Board of Directors
Officers
Mary Anne Grant, Chair
Finance Committee
President Emerita and Senior Advisor to the President
ISEP: A Worldwide Network for International Education
Gregg Kvistad, Vice-Chair
Nominations Committee Chair
Provost
University of Denver
Annette Smith Parker, Treasurer
Finance Committee
Interim Vice President of Finance and Administration
Ursinus College
Susan Popko, Secretary
Nominations Committee
Associate Provost, International Programs
Santa Clara University
Directors
Thomas M. Buntru
Finance Committee
Director de Programas Internacionales
Universidad de Monterrey
Joy Gleason Carew
Finance Committee
Associate Professor of Pan-African Studies
University of Louisville
Enda Carroll
Nominations Committee
Associate Director, Center for Study Abroad
University College Dublin
Nick Gozik, ex officio
Director of the Office of International Programs and McGillycuddy-Logue Center for Undergraduate Global Studies
Boston College
John Lucas
Audit Committee
President and CEO
ISEP: A Worldwide Network for International Education
Paul J. McVeigh
Nominations Committee
Retired, Northern Virginia Community College
Donna Scarboro
Finance Committee
Associate Provost for International Programs
The George Washington University
Patricia H. Scroggs
Audit Committee
Program Director, Charles B. Rangel International Affairs Program
Howard University
Bruce Sillner
Nominations Committee
Dean of International Programs
State University of New York at New Paltz
Affiliations at time of serving as Founding Board Member
Al Balkcum
Director, The Learning Abroad Center, University of Minnesota
Geoffrey Bannister
President, Study Abroad Foundation
Jon Booth
Deputy Director, Division of International Programs Abroad, Syracuse University
Joseph Brockington
Associate Provost, International Programs, Kalamazoo College
William Cressey
Executive Vice-President, Council on International Educational Exchange (CIEE)
Todd Davis
Director, Higher Education Resource Group, Institute of International Education (IIE)
Michael Delaney
Director, Office of Internation Education, University of Colorado at Boulder
Mary Dwyer
President, Institute for the International Education of Students (IES)
Geoffrey Gee
Director, Study Abroad, University of Pennsylvania
Harlan Henson
Executive Director, College Consortium for International Studies (CCIS)
Carl A. Herrin
Director, Government Relations, American Councils for International Education: ACTR/ACCELS
William Hoffa
Study Abroad Advisor, Amherst College
Maryelise Lamet
Director, Education Abroad, University of Massachusetts-Amherst
David Larsen
Director, Center for Education Abroad, Arcadia University
William Nolting
Director of International Opportunities, International Center, University of Michigan
Tom Roberts
Director, Institute for Study Abroad, Butler University
Mark Scheid
Assistant to the President and Executive Director of International Programs and Scholarships, Rice University
Kathleen Sideli
Associate Dean and Director, Office of Overseas Study, Indiana University
Michael Stohl
Professor, University of California, Santa Barbara
Michael Vande Berg
Director, International Programs, Georgetown University
Responsibilities of the Board and its members
The Board as a whole carries certain pivotal responsibilities, including:
- Determining the mission of the organization.
- Selecting, appointing and replacing when appropriate, the President/CEO.
- Monitoring the performance of the organization.
- Approving long-range plans.
- Ensuring the financial solvency and fiscal integrity of the organization.
- Participating and assisting in the processes of providing and attracting philanthropic support.
- Defending the autonomy of the organization.
- Enhancing the public standing of the organization.
- Setting a strategic plan for the Board’s own contributions and regularly assessing its own performance against these plans.
Individual members have the following responsibilities:
- Attending at least three out of every four Board meetings.
- Consistently making judgments based on what is good for the organization and not on what is good for another party or special constituency.
- Contributing actively in the meetings and other Board activities.
- Stating openly during the course of the meetings when they are in disagreement with a majority position.
- Subsequently maintaining the confidentiality of board deliberations.
- Acting as a spokesperson for the entire board only when specifically authorized to do so.
- Consistently using designated organizational channels when conducting board business.
- Making sure that important agenda items are communicated to the Board’s Chair.
- Being an advocate for the organization.
- Bringing their own special talents to help the organization, without infringing on the proper role of Board-Staff responsibilities.
- Participating in fundraising to the extent of the member’s capacities.
- Assisting in fundraising by helping the organization gain access to other philanthropic sources.
- Keeping current on the strategic issues surrounding education abroad.
- Refraining from actions that might prove detrimental to the reputation of the organization.