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Newsticker June 2009:

 

  • Universities UK, the Department for Innovation, Universites & Skills, and the British Universities Iraq Consortium will release an ICG-authored report on UK Higher Engagement with Iraq (capsule to be provided 26 June). 


  • Ian Moore joined ICG's Academic Advisory Board.  Ian serves as the Deputy Director of Development and Alumni Relations at Coventry University.  Previous appointments include Acting and Deputy Director of Alumni Relations at the Open University, as well as positions in the publishing industry.  Ian has been a key contributor to the Council of Advancement and Support of Eduation (CASE), for which he served for two years as alumni track chair.  In addition, he continues to oversee the alumni benchmarking project.  He was educated at Coventry, Open, and Sussex Universities.

  • Sheila Pakir joined ICG in June as Head of Research after graduating from Brown University with a B.A.  She holds a number of high academic honors, including having graduated with summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Brown.   In addition, she was a member of the Singapore World School Debating Championships team.

 

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Newsticker May 2009:

 


  • The Third Annual ICG Thought Leader Session took place at the NAFSA Annual Conference on 27 May. This year's TLS was dedicated to Looking Beyond the Global Economic Crisis - International Education 10 Years Out (proceedings).  Presenters included Andy Shaindlin from Caltech, Dr. Wedigo de Vivanco from the FU Berlin, David Wheeler from the Chronicle of Higher Education, and Dr. Daniel J. Guhr from ICG.  Britta Baron from the University of Alberta chaired the discussion.

  • Simon Lange joined ICG as a summer intern in May.  Simon holds a B.A. from Bielefeld University and is currently pursuing a MPP at the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin.  He was also educated at Indiana State University and will spend one term at the National University of Singapore in the fall of 2009.  Together with Hannes Kloepper, last year's ICG summer intern, he forms the core of a team which created www.bildungsrepublik.de, an award-winning knowledge sharing platform.

 

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Newsticker April 2009:

 

  • Dr. Maurits van Rooijen joined ICG's Academic Advisory Board.  Maurits will soon retire from his position of Vice-President International at the University of Westminster.  Previous appointments include PVC at Victoria University (Australia) and Vice-President at Leiden.  He currently serves as President of the Compostela Group of Universities as well as the World Association for Co-operative Education.  Maurits is a frequent and global contributor to international higher education both as a practitioner and author.

 

  • Invitations to the Third Annual ICG Thought Leader Session at NAFSA on 27 May have been issued. This year, the TLS is dedicated to Looking Beyond the Global Economic Crisis - International Education 10 Years Out.  It uses the current global economic crisis as a jumping off point.  But rather than focusing on today's tactical issues, the session looks at long term trends and explores strategic change scenarios. Themes touched upon include economic and policy trends, the role of alumni, the impact of technology, institutional strategy setting, and global competition dynamics.  Presenters include Andy Shaindlin from Caltech, Dr. Wedigo de Vivanco from the FU Berlin, and David Wheeler from the Chronicle of Higher Education.  Britta Baron from the University of Alberta will chair the discussion.

 

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Newsticker March 2009:

 

 

 

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Newsticker February 2009:

 

  • ICG contributed to three sessions at the AIEA Annual Conference in Atlanta from 22 to 25 February:

 

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Newsticker January 2009:

 

  • The Council for the Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) published an article on Brave Net World in the January 2009 edition of CURRENTS.  The underlying research was based on a global survey of online communities and higher education to which three ICG members substantially contributed: Mr. Louis E. Alexander (MIT & ICG Advisory Board member), Dr. Daniel J. Guhr (ICG Managing Director), and Mr. Andrew Shaindlin (Caltech and ICG Advisory Board member).

  • On 14 January, ICG rolled out its 2009 International Strategy Seminars schedule.  In 2009, ICG offers 12 dedicated seminar topcis across four major thematic areas (strategy & planning, competition, student recruiting, and regional focus seminars).

 

  • At the end of January, ICG will run the first set of seminars on Understanding Risk and Managing for Opportunities in the Global Economic Crisis in Singapore, Melbourne, Brisbane, and London.  This seminar centers on a detailed briefing on the origins and complexity of the global fiscal and economic crisis, coupled with an analysis of the impact of this crisis on student mobilty funding, mobility patterns, and institutional risk management.

 

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Newsticker December 2008:

 

  • Please note that the ICG office in the San Francisco Bay Area  will close between 23 December 2008 and 5 January 2009.

 

  • ICG contributed a session and two Roundtables at the Going Global 3 conference in London from 4 to 5 December:

 

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Newsticker November 2008:

 

  • ICG contributed to two sessions and a Roundtable at the CEC Annual Conference in Montreal from 22 to 25 November:
  • ICG chaired a Roundtable on International Positioning Initiatives on behalf of the CEC.

 

  • ICG contributed to two sessions at the CBIE Annual Conference in St. John's from 1 to 5 November:

 

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Newsticker October 2008:

 

 

 

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Newsticker September 2008:

 

  • ICG contributed to two sessions at the EAIE Annual Conference in Antwerp from 10 to 13 September:
  • ICG chaired a half-day workshop on Building an International Alumni Network with presenters Lou Alexander (MIT), Ian Moore (Coventry and CASE Europe Alumni Track Chair), and George Hackstette (Goettingen).

 

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Newsticker August 2008:

 

  • ICG contributed to three sessions at the CASE Europe Annual Conference in Brighton from 25 to 29 August:


  • ICG contributed to three events at the Education New Zealand Annual Conference in Auckland between 6 to 8 August:
  • Second, ICG co-chaired an all-NZ session with the Ministry of Education on International Alumni Networks.
  • Third, ICG presented in the High Growth Markets session together with Fiona Morris (JWT), Tim Rogers (IEC), and Scott Wade (LTM).

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Newsticker July 2008:

 

  • ICG's new Academic Advisory Board Member, Andy Shaindlin, hosted the alumnifutures think tank meeting in New York City on 16 July following the CASE Leadership Summit.  Dr. Daniel J. Guhr participated and spoke on The challenge to institutional alumni relations - Why moving to a network-centric, fluid approach is imperative to stay relevant.

  • ICG contributed to three events at the CASE Leadership Summit in New York from 13 to 15 July:
  • Third, ICG held a Roundtable on the Future of Alumni Relations with representatives from higher education institutions and solution vendors.

  • Max Senges, who recently obtained a Ph.D. from the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) in Barcelona and now works as a US-based knowledge entrepreneur.
  • Andy Shaindlin, the Executive Director of the Caltech Alumni Association and author of the widely read blog www.alumnifutures.com.
  • Lou Alexander, the Director of Alumni Education at the Massachusetts Intitute of Technology (MIT), and a frequent contributor to CASE and other international education conferences.

 

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