TIEC’s Texas Intensive English Program (TIEP) welcomed its 19th group of students from Mishima Senior High School in Mishima, Japan to Austin for a three-week intensive English and cultural immersion program.

While most Austin residents spent their summers down by the lake or seeking air conditioning wherever possible, Abbey Maedgen, an English instructor at TIEC’s Texas Intensive English Program (TIEP) traveled around the world—quite literally—to teach children in need.

The Texas International Education Consortium has submitted a panel proposal for the 2019 SXSW Education Conference and we need your vote!

TIEC is proud of all 31 of its member universities. In the #WhyTIEC series, we sit down with members of our Operating Council, and discuss what makes their Texas university so special.

On June 27th TIEC’s President and CEO Robin Lerner, JD, and Vice President Ryan Buck, PhD, spoke to a room filled with United States scholars and students, preparing to depart on their Fulbright programs across 17 countries in the Western Hemisphere.

In the United States, the nursing profession is projected to experience a shortage of Registered Nurses (RN) that is expected to intensify as Baby Boomers age and the need for health care grows.

TIEC Vice President Ryan Buck, PhD, was invited by the Fulbright Commission in Colombia to speak at the orientation for a group of 120 Colombian Fulbright Scholars preparing to leave for their placements around the United States, including several Texas universities.

The Texas International Education Consortium (TIEC) welcomed the American University in Cairo (AUC) President Francis Ricciardone and his Associate Provost for Strategic Enrollment Management, Dr. Ahmed Tolba, to Texas to help foster connections and possible partnerships between AUC and a dozen TIEC member universities.

On April 22-28, 2018, TIEC President & CEO Robin Lerner, JD, was invited as a distinguished guest of the Korea Foundation, an organization affiliated with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Korea, for a short-term educational fellowship.

The Texas International Education Consortium invited Ms. Karen Hawkins, director of the Office for Private Sector Exchange Designation, to TIEC headquarters on April 18 and 19, 2018, to speak about The U.S. Exchange Visitor Program and discuss opportunities for Non-USG entities to host their own international exchange programs.

Ryan Buck, PhD, assumed the role of Vice President of the Texas International Education Consortium (TIEC) on April 4, 2018.

Leaders of the PMU curriculum review and design team arrive in Dammam, Saudi Arabia. From left to right: Hongchi Shi (Texas State University), John Bryant (Texas A&M University), Nick Poulton (TIEC), Mark Kroll (The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley), and Robin Lerner (TIEC).