yPIE: Young Professionals in International Education in DC is pleased to announce your 2015-16 Board of Directors. Three new and talented young professionals are joining us to serve our more than 500 members in the Washington, DC metro area. The Board is responsible for the strategic direction of yPIE and implementing our mission to connect, […]
By: Katie O’Connell Are you ready to step up your leadership game in international education? Join the yPIE Board of Directors! Did you know that yPIE has nearly 500 members in its LinkedIn group? We’ve been growing steadily over the past few years, and the attendee lists for our happy hours and professional events always […]
By: Brian Wiehr How do we make networking seem less scary? That was the question that led the yPIE Board to organize our first “Speed Networking” event on April 29, 2015. The forum, which featured small roundtables with mid-career professionals from across the international education industry, allowed participants to have brief, casual conversations about the […]
By: Jason Terry This post was originally published in the July/August issue of ExchangeMatters, the Global U.S. Ties newsletter. I recently attended the Ron Moffatt Seminar on Peace and the Global Civil Society hosted by colleagues at NAFSA: Association of International Educators and the Joan B. Kroc School of Peace Studies at the University of […]
By: Katie O’Connell “It’s not about the number of business cards you collect or the quantity of networking events you go to…it’s about the quality.” This was one of the first pieces of networking advice author and international education professional Mark Overmann gave the full house of yPIE members last week in the Marvin Center […]
Are you ready to expand your leadership in international education? Join the yPIE Board of Directors! We’re currently looking for two new board members to be appointed during the summer of 2014 to join our six existing members. One of those positions will have a role on the Membership Committee and the other on the […]
By: Emily Volpe yPIE and GWU’s International Education Association present Access to International Education: A Conversation on Challenges in the Field Wednesday, November 13, 5:30p – 7:30p To join the discussion via Twitter, use #yPIE and #IEW2013. https://ypiegw.eventbrite.com Everyone needs an international Education in order to compete in today’s global economy, but the reality is not everyone […]
By: Katie O’Connell I was absolutely thrilled to wake up on the morning of September 24, and see that we still had the wonderful problem of having a waiting list and trying to figure out how to accommodate everyone who wanted to attend yPIE in DC’s first panel event, “Shaping Your Future: Career Development in […]
By: Emily Volpe How is it already the end of August?! It feels like just yesterday that we held our July happy hour at Vapianos, but we’re already on the verge of our August happy hour and Labor Day. Whoa. To recap the July HH in one word: Success. Over 50 of our colleagues in […]
By: Mary Catherine Scarborough When I ask this question “So, why do you work in international education?” I always feel like an undergraduate student. I’ll explain. While some people saw, “So… what’s your major?” as a pick-up line or an awkward introduction in class or at parties, I was always genuinely interested in the answer […]