I began my career in education 25 years ago as a student teacher at North Eugene High School. My cooperating teacher left me a textbook, a few ideas for assignments, and contact information for ICSP at the University of Oregon. I was so inspired by the idea of literally bringing the world into my classroom, I designed a unit for my global studies curriculum around the ICSP students. A quarter of a century later, thousands of students from North Eugene High School have spent part of their freshman year learning about the world through the eyes of ICSP students. We have recently held an alumni event to mark the end of our campus at 200 Silver Lane (we now have a new campus at 250 Silver Lane). As former students strolled the halls, they all poked their heads into my classroom and demanded to know if I still did "the cool project with the international students" because it had inspired in them a profound curiosity about the world. My students begin the unit sifting through sources, working to understand the geography, culture, and history of their assigned country. They dutifully complete assignments and occasionally call me over to share some interesting idea or picture, but they remain relatively uninspired until... The day the ICSP students arrive and they get to ask their thousands of questions, see artifacts from the country, laugh at shared stories, and understand the shared human experience of this world. I can't imagine trying to teach my students about the world without ICSP. Thank you!

 

 

Peter Briggs, now retired as Director Emeritus of the Office for International Students and Scholars at Michigan State University, devoted forty years to the field of international education.  Among his accomplishments during his twenty years at the University of Oregon, he founded and directed the UO’s International Cultural Service Program and he started the popular weekly Friday International Coffee Hour.  He played a number of leadership roles in NAFSA: Association of International Educators and was awarded the Homer Higbee Award for service to the association.  Upon retirement, he was honored with Life Membership.

Jean Campbell grew up in Southern California and received a Bachelor’s degree in Anthropology from UC-Santa Barbara. A former teacher, she earned a UO Master's in Education and Ph.D. in a combined Anthropology/Education program.  As the first ICSP graduate fellow, she assisted the Director in early implementation and wrote her dissertation on ICSP.  Jean co-directed the UO’s federally-funded Global Education Project that focused on study abroad returnees. Jean was the first Education Director of the World Affairs Council of Oregon. For 13 years, she was Associate Director of Portland State University’s Middle East Studies Center. She was a trainer on a project to improve education of rural Egyptian girls.  She has been the External Evaluator on diverse projects such as: Georgetown University’s Center for Contemporary Arab Studies’ Outreach Program, and activities of the International Museum of Muslim Cultures in Jackson, Mississippi. Jean has taught UO and PSU courses in International Studies, Education, and Anthropology, has received grants, and held leadership positions:  President of the national Middle East Outreach Council, receiving its Lifetime Achievement Award; Chair of NAFSA: Association of International Educators’ Region I NAFSAn of the Year, President of the Oregon Council for the Social Studies, and co-founder of the American Research Center in Egypt/Oregon Chapter. Other activities: studying Arabic and teaching English at the American University in Cairo, a Fulbright group trip to Jordan, and an internship in Sapporo, Japan.

 

Originally from Turin, Italy, but with proud Filipino heritage, Paolo Daniele has international travel and education as part of his DNA. At the University of Oregon, he works as Director of Professional Development and Career Preparation for the Division of Graduate Studies. Previously, he managed Fulbright, exchange, visiting, short-term programs and inbound internships, while serving as an international student advisor. Prior to his green life in Oregon, Paolo enjoyed working at UCLA's Graduate Division and then as program manager for UCSF's innovative QB3 Institute. He earned an MPA focused on international education from CSULB, and BA degrees in Political Science and Italian/French Lit. Special Fields from UCLA. As a JET Programme alumnus, he enjoys promoting socio-cultural and relational programming efforts with Japan. Paolo is currently very active with NAFSA – Association of International Educators as a Consular Affairs Liaison with the Consulate of Italy in San Francisco; as a Trainer Corps member by co-leading Non-Resident Alien Tax, F-1 and J-1 workshops; and as the Advocacy Representative for the Pacific Northwest states and territories. He is currently focusing his presentation topics on internships abroad, and regularly provides advice on jumpstarting socially integrative non-degree and internship programs in the U.S.

 

Dennis C. Galvan is Professor of Political Science and International Studies and Vice Provost for International Affairs at the University of Oregon. Professor Galvan received his Ph.D. from U.C. Berkeley in 1996 and his B.A. from Stanford in 1987. He has conducted field research since 1988 in a cluster of thirty villages in rural Senegal, and has conducted comparative field research in Central Java, Indonesia, since 1999. His published work examines everyday institutional change, peasant adaptation of property regimes, social capital and democratization, sustainable development, ethnic relations, and grass-roots patterns of nation-building. He is finishing a new book, Everyday Nation Building, which looks at ordinary life ethic and religious cooperation in Senegal and Indonesia. For more information visit Professor Galvan's faculty site.

Subject Specialist for Japanese Studies and History

Education: M.A., Library and Information Science, University of Arizona (2003); M.A., Japanese History, University of British Columbia (2002); B.A., University of Oregon, History (1992) 

Academic experience: Japanese Studies Librarian, University of Oregon (2012-present); Japanese Studies Librarian, University of Colorado, (2009-2012) 

Overseas experience: 10 years in Japan  

 

Bil is the Assistant Director in the Tykeson College & Career Advising office.  He has worked at the University of Oregon for 20 years and received his Bachelor of Arts in Spanish and his Masters of Science in Counseling both from the University of Oregon. In his free time, you'll find him backstage at Cottage Theatre or traveling with his wife.