STRUCTURE OF NAFSA LEADERSHIP AND ACRONYMS

• BOARD OF DIRECTORS (President: Denise Connerty, Temple University; President Elect: William Barnhart (University of Utah); Past President: Gary Althen, University of Iowa; and others. Ex-officio: Marlene Johnson, Executive Director, NAFSA)

• DEVELOPMENT AND 50^TH ANNIVERSARY COMMITTEES (Chairs, Stephen Dunnett (SUNY Buffalo) and Jill Dinwiddie (Orinda, CA)

• PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT (Chair: Heidi Gregori Gahan, Vice President for Professional Development and former OSEAS US based Coordinator, University of Southern Indiana)

• Council on Professional Development
• Professional Sections:

Admissions Section (ADSEC)

Administrators and Teachers in English as a Second Language (ATESL)

Council of Advisers to Foreign Students and Scholars (CAFSS)

Community Section (COMSEC)

Section on U.S. Students Abroad (SECUSSA)

• Committees:

Education and Training Committee (E & T)

Communications and Information Committee (COMINFO)

Committee on Ethical Practice (Ethics)

• Professional Educator Groups (PEGs)

Overseas Educational Advisers Group (OSEAS) (Made up of six regions and one sub-region: Europe, Africa, East Asia, South Asia, American Republics, Near East, Oceania, plus one US based and one Overseas based Coordinator)

Sponsoring and Programming Agencies Group (SPA)

• Special Projects: Cooperative Grants Committee
• Special Programs

PUBLIC AFFAIRS (Chair: Vice President for Public Affairs: Geoffrey R. Wood, University of Pittsburgh)

• Council on Public Affairs
• Working Groups (made up of ten groups, including Overseas Educational Advising Centers Support)

MEMBER RELATIONS (Chair: Betty Soppelsa, Vice President of Member Relations, University of Kansas)

• 1998-1999 Regional Council (made up of 11 regions within the US)
• 1999-2000 Regional Council (made up of 11 regions within the US)
• Committees:

Membership Committee

National Awards Sub-Committee

Nominations and Elections Committee

Diversity Committee

• Selected Constituencies (Community/Junior College Liaison)
• Special Interest Groups (SIGs) (Made up of 14 different sub-groups, including MICROSIG - Microcomputer Special Interest Group and others)

USEFUL NAFSA AND OTHER ACRONYMS AT A GLANCE:

ADSEC: Admissions Section

ATESL: Administrators and Teachers in English as a Second Language

CAFSS: Council of Advisers to Foreign Students and Scholars

COMINFO: Committee on Communication and Information Services

COMSEC: Community Section

CPA: Council on Public Affairs

MICROSIG: Microcomputer Special Interest Group

NAFSA: NAFSA: Association of International Educators (formerly National Association for Foreign Student Affairs)

PDP: Professional Development Program

OSEAS: Overseas Educational Advisers

REAP: Russian and Eurasian Awards Program

SECUSSA: Section on US Students Abroad

SIGs: Special Interest Groups

SPAs: Sponsoring and Programming Agencies

Alliance: Alliance for International Educational and Cultural Exchange

AIEA: Association of International Education Administrators

WHERE DOES OSEAS FIT IN TO THE NAFSA STRUCTURE?

OSEAS is one of seven professional groups within NAFSA's branch on Professional Development (ADSEC, ATESL, CAFSS, COMSEC, SECUSSA, OSEAS AND SPA).

OSEAS consists of six regional (plus one sub-regional) leaders, various functional representatives and ex-officios who represent overseas educational advising to the leadership and various sections and committees within the Association. (see OSEAS leadership brochure).

Over the past three years, OSEAS has gained increasing visibility and importance as the group within NAFSA which helps maintain the flow of international students to the United States.

WHERE DOES OSEAS-EUROPE FIT IN?

OSEAS-Europe is one of the six regions within OSEAS. It consists of overseas advising professionals from Western, Eastern and Central Europe, plus the NIS. It is the first region ever within OSEAS to create its own democratically elected board, to develop a set of working By-Laws, and to have its own homepage and listserve.

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Prepared by: Evelyn Levinson, OSEAS Overseas Coordinator 1996-99; Director, Educational Information Center, Fulbright Foundation, Tel Aviv. August 2, 1998.

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