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SUSA News April 2014: SIETAR-USA remembers David Hoopes, deadline nears for conference proposals, ethics committee offers advice on intercultural dilemmas and more... President's Letter SIETAR-USA Board to Convene in Portland for Annual Retreat Dear Friends, Spring is here! With the ushering in of this new season, we can all experience a sense of new hope and opportunity. I'm happy to report that things are going well with SIETAR-USA. We’re gearing up for a very productive Board Retreat for our Board of Directors in early May. Our agenda includes the all-important task of strategic planning. As we’ve done before, we’ll be honoring our past as we chart our future. We’ll be carefully considering who we are, where we’ve been, and where we’re going. Also on the agenda are reports from the working groups I mentioned in the previous SUSA News and other items related to the daily running of our—and your—organization. This year, we’ll have the somewhat rare pleasure of having our Board Retreat at the same hotel as our upcoming conference. It’s the wonderful Doubletree by Hilton in Portland, Oregon. Every month, more excitement is building over our annual conference there. The Call for Proposals is out, with an April 30 deadline. If you were thinking of submitting a proposal, I would encourage you to do so. It’s a great opportunity to share your ideas and build your career. One thing I'm sure you have noticed is that interculturalists share a deep passion for this field. While we all have slightly different reasons for undertaking this work, most of us share a love for it. And it is the work of love—the work of fostering mutual understanding, especially in places where love is not readily apparent...acknowledging, understanding, appreciating, and celebrating our differences and our commonalities. April 2014 SIETAR-USA Newsletter http://us2.campaign-archive2.com/?u=fa0b14891387725b62c6... 1 of 18 6/19/14 9:35 PM

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SUSA News April 2014: SIETAR-USA remembers David Hoopes, deadline nears for conference proposals, ethics committeeoffers advice on intercultural dilemmas and more...

President's LetterSIETAR-USA Board toConvene in Portland forAnnual Retreat

Dear Friends, Spring is here! With the ushering in of this new season, wecan all experience a sense of new hope and opportunity.I'm happy to report that things are going well with SIETAR-USA. We’re gearing up for avery productive Board Retreat for our Board of Directors in early May. Our agendaincludes the all-important task of strategic planning. As we’ve done before, we’ll behonoring our past as we chart our future. We’ll be carefully considering who we are, wherewe’ve been, and where we’re going. Also on the agenda are reports from the workinggroups I mentioned in the previous SUSA News and other items related to the dailyrunning of our—and your—organization. This year, we’ll have the somewhat rare pleasure of having our Board Retreat at the samehotel as our upcoming conference. It’s the wonderful Doubletree by Hilton in Portland,Oregon. Every month, more excitement is building over our annual conference there. TheCall for Proposals is out, with an April 30 deadline. If you were thinking of submitting aproposal, I would encourage you to do so. It’s a great opportunity to share your ideas andbuild your career. One thing I'm sure you have noticed is that interculturalists share a deep passion for thisfield. While we all have slightly different reasons for undertaking this work, most of usshare a love for it. And it is the work of love—the work of fostering mutual understanding,especially in places where love is not readily apparent...acknowledging, understanding,appreciating, and celebrating our differences and our commonalities.

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I hope you will join with me in applying the passion you have for this field to ourorganization. Because SIETAR-USA represents the best of this field that we love. And joinwith us in infusing that passion and love into our upcoming conference in October.Whether as an attendee, a presenter, a volunteer, or an organizer, you can join in theco-creation of something truly meaningful—a representation of who we are, who we hopeto be, and what we are becoming more and more—a united group of people who make apositive difference in our communities and our nations in ever-expanding circles. And havefun doing it! See you in Portland, Oregon October 22-25, 2014! Warm regards, Christopher Deal. Ph.D.SIETAR-USA President

Intercultural Practitioners Remember DavidHoopes, Pioneer in the Field

The intercultural field has lost an important pioneer: DavidS. Hoopes, who envisioned the field of interculturalrelations before it even existed, published its first books,and signaled the founding of our profession. David wasborn on July 28, 1928, in Washington, D.C. where hegrew up and later attended the University of Utah for oneyear. He completed his undergraduate degree at GeorgeWashington University and earned his master’s degree inAmerican History from Harvard University, where he methis wife Kathleen (Kay) Rogers. David and Kay weremarried in 1952 in White River Junction and lived for atime in Boston while David served in the Army incounterintelligence. After his honorable discharge, theyspent seven months in Europe and then settled in Vershire, VT. Eventually, they moved toPittsburgh, PA and continued to spend their summers in Vershire before moving there fulltime in 1977. David was passionate about intercultural communication and cross-culturalrelations. David, among others, was the pioneering founder of the interculturalcommunication field.

