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Held in Southwest’s ultramodern Bert Bornblum Library and the Farris Building on February 11, the theme for the Tennessee Consortium for International Studies (TnCIS) Fifth Annual Conference on International Education was “International Education: Set Your Course.” TnCIS represents 19 colleges and universities devoted to making international education and cultural understanding a central goal of higher education throughout the state of Tennessee. The purpose of the annual conference is to expand study abroad and international educational opportunities for students throughout the state.

The keynote speaker for this year’s event was Dr. Eric Gottlieb, an associate professor of mathematics for Rhodes College, who was awarded a Fulbright at the Instituto de matematicas y fisica at the Universidad de Talca in Talca, Chile, where he taught and conducted research.

The conference was supposed to be a two-day event; however day one was cancelled due to the large amount of snow that pounded the state. Chattanooga State Community College presenters Dr. Lori Lammert, associate professor of Spanish, and Dr. Max Gartman, professor of French and Spanish, made a 10-hour grueling drive across the state battling, treacherous road conditions to attend. Dr. Lammert said, “As a member of the Advising Committee for TnCIS and of the Planning Committee for the conference, I needed to be here yesterday morning (February 10).” Both were scheduled to present on Study Abroad: How Studying Abroad Has Changed My Life