfa Sulaiman Indonesia
Zulfa teaches English
to grades 10, 11 and
12 in Indonesia. She is
a mother to five
children. Zulfa is
interning at
Streetsboro High
School and is enjoying
his experiences at
Kent State.
Yaser Abuhmaid Jordan
Yaser is Social Studies
teacher in Jordan. He
belives that teaching is a
holy profession and
wants to make a
difference in the lives of
his students. He is an
active member of the
Human Rights
Committee at his school
and is learning how to
become even more
effective in teaching and
extracurricular pursuits
while at Kent State.
Bayu Widyatmoko Indonesia
Bayu is a teacher in Papua New Guinea and
abolutely loves working there! Bayu was a musician
before he decided to change his career to teahing. He
is still pasionate about music because he belives it
changes the way people think and live.
Mercy Labial
Phillipines
Mercy teaches English Literature to high
school students in her home country. She is
currently a Ph.D. student at Xavier
University in the Phillipines. While at Kent
State, she in an intern at Streetboro High
School. Mercy has two sons back home.
Ana Mirana Philippines
Ana is a high school teacher of Physics. She
was acknowledged as The Most Outstanding
Teacher in 2007 for excellent teaching and
exemplary performance at her work place.
Ana is a great mother to three sons.
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Meet New Scholars
SPECIAL EDITION, SPRING 2009
Islaila Diouf
Senegal
Ismaila teaches English to grades 8-
11. He is Deputy Secretary General
of the Association of Teachers of
English in Senegal. Ismaila is a
father to a four-month old daughter.
Houssin Zayri Tunisia Houssin is a teacher of
Arabic in Tunisia. He
likes teaching because
as a teacher he is able
to motivate his
students to pursue
great things in life. At
the present, Houssin is
working towards
getting his second
degree in English at
University of Arts and
Humanities back in
Tunisia.
Patrick Mnisi South Africa Patrick is a secondary teacher of English and Mathematics in the Limpopo
Province. His goals after completing the ILEP program is to become a curriculum
advisor for Mathematics and English at his work place. Patrick is a member of the
Association for Mathematics Educators in South Africa and has a seventeen-year
old son.
Ebed Sulbara Venezuela Ebed is a teacher of English to ages 5-12 in a
secondary school in Merida state in Venezuela.
He is passionate about English and his students.
While in Ohio, he is interning at Crestwood City
School. He has a four-year old son.
Dr. Yong Kim, South Korea
Dr. Kim is a visiting scholar at Kent State University. He is a professor at Gyeongsang
National University in South Korea. Dr. Kim received his Ph.D. in Higher Education
Administration at KSU in 1988. He has been teaching at Gyeongsang National Univer-
sity since 1989. Dr. Kim's research interests include teacher education in South Korea,
organizational behavior in school setting and Korean culture.
Dr. Hyunmi Heu, South Korea Dr. Hyunmi Heu is a South Korean visiting scholar at Kent State’s School of Exercise,
Leisure and Sport. She holds a Master’s degree in Sport Sociology and a doctorate de-
gree in Sport Sociology from the Awha Women’s College. Back in South Korea, Dr.
Heu worked as an associate professor of Leisure Sport at Kyungin Women’s College.
Her research interests include women’s sports, sexual harassment and abuse in sports,
sport management, service in sport faculties, and community sport clubs.
Visiting Scholars
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SPECIAL EDITION, SPRING 2009
Reporting Back
Cultural Dialogues Feature ILEP Visiting Scholars
This semester the Kent State community had a unique chance to meet the
sixteen ILEP scholars and learn about life in Senegal, Tunisia, Venezuela
and Bangladesh through the “On the street where I live…” brown bag de-
livered by El Ismaila Diouf, Houssin Zayri, Ebed Sulbaran and Badrun Na-
har.
The university community also traveled to Jordan, Algeria, India and The
Philippines to get a taste of their food and music through “The Spice of
Life: Food and Music” which featured Yaser Abuhmaid, Assia Benamara,
Monte Pariat and Ana Mirana. They shared interesting life stories about
the spice of their life.
The above-mentioned brown bags
were then followed by “Fate,
Beliefs and Luck” in South Af-
rica, Indonesia, Brazil and Egypt
by Patrick Mnisi, Zulfa Su-
laiman, Marwa Saleh and Alexan-
dre Olivera during which not only did
they surprise the audience by putting a
ladder in the entrance, but also by
demonstrating various superstitious
practices that people in their countries
believe.
