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ORIENTATION WEEK - NEW FEATURE
The spring 2008 semester class spent their
first
three days and two nights at Chalet Colonie de Genolier in the village
of Nyon. The fall 2007 class was at Chalet Martin.
SPRING 2008 CLASS BRIEFED AT US MISSION
The Friday
morning briefing during orientation week included staff from economics,
trade, foreign policy, and immigration.
PROGRAM DIRECTORS
Dr. Richard Kent will direct the
fall 2008 class and teach Money, Credit and Banking. Kent has
previously served as the program director. Dr. Scott Sheridan will teach European
Geography and direct the spring 2009 class.
PO Box 5190 Kent, OH 44242-0001
Telephone:
330/672-7980
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Dr.
Thomas Schmidlin - Director's Program - Spring 2008
Special
speakers
organized by Dr. Schmidlin for the spring 2008 class:
► Dr. Yuichi Ono, International Strategy for
Disaster Reduction, UN Secretariat - Global
Disaster Risk Reduction Activities of the UN.
► Tom Quiggin, Senior Fellow, Rajaratnam
School of International Studies, NTU, Singapore - Radicalization and Response: Differing
Responses in Europe, North American and Asia.
Spring 2008 Human Rights
Class - Professor
Cecilia Jimenez
► UN High Commissioner for
Refugees - lecture and discussion on the state of the world's refugees
and protection for them
► UN Human
Rights Council - observation of an official meeting
► International Committee of the
Red Cross: lectures and discussion of ICRC activities
► Two
guest lecturers from the US Human Rights Network: the
USA's report to the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial
Discrimination
LOW VISITS KENT STATE
Under the
auspices of the Office of International Affairs and
coordinative support from Dr. Michael Mayo
in the College
of Business, Dr.
Patrick Low visited Kent State
University
in April. While here he spoke to an estimated 375
persons in the COB Borg Warner Lecture Series, addressed the Cleveland
City
Club, and gave a seminar to the Federal Reserve Bank in Cleveland. Word
of
his presence spread among Geneva Semester alums and he had two meetings
with
them. Several traveled from out-of-town
for those occasions. Low is seen here with Dr. Alan Coe, Office
of International Affairs.
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