Remote teaching and outreach lecturing while in a sabbatical
I am now arriving almost at the end of my one-year sabbatical in MIT, generously sponsored by Fulbright. As expected, research was vibrant and…
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Teaching and Tango in the Twin Cities
I have been teaching Dutch at the University of Minnesota as a Fulbright Foreign Language Assistant (FLTA) and to be honest: if this experience…
Best Practices at NAFSA – April 24, 2017
Best Practices at NAFSA 24 April 2017 | 2:00 – 4:00 p.m. Join internationally-minded colleagues from institutions of higher education across Belgium at this…
First Semester
The first semester is already over. Time flies when you are on a new adventure. The good thing about California is that the sun…
Number of Belgian Students in the U.S. Up Over 9 Percent
The number of international students at U.S. colleges and universities surpassed one million for the first time during the 2015-16 academic year—an increase of seven…
Student Organizations
From all the American chick flicks I’ve seen, I created the impression that every American college student is engaged in some sort of student…
Symposium on the American Presidential Elections
Without a doubt, the upcoming 2016 Presidential Election is a worldwide topic of sensation, scandal and intrigue. What one student compared to as being…
My Summer Institute in the U.S.
Since I was 15 years old I have been a fan of American culture. I can now say that I have scratched off my…
The Museum of Modern Art (MoMa), a private tour
MoMa is the place to be for art lovers in New York. On Fridays, admission is free and people are queuing up to enjoy…
To New Horizons
It has been a month since I started my adventure. Indeed, it was exactly one month ago that I took the plane to fly…