2016 APLU Commission on International Initiatives (CII)

Executive Committee Candidates

Michael Adewumi, Pennsylvania State University

Deandra Beck, Michigan State University

Susan Bender, University of Idaho

Alain Boutet, Dalhousie University

Anne D’Angelo, University of Minnesota

Imara Dawson, Ball State University

David DiMaria, Montana State University

Nosa Egiebor, University of Mississippi

Sundaram Gunasekaran, University of Wisconsin

James Holloway, University of Michigan

Rick Lee, Rutgers University

Reitumetse Obakeng Mabokela, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Dirk Maier, Iowa State University

Sukant Misra, Texas Tech University

Carlos Ivan Moreno, Universidad de Guadalajara

David Schmidt, Middle Tennessee State University

Alan Sweedler, San Diego State University

Joanna Regulska, University of California Davis

Kristine Wilcox, Arizona State University

Virginie Zoumenou, University of Maryland Eastern Shore

Please vote for five (5) of the candidates above at this link by 5:00 PM Eastern September 26, 2016.

Michael Adewumi, Pennsylvania State University Michael A. Adewumi is the Vice Provost for Global Programs at Penn State and Professor of Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering. In his role as Vice Provost, Adewumi provides leadership and oversight for the University’s global engagements, including programming and support of a rapidly-growing international student and scholar population, oversight of Penn State’s expansive study-abroad portfolio, and the development of strategic partnerships with institutions and entities around the world.

Prior to assuming this position in October 2007, Professor Adewumi was the Executive Director of the Alliance for Earth Sciences, Engineering and Development in Africa (AESEDA). AESEDA is a major multidisciplinary network that includes Penn State University, a number of African Universities, and select Historically-Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) in the U.S. as well as organizations in both the public and private

sectors. AESEDA’s mission is to develop a framework aimed at integrating research, education, and service in order to provide sustainable livelihoods in Africa.

Adewumi is Professor and Quentin E. & Louise L. Wood University Endowed Fellow in Petroleum & Natural Gas Engineering at Penn State. He holds a B.S. in Petroleum Engineering from the University of Ibadan in Nigeria and earned both his Masters and PhD degrees in Gas Engineering from Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago. Adewumi is an internationally-known expert in natural gas engineering, phase behavior, and multiphase fluid dynamics.

Prior to joining Penn State in 1985, Dr. Adewumi was a research fellow at the world-renowned Institute of Gas Technology (IGT) in Chicago. He also had prior experience working in the oil industry.

Adewumi is an internationally known expert in the areas of natural gas engineering, phase behavior and multiphase fluid dynamics. He has authored and/or co-authored more than 100 technical articles. His research projects have been funded by the National Science Foundation, the Department of Energy, and the Engineering Foundation as well as multinational oil and gas companies and independent agencies. He has consulted for major multinational oil companies, gas companies, UNDP, Gas Research Institute in Chicago, etc.

Under his supervision, more than 40 PhD and MS candidates completed their degrees at Penn State. He has also supervised 10 post-doctoral research associates and research associates. In addition, he has taught short courses for multinational oil companies around the world.

Adewumi has held a number of administrative and governance positions at Penn State, including Chair of the Petroleum & Natural Gas Engineering graduate program and the online Master of Engineering Program in Oil & Gas Engineering Management. In addition, he has served on numerous university committees and councils as both member and chair. In 2007, he served as the inaugural UNESCO Chair in Georesources Management at the University of Ibadan and, since 2008, Adewumi has been a Fellow of the Nigerian Academy of Engineering.

DeAndra Beck, Michigan State University DeAndra Beck is the Associate Dean for Research, Michigan State University, International Studies and Programs, where she has responsibility for facilitating international research opportunities for MSU faculty and students. She currently co-chairs MSU’s Council of Research Deans. Dr. Beck serves on the CRDF Global Advisory Council and is a member of a National Academy of Sciences committee convened to consider the future of science, technology, and innovation at the U.S. Agency for International Development.

Formerly a Program Director in the National Science Foundation’s Office of International Science and Engineering, she managed NSF’s Developing Country initiatives and the Middle East and Africa portfolios. While at NSF, she worked with the U.S. Agency for International Development to bridge the interests of science and development, initiating the design and implementation of the Partnerships for Enhanced Engagement in Research (PEER) initiative to support developing country scientists who are collaborating with NSF-funded scientists.

She served as an Expert Group member for the OECD Global Science Forum’s initiative to advance research collaboration between developed and developing countries. Also at NSF, Dr. Beck co-managed Science Across Virtual Institutes (SAVI), a mechanism to foster global research networks, and served on NSF’s INSPIRE working group in support of transformative, multidisciplinary research. In cooperation with CRDF Global, she was instrumental in launching Newton’s List as a platform to publicize funding opportunities for international research collaboration, and she initiated an International Funding Agency Seminar to facilitate dialog among global science funding agencies.

Prior to NSF, Dr. Beck served was the acting Managing Director for Environment and Social Assessment at the U.S. Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC). At MCC, she participated in the negotiation of multi-million dollar Compacts with Ghana, Armenia, and Mongolia and managed a team of professional staff responsible for environment and social assessment issues, including gender, across the full spectrum of MCC eligible countries. Previously, Dr. Beck served as Assistant Director for Policy, U.S. Forest Service International Programs, where she represented the interests of the U.S. forestry community in international negotiations, including the UN Forum on Forests, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization, the International Tropical Timber Organization, and the Montreal Process. These positions flanked her foray into the private sector as chief executive officer of a biotechnology start-up company. Dr. Beck held positions as an international research administrator at the USDA Foreign Agricultural Service and as an AAAS Fellow at the U.S. Agency for International Development. She earned a B.S. and Ph.D. in biochemistry from Texas A&M University.

