CIE hosted its annual gathering for CIE members, friends and colleagues during the annual CIES conference in Mexico City in March 2018. CIE students, faculty, graduates and colleagues gathered to meet new colleagues, catch up with friends and share information about their current professional activities.
As is the custom, CIE once again hosted a reception for CIE members, associates and friends during the annual CIES conference. A large group gathered at a well-known Mexican restaurant a few blocks from the conference hotel to share Mexican-style snacks along with assorted beverages.
On Tuesday, November 29th the University held a ribbon-cutting ceremony to officially open the newly renovated Montague House as the new home for the Center for International Education. A crowd of well-wishers gathered in a tent on the lawn in front of Montague to hear the Chancellor of UMass Amherst and other speakers celebrate the occasion.
CIE gathered at Mill River Park in North Amherst at the end of April for its annual spring picnic. CIE members and their families along with faculty and staff enjoyed a chance to relax, share food and drink, and socialize
CIE hosted a gathering of CIE members and friends, including some of the many CIE graduates who live in the Washington, DC area. Represented in the almost 70 people who attended were graduates from all five decades of CIE’s history. The earliest graduates attending were Steve Grant and Ash Hartwell both of whom graduated in 1972, (others from the 19790s included John Hatch and Beverly Lindsay), while the most recent graduate was Karla Sarr who graduated in 2015.