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Fort Leavenworth Officers and KU Students attend planning exercise
High School Students from around Kansas participate in German language competition

 

Fort Leavenworth Officers and KU Students
attend planning exercise
Officers from Fort Leavenworth and students in the political science department met at the Kansas Union on March 13 as part of the partnership between KU’s College of Liberal Arts & Sciences and the U.S. Army’s Combined Arms Command. The meeting was intended to serve as an exercise on information operations and was directed by the College’s Associate Dean Paul D’Anieri. The meeting served as part of the 27 hours of instruction in cultural aptitude offered to officers in the Information Operations training course at Fort Leavenworth. The officers were also invited to partake in two discussions led by KU faculty members: Garth Myers, an associate professor of geography and African and African-American studies, and Yan Bing Zhang, an assistant professor of communication studies. Myers will discuss tribalism and Zhang will examine intercultural communication.

The partnership between the two institutions was initially created in 2004 to help strengthen both organizations’ capacity to train military and civilian leaders, concentrating in the areas of international relations and national security.

 

High School Students from around Kansas
participate in German language competition
More than 250 Kansas high school students from 17 schools participated in the University of Kansas’ Schuelerkongress on March 3. Schuelerkongress, German for student congress, included contests in poetry recitation, spelling, oral language proficiency, poster-making, spelling, prose reading and cultural tests involving geography, history and cuisine. Schuelerkongress, which was first held at KU in 1965, recognizes and awards students for their aptitude in the German language and culture.

The event was sponsored by The Kansas Association of Teachers of German with assistance from KU’s Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures. Department faculty and graduate teaching assistants were judges during the competition. Holding the competition at KU allows visiting students to interact with university-level instructors and exchange students from Germany.

During the competition, students competed for medals and prizes contributed by the consulates of Germany, Switzerland and Austria as well as the Goethe Institute in Chicago and the German Information Center in New York City. To see a list of all the award recipients, visit http://www.news.ku.edu/2007/march/7/german/shtml.

 

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