Susan Bender, University of Idaho Susan Bender, Ph.D. is the Executive Director of International Engagement and Programs at the University of Idaho. Bender is active in AIEA, NAFSA, and APLU/CII. She has worked in international education for three decades to develop campus infrastructure for internationalization. She currently serves on AIEA’s Board and is Chair of AIEA’s Strategic Issues Committee. Bender recently co-authored an Issue Brief titled, “Moving to the Center: Five Strategies for Strengthening Institutional Commitment to Global Initiatives.”

Bender received an International Education Administrators (IEA) Fulbright to South Korea in 2005, was selected for a DAAD Administrators Educational Program in Germany and Belgium in 2010, and spent her sabbatical in Brisbane, Australia, researching international student mobility in 2002.

Bender received a Ph.D. in Political Science in Public Policy and Environmental Policy from the University of Nevada, Reno (2003), a Master’s of Education in College Student Personnel Administration from Colorado State University (1986), and a Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration, also from Colorado State University (1984). Previously, she directed the Office of International Students and Scholars at the University of Nevada, Reno (1995-2012), ran the Holland International Living Center at Cornell University (1988-1991), worked at the University of Portland in Oregon (1986-1988), and worked and studied at Colorado State University (1980-1986). She is particularly well known for presentations and workshops focused on experiential and intercultural learning.

Alain Boutet, Dalhousie University From July 2009 to March 2011 Alain Boutet was Director of the International Activities Office and Adjunct Professor of International Development Studies at Saint Mary’s University. From January 2007 to June 2009, Alain Boutet was Director of the Office of International Relations at the University of Montréal, as well as Associate Researcher at the Latin American Studies Network of the Centre for International Studies and Research (CÉRIUM). From September 2003 to December 2006, Alain Boutet was Director of the Office of International Cooperation and Development (OICD) at the University of Regina and Adjunct Professor (Graduate Studies and Research) at the Department of Sociology and Social Studies.

Alain Boutet is a graduate in anthropology (B.A., M.A.) from University Laval, Québec, and in communication and development (Ph.D.) from University of Quebec in Montreal

(UQAM) where he was Head of cooperation with the Americas from 1992 to 2003. His teaching and research activities bear reference to the role of participatory communication strategies in social transformation, and local governance regarding environmental issues.

Two of the international partnership projects in which he has been closely involved were rewarded in 1999, 2000 and 2002 by the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada (AUCC, now Universities Canada), the Scotia Bank and the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), for their contribution to campus internationalization and to international development.

Over the recent years as Director of International Relations in Canadian Universities, Alain Boutet has been responsible for the integration of an international perspective into the University threefold mission of teaching, research and service, through the establishment of international partnership agreements for student and faculty members mobility, international student recruitment, the internationalization of curriculum and research projects. Alain Boutet has also been responsible for planning with faculty members and their partners in developing countries, institutional capacity-building projects funded by the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), Universities Canada, the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) and other international funding agencies. He is currently working, in collaboration with the College of the Americas of the Inter-American Organization for Higher Education (OUI-IOHE), on the professionalization of university administrators in the area of internationalization of higher education. He is the Academic Coordinator of the Inter-American Network on Internationalization of Higher Education of the College of the Americas, and mentor for the Canadian Bureau for International Education (CBIE) Mentorship Program.

Fluent in French, English and Spanish, Alain Boutet is a member of the Board of Directors of the Canadian Consortium CALDO regrouping nine of the U15 Group of Canadian Research Universities. He is also member of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA), the Superior Council of the College of the Americas (Inter-American Organization for Higher Education), the Canadian Association for Latin American and Caribbean Studies and the Canadian Association for the Study of International Development. Over the recent years, he has been Member of the Selection Committee of the Rhodes Scholarships Program, the Canada-Latin America and the Caribbean Research Exchange Grants (LACREG), Board Member of the Saskatchewan Council for International Cooperation, President of the ACFAS-Saskatchewan Board of Directors, and Western Canadian universities representative on the University Partnerships in Cooperation and Development (UPCD) Program Consultative Committee.

Anne D’Angelo, University of Minnesota Dr. Anne M. D’Angelo is Assistant Dean of Global Initiatives at the Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota (U of M). Over the last decade, she has led and expanded the Carlson School of Management’s global initiatives at the Carlson Global Institute (CGI) including establishing its first formal internationalization strategy, mission, and vision grounded in stakeholder engagement and research findings. Her portfolio includes oversight of the Carlson School’s overseas partnerships, education abroad programs, and offshore executive MBA programs. Dr. D’Angelo is responsible for building a 16-person professional team and was instrumental in the development of a successful $1.5 million grant proposal to establish the first U of M’s Center for International Business, Education and Research (CIBER), a Title VI U.S. government-funded center. Moreover, Dr. D’Angelo is playing a lead role in effectively achieving the first overseas curricular requirements yielding over 850 undergraduate and graduate Carlson School students studying abroad annually.

Dr. D’Angelo co-authored an article on these collaborations for a special issue on curriculum innovation and practice of the Journal of International Education in Business entitled “International Experience Required: Lessons from the Carlson School.” In 2011, the global work at the Carlson School was featured as a case study for its accrediting body, AACSB International, and its publication, Globalization of Management Education: Changing International Structures, Adaptive Strategies, and the Impact of Institutions. Currently, Dr. D’Angelo is collaborating with faculty and staff to develop a comprehensive research agenda exploring the impact of teaching and learning abroad on a range of personal and professional factors. She has been instrumental in conducting research utilizing key assessments, such as the Intercultural Development Inventory (IDI) and the Global Mindset Inventory (GMI), to foster intercultural awareness and learning.

