Article by Ingrid Lombardo, CET China Programs Manager, featured in The China Business Review!
Ingrid Lombardo, CET China Programs Manager, recently wrote an article that was published in The China Business Review describing how technology has dramatically altered the way CET communicates with its program staff in China. CET Executive Director, Mark Lenhart, CET Communications Director, Jocelyn Flint, and CET alumna, Elvira Hammond (Assistant Professor at New Mexico State , are also featured.
Elvira Hammond, pictured above in her student identification card, recalls the challenges of communicating with friends and family in the United States when she was a student in China in 1983.
As a student in Beijing in 1983, Elvira Hammond’s primary communication with home was by letter. All mail, coming and going, was opened and read by the Chinese post office. Hammond once received a mix tape in the mail with the first hour of music erased and replaced with sounds of the post office. She received one international phone call all semester—the news that she had been admitted to Stanford University. This call cost $30.
This year CET Academic Programs—which sends roughly 650 study abroad students to China every year—will celebrate its thirtieth anniversary in China. As we plan our celebration, we are reconnecting with program alumni and staff from decades gone by, which has made us reflect on changes in China over the past 30 years. One of those changes is how technology has dramatically altered how we communicate with program staff and students.
CET Fall 2011 Chinese Studies student featured in Watauga Democrat
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Fall 2011 CET Chinese Studies in Beijing alumnus, Chris Wehner (US Naval Academy), was recently featured in an article in North Carolina’s Watauga Democrat newspaper. Chris and fellow CET students, Samantha Wolfe (Kalamazoo College) and Rebecca Tisherman (Connecticut College), decided to take on an adventure during their fall break. Instead of staying in Beijing or traveling to another big city the three students ended up heading to Bohai. Becky and Samantha on bikes with Chris accompanying them on foot… It’s only about a hundred miles. Along the way they practiced their Chinese and interviewed locals about health and environmental issues in China.
Click here to read Samantha’s CET blog “Miles Don’t Exist in China” about the journey
They used their footage to created their final project for the program’s 21st Century Beijing course.
CET Fall 2011 Chinese Studies students featured in The China Daily
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Fall 2011 CET Chinese Studies in Beijing alumnus, Chris Wehner (US Naval Academy), was recently featured in an article in The China Daily. Chris decided to run from Beijing to the Bohai Sea (roughly 100 miles) during the program’s Fall Break. Accompanied by two other CET students, Samantha Wolfe (Kalamazoo College) and Becky Tisherman (Connecticut College), Chris also interviewed Chinese locals about the country’s health and environmental concerns throughout their journey to the sea.
Click here to read Samantha’s CET blog “Miles Don’t Exist in China” about the journey
Watch the group’s documentary “Beijing to the Sea” below
Summer 2011 CET Sicily Students featured in La Sicilia newspaper
Posted by Randall Salisbury, CET Italy Programs Manager
Summer 2011 CET Sicily students were featured in La Sicilia, a daily Italian newspaper based in Catania, Sicily. The photo was taken when the Documentary and Journalism students visited the La Sicilia printing press earlier this summer.
Translation: “American students visit the ETIS 2000 plant”
The CET Catania program, under the tutelage of the University of Catania, hosts a group of American university students who take courses in journalism, history, language, and literature. A group of these students visited the ETIS 2000 printing plant where “La Sicilia” (among other national newspapers) are printed. In the picture are…
Full page PDF of CET Sicily Summer ’11 group in La Sicilia newspaper
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