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Internationalizing the Campus: Profiles of Success at U.S. Colleges and Universities

Each fall NAFSA: Association of International Educators publishes Internationalizing the Campus: Profiles of Success at U.S. Colleges and Universities, which features winners of NAFSA’s Senator Paul Simon Award for Campus Internationalization. Since 2003 Christopher Connell has visited and written essays on nearly two dozen of these award-winning campuses, from extraordinary community and liberal arts colleges to celebrated research universities. His photos also illustrate these reports, supported by a grant from the U.S. State Department’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. Each report also shines a spotlight on exemplary practices at several campuses in addition to the Simon Award winners. NB that the 2007 winners will be posted ... very soon.

Internationalizing the Campus 2006
Simon Award Winners:	Arcadia University Concordia College (MN) Earlham College Michigan State University Purdue University
Exemplary programs:	Babson College; Old Dominion University; University of Richmond
Internationalizing the Campus 2005
Simon Award Winners:	Colby College Colgate University Howard Community College (MD) University of Kansas University of California, Los Angeles
Exemplary programs:	Columbus State Community College (OH); El Camino College (CA); University of Denver
Internationalizing the Campus 2004
Simon Award Winners:	Bellevue Community College (WA) Binghamton University, SUNY Duke University St. Norbert College (WI) University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Exemplary programs:	Juniata College; Lynn University; Missouri Southern State University; Suffolk University; University of Delaware; University of Florida; University of Notre Dame; University of Oregon
Internationalizing the Campus 2003
Top Honors:	Community College of Philadelphia Dickinson College Eastern Mennonite University Indiana University, Bloomington San Diego State University Yale University
Exemplary programs:	Duke University; Kalamazoo College; Kapi'olani Community College; Middlebury College; Montclair State University; Randolph Macon Woman's College; St. Olaf College; Tufts University; University of Pittsburgh; Worcester Polytechnic Institute

International Educator magazine

Christopher Connell’s work also appears regularly in International Educator, NAFSA’s bimonthly magazine. Among recent assignments:

• "After The Storm" Cover story on the travails of New Orleans’ colleges and universities and their international students and scholars in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina (September/October 2006)

• "Changing the World, One Seedling At a Time" Interview and profile of Wangari Maathai, the Kenyan environmentalist and 2005 Nobel Peace Prize Winner

Howard Hughes Medical Institute Bulletin

"A Wellspring of Scientists" Cover story for the Howard Hughes Medical Institute Bulletin on why four-year liberal arts colleges produce so many science Ph.D.s. Baccalaureate institutions enroll only 8 percent of undergraduates, but are the alma mater of 16 percent of Ph.D.s. This package of articles (co-authored with HHMI’s Jennifer Donovan) explains how they do it.

The Carnegie Corporation of New York

• White paper for The Carnegie Corporation of New York on “Homeland Defense and Democratic Liberties: An American Balance in Danger?” (July 2002)

• "Journalism’s Crisis of Confidence: A Challenge for the Next Generation" A report on the Carnegie-Knight Initiative to improve the education of journalists (May 2006)

A Survivor’s Guide for Presidential Nominees (November 2000)

"A Survivor's Guide for Presidential Nominees" is a book-length public service guide published by The Brookings Institution and The Council for Excellence in Government (2000). Called “a Washington classic” by former Office of Personnel Management Director Constance Horner, the Survivor's Guide walks readers through every aspect of high government service, from navigating Senate confirmation to compliance with strict ethics rules to dealing with the news media. It is an enlightening and instructive read for anyone contemplating life and work in the nation's capital.

Pew Charitable Trusts

Connell has contributed frequently to Trust, the quarterly magazine of the Pew Charitable Trusts, including these articles:

• "The Trillion-Dollar Edge" How corporate America got enthused about early childhood education for all (Spring 2006)

• Local Questions, Worldwide Answers The Pew Global Attitudes Project conducted one of the largest polls in history to gauge changing views toward the United States and modernity (Summer 2003)

• Answering Locally, Thinking Globally Asked one-on-one by The Pew Global Attitudes Project, the world tends to like globalization. Part Two of a two-part series. (Fall 2003)

• “When the President Calls.” Presidential appointees have been called “innocent until nominated.” Does public service have to be such an ordeal? Summer 2002.

• “Neither Scoundrels Nor Saints” Public agencies--unsung yet invaluable, or indifferent and wasteful? Pew-backed report cards on government performance look under the surface and raise hackles. Spring/Summer 2001.

• Grades That Get Attention Public policy in higher education has been sleeping. But there’s nothing like the first report card that grades states on their colleges to shake the slumber. Winter 2001.

• Making the Statehouse Click It's an age of devolution. States are gaining powers. Who's spreading the news of what's happening where? www.stateline.org is a favorite place to check.
  

The Federation of American Hospitals and The Council on Health Care Economics

Connell has covered national debates over health policy for the past quarter century and often serves as rapporteur for important health policy conferences. He produced two insightful reports on the future of hospital care based on 2003 and 2005 symposia convened by The Federation of American Hospitals and The Council on Health Care Economics and Policy:

• “How Will We Pay the Bill?” (2005)

• “The American Hospital: What Does the Future Hold?” (2003)

The Annenberg Foundation

Creating Opportunities: Fifteen Years of Advancing the Public Good (July 2005)

This 140-page report looks back at the life of publisher and philanthropist Walter H. Annenberg and the work of the Foundation he created in 1989 to advance the public good through improved communications in education, the arts, civic life and the health arena.

Lessons and Reflections on Public School Reform (June 2003)

This report looked back at what was learned in the Annenberg Foundation’s bold, $500 million Challenge to upgrade public schools in inner cities and rural communities across the United States.

The Government Executive

The Government Executive magazine ran this profile, “Down to a Science,” of Anthony Fauci, M.D., director of the National Institute on Allergies and Infectious Diseases and leader of the government’s fight against AIDS, in its July 2001 issue.

A more personal profile of Dr. Fauci’s education and roots in Brooklyn, New York, ran in the Regis Alumni News (Winter 2002)

The Wallace Foundation

Christopher Connell has written several profiles on arts organizations for the Wallace Foundation. Here is a sampling:

• Going Towards the Light: Lily Yeh's Village of Arts and Humanities in Philadelphia

• LILY YEH In Her Own Words


• The Education of Heidi Warren
• Big Man's Story

AS220: The Art Community in Providence Where All Are Welcome. AS220 is an "open unjuried forum for the arts" that provides united opportunities to musicians and performers of all stripes. In this egalitarian, almost utopian arts space, gallery space, darkrooms, stages, studios, and other resources are readily available to anyone who wants to perform or exhibit art. AS220 also works with troubled teens and has played a large role in Providence’s downtown arts revival.

• Reviving a City Through the Arts
• AS220's Work with Troubled Teens
• Umberto Crenca

• A Legacy of Reaching Out
• Branching Out - Art in the Parks
• A Place for All People
• An Education Director's Education

The CC Editorial Grab Bag of writing …

Every writer keeps a small collection of his / her favorite pieces.

This could contain a photo essay on some *NEW* architecture that was published in the Princeton Alumni Weekly (PAW), or an article about a recent post-Christmas trip to Ireland, or even an scholarly piece discussing Parochial Schools and Public Aid. Or perhaps it was the tribute done in memory of an Uncle Jimmy McSweeney, who departed this earth at the ‘young’ age of 95.

Below find just such a collection:

• An essay on Catholic schools and public funds;

• The Guggenheim and the Getty;

• A winter trip to Ireland; and

• A tribute to my Uncle Jimmy McSweeney.