Dr. D’Angelo earned her M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota in Organizational Leadership, Policy, and Development with a specialization in Comparative and International Development Education. She is an adjunct instructor in the University of Minnesota’s College of Education and Human Development. She supports the development of professionals and organizations in the areas of strategic thinking, organizational development, intercultural/cross-cultural skills-building, and global mindset/cultural intelligence.

Prior to her work at the University of Minnesota, Dr. D’Angelo’s worked overseas as Assistant Public Affairs Officer at the U.S. Embassy in Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia (1997-2000) and as an English instructor and entrepreneur in Tokyo, Japan (1989-1992). Moreover, she was a trainer and evaluation consultant for education and agricultural development programs around the world, particularly in the former Soviet Republics, Central and Eastern Europe and Northern Africa.

Dr. D’Angelo has served on the steering committee of the MSP (Minneapolis/St. Paul) Export Initiative, a national initiative funded by the Brookings Institution to develop Metropolitan Export Plans (MEPs). She received a U.S. Department of State Meritorious Honor Award and a U.S. Fulbright-Nehru Award to India. Most recently, she became the University of Minnesota’s 2016 Recipient of the Distinguished Award for Global Engagement for her outstanding contributions to excellence in global education and cultural understanding.

Imara Dawson, Ball State University Mr. Imara V. Dawson is the Executive Director of the Rinker Center for International Programs at Ball State University. In this capacity Mr. Dawson provides administrative leadership for and oversight of four (4) administrative units within the Rinker Center for International Programs (RCIP): Office of International Admissions and Recruitment, Office of International Student Services, Office of Study Abroad and Office of International Academic Engagement and Global Initiatives. In addition, he provides the strategic vision and advice in working with faculty and administrators to internationalize the curriculum. His other responsibilities include supervision of staff, oversight of departmental budgets and visiting sites abroad to establish links and maintain good working relationships with partner institutions.

Prior to working at Ball State University (BSU), Mr. Dawson served as Associate Director of the Office of International Programs at Chicago State University

(CSU) [2005-2011]. In that capacity he managed programs to promote internationalization and global visibility for the University, including planning, implementing and coordinating programs and activities and by administering policies and procedures within the Office. He also served as the Assistant Program Director for the USAID-TLMP/Ghana [2005-2011]. An $18.5 million Africa Education Initiative (AEI) funded, USAID implemented Textbooks and Learning Materials Program (TLMP) that specifically focused on the challenges relating to lack of textbooks and other learning materials in Ghana. In addition, at CSU from 2001-2005, Mr. Dawson served as the Assistant Program Director of a $3.5 million USAID funded South African capacity building grant called the South Africa Area Initiative (USAID-SAAI)

Mr. Dawson has also worked for Agricultural Business Systems (ABS), now the Africa Breeders Service-Total Cattle Management (ABS-TCM) in Nairobi Kenya on a USAID funded agri-business grant whose purpose was to assist in the privatization of the Kenyan Dairy Industry and was Managing Director for Global Providers LLC a private company that dealt with the import and export of agricultural goods to Africa. Also, while in Kenya Mr. Dawson worked on development programs that developed the first Kenyan Digital Private Data Network and with ICT companies like the World Space Foundation and the Kenyan Education Network. Mr. Dawson is also the former President of Global Providers Incorporated as registered Illinois non-profit company that promoted social economic investment in Africa and provided management consulting and grants writing services. He also serves as a trustee on the Board for African BreederService –TCM in Nairobi Kenya.

Mr. Dawson holds a Doctorate of Jurisprudence Degree with an emphasis in International Business / Trade, International Law and International Intellectual Property (1998) and a Master’s Degree in Public Administration with an emphasis public and private partnerships within the context of International Development (2000) both from Indiana University-Bloomington. He also received his Bachelor of Arts Degree (cum laude) in History [High Honors] from Hampton University (1995), with as emphasis on preand post-colonial African history. Mr. Dawson research areas include examining the relationship between the public sector, private sector and non-governmental organizations as a model for international development in developing nations.

Mr. Dawson is a child of a former Peace Corps Director (Fiji, Tanzania and Swaziland), and as such Mr. Dawson has lived all over the world. Lastly, Mr. Dawson is a 2015-16 AIEA Presidential Fellow and a past participant in the inaugural AIEA SIO Academy held on the campus of Duke University in 2015.

David Di Maria, Montana State University Dr. David L. Di Maria serves as Associate Provost for International Programs

at Montana State University. He previously directed international programs

and services across the eight-campus system of Kent State University. Dr. Di

Maria is an active presenter at national and international conferences, and

he is the author of several publications related to international enrollment

management. He currently serves as the 2016 Chair of NAFSA’s International

Enrollment Management Knowledge Community, President-elect of the

American International Recruitment Council, Editor of a forthcoming book

on international admissions, which will be published by NAFSA in 2017, and

he was a 2015-2016 Neal Presidential Fellow with the Association of

International Education Administrators. Additionally, he is an active member

of the CII’s Call to Leadership Working Group. Dr. Di Maria received his doctorate from the University of

Minnesota, where his coursework focused on international and intercultural education. His research on campus

services for international students has appeared in The New York Times, The Chronicle of Higher Education and

several media outlets abroad.

