Did You Know the following facts about MaCIE?

• Berkshire Community College offers a class entitled Peace and World Order?
• Bristol Community College has a faculty exchange and a study abroad program at Ahuntsic College in Canada?
• Bunker Hill Community College has 200 international students from 51 countries this year, serves 1000 ESL students, and offers a degree program in International Business?
• Fitchburg State College has a study abroad program at the Aviatechnical Institute in Russia as well as programs in France, Ireland, and Nicaragua?
• Framingham State College offers a minor in Latin American studies and a Global Studies concentration?
• Greenfield Community College has extensive educational ties with the Ukraine and Belorus?
• Holyoke Community College has classes in Eastern Slavic Studies and an exchange with the Ukraine?
• Massachusetts Bay Community College offers classes in Creole?
• Massachusetts College of Art offers a class entitled Greek Islands Painting and Sculpture as well as a study abroad program in Greece?
• Massachusetts Maritime Academy had American Peace Scholars in several countries?
• Massasoit Community College, Bridgewater State College, Cape Cod Community College, and UMASS-Dartmouth, as members of the Southeastern Association of Cooperation in Higher Education in Massachusetts (SACHEM), have received a grant from the US Dept. of Education totalling approximately $95,000 per year for the next 3 years to internationalize the curriculum?
• Middlesex Community College offers a certificate program in International Business, sponsors the China Fellowship Program, and was featured in a May 1995 Chronicle of Higher Education article on 2 year colleges and international education?
• Mt. Wachusett Community College has a new Global Studies concentration toward which students can earn credit through study abroad?
• Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts sends students regularly on programs abroad sponsored by CCIS as do many other MaCIE institutions?
• North Shore Community College serves 260 ESL students and sponsors a study abroad program in Costa Rica?
• Northern Essex Community College has a study abroad program in India at Bangalore University?
• Quinsigamond Community College serves over 150 ESL students and has international students from 15 countries, including Angola and Zimbabwe?
• Roxbury Community College offers a unique caribbean studies program?
• Salem State College offers full-time, intensive ESL programs all year round?
• Springfield Technical Community College serves 360 ESL students?
• UMASS-Amherst sends 700 students abroad each year which represents 11% of those eligible and is well above the national average for major research universities?
• UMASS-Boston offers the Haitian Creole Language Summer Institute and has 150 faculty engaged in international projects involving 84 countries?
• UMASS-Dartmouth has a vibrant and expanding Center for Portuguese Studies?
• UMASS-Lowell has 38 visiting international scholars and close to 400 international students?
• UM Medical Center Worcester encourages medical students to gain clinical experience abroad and assists in placements in over 80 countries?
• Westfield State College sends 10-20 students abroad each year?
• Worcester State College has a summer program on the campus of its sister college in Worcester, England?

Disclaimer: This listing represents only a portion of international education programs and activities at the commonwealth's public higher education institutions; it is intended to be suggestive and not comprehensive.