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Tuesday, November 16

7:00 - 16:00 Registration/Information 7:30 - 9:00 Regional Meetings - Continental Breakfast CBIE board members will lead lively breakfast discussions to allow delegates to explore issues of particular concern in your region. Pre-registration is required and subject to an additional fee ($10). Atlantic - Ontario - Québec - West 8:00 - 16:00 Exhibit Hall 9:00 - 10:15 Plenary 3: Rethinking International Aid in Haiti (SI) The end of the Duvalier dynasty's dictatorship in 1986 created many hopes for renewal in Haiti. Eighteen years later, the reality is disillusionment. It has been especially frustrating because, for the past ten years (1994-2004), massive intervention by the international community made everyone believe that real change was at hand. This session proposes to look beyond the impact of internal processes and reflect on international aid in Haiti. 10:15 - 10:45 Coffee Break 10:45 - 12:00 CONCURRENT WORKSHOPS SERIES B B1 Implementing your internationalization strategy (E) The implementation of George Brown College's internationalization strategy will be presented from administration and faculty viewpoints. Presenters will compare the College's experience to frameworks as presented in the literature such as Jane Knight and John Taylor. A case study in the field of Early Childhood Development will be used to demonstrate how the integration of various aspects of internationalization impacts on institutional and personal partnerships both in Canada and overseas. B2 Transfer credits for studies abroad: Giant nuisance or loathsome burden? (SI) For obvious reasons, transfer credits can be a crucial factor in the success of study abroad programs. Students may quite reasonably feel that if they are not assured specific credits for their academic work overseas, they will stay at home instead. This session will briefly outline different transfer credit models from across the country, noting problems that have been resolved and others that persist. B3 Web sites on study skills for international students in Canada (E) International students face the challenge of coping with unfamiliar material presented in an unfamiliar setting. Although many international students benefit from counselling and/or instruction in study skills in a Canadian context, some students prefer the anonymity of web browsing. This session examines different approaches to the web-based provision of study skills advice, with specific reference to the website of Mount Saint Vincent University, and the CBIE- funded web site at Okanagan University College. B4 Working towards best practices with agents (E) This session will provide coverage of basic considerations in working with both off-shore and domestic recruiting agents. It will continue with a discussion of situations that 'stretch the envelope' of best practices. The goal of the workshop is to stimulate reflection on what might constitute best practices for your particular situation. This session is a repeat from a successful presentation at the CBIE Western Regional Meeting. B5 Curriculum at the heart of international exchange (E) Based on a national study of faculty members in over 20 disciplines at colleges and universities across Canada, this session explores the idea that the curriculum is in fact the heart of exchange. Ranges of best practices that demonstrate this contention are shared and discussed. 12:00 - 13:15 Lunch (on your own) 13:15 -14:30 CONCURRENT WORKSHOPS SERIES C C1 Developing exchange program protocols in a North-South context (SI) Developing partnerships with institutions from the South requires unique strategies and creativity, especially in establishing bilateral protocols. Northern institutions do not experience particular difficulties in sending their students South but the opposite is more problematic, with the main challenge being the question of student financing. How can universities in the North resolve this perpetual dilemma? Presenters from Université Laval offer insights. C2 Risk and responsibility in student mobility programs: four perspectives - Part 1 (E) With the rapid expansion of student/faculty mobility programs both abroad and in Canada, institutions are becoming more sensitive to the issues of risks and responsibilities for their students abroad. This workshop will provide participants with the perspectives of four countries (Australia; Canada; France; and the USA) and their respective policies and procedures. Participants will have the opportunity to interact and share their experiences, concerns, and best practices. C3 Bafá Bafá, a cross-cultural/diversity simulation - Part 1 (E) This interactive session is ideal for anyone involved in cross-cultural training for staff, students or faculty who will work or study in a diverse environment at home or abroad. This famous experiential game, developed in the 1970's by Garry Shirts, introduces the notion of culture as it explores at gut level cross-cultural communication, cultural values, culture shock and the perpetuation of stereotypes. C4 Curriculum matters! To students, faculty, international educators.... and the world! (E) Internationalization of the curriculum has for a long time been the orphan child of Canadian institutions' internationalization efforts. This session presents a bottom-up approach to internationalizing domestic curricula that actively engages instructors as agents of change. It proposes a tool for International Offices and Learning/Teaching Centres to work with faculty in support of their efforts to design courses in a way that accounts for diversity in the classroom and helps students think as global citizens. C5 Are international projects for you? A small Maritime campus perspective (E) The session will explore the benefits that the University of New Brunswick Saint John has experienced from coordinating and participating in four CIDA-sponsored projects. Topics to be covered include how involvement in development projects can assist with the internationalization of the knowledge, skills and attitudes of faculty, staff and students, in addition to developing international and national institutional linkages that can lead to other project opportunities. The session will also review the resources required for a campus to participate in a CIDA-sponsored project and will help participants decide whether their institution should get involved. 14:30 - 14:45 Coffee break 14:45 - 16:00 CONCURRENT WORKSHOPS SERIES D D1 National education quality frameworks for domestic and international students (E) This workshop will outline the frameworks in Australia which assure the quality of the country's education programs in universities, vocational training institutes and schools. The frameworks have been established in a federal system of government to ensure national high standards, supported by regular independent review for quality education services for both domestic and international students. D2 Risk and responsibility in student mobility programs: Four perspectives - Part II (E) Continuation of C2. D3 Bafá Bafá, a cross-cultural/diversity simulation - Part II (E) Continuation of C3. D4 International students in Canada: key adaptation challenges (SI) Supervising more than 500 international students in some 30 Canadian institutions as executing agency for major scholarship programs and technical assistance projects, the Cégep Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu is keenly aware of the realities to which international students must adjust. Presenters will highlight the pedagogical, linguistic, personal, cultural and intercultural challenges experienced by international students. Presenters will also highlight findings of a recent student survey. D5 Experiential learning models: Academic exchanges and internships (E) Both international academic exchanges and international internships are program models designed to provide students with international experiential learning opportunities. York University has annually provided over a 100 students the opportunity to pursue a formal university-wide academic exchange program. Recently, as part of a new international strategy, an international internship program was established. This session will provide an assessment of the two program models, comparing learning objectives, program structures, and eventual learning outcomes. 16:00 - 17:00 Annual General Meeting (SI) 19:00 CBIE Annual Banquet and Awards: Ottawa Valley Ceilidh Delegates can plan for an evening of traditional Ottawa Valley entertainment, featuring some of Ottawa's finest musicians. Drawing from Scottish, Irish and Québécois cultures, this is not a party for those who want to sit in their seats - audience participation is a must! Wear your dancing shoes. No previous experience required - a caller will guide you through the steps.