About CIE

Mission
Location
Contact

Mission

The Center for International Education is a comprehensive international office, encompassing key campus programs and services while fostering a campus-wide international teaching and research agenda. CIE creates connections among functions which, on many campuses, would normally be housed in multiple offices, thus encouraging collaborations and efficiencies in services.

In all of its endeavors, CIE seeks to foster a new, interdisciplinary, collaborative approach to international education at UWM, bringing together international and Milwaukee-based scholars and students, fostering a global perspective on local concerns, and linking Milwaukee to the world. CIE has adopted a cutting-edge teaching, research and outreach agenda focused on Global Studies.

UWM's new BA degree in Global Studies is the first of its kind in the nation: an academically-rigorous, pre-professional degree program that provides students with advanced language competencies, overseas study and internship experiences, and course work emphasizing globalization's impact on today's world.

The Global Studies initiative is driven by UWM faculty expertise. CIE supports faculty research through its conferences, grant opportunities, and publications, including both Occasional Papers and the "New Directions in International Studies" book series published by Rutgers University Press.

CIE's Institute of World Affairs emphasizes globalization issues in its programs and web-based resources for educators, business, media, and the public. With over 40 years of service as Wisconsin's only World Affairs Council, IWA is a vitar l bridge between the UWM campus and the community.

Location

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The Center of International Education is located on the first floors of Garland and Pearse Halls, on the corner of Downer Ave. and Harford Ave., in the Central Quad of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Campus. UWM provides printable color maps, printable black and white maps, online maps, and tours of the UWM campus.

Contact

CIE Administration

Borchardt, Lawrence - Business Manager
Petro, Patrice - Senior Director
Tully, Sara - Administrative Director
Ruggiero, Kris - Associate Director
Verdier, Gabrielle - Associate Director
Winters, Juanell - Financial Specialist
Beck, Robert - Director of Academic Technology
Curtain, Titus - SEVIS Coordinator

Office: Garland Hall room 102
Phone: (414) 229-3767
Fax: (414) 229-3626

Academic Advising

Programs and certificates:

Global Studies
International Studies
Peace Studies
Middle East & North African Studies
Asian Studies
Russian & East European Studies

Buss, Tracy - Academic Programs Coordinator
Joseph, Andrea - Advisor
Maguire, Thomas - Research and Publications Coordinator
Masri, Ghada - Visiting Professor

Office: Garland Hall room 102
Phone: (414) 229-6925
Fax: (414) 229-3626

Institute of World Affairs

Palasz, Nicole - K-16 Outreach Coordinator
Ricigliano, Robert - Director of Institute of World Affairs

Savage, Douglas - Asst Director

Schrag, Rachel - Program Coordinator

Yelich-Biniecki, Susan - Asst Director

Website: IWA Home Page | Global Commons
Phone: (414) 229-3220
Fax: (414) 229-3626
E-Mail: iwa@uwm.edu
Contact Form: http://iwa.uwm.edu/contactus/

International Student Admissions, Immigration Advising

Gruenwald, Jennifer - Director
Escobales, Lauren - Assistant Director
Huewitt, Cleangelia - Immigration Specialist
Maertens-Wilsing, Katja - Intl Admissions Advisor/Evaluator
Omachinski, Kim - Intl Student and Scholar Advisor
Singer, Jennifer - Intl Admissions Coordinator
Thomas, Brooke - Intl Student and Scholar Advisor

Office: Garland Hall room 138.
Hours: 8:00 AM to 4:30 PM

(Central daylight time) Monday through Friday.
Closed for legal holidays and weekends.

Phone: (414) 229-4846
Fax: (414) 229-0521
E-Mail: isss@uwm.edu

Study Abroad Programs, International Partnerships

Gosz, Sharon - Sutdy Abroad Coordinator
Danner, Thomas - Asst Director
Engberg, David - Director
Langnes, Tia - Financial Specialist
McGraw, Rachel - Study Abroad Coordinator
Tejada, Yomarie - Study Abroad Coordinator
Conway, Susan - Study Abroad Administrator

Office: Pearse Hall 166
Hours: Monday-Friday 8am-4:30pm
Phone: (414) 229-5182
E-Mail: overseas@uwm.edu