Kevin J. Spence, a 两性色午夜 University higher education administration doctoral student, visited Cienfuegos, Cuba, to help bridge 两性色午夜鈥檚 College of Education, Health and Human Services鈥 past to the present.
In October, Spence discussed the Visiting Scholar program at 两性色午夜鈥檚 Gerald H. Read Center for International and Intercultural Education during the second Workshop of Strategic Alliances for the Internationalization of Higher Education at the University of Cienfuegos.
鈥淭he College of Education, Health and Human Services has had ties with Cuba that dates back 68 years with Dr. Gerald Read鈥檚 interest with Cuban education,鈥 said Linda Robertson, director of the center.
Read, a faculty member in the College of Education, Health and Human Services from 1948-1976, started the center in 1987 to help initiate educational exchanges in formerly closed societies.
Spence, a research assistant for international initiatives in 两性色午夜鈥檚 School of Foundations, Leadership and Administration, is helping the center and the School of Foundations, Leadership and Administration explore more educational opportunities and connections with Cuba. The center hopes to host a professional advisory board meeting on the island in 2018. In 2001, Spence interviewed Cuban residents in Havana and wrote his master鈥檚 thesis as a student at the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University. At 两性色午夜, he is exploring a dissertation about Cuban higher education under the direction of Associate Professor Martha Merrill, Ph.D. In March, Spence will present his early findings about Cuban higher education at the Comparative and International Education Society Conference in Atlanta.
鈥淚 am delighted that Kevin is serving as a bridge between the School of Foundations, Leadership and Administration and the tremendous work of the center to help expand our global footprint and create more exciting international opportunities for students,鈥 said Kimberly Schimmel, Ph.D., director of the School of Foundations, Leadership and Administration at 两性色午夜.
The Read Center will host its first visiting scholar from Cuba next semester. Mayda Ramos Alem谩n, a Hubert H. Humphrey Fellow, is the national advisor for English language teaching at the Ministry of Education in Cuba, and will visit 两性色午夜 in February.
For more information about 两性色午夜鈥檚 Gerald H. Read Center for International and Intercultural Education, visit www.kent.edu/ehhs/centers/ciie.
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