The University of Mary Washington hosted a delegation of high-level ministry and higher education representatives from eight countries on Feb. 23.
The representatives, who came to the U.S. from Iraq, Tunisia, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Vietnam, and the Philippines, visited as part of the EducationUSA Leadership Institute. The EducationUSA Leadership Institute was sponsored by the State Department and the Institute for International Education.
The delegation stayed in the U.S. from Feb. 16 to 24.
The goal of EducationUSA is to bring participants from select countries and world regions to the U.S. to increase their understanding of U.S. higher education, develop the tools necessary to build capacity within their own systems, and engage with the U.S. higher education in effective, sustained ways.
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- Salah Benabdallah, director of the mission Al Akhawayan, University of Ifrane, Morocco, and Nele Feldmann, Center for International Partnerships Institute for International Education, walk together through UMW campus.
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- Left to right: Salah Benabdallah, director of the mission Al Akhawayan at the University of Ifrane in Morocco, Cynthia Llanes, vice president for Academic Affairs at the Technological Institute of the Philippines, Beth Dennis, Department of State Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, and Nele Feldmann, Center for International Partnerships Institute for International Education, warm up inside of the Information and Technology Convergence Center.
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- Left to right: Nele Feldmann, Program Manager for Center for International Partnerships Institute for International Education, Mhammed Chraibi, Professor of Computer Science at the University of Ifraine in Morocco, Jose A. Sainz, associate Professor of Spanish and Director of the Center for International Education at UMW, Oleksandra Lukianeknko, Chief Specialist of International Cooperation in Ukraine, and Beth Dennis, Program Officer at the Department of State Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, walk past Lee Hall at UMW.