CANIE Climate Dialogues

Join CANIE co-host Amy Marcus for a conversation with Suzanne Willever and Rebecca Collins, who share with us all about their collaboration across departments at Temple University. Over the past few years, Suzanne and Rebecca have worked together to bridge the gap between education abroad and sustainability, organizing events, funding student learning opportunities, educating the campus community, and partnering with the local community. Along the way, they’ve forged not only a productive working relationship but a supportive friendship. They provide their biggest takeaways from their time working together, plus tips and tricks for collaborating with the office of sustainability on your own campus - and even where to find resources if your campus doesn’t have its own dedicated sustainability office.

In the second episode of the #TravelwithCANIE series, CANIE co-host Kelly speaks with Mariëlle van Es from Leiden University about Mariëlle’s effort to convince her colleagues to travel with her to EAIE in Barcelona, 2022, by train from the Netherlands. Mariëlle shares the rationale she used to convince her colleagues to make the journey by train, and convince her supervisor to fund the tickets, as well as how her previous experiences using rail travel helped her make the case.

Welcome to Season 2 of the CANIE Climate Dialogues! The first episode of the season focuses on #TravelwithCANIE, an initiative launched out of the Europe chapter in the spring of 2022. #TravelwithCANIE focuses on traveling sustainably to conferences, a feat which has been accomplished by over 50 travelers as they made their way by train and boat to the EAIE and EMEA Forum on Education Abroad conferences in the Fall of 2022.

Reach out to CANIE on twitter at @canieglobal to share your thoughts on this episode and to let us know what you'd like to hear about next! This episode of the CANIE Climate Dialogues podcast is sponsored by the University of Auckland's international office.

In this episode, CJ is a fly on the wall as CANIE Co-Founder and President Ailsa Lamont chats with longtime friends of CANIE Climate Dialogues the University of Auckland's international leadership team to learn just how they became trailblazers in the sustainability space as an international department. Brett Berquist and Ainslie Moore, Director and Deputy Director, respectively, at the University of Auckland share their knowledge and provide tangible examples of how to connect the work of an international department with the institution and community at large. Reach out to CANIE on twitter at @canieglobal to share your thoughts on this episode and to let us know what you'd like to hear about next! This episode of the CANIE Climate Dialogues podcast is sponsored by the University of Auckland's international office (and this episode is NOT sponsored content!)

It’s an action-packed first episode of Season 2 of the CANIE Climate Dialogues Podcast! This episode features an incredible conversation with Dr. Anne Campbell, Thi Nguyen, and Maia Stewart from the Middlesbury Institution of International Studies that focuses on Climate Anxiety among International Education Practitioners. Before that though, CJ shares what CANIE has been up to this summer and what to expect from this upcoming season and is joined by Caroline Mangan, the Secretary of the new CANIE Europe Chapter for a quick chat to talk about their upcoming launch event!

The CANIE Climate Dialogue Podcast returns after a short hiatus just in time for the mother of all conferences in international education: NAFSA and others coming up like Going Global and BCCIE’s Summer Conference! CJ chats with returning CANIE Co-Host and virtual event master (and fan!) Evelien Renders about a recent article she co-published on what we’ve learned about virtual conferencing since our jump-into-the-deep-end first circuit as a result of the COVID19 pandemic.  CJ and Evelien discuss the reduced carbon footprint of virtual conferences, the challenges and opportunities of virtual conferences, some tips for exhibitors, attendees, speakers, and planners, and wrap it up with their hope for the future of conferences in the sector! The presenting sponsor for the CANIE Climate Dialogues is the University of Auckland's International Office.  

Links mentioned:  

Evelien’s article on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/steep-learning-curve-virtual-conferences-evelien-renders/?trackingId=1a4rHM%2BwSW%2BGmUyQFFwy9w%3D%3D 

Dutch University Report - Flying High but Flying Less: https://dejongeakademie.nl/shared/resources/documents/rapport-flying-high-but-flying-less-2020.pdf   

Virtual Networking Icebreakers Padlet:  https://padlet.com/katharina_walch/virtual_icebreakers    

The Ministry of the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson - the book that CJ and Evelien mention at the end of the podcast

This episode is all about research at the intersection of climate action and international education - is there any, will there be more, what is missing, what does it all mean, and what can it help us achieve?  CJ is joined by CANIE co-founder Pii-Tuulia Nikula for her first trip in the CANIE co-host seat and they are joined by Robin Shields, professor of education at the University of Bristol in the UK to talk about his groundbreaking research and discuss its impact on the international education community. The presenting sponsor for the CANIE Climate Dialogues is the University of Auckland's International Office.

