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NAFSA Region XII Events 2010

 Basic Info About the NAFSA: Association of International Educators
Region XII Northern District Conference, March 29, 2010

*Check-in is at 8:30 am on March 29 at St. Mary's College in Moraga.

*First Session Begins: 9:00am

*Second Session Begins: around 10:45am

*Lunch Begins around 12:00pm

*Afternoon Session Ends: 3:00pm

After the last session there will be a raffle and a Poster Session

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(Posted: 3/4/2010 9:27 AM)


Upcoming NAFSA: Association of International Educations

Region XII Conferences and Workshops (2008)

NAFSA Region XII Conference Website: http://www.region12.nafsa.org/r12conferences.htm

ALOHA!
Put this on your calendar: November 10-14, 2008.
2008 NAFSA Bi-Regional (Region I & XII) in Honolulu, Hawaii.

2008 NAFSA Conference hotel: Hilton Hawaiian Village in Waikiki.
Join us in the Aloha State for a wonderful week of professional development and networking with International Educators from both of our Regions.
More information will be forthcoming soon.

MAHALO!

2008 NAFSA Region XII Conference Committee.

NAFSA International Educator Magazine

Find Articles on Every Topic International Educator Magazine Covers

Ever wondered if International Educator has published articles on a specific topic like international student recruitment, academic partnerships, education abroad, funding, or international advising?

Want to find every article International Educator has published by Gary Althen, Joe Mestenhauser, or Kyna Rubin?

Now You Can!
International Educator has launched an online index that lists all articles published in the magazine since it began publication in 1990. The index is categorized by author, subject, and year. Select articles are available online as PDF documents. You can purchase back issues of the print magazine for a nominal fee if an article you are looking for isn't available online in PDF format. Use the index as a tool to enhance your knowledge of the field!

To subscribe to International Educator magazine or to read select content and Web Extras! online, visit www.nafsa.org/ie.

NAFSA Region XII Calendar 2004-07

We are very excited about the next Region XII annual conference coming to the City by the Bay. The 2007 conference will take place November 5-8, 2007 at the Hyatt Regency at Embarcadero, in San Francisco, California!

NAFSA Region XII Conference Website: http://www.region12.nafsa.org/r12conferences.htm

* Conference Pre-Workshops November 5, 2007 from 8am-5pm
* Session Proposal FORM Coming in June 2007!

If you want to be an exhibitors or sponsors please contact John Breckenridge, exhibitor and sponsor coordinator: John_Breckenridge@wellsfargois.com

If you are interested to volunteer at the conference please contact Ruby Pleasure, volunteer coordinator: rap@SFCM.EDU

Come to San Francisco and explore the cultural diversity of the area and taste the harvest of Napa Valley while networking with your colleagues across the region and enhancing your professional skills. Make your experience even more rewarding by presenting a session or volunteering.

For information on how to get involved, please contact the NAFSA Region XII 2007 Conference Co-Chair(s):
* Inna Zaltsmann at: ia@ucsc-extension.edu
* Trish Reiff at: pareiff@ucdavis.edu

 

NAFSA Region XII Northern District Spring Conference 2007 - Call for Session Proposals

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The NAFSA Region XII Northern District Conference is pleased to announce that the Spring 2007 Conference will be held on March 15th and 16th at the Clark Kerr Conference Center in Berkeley. In order to make this event a success, we need your participation!

Our goal is to offer a variety of conference sessions that encompass our professional diversity. We encourage you to consider a session that covers one or more of the following topics:

* Study abroad

* Immigration advising for students and scholars

* TESOL

* Community Colleges

* Recruiting

* Admissions

* Programming

The conference will also include an F-1 for Beginners PDP on Thursday.

Session proposals are due on Thursday, February 1, 2007

The application is available online at:

http://www.region12north.nafsa.org/

Please submit your proposal via mail or fax to the conference co-chair:

Joni MacFarlane, Chair Elect & Conference Co-Chair International Adviser

Office of International Education, OIE International Scholar and Student

Services, ISSS 107 Classroom Unit, 1156 High Street University of

California, Santa Cruz, CA 95064

Phone: 831-459-5848

Fax: 831-459-3555

jonimac@ucsc.edu

Thank You !

The NAFSA Region XII 2006 Annual Conference in Las Vegas, Nevada

October 30-November 3, 2006 at the Flamingo Hotel 

Pre-Conference PDP workshops occur October 30-31 with conference sessions November 1-3, 2006.

Call for Session Proposals

  

 

 

NAFSA 2007 Annual Conference & Expo

Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA * May 27 - June 1, 2007

At this NAFSA Annual Conference, we will explore all of the possibilities … and all of the challenges of the theme: How Do We Prepare and Inspire Global Citizens?  For six intensely focused days, the NAFSA 2007 Annual Conference & Expo will ask the questions about how tomorrow’s global community might look and what we can do to make it strong, peaceful, productive, and secure. The demand for informed, open, and inspired citizens of the world is increasing, and international education professionals must help lead the way in this promising and challenging frontier. For details see NAFSA website: http://www.nafsa.org/annual_conference/2007_annual_conference

NAFSA Region XII Conference 11/2004

US ICE [Presentation] 11/04/04: "It used to be only INS, but who do I ask now?"

US DoS Visa Acquisition [Outline] 11/05/04: NAFSAXIIVisaAcquisition-110504.pdf

SEVIS Fee Resources


Getting the Word Out on Your Campus About the New SEVIS Fee:

 http://www.cafss.nafsa.org/events/SEVISFee.html

Below please find memos/handouts/tools that you can edit for use at your institution. The creation of these tools for your use was a joint CAFSS/CIPP venture. Lisa Ernstthal, CAFSS Rep, Reg. XII, headed up the team of NAFSAns (Linda Duckworth, Sook Hollingshead, Anna Zagorska, Don Back, Jim Endrezzi, Martha Wailes and Meg Morgan) who submitted examples for review and consolidation.

In conjunction with the regulations and the SEVIS Fee Practice Advisory prepared by CIPP, these CAFSS' tools are intended to assist you in informing your campus about the fee. The tools have been appropriately vetted for the accuracy of the information as its posting date. They are intended to be modified by you to suit your own campus needs. There are no plans to update these documents.

                                         

NAFSA's SEVP/SEVIS Information Pages: www.nafsa.org/sevp

Final SEVIS fee rule published; September 1, 2004 effective date

Posted: July 1, 2004. On July 1, 2004, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) published the long-awaited final rule to implement the SEVIS fee. Under the rule, the fee will have to be paid by students and exchange visitors who use a Form I-20 or DS-2019 to gain initial F-1, J-1, or M-1 status to begin a new exchange program or program of studies, if that form was issued on or after September 1, 2004. A June 29, 2004 DHS memo was sent to all SEVIS users to provide preliminary guidance on the SEVIS fee.
Click here to read the final SEVIS fee rule:
http://www.nafsa.org/content/ProfessionalandEducationalResources/ImmigrationAdvisingResources/200406016.pdf
NOTE. DHS confirmed in a call in which NAFSA participated that there is an oversight/error in the final SEVIS fee rule, that DHS is currently in the process of correcting. The error is as follows: the date at 8 CFR 214.13(b)(3) [69 Fed. Reg. 39814, 39825] should read August 31, 2004 rather than May 31, 2004. It is this paragraph that puts into effect an important part of the the September 1, 2004 effective date, i.e., that only aliens issued "begin new program" I-20s or DS-2019s on or after September 1, 2004 would be subject to the fee.

Please carefully read the final rule as soon as possible, to begin assessing how it will impact student and exchange visitor plans, as well as how it will affect internal institutional business practices.