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Assistant Dean Vincent Porfirio will be traveling nationally and globally throughout the 2009 – 2010 academic year. Starting with Cape Town, South Africa, Vincent will be spending the summer of 2009 abroad via Harvard University’s Center of International Development through the Albert N. Husted Fellowship and funding provided by The Sage Colleges.
Vincent Porfirio with SUNY President Hall
In November Vincent will be traveling to The University of the West Indies, Trinidad campus, to guest lecture with the Centre for Gender and Development Studies on advertising and identity. He will also be presenting data collected in South Africa and doing service projects in St. Augustine.
January will have Dean Porfirio flying south to Mississippi, Tennessee and Louisiana for a three state tour of secondary institutions effected by Hurricane Katrina. He will be a guest of Teach for America and will visit at-risk classrooms in rural and urban settings. This tri-state trip will allow for Vincent to work with Teach for America eduators and students in high-needs districts within the cities of Memphis, Clarksdale, and New Orleans.
Dean Porfirio will also be spending extensive time in the Republic of Finland in Europe as a guest of the Ministry of Education. In June of 2010 the Ministry of Education has extended an invitation to Dean Porfirio to tour a number of secondary and higher-ed institutions within the country. Finland, which boasts the highest academic achievement within the western world, is also one of the most heteronormative and homogeneous nations on earth.
