Contributors
David Braskam is research analyst, Center for Urban School Policy, Northwestern University. He currently is an evaluator of the Design for High Schools Initiative in the Chicago Public Schools.
Larry A. Braskamp is Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs at Loyola University in Chicago. He served as the first executive director of the Commission for Higher Education Accreditation in 1996-97. He is co-author of Assessing Faculty Work, and his area of academic interest is academic program evaluation.
John Engle is the co-founder of the American University Center of Provence and maître de conférences at the Université de Toulon et du Var. He has written extensively on international education and modern literature.
Lilli Engle is the co-founder and Director of the American Center of Provence and President of International Cultural Services. She serves as a member of the Board of Directors of Experiment in International Living (France).
Joan Gillespie is Senior Program Manager at the Institute for the International Education of Students (IES) in Chicago. Her research interests include applied learning in a study abroad context, program evaluation methods, and student assessment methods.
Margo Coffin Groff is Assistant Director of Program Support Services in the Office of International Programs at Penn State University. For the last thirteen years, she has specialized in student welfare issues and minority outreach.
Brenda G. Hameister serves as Special Assistant to the Executive Vice President and Provost at Penn State University. She directed Penn State's Office for Disability Services for fifteen years, with special interest in study abroad, speech and hearing issues, and career development.
Nathaniel S. Hosley is Chair of the Department of Academic Development and Counseling and the Director of the Student Support Services Program at Lock Haven University of Pennsylvania. He has worked extensively with students with disabilities, including a number of students who have studied abroad.
Colin Ireland is the Resident Director for the Beaver College Center for Education Abroad in Dublin. He also lectures part-time in the Department of Old and Middle English at the University College Dublin. His research interests are in comparing Early Irish and Anglo-Saxon literatures and learned cultures. His forthcoming book (1999), Old Irish Wisdom Attributed to Aldfrith of Northumbria is an edition and translation of an Old Irish text attributed to an Anglo-Saxon king.
Peter R. Matthews is Research Professor and Coordinator of Professional Development and Outreach in the School of Education at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. His interest in study abroad and work with college students with disabilities has spanned most of his professional career.
Skye Stephenson is the Resident Director of the Council Study Center in Santiago, Chile. Her research interests include cross-cultural student adjustment and Latin American cultural issues, and she is currently working on a book about Spanish-speaking South American culture. She has taught Latin American politics and international relations at several colleges and universities in the United States.
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