Nosa Egiebor, University of Mississippi Nosa O. Egiebor presently serves as Senior International Officer (SIO) and Executive Director of Global Engagement at The University of Mississippi. He is also a Professor of Chemical Engineering. Prior to his current position, he served as Vice President for International Education and Research, and as a U.S. Department of Energy – Samuel P. Massie Chair of Excellence in Environmental Science and Engineering at Tuskegee University. Before joining Tuskegee University in 1996, Nosa served for 11 years in the Chemical & Materials Engineering faculty at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada, where he received tenure and was subsequently promoted to full professorship in 1993. He received a PhD degree in Chemical-Metallurgical Engineering from Queen’s University in Ontario, Canada in 1985; a master’s degree from University of Manchester in the United Kingdom; and a bachelor’s degree from the University of Benin in Nigeria. Nosa’s research specialty is in reaction engineering applications to environmental, energy, and mineral systems, with emphasis in water and wastewater treatment, bioremediation, degradation of

structural materials, fuel processing, and hydrometallurgical extraction system development. For his research work, he has received funding from most major United States and Canadian public science and engineering research funding agencies, in addition to funding from private industry. Nosa has published over 120 scholarly articles in refereed journals, books, proceedings and reports. He is a registered professional engineer, and an active member of several professional organizations, including the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) and the Association of International Education Administrators (AIEA). Nosa has been involved in international education for more than 20 years, and has served as principal investigator and co-investigator in several major USAID, UNESCO, and World Bank projects involving capacity building in STEM education and development. He has served in leadership committees for the planning, development, and implementation of a few new science and technology education and research universities in sub-Saharan Africa, including the African University of Science and Technology (AUST) in Abuja, Nigeria, and the Nelson Mandela-African Institute of Science and Technology (NM-AIST) in Arusha, Tanzania. He has also served for 6 years in the Scientific Council of the International Institute for Water and Environmental Engineering (2iE) in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. Nationally, Nosa is an active member of APLU’s Commission on International Initiative (CII), and currently serves as a member of the Planning Committee of CII. He is also a member of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Scientific Advisory Board (SAB). One of Nosa’s passions is the transformation of North America’s highly successful liberal arts education into a tool for preparing graduates for a truly international education and leadership in a globalized world.

Sundaram Gunasekaran, University of Wisconsin Dr. Gunasekaran is Director of International Programs in the College of

Agricultural and Life Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and

Professor in the Department of Biological Systems Engineering. He received his

BS degree in agricultural engineering from Tamil Nadu Agricultural University

in India; MS degree in food process engineering from the Asian Institute of

Technology in Bangkok, Thailand; and PhD from University of Illinois at

Urbana-Champaign. His research interests are in enhancing food quality and

safety. He has been widely published in this area with over 200 peer-reviewed

publications and over 10 patented or patent-pending inventions.

Dr. Gunasekaran has continued to be engaged in international work

throughout his career and has been a visiting professor in China, Denmark, and

Uzbekistan. He has hosted many international scholars through programs such

as the Borlaug Scholars Program, the Khorana and Bose programs for Indian

scholars and many more. Guna has received various honors and awards

including Fulbright Fellowship and U.S. President’s Volunteer Service Award.

Dr. Gunasekaran’s commitment to helping to strengthen and expand the international agenda of CALS is clearly

demonstrated through his recent appointment as the faculty director of the CALS office of International

Programs. Guna is very committed to the ideas and concepts contained within the Wisconsin Idea, which is the

foundations of UW-Madison’s commitment to taking its work out into communities both here in Wisconsin, the

U.S. and the world. The boundaries of the university are now the boundaries of the world—and no college

embodies this more than CALS.

In a recent survey, it was found that CALS faculty members conduct research in some 80 countries around the

globe. Their work includes everything from increasing vitamin A content in local produce and breeding hardy

crop varieties for challenging climates to economic development and opening new markets for Wisconsin

products. Their activities have resulted in a multitude of discoveries that benefit CALS, Wisconsin and

communities around the world. However, Dr. Gunasekaran believes that we should be doing even better and

that CALS needs to re-invest and re-invigorate its international research, outreach and education missions in

order to reach the threshold level of coordination and expertise required to more fully engage in large

international research and training grants that engage the depth of expertise found in our faculty, staff and

students. As Dr. Gunasekaran says, “My vision for CALS International Programs is for it to become among the

leaders in the nation’s land-grant colleges for international engagement—and for it to effect positive change in

global agricultural and life sciences enterprises through research, education and outreach, CALS is among the

very best land-grant colleges in the nation. Thus it is very appropriate that we envision an international program

of a similar stature.” This vision is also very strongly related to a need to work collaboratively on a national

agenda that helps facilitate his vision, which makes him an ideal candidate for a position on the CII Executive

Committee.

James Holloway, University of Michigan Professor Holloway earned Bachelors and Masters degrees in Nuclear

Engineering from the University of Illinois, a CAS in Mathematics from

Cambridge University, and doctorate in Engineering Physics at the University

of Virginia. He joined the faculty at Virginia as a Research Assistant Professor

of Engineering Physics and Applied Mathematics. Professor Holloway then

moved to the faculty of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, as an

assistant professor for Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences in

January 1990. Subsequently promoted to Associate and then Full professor,

he was also named an Arthur F. Thurnau Professor in recognition of outstanding contributions to undergraduate

education.

In 2007 Professor Holloway became Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education for the College of Engineering.

In this role he was responsible for the oversight of the International Programs in Engineering Office, and working

with the director and her excellent team they grew annual participation by engineering undergraduates in

education abroad by over 2.5 times, resulting in over 20% of engineering undergraduates having an

international experience by the time of graduation. Professor Holloway also became responsible for overseeing

the University of Michigan’s Joint Institute with Shanghai Jiao Tong University. The Joint Institute became a

significant driver for joint research between the two institutions, and a site for the education of over 1000

students in China. It also became a platform for significant student mobility, with 200 joint institute students

placed in Ann Arbor each year, and over 50 Michigan students studying in China. This partnership won the 2014

Andrew Heiskell award for International Partnerships.

