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Tag: Engage Global

Alternative Spring BAE travelers bring lessons of Belize home to changed U.S.

March 29, 2020 Mark McGowan enewsletter, KNPE

Looking for silver linings has quickly become a daily, and necessary, healing priority for a struggling world. Viral videos of exhausted doctors performing John Lennon’s “Imagine” in a hospital lobby. Of relatives waving through windows at their loved ones in nursing homes.

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Jenn Jacobs nets federal grant to create national women’s sport summit in Belize

November 13, 2019 Mark McGowan enewsletter, KNPE

Alternative Spring BAE 2.0 will touch down in Belize in Spring 2020 with a different mission than its Engage Global debut in 2019, thanks to a $10,000 award from the U.S. Department of State. Jenn Jacobs, an assistant professor of Sport and

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Alternative Spring BAE travelers absorb life lessons in teaching Belizean coaches

April 16, 2019 Mark McGowan enewsletter, KNPE

NIU’s inaugural travelers in the Alternative Spring BAE program arrived in Belize with a good idea that they would learn as much as would the 24 youth sport coaches they’d gone to teach. What they hadn’t realized was that their true objective

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‘Alternative Spring BAE’ to transport kinesiology students to Belize in March

January 24, 2019 Mark McGowan enewsletter, KNPE

Five Department of Kinesiology and Physical Education students will spend their Spring Break in Belize this March as part of a new Engage Global initiative called Alternative Spring BAE. Two master’s students and three undergraduates will train about 50 Belizean coaches, teachers

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Engage Global contingent relates empowering lessons from Sri Lanka

September 12, 2018 Mark McGowan enewsletter, KNPE

How it began is worth a smile. “They arrived in Sri Lanka on 13th August,” writes Sri Lanka’s YMCA of Pamunugama, telling of its visitors from NIU and elsewhere in the United States, “and in the evening … went on a boat

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Engage Global debuts in Sri Lanka

August 13, 2018 Mark McGowan enewsletter, Graduate Programs, KNPE, KNPE alumni eNewsletter

Days after the Department of Kinesiology and Physical Education’s Sri Lankan visitors left the NIU campus in late April, their hosts already were planning to book flights to Asia for August. That trip began Aug. 12 – and included four students who

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