MSU Wins 2004 Goldman Sachs Foundation Higher Education Prize for Excellence in International Education (11/2004)
MSU has received the 2004 Goldman Sachs Higher Education Prize for Excellence in International Education. In addition to the honor, the prize includes $25,000 for the university. There are five Goldman Sachs prizes in international education each year. Only one goes to a university or college. The other four are for other types of institutions that have done outstanding work in international education, including one elementary school, one secondary school, one whole state and one technology project. This year the state award went to Wisconsin, and the technology award went to GLOBE the environmental education project that gets students in 15,000 schools in over 100 countries to collect data on weather, air, water etc and to do analyses of these data. The higher education award which MSU received is for a
| "higher education institution that shows exceptional commitment to promoting K-16 international knowledge and skills through its teacher preparation program or through ongoing partnerships with local schools to introduce international content." |
John Metzler, the Outreach Director of our African Studies Center, Sally McClintock, the founder and director of LATTICE and Jack Schwille, Assistant Dean for International Studies in the College of Education went to Washington to participate in the awards ceremony and in an associated two-day conference on international education in the schools. The chairperson of the MSU Board of Trustees, Dave Porteus, was also there to accept the award on behalf of the university. Former Michigan Governor Engler (now co-chair of the National Coalition on Asia and International Studies in the Schools) presented the award.
The following photo was taken just after the presentation. The MSU group (Metzler, Schwille, McClintock, and Porteous) is flanked by Governor Engler, Vishakha Desai, President, Asia Society, and Stephanie Bell-Rose, President, The Goldman Sachs Foundation.
The
official summary of why MSU won this award is contained on the Asia Society
website as follows:
http://www.internationaled.org/prizes/2004.winners#univ
The MSU press release about the award can be seen on the university website
at
http://www.newsroom.msu.edu/site/indexer/2229/content.htm.