Cultural Dialogues were com-
pleted by celebrating the Interna-
tional Women’s Day through
“The day in the life of
woman…” together with Kazi
Rashid, Bayu Widyatmoko, Jose
Santos and Mercy Labial from
Bangladesh, Indonesia, Brazil
and The Philippines.
The culmination of the Women’s Day celebra-
tion and the cultural brown bag seminar was a
song created and performed for women by
Bayu Widyatmoko and Alexandre Oliveira.
Mermaids (Alex / Bayu)
Night and day My mind, my fate
All I see
Will come too deep From you
Is this world Meant to be free
While you cry
And help me flee
From (With) this fear
Without you here To sing a song
‘cause I’m just on my
own
Is this world
Meant to be free…
From (With) this fear
Without you here…
This song is not about what women do. It’s mainly about the
power they have to fix things…if they want to. Careers and
lives are raised or reconstructed…or destroyed.
Zulfa said that a man can buy a house but not a home.
A man can protect a house… a woman can
protect a home, our heart and our soul.
- Alex and Bayu
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International Travel Dr. Philip Wang
SPECIAL EDITION, SPRING 2009
Reporting Back
Dr. Phillip Wang
In early April, School of Exercise, Leisure and
Sport’s Dr. Philip Wang and Mr. Ryan Rohrer, a
student in Recreation, Park and Tourism Man-
agement went to China to set up their summer
study abroad program. During the trip they met
with faculty and students at five universities in
Beijing, Shanghai and Xian. They gave lecture
presentations and invited students to apply for
admission to Kent State’s Master’s degree pro-
gram in Hospitality and Tourism Management.
The China program consists of coursework and a
three-week tour of Beijing, Shanghai, Xian, and
Guilin. The activities will include children’s
summer camp service with a Forth-of-July cele-
bration, adventure education testing, etiquette
training, introduction to a five-star hotel’s opera-
tions, and hiking, biking, and cave exploration
events through China’s historical and scenic
areas.
Through networking with Chinese universities,
Dr. Wang and Mr. Rohrer were able to arrange
lodging, transportation, and tour services for the
study abroad program and to exercise the skills
they have acquired in classes.
The program is designed for the students to see
global travel and hospitality trends, to witness
the diversity and fusion of cultures, The ultimate
goal, as Dr. Wang indicated, is for the students
to not only think outside the box, but to get out
of the box.
According to Dr. Wang, a major accomplish-
ment of the April visit was having the support of
Beijing International Studies University to serve
as the base of Kent State’s tourism and hospital-
ity study abroad in future years. It will support
the KSU program with faculty, classroom facili-
ties, and travel needs such as lodging and trans-
portation arrangements.
Dr. Kim Sebaly
Kim Sebaly of Cultural Foundations of Education was a guest
of the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore for six weeks
during the latter part of his Fall Semester 2008 professional
development leave. He was invited to attend the centennial
academic conference for the "Tata Institute," and to help coor-
dinate plans for a centennial history of India's most fa-
mous institution
of higher educa-
tion in science
and engineer-
ing. J. N. Tata
(1839-1904), and
the Tata family
and their associ-
ates, have been
India's leading
industrial family
in Asia for over a
century. Dr.
Sebaly's re-
searches on the
Tata family's edu-
cational endowments in India at the end of the 19th century
and throughout the 20th century provide the major themes
being explored in the centennial project. Dr. Sebaly also vis-
ited the Tata Central Archives, Pune during his visit.
Dr. P. Balaram, Director of the IISc greets Kim and Fay Ann Sebaly at the Tata Memorial Statue
International Travel
Dr. Wang with his Chinese colleagues
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Contact CIIE at 330.672.0564 to learn about unique opportunities on international internships and study abroad programs!
SPECIAL EDITION, SPRING 2009
Reporting Back
Distinguished Lecture Series Lecture
Dr. Yong Kim
Trends and Issues in South Korean Higher Education
Dr. Kim’s lecture focused on the trends and issues of South
Korean higher education. Among the interesting things the audience
learned about this 48 mil. country during the lecture were the facts
that South Korea is ranked as the 13th largest economy in the world
and that it might be the only state that has achieved a rapid
economic development and a political stability in only fifty years
After the WWII liberation.
