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International Education Week: Nov. 16-20

The U.S. State Department’s International Education Week (IEW) is November 16-20 and will be hosted by the University of Portland International Club, according to Rebecca Seibert, international education, diversity, and inclusion.

The slogan for this year’s International Education Week is “Alone Together.” We want to emphasize that even though we cannot be together in person, we are still all here for each other. Participants will be able to connect with others through these events and celebrate and learn about various cultures around the world, an essential step as we work to advocate for the BIPOC community and for diversity. We hope that you will enjoy our educational and recreational cultural events. 

Please use this link to view and join the week’s activities.

Cultural Art Gallery Submissions Welcome

The International Club would love to see your artwork for its Cultural Art Gallery. The gallery is one of the events of International Education Week (IEW). It is open to all UP community: students, faculty, staff, and alumni. We are hoping this exhibition to be able to connect UP community and let people learn various backgrounds and perspectives.

The artwork can be anything such as drawing, painting, poetry, music, video. Themes can be about your own traditional culture, BLM, LGBTQIA+, and more.

We would like you to submit your artwork on Microsoft Forms by Sunday, November 8, and we will transport your artwork to Microsoft Sway and make it public on the first day of IEW, November 16. If you have multiple submissions, please submit them one by one. You cannot submit them all at once.

Please reach out to Shiipin Lau (I-club president) at laus23@up.edu if you have any questions.

International Education Week, Nov. 17-21

flagsAll faculty, staff, and students are invited to consider participating in International Education Week (IEW) 2014, observed November 17-21 and hosted by the UP International Club in collaboration with international student services, international languages and cultures, ASUP, and other student clubs. Throughout the week of IEW, the planning committee will be hosting and promoting events across campus that celebrate international education and exchange. To see what has happened in the past, browse the schedule of last year’s events on the IEW website.

Sponsors invite faculty members to consider hosting a lecture or activity during a class session the week of November 17-21 on an international topic related to course content or to encourage any student groups they may advise to host an event. Participation in IEW is wholly optional, and may be designed in any way faculty see fit. The IEW planning committee is happy to discuss ideas for participation in greater detail with any interested faculty. Participating faculty and student groups can use this link to submit IEW class sessions or stand-alone events to the IEW 2014 calendar: http://tinyurl.com/6e8jlwn.

For more information contact international student services at 7367 or iss@up.edu.