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.
CIE was represented by more than 35 current students, graduates, and faculty members at the national CIES conference in Mexico City in March. In addition there were faculty members and students from the Higher Education and other programs in the UMass Amherst College of Education, reflecting the strong involvement in international education of the College of Education.
Habibullah Wajdi and Patrick Fine met up in Kabul in March 2018.
Kimberly Parekh and Assela Luena met in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania in January 2018.
e Arellano reunited recently in New York City
Ash Hartwell met Satomi Kamei in November 2017 in Arua, Uganda.
Valerie Kurka and others have started organizing informal happy hour getherings of the CIE group living and working in the Washington, D.C. area. The first gathering was in August, 2017.
In July 2017, Kefah Barham and Paul Frisoli met up at a Training of Trainers workshop in Amman, Jordan. The Teachers in Crisis Contexts Introduction, Contextualization, and Implementation ToT was attended by education practitioners from across the Middle East.