Korean higher education has been heavily influenced by the U.S. higher education system. Korean
higher education institutions include universities, junior colleges, graduate schools and distance edu-
cation establishments. 85% of the higher education institutions in Korea are private. Some of the
issues this country’s higher education is currently facing are high tuition rates, low competitiveness
on the global arena and decreasing numbers of student population.
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International Travel (contd.)
Dr. Joanne Dowdy
Dr. Joanne Dowdy is
dedicated to promoting
international education.
She is a faculty member
at Kent State University
and took an educational
trip to Morocco. At Kent
State, she teaches gradu-
ate level courses in the
field of Adolescent/Adult
Literacy as well as pre-
service and veteran teach-
ers in reading and writing
methods at local middle
school and high school in
the state.
Her educational travel
includes numerous pres-
entations workshops in
America, Europe and Af-
rica. Dr. Dowdy is a
writer, actor and a film
script writer. She received
the American Education
Research Association for
2009 Book Award for her
book: "Ph.D. Stories:
Conversations with My
Sisters". Visiting Mo-
rocco was Dr. Dowdy’s
dream for many years.
Dr. Dowdy with her Moroccan colleagues
The CIIE is committed to promoting
opportunities for faculty and students at
Kent State University to travel to pro-
mote international and intercultural
education.
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Fast Forward
SPECIAL EDITION, SPRING 2009
Fast Forward
Marion Korllos Tour Design Contest
Marion Korllos, former Director of the Gerald H. Read
Center for International and Intercultural Education
1987-2002, has demonstrated success in educational
travel. Assisting with the extensive and pioneering
work of Dr. Geral Read, Marion Korllos has a legacy
on excellence in tour design.
A deeply rooted conviction that travel is an invaluable
way to expose educators to international trends led Dr.
Read, in 1964, to invite an Ohio superintendent of
schools to “get a firsthand look at a socialist educa-
tional system, “ says Marion Korllos. “Subsequent vis-
its to schools in the Soviet Union drew large, enthusias-
tic groups of U.S. educators, despite the prevalence of
Cold War sentiment, “ she recalls. The travel programs
were expanded to include visits to other socialist coun-
tries such as Poland, Romania, Hungary, former
Czechoslovakia, East Germany and the People’s Re-
public of China.
After Dr. Read’s re-
tirement, Marion
Korllos continued to
lead hundreds of edu-
cators on specially
designed tours that
included travel to all
seven continents. Marion Korllos’s tours were noted for
their cultural uniqueness, educational value, personal
touches and reasonable pricing.
It is with honor that The Gerald H. Read Center for
International and Intercultural Education continues the
Marion Korllos Tour Design Contest.
Join us on this special journey hosted by the Jordanian
Tourist Board and the Jordanian Ambassador to the
U.S., Prince Zied at on May 1, 2009 at 12:00 p.m. at
Moulton Hall Ballroom.
Save the Dates
University Teaching Conference
Since 1992, the CIIE has provided keynote
speakers for the annual University Teaching
Conference (UTC), a regional event hosted
by KSU. Speakers for the UTC have in-
cluded academic luminaries such as Dr.
Stephen D. Brookfield, an educational theo-
rist at the University of St. Thomas, St.
Paul, Minn., Dr. Madeline Greene from
American Council on Education Center for
Institutional and International Initiatives,
Dr. Molefe Asante, a specialist in African
American Studies at Temple University in
Philadelphia, Prince Cedza Dlamini, the UN
Millenium Development Goals Spokesman
and many other prominent speakers.
This year, the CIIE will feature the Chancel-
lor of the Ohio Board of Regents, Eric
Fingerhut on October 29, 2009 at 7:00 p.m.
at the KIVA.
Exhibit and Lecture
on Ukrainian Genocide
Visit the “Holodomor, Genocide by Famine
in Ukraine, 1932-1933” from April 24,
2009 till May 8, 2009 in Room 200, White
Hall.
Ukrainian scholar Roman Serbyn will speak
at 7:00 p.m. on May 1, 2009 in Room 200,
White Hall.
The exhibit and the lecture are featured as
parallel events in the frameworks of the
Kent State University’s Symposium on De-
mocracy which will take place May 4-5,
2009. Please visit
http://www.kent.edu/DemocracySymposium
for details.
