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New Staff: Ehren Kuzekov and Tobias Zwick
Ehren is the new study abroad advisor for individual student programs. She works with students to find study abroad programs that will fit well with their major and  degree plans and supports them throughout the application process. As an undergraduate student, she studied abroad in Brisbane, Australia for a semester where she completed coursework in Torres Strait Islander and Aboriginal Studies. As a graduate student, she completed an internship with the Kazakhstan Institute of Management, Economics, and Strategic Research in Almaty, Kazakhstan where she supported and facilitated international programming. Ehren served in the Peace Corps in Kazakhstan for two years where she taught English to grade school and high school students as well as supported her community through several projects including the formation of a community English language center. In her recent position at Seattle University, she academically advised students who were majoring in International Studies and assisted students in choosing study abroad programs and other international opportunities.
Tobias is the new Graduate Assistant in the Office of Study Abroad. He shows the students all the choices and opportunities they have to study abroad within their major or minor. Tobias is from Germany and did his undergrad at the University of Bayreuth, which is a bilateral exchange partner of WIU. During his undergrad he studied abroad in Shanghai, China for a semester where he learned Chinese and taught European Business Topics to undergrad students. He also lived in Saudi Arabia for six month, where he did an internship for a consulting company and wrote his bachelor thesis to graduate at University of Bayreuth. Tobias is studying for a Master’s Degree at WIU as well at the University of Bayreuth.
For the latest news and further information call the Office of Study Abroad 309-298-2504, see our website or like us on Facebook at www.facebook.com/wiustudyabroad.
International Student Follows in Father's Footsteps at WIU
When it came time for Dong-jin Kim from South Korea to select a university for his master's degree, Western Illinois University was at the top of the list thanks to the Kim family's history with the Midwestern school.
Kim, who is a first-semester master’s degree student in the educational leadership program at Western this fall, actually spent a few of his formative years at WIU while his father, Dr. Hyuk-Jong Kim, who has served as the president of Gwangju University since May 2003, attended graduate school. Hyuk-Jong and his wife Sook-nam Song lived in Macomb from August 1985 until 1987. Though the family returned to Korea briefly for Dong-jin's birth, they returned to Lamoine Village on the Macomb campus, which Dong-jin now calls home once again.
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