On-Campus

Collaborative problem-solving: Support for early grade reading teachers in Nepal

Debuting a new Tuesday Dialogue session format that is very much in line with CIE’s participatory approaches, faculty member Cristine Smith facilitated a problem-solving activity about an issue she has been facing in an early grade reading project in Nepal.

Fall 2016/Spring 2017

Dialogues & CIE Speaker Series

Professional Development

Joe Berger conducts higher education leadership workshop in Somaliland

Joe Berger recently travelled to Somaliland to conduct a needs assessment and meet with university representatives from higher education institutions in Somaliland, Puntland, South-Central Somalia, and Ethiopia.

Fall 2016/Spring 2017

Faculty Activity

Professional Development

Supporting mother tongue literacy for refugees in Chad – Eunice Kua

Eunice Kua worked to help develop mother tongue literacy programs among Darfur refugees in eastern Chad prior to coming to CIE. She reflects on her experience and the issues it raised.

Fall 2016/Spring 2017

Student Professional Activity

Professional Development

A Revolutionary Practice of Community Storytelling for Social Change

CIE graduate Kathleen Cash (Ed.D. 1982) returned to Amherst for a Tuesday Dialogue to share her work using storytelling and narrative as a powerful method of changing the public conversation and behaviors around issues of HIV/AIDS, sexual and reproductive health, violence against women and girls, and children’s rights.

Dialogues & CIE Speaker Series

Professional Development

Gretchen Rossman publishes new editions of her best-selling books on Qualitative Inquiry

Gretchen Rossman recently published new editions of Designing Qualitative Research and Introduction to Qualitative Research, both popular books for students learning about the process of qualitative research.

Fall 2016/Spring 2017

Faculty Activity

Research at CIE

Publications

Program review for Peace Corps in Moldova – Betsy Vegso

Betsy Vegso worked with Peace Corps in Moldova during the summer where she reviewed program and training functions and developed recommendations related to program management.

Fall 2016/Spring 2017

Student Professional Activity

Professional Development

University Support & Workforce Development in Afghanistan – Javid Mussawy

Sayed Ahmad Javid Mussawy spent the summer working to develop quality enhancement and accreditation procedures with the Ministry of Higher Education in Afghanistan.

Fall 2016/Spring 2017

Student Professional Activity

Professional Development

Bjorn Nordtveit publishes book on “Schools as Protection"

CIE faculty member Bjorn Nordtveit has authored a book on child protection titled Schools as protection?: Reinventing education in contexts of adversity, published by Springer in 2016.

Fall 2016/Spring 2017

Faculty Activity

Research at CIE

Publications

Education in Emergencies

From Amherst and Back: A Thirty-year Reflection

Rob (M.Ed 1988) and Toon (Ed.D. 2007) Fuderich, both graduates of CIE joined the CIE community for a Tuesday Dialogue. Newly retired, they have returned from Uzbekistan to Amherst, which has been their intermittent home since 1985