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Don’t Say Goodbye Yet by Badrun Nahar, Bangladesh
It took me some time to struggle with the emotions I had right at that moment
when I received a mail from Washington about ILEP End of Program Agenda.
So the count-down has begun! All of us are longing to go back home. At the
same time, aren’t we feeling sad that we have to leave each other?
We are really lucky to have Dr. Robertson, our dear Linda, as the director of the
program. I am amazed at how she manages to do everything so well! I miss Jen-
nifer if I don’t see her for more than two days. I love to see Rose smiling. Sabina
and Shakhnoza (interns) are so friendly and so caring!
I have learned many things here, not only about the U.S., but also about 11 other
countries and 15 other ILEP fellows. Sometimes when I felt homesick and I sat
there gloomy, the concern I always saw in others faces solaced me that I have friends to share my happy and sad
moments with. I don’t need to talk to Alex that much — his look tells me
how much he cares. Who can forget Crazy Josy? Making us laugh and
think at the same time? Bayu, how many friends do you have now? Marwa,
the Egyptian princess, has become everybody’s favorite. Zulfa, like an an-
gel, is always there to care. The gorgeous Assia, I love you. Oh Houssin,
don’t always be so forgetful! Mercy you inspire me so much! Anna, keep
on smiling. Monte, you are always so nice! Yaser, I loved your blog for
your students. Ebed, don’t fight with Abid for the playstation. Patrick —
the Budweiser buddy. Ismaila, when you go back, you can see your daugh-
ter calling you Papa. Isn’t that great? And Rashid, your presence means so
much to me!
It is really difficult to express the way my heart aches at the very thought of
saying goodbye to all of you. With only a few weeks left to go back home,
we are going to miss Kent which welcomed us all and took care of us mak-
ing our experience the best.
Opinion
SPECIAL EDITION, SPRING 2009
Opinion
ILEP Faculty
Alexa Sandmann, Teaching, Leadership and Curriculum Studies
Don Bubenzer, Adult, Counseling, Health and Vocational Education
Ken Cushner, International Curriculum and Program Development
Linda Robertson, Gerald H. Read Center for International and Intercultural Education
Marty Jencius, Adult, Counseling, Health and Vocational Education
Mary Tipton, Instructional Resource Center
Rachel Anderson, Adult Student Center
Wendy Kasten, Teaching, Leadership and Curriculum Studies
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Opinion (contd.)
SPECIAL EDITION, SPRING 2009
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I Like It! American Culture by Mercy Labial, Philippines
Mercy with her host grandmother
I always used to think that we, Filipinos, had the greatest hospital-
ity. When I got to know American people and culture more I came
to realize that if our hospitality is great, the American hospitality is
awesome. Dr. Linda Robertson, my mentor, my professor, my co-
operating teachers and my host family are showing the hospitality
of the American people which to me is so fantastic. They invited
me to their homes and made me feel so at home.
My host family makes me feel like I am not far from home as my
American host grandmother (she is 80 but is very active and still
drives!) plans things for me every week. I am amazed—my grand-
mother is a well-traveled woman!
Lastly, one amazing thing about the American culture is high level of respect for the individual and group religion.
I like the fact that America upholds the highest ideals of every religious or ethnic group. I have come to reflect that
with the diversity of cultures and religions, there is never a cultural deficit. Through this realization, I grew into a
more multiculturally sensitive and competent person.
Many Thanks by Yaser Abuhmaid, Jordan In this short blurb, I want to say a few things about my time in America.
Students in American schools move from a class to another but in my
country it is the teachers who move. Every classroom in my host school
has a TV, LCD projector and some—smart boards. In my home school,
however, classes have none of these. Here every teacher has access to
computers. Teachers in Jordan have no computers. I hope one day my
students have necessary resources for learning and teachers — for more
creative teaching. I know my role in this is big because I want to bring
about change and engage my school in activities the way the American
communities do here.
Americans are very kind and helpful and that helped me a lot to adjust to
a new culture. I have many friends who are students and people in the
community now. I shared as many happy moments as I could with them.
I tried to discover all aspects of the American life such as food, music
and culture. What I like the most about American culture is that if I get
lost, I can ask anyone and they are happy to help. In closing, I want to
thank Dr. Robertson, CIIE and my host site and family for being wonder-
ful hosts.