Syracuse Abroad - January 2021 Newsletter
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Dear partners and colleagues,
As we approach the end of January (yes, already), we still want to take a moment to wish everyone a happy and healthy new year. We are very ready to be sending students abroad more regularly. In that vein, we have two small cohorts traveling to study at our Florence center this spring: a Renaissance Art History graduate program and a group of architecture undergraduates. This summer, we are prepared and hopeful to have students studying at our centers in Florence, London, Madrid, and Strasbourg. Of course, we are also accepting applications and preparing for fall 2021 programs.
Regular communication and planning among partners will remain important as we prepare to safely and successfully send more students abroad. In addition to this monthly newsletter, you can expect to receive information about our COVID-19 planning and protocols, new programming and course development, various virtual events for partners and visiting students, and student application and enrollment reports.
This January newsletter includes info about:
- Our COVID-19 planning webpages
- An upcoming health and safety webinar
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Summer study abroad fair & programs
- Two "Urban Labs Central Europe" blog posts from visiting students
- A staff profile of our Director of Curriculum & Academic Services
Please be in touch if we can support your office or your students in any way. All our best for a positive and productive year!
Looking forward,
-Brock
Brock M. Price
Associate Director of Institutional Relations
Syracuse University | Syracuse Abroad
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Health and Safety Resources |
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SUMMER HEALTH & SAFETY WEBINAR
Please join us Wednesday, February 3 at 2pm EST for a Zoom discussion focused on summer programs and health and safety precautions.
Dr. Erika Wilkens, Assistant Provost and Executive Director, and Seth Tucker, Director of Global Health and Safety and Student Services, will talk about procedures for summer study abroad programs as well as COVID-19 planning and protocols.
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Our mascot, Otto the Orange! |
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COVID-19 WEBPAGES
COVID-19 precautions and support measures will likely remain a feature of study abroad for the foreseeable future. We have put in place comprehensive health and safety measures to help support students' experiences abroad. Last fall, our Student Services team published our COVID-19 Planning webpages for each of our programs.
Please bookmark these pages for your reference as they will be regularly updated by our Student Services team, along with support from various staff abroad. You can navigate to these pages by hovering over our "Health and Safety" header. You'll also see program-specific COVID-19 Plans linked on each respective program page. |
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SUMMER STUDY ABROAD FAIR
Join us on February 3rd and 4th for our virtual Summer Study Abroad Fair! Students and partners can learn more about the summer session programs, meet our center program staff, and hear from program alumni!
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SUMMER PROGRAMS INFO SESSIONS
Every Tuesday at 12pm EST (Jan 19–Feb 23)
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FALL PROGRAMS INFO SESSION
Wednesday, February 17 at 11am EST
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Academic Spotlight: Summer Programs |
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Summer programs will take place at four of our centers in Florence, London, Madrid, and Strasbourg. Students can choose from 4 and 5-week program options as well as various internship opportunities. Click images below to see more information. |
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Please contact our Summer & Faculty-led Programs team if you have any questions:
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Traveling through Europe, one is constantly confronted with memories of conflict and reconciliation in places that have experienced dramatic upheavals. Urban Laboratories Central Europe offers a forum for international students based in Wroclaw, Poland to explore ideas about how the culture and politics of memory have shaped modern European identity. Students on our Central Europe program contribute to Urban Labs each fall semester.
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Below, we highlight two essays published on Urban Labs by two Grinnell College students, both participants in the Syracuse Abroad Central Europe program in 2019. Zoe Fruchter is an art history major with a concentration in Russian, Central and Eastern European studies. For her senior thesis, she will analyze the cinematic framing of Warsaw’s Palace of Culture skyscraper in Polish film, a project directly inspired by her studies in Poland. Esme Rummelhart is an anthropology major. Last summer, she pursued a Mentored Advanced Project (MAP) that examined the ‘double erasure’ of German-Jewish memory in present-day Wroclaw, Poland. This project also grew from her experience studying abroad in Central Europe. Click on the blue buttons to read the full student reflections written while in Central Europe. |
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Staff Profiles: Dr. Petra Hejnova |
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Dr. Petra Hejnova has over 15 years of international education experience, and been with Syracuse University since 2014. As the Director of Curriculum and Academic Services, Petra provides strategic direction to curricular development and pedagogical innovation across all Syracuse University study abroad centers. In addition to serving as a liaison with academic leaders across the University, Petra enjoys collaborating with our partner schools to develop custom programming for visiting student cohorts.
Petra’s interest to international education is rooted in her immigrant background and in a range of research, teaching, and professional experiences spanning five continents. Given her background, Petra is deeply committed to developing unique study abroad programs that are both academically rigorous as well as culturally insightful.
Petra received an M.A. in Public Policy from Charles University in Prague and a Ph.D. in Political Science from Syracuse University. In addition to her role within Syracuse Abroad, she holds a faculty appointment in the Political Science Department of the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University. You can reach out to Petra here.
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Dr. Petra Hejnova
Director of Curriculum and Academic Services
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