Alumni Newsletter - Summer 2020
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Edition no. 25
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IAU Celebrates its Vibrant and Supportive Community of Alumni and Donors During Unprecedented Times |
Where Do Donations Go? |
Depending on which fund you donate to, IAU donations go to a range of different places -- all of which support IAU's mission to provide excellence in international education, inspire intercultural awareness, and prepare students for success in a global community. We have a number of different scholarship funds available to donate to, including: The Herbert Maza Full Year Scholarship, The Amos Booth French Honors Program Scholarship, the John Rewald Art & Art History Scholarship, and more. Donations made to scholarship funds go directly to student scholarships that IAU awards every term to deserving study abroad students. Donors may also elect to donate to IAU's Endowment Fund. IAU’s Endowment is fundamental to the Institute's ability to plan for the long-term and to manage during turbulent economic and diplomatic times. The fund provides for a permanent source of income to support the Institute's academic programs and provides for future growth while fulfilling IAU’s need for a predictable income stream. Some donors simply donate to "Unrestricted Gifts." This choice supports IAU's operating budget and assists with funding financial priorities, including: innovative programming, the hiring of faculty and staff, expanding operations to new cities or new buildings, scholarships and grants for diversity students, and more. We invite you to explore IAU's various donation funds by visiting www.iau.edu/donate. |
Ways to Support IAU |
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There are many ways to donate to IAU. Regardless of the amount or the form that a donation may take, IAU is deeply humbled by the action itself. Whether donors wish to honor or commemorate an individual, or contribute to buildings and classrooms through IAU's Naming and Legacy Opportunities, or help ensure the excellence of IAU programs for future generations of students, we invite potential donors to consider and select one or more of the donation opportunities listed below and on the IAU website. We sincerely thank you for your support. |
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Did you know that many students find IAU through Google, Facebook, and study abroad review sites? Because of this, positive reviews from our dedicated alumni help us market to prospective students. We encourage you to take a few minutes to write a thoughtful review of your time at IAU!
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Remember IAU in Your Estate Plans: The Mont Sainte-Victoire Society |
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IAU is extremely grateful to our alumni and other supporters who have remembered IAU in their estate planning. The Mont Saint-Victoire Legacy Society is an association for donors who have included IAU in their estate plans through a planned gift or other charitable donation. |
Tell a Friend About IAU or ACM Do you have children, nieces, nephews, friends, grandchildren, or acquaintances that are in high school or college? One of the best ways to support IAU is by spreading the word to those in your community. Tell the story of your own personal experience and encourage students to learn more about study abroad programs in France, Spain, and Morocco with IAU or about degree-granting undergraduate and graduate programs in Aix-en-Provence with ACM. More information about all of our programs are at our websites: www.iau.edu and www.acmfrance.org. Pass it on! |
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IAU and ACM both have social media accounts on all the major platforms. We post updates from campus, opportunities for alumni, nostalgic photos of Barcelona, Aix-en-Provence, and other locations in Europe and North Africa, and more! We invite you to follow along! |
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IAU: Facebook | Instagram | Twitter | LinkedIn |
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Have you heard about IAU's Alumni Ambassador Program? If you are interested in staying connected to your time abroad with IAU, spreading the word about study abroad, and sharing your love for international travel with others, then the Alumni Ambassador Program might be for you! The IAU Ambassador Program was established in 2010 as a way to organize the more than 20,000 alumni who have completed their summer, semester, J-Term, or academic year at IAU. The goal of the program is to build a volunteer corps who can best represent IAU and to develop a robust and active network of IAU students, past, present, and future. Alumni of IAU have gone on to become diplomats, business men and women, doctors, lawyers, teachers, and leaders in their respective fields. The IAU Ambassadors form a prestigious group designed for interested IAU alumni to share their study abroad experience with prospective students, faculty, and the study abroad office on their home campus as well as organize with other alumni to keep the IAU network strong. Over the years, the program has evolved, and now in addition to fulfilling the program's original goals, IAU Ambassadors assist with visits to other university campuses, represent IAU at Study Abroad Fairs across the United States and organize alumni events across the nation. IAU Ambassadors are drawn from all IAU programs, academic disciplines, and class years. IAU has over 40 ambassadors representing it at over 30 universities.
If you're interested in becoming an alumni ambassador at your current university or at your alma mater, please click the button below or email alumni@iau.edu. Apply to Become an Alumni Ambassador |
Updates from IAU |
Graduation 2020 Ceremony in Aix-en-Provence |
List of Graduates
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IAU Mourns the Loss of Dr. Constantine Christofides |
The IAU family is very sad to announce the passing of one of its most influential professors, Dr. Constantine Christofides. Students of Dr. Christofides will remember fondly the breadth and the depth of Dr. Christofides’ knowledge, as well as his commitment to IAU students’ meaningful and long-lasting academic experience while studying in France and in Europe in general. Born in Alexandria, Egypt, Dr. Christofides taught at IAU from 1997 to 2009. He arrived at IAU from the University of Washington where he had served as both a professor and as Chair of Romance Languages over a thirty-year period. Armed with his influential volume Art of the West: Medieval to Modern Times: A Commentary, Dr. Christofides led IAU students of his course “Tragic Vision” into the profound and far-reaching complexities of European art and culture, studying artists from Sophocles to T.S. Eliot. Many students will remember the intense reading as well as the creative work they produced under Dr. Christofides’ guidance and the many visits they undertook with the advantage of his encyclopedic knowledge of the region and its culture. Dr. Christofides’ legacy lives on at IAU and in the many IAU alumni whose lives he forever affected. |
![]() Art of the West: Medieval to Modern Times by Constantine Christofides was published in 2001 and dedicated to his students, including those in Aix and Avignon. |
IAU Launches Virtual Summer Programs |
IAU is pleased to introduce its Virtual Experiences Program this Summer 2020. The virtual programs will draw on IAU's expertise in experiential-based learning while taking advantage of our wide network of professional contacts in France, Spain, Morocco, and beyond. Students will choose from academic courses, global internships, consulting projects, and social impact practicums/experiential learning projects to customize their summer virtual experience. As part of this experience, the following virtual programs are available:
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Looking Ahead to Fall Semester |
We would like to inform and/or remind our community that IAU will be hosting on-the-ground programs in the fall 2020 semester and will be offering a full array of academic courses in Aix-en-Provence and Barcelona. In addition to study abroad students, IAU will also be welcoming degree-seeking undergraduate and graduate students in fall 2020 (through our degree-granting branch, the American College of the Mediterranean) who will be on campus year-round. In the event that IAU is not able to host in-person classes due to in-country health and safety guidelines, we will be offering virtual course options as part of our fall 2020 Virtual Experiences. In order to meet the needs of our partner institutions and their students, IAU will also be offering our Virtual Experiences in the fall 2020 semester and beyond. Students will have the option to enroll in 3, 6, or 9 units, which can be comprised of our Virtual Global Internships, Virtual Consulting Internships (Project-based), Social Impact Practicums, and virtual academic courses (course offerings to be confirmed in the coming weeks). |
Do you have any updates or information you would like to share in the next alumni newsletter? Contact alumni@iau.edu or call 1.800.221.2051 to share your story. We'd love to hear from you! |