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CCID Founders & Officers |
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 Maxwell
C. King
was the first Chairman of the Board of Community Colleges for International
Development. He was the founding president of Indian River Community
College and from 1968 to 1998 was District President of Brevard
Community College in Florida. Dr. King has served as a consultant
in many countries, including two assignments in India as a Fulbright
lecturer. He is the author of many articles and editor of publications
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Albert M. Koller, Jr. is a past Executive Director of CCID and was Brevard Community College's Associate Vice President of International Education. Other positions have included the president of the Titusville Campus of Brevard Community College, and as a NASA engineer and program manager for more than 30 years at the Kennedy Space Center. Dr. Koller is nationally published in technical, management, and international education topics. He recently retired from his second career in community colleges.
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 Seymour H. Fersh
was Professor of Humanities Emeritus
at Brevard Community College and consults for CCID.
He is the author of many articles and textbooks,
including Learning About Peoples and Cultures and Asia:
Teaching About/Learning From. Before coming
to Brevard
in 1981, Dr. Fersh served for three years
as Director of International Services for AACC and
was Education Director of The Asia Society for 13 years.
He passed away in 1999 and is buried in Arlington National
Cemetery.
In honor of his outstanding
contributions
to international understanding, CCID sponors
the Seymour Fersh Memorial Lecture at the Annual Conference
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 John Halder grew up in London, England,
where he
graduated from the University of London, B.Sc. (Econ.) Honors, Political Science.
In the U.K. his career was in health care administration,
where he has higher educational qualifications
through the Institute for Health Service Administrators.
Prior to his present
position, he managed
the International Studies Department
at Kirkwood Community College, with 400 international students;
English as a Second Language Programs with 125 students; overseas
faculty exchanges; study abroad activities; sister schools, and international
contracted training. In that position he represented the college in
CCID, and managed the CCID Faculty Exchange Programs for the consortium,
as well as chairing conference and other committees. As President
of CCID, Halder has overseen the organization increase from less than
90 colleges in 1998, to 160 today, with the merger with ACIIE. He
manages all aspects of the consortium’s programming, including
two board meetings annually. |
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CCID is a consortium of 160 two year colleges
in the U.S. and twelve other countries, and is the pre-eminent two-year
college organization in the United States working on all aspects of
global vocational / professional education, and training overseas.
The mission of CCID is to take the community college model and share
it internationally, while internationalizing it as well. Established
in 1976, CCID has worked throughout the world during its 30 -year
history, and through its member colleges represents over 500 technical
and vocational programs and 15,000 faculty and staff. Developing the
community college model for overseas clients, workforce development,
and undertaking needs assessment are specialties. CCID also initiates
and manages student study abroad programs, international faculty development
programs, senior administrator visits overseas, and conferences and
videoconferences focused on global issues in the two-year college. |
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