Posted by Jayme Tsutsuse (Kyoto-fu, 2013-Present), job poster for JETwit and organizer of Cross-Cultural Kansai, seeking work opportunities in NYC starting in August 2014!
I recently returned to Kyoto after spending a week in New York City. Before my trip, I worried that I would experience what is called reverse culture shock, but shortly after returning to American soil, I realized the mistake in my worries. What I experienced wasn’t the culture shock of returning to a home that feels strangely between familiar and foreign. It was the culture shock of a completely novel experience.
It really didn’t take long after landing for this culture shock to set in. My boyfriend, Jeff, and I, both half-Japanese, born and raised in America, were riding an escalator up from JFK’s international arrivals lobby to the Airtram terminal. We were caught up in each other presence, having been apart for months, when suddenly, the lady on the downward escalator turned to us with a larger-than-life smile and enthusiastically called out, “Chinese“, waving her hand in our direction. We locked eyes with her, stunned, as she gradually disappeared down the escalator. Jeff and I stared each other up and down, searching for something that would have brought on the lady’s quick judgement. The man behind us rhetorically remarked, “What the hell was that about?”
The act itself wasn’t offensive or hurtful, but I could’t quite shake it from my thoughts. Granted a large international airport may be an easy place to act on an assumption that someone is foreign, but wouldn’t a simple hello suffice? Or Welcome to America if you must.
For months, I had been telling the people I met in Japan about America’s diversity – about how easy it is to blend in in the bigger cities, about how it is impossible to make judgements on whether or not someone is American. I’ve always claimed that on the subway in America, you can’t guess who is foreign on the basis of their race, appearance, language, or actions. But there we were in what’s said to be one of America’s most diverse cities, being incorrectly called out for our… ethnicity? nationality? identity?
Job: Program Director, Special International Programs – Florida State Univ (Tallahassee, FL)
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Position: Program Director, Special International Programs
Posted by: Florida State University
Location: Tallahassee, FL
Type: full-time
Salary Range: $50,000 – $58,000 depending on qualifications and experience
Job Duties:
Oversee the management of the CGE Special Programs auxiliary unit offering intensive short-term summer programs to students from international partner institutions followed by six month internships at Walt Disney World, and the on campus support for students in the Special Academic Year programs. Teach up to four courses per year.
Provide overall management for both the curricular and co-curricular components of intensive summer program sessions for international students from partner institutions. Establish year round timelines for cyclical process beginning with MOUs and marketing materials, work with international partners to pre-screen students, support both the WDW and FSU application process and plan for the arrival and orientation of each group. Prepare the master calendar for intensive summer sessions to include required classroom contact hours, orientation, and social and cultural events and ensure overall program meets requirements of State Department regulations for J-1 academic program followed by academic training (internship) at Walt Disney World. Provide oversight for purchasing, including bid process, to ensure FSU policies and procedures are followed for health insurance, on campus housing, meal plans, charters, textbooks, etc. included as part of student program fee.
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Job: Assistant Director & Advisor (Combined Position) – Kalamazoo College (MI)
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Via JET alum Carleen Ben. Posted by Jayme Tsutsuse (Kyoto-fu, 2013-Present), organizer of Cross-Cultural Kansai, seeking work opportunities in NYC starting in August 2014.
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Position: Assistant Director of the Center for International Programs (Latin America)/International Students and Scholars Adviser
Posted by: Kalamazoo College
Location: Kalamazoo, MI
Type: full-time
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