The Andrew Heiskell Awards

The Institute of International Education (IIE) has announced on January 26th the winners of the ninth annual IIE Andrew Heiskell Awards for Innovation in International Education.

The awards were established to promote and honor the most outstanding initiatives in international higher education among IIE Network, IIE’s membership association of more than 1,000 institutions. The winning programs will be featured in the Spring 2010 edition of the IIE Networker magazine, and on IIE Network’s Best Practices in Internationalization website.

IIE Heiskell Awards are for best practices in the categories of Internationalizing the Campus, Study Abroad, and International Exchange Partnerships. Overall eight U.S. Campuses Recognized For Outstanding International Initiatives.

PUF is proud to announce that the two winners of award in the category of International Exchange Partnerships are PUF projects. The winning initiative is a partnership between California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, CA) and École Polytechnique (Paris, France), with honorable mention going to North Carolina State University (Raleigh, NC) and Université Paul Cézanne-IAE Aix-en-Provence (France).

These awards will be presented at the 5th Annual Best Practices Conference at IIE in New York on Friday, March 19th.

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Paris, March 24th 2009

French-American Seminar on University, Scientific and Education Partnerships.
Paris, le 24 mars 2009
On March 23, PUF organized a day-long French-American Seminar on University, Scientific and Education Partnerships at La Sorbonne, Paris, in cooperation with the French-American Commission, the French Embassy in the US, the US Embassy in France, the French Foreign and European Affairs Ministry and the Académie of Paris.

More than 200 guests attended the workshop among them French and American international relations officers, deans, professors and teachers and also members of the French government. The different speakers discussed first the “Background of American Higher Education and Research”, then the “Tools and Resources for Franco-American Partnerships” and finally “The Range of Statuses, Reform in Universities and Global Partnerships.”

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