The Global Bulldog #1

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The
Global
Bulldog

Issue
1

Winter/Spring
2013

Peace
Corps
Master’s
 International
Students

World
AIDS
Day

Training
in
Mozambique

PCMI
student
Stephanie
 Dempsey
gives
us
a
look
 into
World
AIDS
Day
in
 Malawi.

Find
out
who
Gonzaga’s
 PCMI
students
are
and
 what
they
are
doing
 around
the
world.

 Page
2

Cheyanne
Greer
shares
her
 perspective
of
Peace
Corps
 pre‐service
training
in
 Mozambique.

Page
3

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5

Coordinator
Corner

Updates
from
Campus
 In
September,
I
had
the
pleasure
of
attending
the
Peace
Corps
University
Programs
 Coordinators’
Conference
in
Washington,
DC.

The
three‐day
conference
covered
a
 
 variety
of
topics
and
below
I’ve
included
some
highlights.
 
 • Gonzaga
University
is
one
of
84
Master’s
International
Programs
and
one
of
 16
offering
a
degree
related
to
English
Teaching.
 
 
 • Of
the
TESOL
Programs
present
Gonzaga
had
the
most
students.
 
 
 • There
are
currently
over
9,000
Peace
Corps
volunteers
in
76
countries.
The
 Peace
Corps
is
looking
to
bring
the
number
closer
to
8,000.
 
 
 • Peace
Corps
is
narrowing
the
focus
of
primary
projects
to
education,
health
 and
agriculture
related
to
food
security.
 

 
 • Currently
40
percent
of
Peace
Corps
volunteers
are
serving
in
Africa
in
the
 









 education
sector.
 
 • New
Peace
Corps
sites
include
Indonesia,
Nepal,
Colombia
and
Tunisia.
 
 
 • Peace
Corps
is
implementing
a
new
application
process
where
PCMI
 students
are
streamlined
and
nominated
by
sector.

Volunteers
will
receive
 







 Melissa
Heid,
PCMI
Coordinator

Amanda
Walsh
received
her
 placement–Togo

their
region
or
country
placement
earlier
in
the
application
process.

1

Britt
Harmon
received
her
 placement–Macedonia
 
 Megan
McCann
completed
her
 Peace
Corps
service
in

 Nicaragua–November
2012
 
 We
have
a
new
PC
Regional
 Representative:

 Marya
Nowakowski

 Returned
Peace
Corps
Volunteer
 Agroforestry
Soil
Conservation

 Dominican
Republic
1987–1990
 
 Megan
McCann,
Marya
 Nowakowski
and
Melissa
Heid

 are
presenting
at
the
Spokane
 Regional
ESL
Conference–

 “Peace
Corps
and
Grad
School
 
from
Start
to
Finish”


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