Professors pleased with "experience" of academic rigor

IFE’s academic internship programs converge student desires for exciting experiences (as well as a chance to enhance their resumé) with their teachers’ desire for a serious learning exercise, through internship placements that are great places for research. Guided by their research advisor, students discover that their internship is really a field study opportunity, in addition to a chance to get to know France today in very real, familiar way. In the end, everyone’s goals are met: fascinating encounters, professional contacts, intellectual challenges…in short, a learning curve still steep several months out.

IFE’s local-contact expertise solicited for new study abroad programs

With long experience in introducing talented students to France today in stimulating and useful ways, IFE finds itself being asked to operate semester study abroad programs in Paris for US undergraduate institutions. Fall 2005 saw the re-launch of the Goucher Randolph Macon Paris Semester, now operated by IFE. For Fall 2006, IFE is spearheading an innovative one-semester program by Franklin and Marshall College for second-year students combining language learning with cultural learning, in the aim of preparing students for intensive language-based overseas programs in their third or fourth year.

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Books in a Bind?: Paris Book Fair Highlights Industry’s Health and Fears

One of the big dates each year in the Paris season is the Paris Book Fair in March, and with three current students plunged into book world internships, IFE paid a bit more attention this year to the goings-on. ...

Face Off: Burqas, Niqabs and the Women Who Want Them Banned

The IFE guest lecture for the month of March was delivered by a panel of three young women active in the not-for-profit organization Ni Putes Ni Soumises (NPNS — "neither sluts nor submissive"). ...

Vote Where You Are Planted or How Participatory Is Your Democracy?

As IFE spreads its activities to Strasbourg France it finds its areas of engagement spreading as well. Latest example is IFE student Alex Branham’s placement as an assistant to the city hall liaison officer for Strasbourg’s Council of Foreign Residents. ...

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Two Former Students Show Where IFE May Lead

Sophia Accord, student at IFE in 2001 and intern with the fine arts division of the Ministry of Culture, has just received her doctorate in the Sociology of Art from the University of Exeter, UK. ...