In 2013 Prof. Holloway became Vice Provost for Global and Engaged Education, and then Vice Provost for Global

Engagement and Interdisciplinary Academic Affairs in 2016. In these roles Professor Holloway is focused on the

ways in which the U-M engages the world through both scholarship and education. He is interested in

developing a global perspective in U-M scholarship and in its impact, and in facilitating the development of a

broad set of platforms both domestically and internationally for experiential learning and scholarship accessible

to all students at the U-M. Professor Holloway leads a small team of professionals dedicated to providing both

the intellectual expertise and the infrastructure to make this global engagement happen across a large

decentralized university.

Professor Holloway has lived, worked and taught in Thailand, England, Germany, China and Ghana. Most

recently, in summer 2015 and 2016, he taught Engineering Across Cultures to a class of US and Thai students at

Chiang Mai University. His research focuses on the mathematical and computational analysis of physical models,

with an emphasis on radiation interactions with matter, plasma physics, and on the analysis of uncertainties in

computational models. He served as principle investigator for the uncertainty quantification efforts of the

University of Michigan’s Center for Radiative Shock Hydrodynamics.

Rick Lee, Rutgers University Rick Lee is the Director of the Center for Global Programs and Relations—part

of the Centers for Global Advancement and International Affairs (GAIA

Centers)—at Rutgers University. Managing a team of five staff members, he is

responsible for program development and implementation, finding avenues to

advance new and existing international partnerships, and identifying external

program and funding opportunities for Rutgers faculty and students. Among

its many activities for promoting global engagement across all Rutgers

campuses, the Center for Global Programs and Relations manages the

Mandela Washington Fellowship program; oversees the university’s affiliation

as an NGO with the United Nations’ Department of Public Information; and

supervises the on-campus Peace Corps recruitment office.

Lee served as chair of the program planning committee for the 2016 CII

summer meeting (and, in effect, as a member of the CII executive committee),

as well as the conference coordinator for the Rutgers international research conference that followed. He has

presented at AIEA, NAFSA, and the CII summer meeting. He was a participant in IIE’s International Academic

Partnership Program in Cuba in 2015 and in Mexico in 2016.

Prior to joining the GAIA Centers in 2015, Lee has served in various administrative roles at Rutgers University: as

Director of Alumni and Public Relations in the Department of English from 2003 to 2009; as Associate Director of

the Tyler Clementi Center from 2013 to 2015; and as Coordinator of Asian American Studies Programming from

2009 to 2015. Among other honors, Lee is the recipient of the 2014 Human Dignity Award, given to Rutgers

faculty and staff who have demonstrated extraordinary achievement and commitment in promoting the value

and importance of diversity at Rutgers and in society. In 2013, he was also a recipient of the School of Arts and

Sciences Award for Distinguished Contributions to Undergraduate Education. Lee earned a B.A. and M.A. from

the University of Alberta, and an M.A. and Ph.D. from Rutgers University.

Reitumetse Obakeng Mabokela, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign I am writing to convey my interest to serve on the Commission on

International Initiatives (CII) Executive Committee. I am currently the Vice

Provost of International Affairs and Global Strategies and Professor of Higher

Education at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Prior to my

current role, I was Assistant Dean for International Studies in the College of

Education and Professor of Higher Education at Michigan State University.

I have devoted a significant part of my professional practice and research

studying internationally focused education issues centered around three

interrelated themes: the relationship between organizational structures,

organizational cultures, and their impact on policies that affect academic

experiences of marginalized groups in a global context; gender, access, and

equity issues in higher education; and higher education in transitional

societies. My research has taken a multidisciplinary approach to the study of

higher education issues mostly in developing and transitional African

countries.

The higher education landscape in the 21st century is dynamic and increasingly complex, but also provides

opportunities to explore, expand our intellectual boundaries, and engage across disciplines to seek innovative

solutions to some of our world’s most challenging problems. Grounded in the land-grant mission of teaching,

research, and engagement, international and global efforts of the APLU member institutions provide academic

environments where our students and faculty can thrive and become global leaders. While our public

institutions strive to “foster the development of globally competent students, internationally engaged faculty,

and institutions capable of addressing global challenges,” in recent years, many have been challenged to excel

when operating in increasingly inhospitable financial and political climates.

As a senior international administrator and academic who has spent a significant part of my career studying

higher education issues in developing countries, I firmly believe that people matter. I am keenly aware of, and

embrace the responsibilities that come with the privileges that being in a U.S. university afford. I strongly

believe that the pursuit of research and scholarship is important, but it is not enough to only engage with

institutions in developing countries as research sites, or as study abroad sites for our students. It is also critical

to build a cadre of emerging academics within these countries who can contribute significantly to the

development of new knowledge in their respective contexts and to engage in sustainable relationships that are

mutually beneficial. Therefore, I seek this opportunity to serve on the CII Executive Committee, to continue the

responsibility of advocating critical issues that impact APLU member institutions, domestically and

internationally.

Dirk Maier, Iowa State University Dirk E. Maier is a Professor and Post-Harvest Engineer in the Department of

Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering at Iowa State University where he is

responsible for leading an internationally recognized research and outreach

program in post-harvest engineering applied to grain and feed operations and

processing. He serves as the Associate Director of the Global Food Security

Consortium at Iowa State University which aims to promote research, outreach

and capacity building that increase the quality and quantity of food and

nutrition in the world. He is the Founding Director of the USAID-funded Feed

the Future Innovation Lab for the Reduction of Post-Harvest Loss for which he

served as the lead PI. Dr. Maier is a registered professional engineer, and a

member and officer of several academic, professional and scholarly societies.

