Invitation, Online Seminar “Study Abroad and Career Planning in Uncertain Times”

Dear colleagues,

In partnership with our fellow German university liaison offices in North America, the Hasso Plattner Institute, and the DAAD, the (insert your office) is pleased to invite you to an online seminar on “Study Abroad and Career Planning in Uncertain Times” on Thursday, July 9 at 10:00 AM EDT / 16:00 PM CET.

The online seminar is part of the liaison offices’ planned series on marketing international education to the US audience in the COVID-19 era. This is intended as a closed workshop for professionals from German universities to gain a better sense of the American context for study abroad during this time. In this first session, we’ll hear from experts on new trends and formats for international education, and why these experiences still matter professionally for students. This will include a moderated discussion with the following speakers:

• Dr. William “Bill” Durden is President of the International University Alliance; Courtesy Professor (research) at the School of Education, Johns Hopkins University; and President Emeritus of Dickinson College.
• Kelly Richmond Yates is the Assistant Director of the Halle Institute for Global Research at Emory University.
• La Neice Collins is the Global Communications Manager at the United Nations in New York

Please register in advance by clicking here.

The event will be hosted on the Adobe Connect platform, which can be downloaded in advance at https://www.adobe.com/products/adobeconnect/apps.html. We suggest joining 5-10 minutes early, in case of any technical difficulties. Please note that we are going to send you the event link 24 hours before the event.

We encourage you to send in any questions you’d like answered during the webinar to Peter Rosenbaum (peter.rosenbaum@uaruhr.de). You can ask additional questions during the moderated Q&A. We hope that you will be joining us!

Best,

Priya S. Nayar