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A variety of activities have been scheduled at the various U.S. missions throughout Germany. They include a one-day conference titled "E-Learning: the School of the Future;" an international education fair targeted at German high school students, teachers, and administrators; and address by the Public Affairs Officer to 100 representatives from the private sector and local cultural organizations in eastern Germany on study in the U.S. both for traditional and non-traditional higher education students; lectures on U.S. dimensions of internationalization strategies in higher education in Berlin and accreditation issues in the U.S. and Germany; a series of presentations on high school exchanges; an address to international secondary students participating in the 2002 Model United Nations program; a symposium "International Degree Courses in Berlin," which will addres ... [Read More]
Events and Activites, International Education Week 2001
Banquet for Higher Education Professors: ACTR/ACCELS will host a banquet for approximately 50 professors and deans of higher education institutions in Turkmenistan. Guest speakers will make presentations on the value of the American perspective in Turkmenistan's higher education. Speakers will be Ejegysz Sapparova, former visiting professor at the University of Indiana, Bloomington, and Bryan Roberts, Chief Academic Adviser for the Resource Network for Economics and Business Education. This will serve as an opportunity for attendees to learn more about the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs' Junior Faculty Development Program. School Visits by Freedom Support Act FLEX Alumni: Throughout the week, pairs of alumni from the Freedom Support Act Future Leaders Exchange for high school students will visit schools in Turkmeni ... [Read More]
Issues of Democracy, May 2000 -- Toward A Community of Democracies
Before presenting the idea of the Community of Democracies conference, I would like first toraise some questions concerning democracy and also to say that we have had, in thepost-Communist countries in this region of Central and Eastern Europe, experience in the useand abuse of the word "democracy." The easiest way to keep democracy in the officiallanguage was by adding an adjective to the subject. To say "former democracy" is a bad word. "Social democracy" is an excellent word. This was the very peculiar grammar of politics, and itmeant that adjectives were killing the subject. ... [Read More]
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