He has traveled extensively throughout the world as a speaker and participant

in many national and international industry meetings and scientific

conferences.

Dr. Maier’s research program focuses on post-harvest engineering applied to grain and feed operations and

processing. Projects involve post-harvest loss reduction and prevention, food security, grain operations

management, feed technology, value-added processing, ecosystem modeling, stored products protection,

alternative crop storage systems, dehydration of biological products, bulk material handling and segregation,

quality assurance, and facilities planning and design.

Dr. Maier’s outreach program focuses on crop post-harvest handling, drying, storage, processing and loss

prevention, global food and nutrition security, and continuing education and credentialing of industry

professionals in the global grain and feed industry. He provides leadership to and teaches a number of distance

courses in the GEAPS Continuing Education and Credentials Program that has trained participants from 30

countries. He leads the international outreach of the Iowa Grain Quality Initiative which focuses on enhancing

the market preference, consumption and utilization of Iowa (and U.S.) corn, soybeans and their value-added

products for the global grain and feed industry. Efforts include innovative and relevant continuing education and

technical assistance programs to strengthen and enhance agricultural trade linkages, develop agricultural

systems and value chains, and improve global food security. Since joining ISU, he has obtained grants to host

USDA FAS Cochran Fellows from Costa Rica, the Caribbean, Ukraine, Indonesia and Nigeria; a Borlaug Fellow

from Rwanda; and a BHEARD-funded Ph.D. student from Rwanda. He currently hosts a visiting scholar funded by

the Royal Thai Research Fund and one IIE-Fulbright funded scholar from Ghana. He also has two active USDA FAS

funded projects in Ghana, one to improve the poultry and feed value chain and one to improve the drying of

crops.

Prior to joining Iowa State University, he was Professor and Head of the Department of Grain Science and

Industry at Kansas State University (2008-2015) where he was responsible for leading the department's

teaching, research and outreach programs. He also served as the Director of K-State's International Grains

Program Institute. Prior to that, he was Professor, Associate Head and Extension Agricultural Engineer at Purdue

University (1991-2008). He received his B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in agricultural engineering from Michigan

State University.

Sukant Misra, Texas Tech University Dr. Sukant Misra is the Associate Vice Provost for International Programs at

Texas Tech University (TTU), sharing responsibilities with the Provost of

International Affairs, for the oversight of the Office of International Affairs

(OIA). His responsibilities encompass all functions of the divisions of

International Education and Enrollment Management (international

recruitment, international undergraduate admissions, international student

life, sponsored students, and study abroad), International Student and Scholar

Services, International Research and Development (research collaborations,

grants administration, international partnerships, and export control

administration), and International Outreach and Operations (K-12 Global

Education Outreach, community outreach, and the Passport office), as well as

our academic center in Seville, Spain. He provides leadership in the

development of OIA Strategic Plan and preparation of annual Strategic Plan

Assessment Reports, and is also responsible for other administrative activities

(budgets, infrastructure and technology, communication and marketing,

alumni relations, fundraising, etc.).

Previous to that, he served as the Associate Dean for Research for the College of Agricultural Sciences and

Natural Resources (CASNR) from 2002 to 2014. He has served Texas Tech University in various faculty and

administrative capacities since his initial employment as a faculty member in the Department of Agricultural and

Applied Economics in 1993. Prior to joining Texas Tech, he was a researcher at the University of Georgia for

three years. Beyond his service to the Office of International Affairs, CASNR, and TTU, he has served on several

local, state, regional, and national organizations involved in the advancement of higher education.

He received his Bachelor and Master's degrees in Analytical and Applied Economics from Utkal University, India,

in 1979 and 1981, respectively. He obtained a second Master of Science degree in 1986 and his doctorate in

Agricultural Economics in 1989, both from Mississippi State University. Misra has published more than 100 peer-

reviewed journal articles, technical and invited papers, and book chapters and has received more than $2.2

million in external funding as a PI/Co-PI.

Misra has experience in managing and coordinating many large, faculty-driven, research programs and

international initiatives and has many contacts at international institutions, including leading universities in

Brazil, China, Costa Rica, Czech Republic, Ethiopia, India, Mexico, Romania, Tajikistan, and Turkey. Misra has

visited over 20 countries and has worked closely with faculty and administration of many international

institutions. He is currently responsible for the overall coordination of a university-wide effort to open TTU’s first

international degree-awarding campus in Costa Rica. Significant amounts of time and effort have been invested

in this initiative, and the first cohort should begin classes in five degree and two certificate programs in the

Spring of 2018.

Carlos Ivan Moreno, Universidad de Guadalajara Dr. Moreno earned his B.A. in finance at the University of Guadalajara. He also

holds a Master’s degree in Public Administration from the University of New

Mexico (USA) and a Ph.D. in Public Policy from the University of Illinois-

Chicago.

He was also a doctoral fellow at the Harris School of Public Policy in the

University of Chicago and at the Kellogg School of Management in

Northwestern University, in which he specialized in public policy analysis and

organizational behavior.

His research areas of interest are related to comparative higher education

policy, institutional change and power and politics in organizations.

Carlos Iván has also held positions as Chief of Staff at the Committee on

Education in the National Congress; Advisor to the Undersecretary of Higher

Education at the Public Education Secretariat (SEP); Vice Provost of Planning and Institutional Development at

the University of Guadalajara; and as International Consultant at IIPE-UNESCO.

Currently, he is the Vice Provost for International Affairs at the University of Guadalajara and Professor in the

Public Policy Department (CUCEA-UdeG).