Big news in the move towards a more sustainable International Education Study Abroad sector and we’re here to break it down! In this episode of the pod, CJ is joined once again by CANIE Co-Host Adrienne Fusek to talk about the new guidelines that aim to align the Standards of Good Practice for Education Abroad with the UN SDGs. CJ and Adrienne are then joined by two members of the committee that developed the guidelines - Daniel Ponce-Taylor from IOI and Ravi Raj from Authentica - to dig into the framework, some applications, and how you, our listeners, can start using them today to work towards a more sustainable study abroad program. The presenting sponsor for the CANIE Climate Dialogues is the University of Auckland's International Office.

The 2020 pandemic has forced international education to change in many ways, including the overnight change from the much-beloved in-person conferences to virtual. In this episode, CJ is joined by CANIE Co-host Evelien Renders, Information Manager in internationalization at Radboud University, to talk to two associations: the Canadian Bureau for International Education (CBIE) and the Inter-American Organization for Higher Education (OIHE) about their organizations' views on climate justice and action, and the benefits and challenges of virtual, bi-annual, and annual conference models. We listen to Larissa Bezo, President and CEO of the Canadian Bureau for International Education (CBIE), Melissa Payne, Director of Membership, Research and Learning (CBIE), and Luis Kauachi (IOHE) discuss the future of conferences and networking and finally - how practitioners can play active roles in shaping these changes. The presenting sponsor for the CANIE Climate Dialogues is the University of Auckland's International Office.

Jumping from our previous episode of online collaboration to traditional mobility, CJ Tremblay is joined by CANIE Co-host Michelle Avelena to tackle the issue of becoming better at international mobility, specifically student exchanges. In this episode, CJ takes listeners close to the initiatives started by Kevin Mac Gabhann, Director of International Relations at the EM Strasbourg Business School, University of Strasbourg on ways that the school prepares its exchange students to be aware of green initiatives at their exchange destination. We tackle some of the frequently asked questions on starting green policies at institutions, to the importance of creating climate-aware global leader. Finally, we learn from Kevin on his vision of mobility: achieving carbon net-zero. Presenting Sponsor: Auckland University

COIL, short for Collaborative Online International Learning, is a hot topic of conversation. In this Episode, CJ is joined by CANIE Co-Host, and CANIE Summit [Europe] Presenter, Simone Hackett - senior lecturer and head of internationalization at The Hague University in The Netherlands. Simone has worked with COIL since 2012 and in a surprise twist that CJ did not expect, also worked with guest Keiko Ikeda, Professor in the Division of International Affairs, and KU-COIL Coordinator at Kansai University on a COIL collaboration! In this episode Simon and Keiko introduce the topic of COIL, the opportunities it presents for internationalization at home, subject matter well-suited to COIL, as well as best practices for getting COIL embedded in an institution. Simone and Keiko also discuss how COIL has changed as a result of COVID and why it presents an opportunity for sustainable internationalization.

On this episode of the pod, Adrienne Fusek once again joins CJ as CANIE Co-Host to talk about an upcoming CANIE Live "Climate Justice and International Education" discussion series. They chat with series moderator Ine Williams, a CANIE board member and Melissa Lee, CEO of The Green Program and a panelist for Part 1 of the series. Ine and Melissa share their journeys and drivers to explore and discuss the intersection of racial justice, climate justice, and their work and our work as a sector.

In our third episode, CJ is joined by CANIE board member Adrienne Fusek in her first appearance as CANIE Co-Host! CJ and Adrienne speak with two leaders from prominent sustainable campus associations on the opposite sides of the world: Meghan Fay Zahnisher, the Executive Director at the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE) in North America and Corey Peterson, the current President of Australasian Campuses Towards Sustainability (ACTS). Megan and Corey reflect on the impact their organizations have had in their decades of work in higher education, address the commonly asked question on how international offices can work with sustainability offices, and their vision for a more sustainable international education sector. Finally, we discuss how the COVID-19 pandemic impacts sustainability work and the road to sustainable recovery.

What the heck is CANIE? In this second episode, we talk to our two co-founders: Ailsa Lamont and Pii-Tulia Nikula on the 5W of their Climate Action Network. Who are they? When and where did they start CANIE? Why climate change? The conversation continues to the growing international education community's interest towards climate action, and the network's vision, plans, and challenges today and the future. Finally, we discuss the various ways our listeners can get involved with CANIE.

In the inaugural episode of the CANIE Climate Dialogues, CANIE Co-Founder Ailsa Lamont pops in to talk about the recent International Education Climate Action Summit [Europe] and what's next for our grassroots organization. Then we kick off our dialogue with Linh Do, a Climate Reality Leader and all-around impressive climate communication expert from Australia, to discuss what we’re up against with the Climate Crisis. We get real about the Climate crisis but, in a surprise twist for the year 2020, the discussion turns hopeful!

International Education is both an important global force for good and a contributor to the climate emergency. Join CJ Tremblay as she discusses what's happening at the intersection of climate action and international education and speaks with administrators, researchers, policy makers, students, and more for solutions on transforming our industry. If you want to start affect change in the business of international education as we work towards a more carbon-conscious and emissions-neutral industry, then this podcast is for you.