Sutton Joins International Education Organization Executive Committee

AIEA Executive Committee member Susan Sutton

INDIANAPOLIS – Susan B. Sutton, Associate Dean of International Programs, has been elected to the Executive Committee of the Association of International Education Administrators (AIEA).

She will serve a three-year term from 2006–2008 and was officially inducted at the organization’s annual conference last month. The AIEA is the premier professional organization dedicated to enhancing opportunities for chief international officers (CIOs) to join forces, exchange ideas, share institutional strategies, and provide an effective voice on matters of public policy. Above all, the association promotes international education and research, so necessary in a world which every day grows more economically interdependent, more knowledge based, more technology driven, and more culturally complex.

“I am very honored and looking forward to serving,” Sutton said.

In addition to her role as associate dean, Sutton is Chancellor’s Professor of Anthropology at IUPUI. Her academic interests include international education and programs, modern Greece, migration, settlement, and the construction of community in contemporary life. She has published three books and more than 30 articles in her field. During the last 25 years, Sutton has developed an extensive body of research on contemporary Greece, while simultaneously participating in the growth and development of the IUPUI campus.

In 2003, Sutton became Associate Dean of International Programs at IUPUI, transferring her anthropological perspectives to international program development. Sutton is also currently serving as the President-Elect, General Anthropology Division, American Anthropological Association.

Sutton’s selection to serve on the AIEA executive committee reflects the growing prominence of IUPUI in campus and curriculum internationalization efforts nationwide. Under her leadership in the Office of International Affairs, IUPUI has dramatically increased its Study Abroad programming, is forming strategic core partnerships with universities and geographic areas abroad, has developed interactive virtual classes with institutions abroad, and has received a Title VI grant from the U.S. Department of Education to internationalize the professional undergraduate curriculum, among various other internationalization efforts.

The Office of International Affairs helps IUPUI engage the world through education and partnership by supporting all international activities, including student recruitment, admissions, and services; visa services for faculty and staff; research and partnerships; International House programming; study abroad; the Global Crossroads; the IU Center for South East Asia; and campus and curriculum internationalization.