David Schmidt, Middle Tennessee State University David currently serves as the founding Vice Provost of International Affairs at Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU), a public university of 26,000 students. His responsibilities as SIO consist of the oversight and coordination of all international efforts on campus, including strategic globalization of the curriculum, education abroad, international student enrollment management and numerous international centers and institutes, including the Confucius Institute, Southeast Asia Institute and Middle East Center. He directs the university’s international crisis and emergency response, ensures compliance with federal regulations pertinent to the enrollment and employment of foreign nationals and pursues opportunities for external public and private funding for international programs, grants and contracts. He also coordinates and facilitates all research and educational partnerships with international universities. He is a direct report to the President and the Cabinet regarding all issues international. Before joining MTSU he served as Executive Director of International Programs

and Services at University of the Pacific and Director of University of Wisconsin System’s Institute for Global Studies. He also served as Fellowship Coordinator for Yale University’s Center for International and Area Studies. He has a Ph.D. from Saint Louis University, an MA from Ohio State University and a BA from University of Wisconsin. Born and raised in Japan and South Korea, he has written extensively on post-WWII issues regarding women’s rights and post-secondary education in Japan and South Korea. David has over twenty-four years of broad experience as an innovative academic leader at a range of institutions, public, private, and a state system, representing the landscape of higher education. At each stage of his career he has been responsible for the campus or system-wide development and administration of international programs including strategic planning, policy development, marketing, public relations and fundraising. A recipient of the AIEA (Association of International Administrators) Presidential Fellowship Recipient he also

participated as a fellow in Harvard University’s IEM (Institute for Educational Management).

Alan Sweedler, San Diego State University I am the Senior International Officer and Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs – International, at San Diego State University. In this capacity I am the senior administrator in charge of SDSU’s international programs. I Chair both the International Programs Council and the International Working Group. The former advisors the University Senate on all policies related to international activities and the latter implements the University’s Strategic Plan for Internationalization. I am a member of the Association of International Education Administrators (AIEA) and serve on the Executive Committee for the SDSU-Georgia program, funded by the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), an arm of the U.S. State Department. I am also a tenured professor in the Department of Physics at SDSU.

I have served as SDSU’s principle administrator for international programs since 2000 reporting directly to the Provost and Senior Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs, currently Dr. Chukuka Enwemeka. The position

I hold was created by the former Provost, Dr. Nancy Marlin, who served on the Board of APLU and to whom I reported until she stepped down two years ago. I also include her as a reference for this position.

I believe I can contribute to the work of APLU and the CII Executive Committee based on my life-long involvement in international affairs and the role I have at SDSU. I lived for almost a year in the U.K. while a graduate student and after completing my PhD spent two years in Chile, from 1970 to 1972, at the University of Chile in Santiago as a Ford Foundation Fellow. I had to leave Chile because of the political upheaval in Chile at that time and returned to the U.S. to take a position as a research physicist at Brookhaven National Laboratory, where I remained until 1978 when I joined the faculty at California State University, Fullerton and two years later the faculty at San Diego State University.

In 1985 I was selected as one of two nationally chosen Congressional Science Fellows by the American Physical Society and worked in the U.S. Senate in the office of Senator Jeff Bingaman (D-NM). I worked on U.S.-Mexico issues, international security, arms control and local New Mexico issues. Two years later I was awarded a Carnegie Foundation Science Fellowship at Stanford University’s Center for International Security and Arms Control. Upon returning to San Diego, I was one of three key faculty members who founded the very successful undergraduate program in International Security and Conflict Resolution (ISCOR), that now has over 300 majors and is one of the largest such program in the country. I also worked with Dr. Herbert York as a visiting scholar at the University of California’s Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation (IGCC). More recently, I have worked in the arena of energy policy and climate change and regularly teach a short course on climate change outside the U.S. in countries such as Mexico, Chile, Sweden, China and Spain. I believe that because of my current position and commitment to international education, I can be a productive member of the Executive Committee

of the CII and assist in carrying out the mission of APLU and its international initiatives.

Joanna Regulska, University of California Davis Dr. Joanna Regulska currently serves as the vice provost and associate

chancellor at University of California, Davis, where she is also a professor of

Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies program. At UC Davis, she is leading

the office of Global Affairs which is charge with expansion and enhancement of

internationalization initiatives and programs across the campus, development

of new global and international opportunities for students, provision of

services to international students and scholars, and increasing UCD

prominence as a global university.

With over 30 years of international experience in higher education, she has

developed and led large-scale educational projects and programs that have

transformed institutions, established new degree programs and collaborative

partnerships, and substantially improved the delivery of internationally focused services to students, faculty,

and staff. Over the last several years she has been actively involved in the work of professional organizations

such as APLU, AIEA, IIE and NAFSA, by organizing sessions, workshops, training programs, presenting papers,

participating on panels and in conferences, reviewing proposals, and serving on numerous committees. She is

the member of the Executive Committee, Commission on the International Initiatives, APLU and has chaired the

APLU Internationalization Award Review Committee.

Her commitment to diversity, social justice, and the empowerment of women led her to establish graduate

degree programs in gender studies at the Central European University (Hungary) and Tbilisi State University

(Republic of Georgia). In 2011, she received a Doctor Honoris Causa from the Tbilisi State University. In 1989,

she founded the Local Democracy Partnership Program and led the team that designed and established the

most successful NGO in Poland, The Foundation in Support of Local Democracy (FSLD). She currently serves on

the board of FSLD, which with over 1.5 million participants in its programs, and multi-million-dollar budget make

it the largest NGO in the country. The President of Poland recognized her contributions by awarding her the

Cavalier Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland (1996), the Knight’s Cross of the Order of

Restitution of the Republic of Poland (2004), and the Commander’s Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta

(2014).

