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International Education Month is November - Events at Brookdale
Published on Tuesday, November 13, 2012

Passport Day at Brookdale   
Thursday, November 15, from 11:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m., Student Life Center, Monmouth Battleground Room

The U.S. Postal Service is providing a one-stop passport shop for first time applicants.  Individuals can submit application, pay the fee, and have photos taken in-person.  Various forms of identification are required.  For more information regarding application materials and acceptable forms of ID, please visit: 
http://travel.state.gov/passport

Sponsored by the International Education Center and U.S. Postal Service.

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Global Citizenship Seminar: Change the World – Educate Its Girls
Thursday, November 15, from 1:30 - 4:00 p.m., Student Life Center, Twin Lights II; and via broadcast at Western Monmouth Branch Campus

International Education Week’s fourth annual Global Citizenship Seminar, Change the World – Educate Its Girls, aims to teach the Brookdale community about the education of girls abroad and how education can change communities and the world. 

 

Featured speakers include Emily Bent, a lecturer in Women’s and Gender Studies at The College of New Jersey and former UN Representative for Girls Learn International; Debby Rooney, co-founder of BEADS for Education, an organization that has sent hundreds of girls to schools  throughout Kenya; and Brookdale professors, Terry Konn and Roseanne Alvarez.  Sponsored by International Education Center, Global Citizenship Project, Student Life and Activities, Western Monmouth Branch Campus.

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Info Session for Faculty-Led Short-Term Study Abroad in Summer 2013 - Bermuda, Brazil, London, Hawai'i, and Rwanda
Mon., Nov. 19, 6:00 p.m.  – 8:00 p.m., in MAN 106


Faculty leaders will discuss course requirements and travel itineraries.  International Education Center staff will discuss application procedures, financing and funding opportunities, including the Harris T. Wofford Scholarship for Brazil.

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Passport Cinema Series - Dinner and a Movie
Central Station (Brazil) on Tuesday, November 27 - Dinner at the Culinary Education Center at 5:15 p.m. and movie at the Asbury Park Showroom at 7:30 p.m.


(For dinner reservations, call the Culinary Education Center at 732-988-3299.
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An emotive journey of a former school teacher, who writes letters for illiterate people, and a young boy, whose mother has just died, in search for the father he never knew. See the trailer: movies.nytimes.com/movie/160406/Central-Station/trailers.

Post-film discussion provided by Assistant Professor Alex Idavoy. The films are free and open to the public.

Locations: Culinary Education Center, 101 Drury Lane, Asbury Park at 5:15; Asbury Park Showroom, 707 Cookman Ave., Asbury Park, at 7:30 p.m.


Sponsored by the International Education Center, Office of Student Life and Activities, The Culinary Education Center and The Showroom in Asbury Park.

 

 

 

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