Dr. Regulska has successfully raised over $9 million in funds from: USAID, the US State Department, the Ford

Foundation, the German Marshall Fund, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, the Andrew Mellon Foundation, Pew

Charitable Trust, and others. In 2013, she was awarded the Fulbright U.S.-Korea International Education

Administrator Award.

A respected scholar, Dr. Regulska’s research concentrates on women’s political activism, grassroots mobilization,

decentralization, democracy, and democratization, with a focus on Europe and the Caucasus. She is the author

or co-author of seven books and the author of over hundred articles, chapters, and reviews. The National

Science Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the Polish Academy of Sciences have

supported her research.

With graduate degrees in geography from the University of Warsaw, Poland (MSc) and the University of

Colorado, Boulder (PhD) she is a member of numerous scholarly advisory boards in the U.S and Europe.

Kristine Wilcox, Arizona State University Kristine Wilcox is a business development, communications and management

professional whose 30-year career has spanned the sectors of higher

education, government and NGOs. The connecting thread of her work is a

commitment to expanding access to life-enriching and economy-building

educational opportunities, especially for marginalized individuals in the U.S.

and developing countries worldwide. Her interest in international engagement

was sparked at a young age, when she attended high school in Italy and

Germany and a first year of college in Germany. She has lived in three

European countries and represented Arizona State University on business

development missions in Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, India, Senegal and Ghana.

At ASU, she serves as senior director of ASU International Development, a

team that works with faculty and staff specialists across the university to

pursue funded projects with USAID, the Inter-American Development Bank,

the Department of State and the World Bank. She spends about half her time illustrating how universities can

bring innovation, evidence-based thinking and mutually enriching partnerships to U.S. work in the developing

world; the other half goes to helping faculty understand how to work with pragmatic development donors that

function very differently from the research agencies with which academics are more familiar. ASU is a strong

supporter of CII’s advocacy for enhanced aid funding to higher education worldwide, and for the unique and

transformative contributions that universities can make to social and economic progress in emerging countries.

If elected to the Executive Committee, Kristine would relish having opportunities to support CII’s advocacy on

these matters and to encourage more universities to take on the challenges of international development —

challenges that offer extraordinary openings for putting research and knowledge to work for the world’s most

vulnerable citizens. Kristine has worked with or for ASU for more than a decade, including service as assistant

director of the Center for Research on Education in Science, Mathematics, Engineering and Technology and as

the strategic officer for education initiatives at the ASU Foundation. Other positions have included a post-college

year working for a U.S. Congressman, a decade in Washington as publications director and a publishing liaison

with the literacy NGO Reading Is Fundamental (RIF), and several years as an editor with the U.S. Naval Institute

Press, located at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, MD. Kristine graduated from Marquette University with a

B.A. in English and from the University of Virginia with an M.A. in English literature. She has completed

additional graduate work at ASU.

Virginie Zoumenou, University of Maryland Eastern Shore Dr. Virginie Zoumenou earned, in 1994, her first doctorate in biochemistry and

nutrition from the National University of Abidjan Côte D’Ivoire, and in 2006, a

PhD. in dietetics and nutrition at Florida International University.

She is a full Professor at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore (UMES). She

has the history of being very active in the Land Grant Universities System. She

has been actively engaged in community health promotion at national and

International levels for almost two decades.

She is the current Co-chair of the NC1196, a National Institute of Food and

Agriculture (NIFA) Research Group which includes approximately 20 Land

Grant Universities (1862 and 1890 combined) and focuses on food systems,

health, and well-being: understanding complex relationships and dynamics of

change. She was the Chair of the 1890 EFNEP Coordinators which includes approximately 19, 1890 Land Grant

Universities. In 2015, Zoumenou completed the LEAD 21 program established to develop more efficient leaders

in Land Grant Universities and their strategic partners who link research, academics, and extension. Community,

Local and Regional Food Systems - eXtension. Recently as a USDA/NIFA Visiting Scholar, she assessed and

evaluated the Land Grant Universities Family and Consumer Sciences International Projects. For three years

2012-2015, Zoumenou was one the Directors at Large of the Society of Nutrition Education and Behavior.

Through her international collaborative activities Zoumenou has been able to promote the UMES Extension

programs and her research activities at several universities and institutions in China. She provided leadership to

a nutrition program design group of consultants in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and to a nutrition

and agriculture component of the USAID Feed the Future, and Farmer to Farmer programs in rural areas in

Ghana and Nigeria. She served as a volunteer, initiated collaboration with the Africa Regional Services and the

Foreign Agricultural Service / USDA / at the US Embassy, Paris, France and conducted workshops on healthy

eating habits in collaboration with the community outreach programs serving women and youth/immigrants in

Paris, France. She was recently in South Korea where she was not only nominated as one of the USA delegates at

the Council of the International Federation of Home Economics (IFHE) but also initiated collaboration with the

Korean researchers in gardening and nutrition.

Her work and contributions in research and extension at both national and international levels have been

recognized through several awards: Two White House President’s Volunteer awards, the Robert F. Allen Symbol

of H.O.P.E. (Helping Other People through Empowerment) award by the American Journal of Health Promotion,

and most recently the 1890 Excellence in Extension Award in the area of Family and Consumer Science by the

1890 Association of Extension Administrators; and the 1890s Region Excellence in Extension award offered in

partnership by ECOP and the National Institute of Food and Agriculture, USDA.

Zoumenou has also served on the Working Group for Aligning and Elevating Land-Grant University-Based Low-

Income Nutrition Education as a member; and on a sub-committee of the NIFA Nutrition and Health Planning

and Guidance Committee as a Co-Chair.