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According to his obituary in Valley News (January 18, 2014), “David’s true love waswriting. He wrote poetry, including many love poems to his wife; a book about hisgrandfather, Rudger Clawson, an apostle of the Mormon Church; and a novel about thelife of Huckleberry Finn, from Huck’s perspective. David loved being at his home inVershire where he and Kay spent many hours gardening and landscaping. He alsoenjoyed riding on his tractor and throwing wood into the cellar for those cold Vermontdays… He was a loving father and a doting grandfather who always had time to stop andtalk and share his wisdom and advice to anyone lucky enough to be listening.”

Although he did not participate in the October 1968 conference in Estes Park Colorado,David was selected to become SIETAR’s first director where he directed a U.S. StateDepartment project to develop cross-cultural training guidelines. Albert Wight, anotherpioneer, described how SIETAR was formed. “SITAR (later SIETAR) grew out of extensivework in the development of cross-cultural training for the U.S. Peace Corps in the 1960s.At a workshop in Estes Park, Colorado in 1968 to review the cross-cultural trainingguidelines being developed for the Peace Corps, Steve Rhinesmith suggested that weform a professional society for intercultural training and research to carry on and expandthe work we were doing. The participants agreed to function as a steering committee and Iagreed to take on the role of acting executive director while formulating a more definitivestatement of purpose and objectives, developing criteria for membership, exploringpossibilities for funding, identifying potential members, and expanding the mailing list. Wealso began the search for a home for SITAR and, in 1971, settled on the University ofPittsburgh, where Dave Hoopes was heading up a project funded by the U.S. StateDepartment. I passed the reins to him, and he continued the work we had begun, with anofficial organizing conference in 1974. We couldn’t have selected a more devoted orconscientious person to continue the development of SIETAR, which now has chapters inmany different countries.

David and his assistant Toby Frank began the work of forming a professional associationand soon recognized that SIETAR needed a more permanent home and that it should bein the association hub: Washington, DC. He finalized arrangements for GeorgetownUniversity to house SIETAR where it remained for almost three decades.

Along with Margaret (Peggy) Pusch and George Renwick, David founded the InterculturalPress in the 1970s. He and Paul Ventura edited The Intercultural Sourcebook (1979) aspart of the State-of-the-Art Study conducted by SIETAR and directed by David during histenure as Executive Secretary of the Society. At the time, The Intercultural Sourcebookwas the only book available that surveyed the variety of instructional methods used byprofessional cross-cultural educators and trainers. By providing analysis and/or

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descriptions of each method, along with examples that could be used as they are oradapted to particular situations, the Sourcebook served as both a handbook for theinstructor and as a guide to the field. Comparing the first and second editions of theSourcebook reveals the growth of the intercultural field.

When I was exploring the idea of updating the Sourcebook, I realized that I needed to talkwith David and found that he was enthusiastic about the project. David wrote in thePreface to Volume 1: “It was fifteen years ago, in 1979, that the first edition of theIntercultural Sourcebook was published. It was a slight volume, though for the field it wasa major event. For the first time, persons concerned with intercultural education andtraining were able to survey the range of training methods available and get a full sense ofthe breadth of the field….Perhaps most significant, the book furthered the search formethods more precisely suited to the special and complex needs of cross-cultural training.There were two particularly important dimensions to this search. First, the focus of thetraining as it affected the trainee had to be more clearly defined. A distinction had to bemade between culture and personality, with the former identified as the proper domain ofcross-cultural training—and the latter left to qualified psycho-therapists.

Second, a more effective means of integrating cognitive and experiential learning had tobe found….Over the years the integration of culture, cognition, and experience in cross-cultural training has been achieved and is reflected in virtually every page of this newedition of the Intercultural Sourcebook.”

Always interested in the big picture, David was responsible for a number of books, suchas the Overview of Intercultural Education, Training and Research (1978). In the earlydays of the intercultural field, it was possible to know everyone who did research or wroteabout intercultural communication/relations, and David indeed knew them all. He was verypersuasive when he sensed a book that would contribute to the field. He succeeded inpublishing the work of many authors like Ned Seelye, Craig Storti, and Paul Pederson. Hewas also responsible for publishing Robert Kohls’ Survival Kit, which was a best-seller formany years.

David was partial to the developmental concepts that circulated at the time. In his article,"Intercultural Experience as a Process" (1993), Pirjo Rasi of the University of Tamperepresents David’s approach to the developmental path for identifying cultural patterns orstages in the journey to multiculturalism: “Hoopes argues that intercultural learning can beseen to take place along a continuum which runs from ethnocentrism to someethnorelative form of adaptation or integration(ethnocentrism>awareness>understanding>acceptance/respect>appreciation/valuing>selective adoption>assimilation>adaptation-biculturalism-multiculturalism). David

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saw the intercultural experience as a trigger that acts to broaden an individual’s world viewas well as view of self.”

Interculturalists, many of them the old timers who knew David well, have praised hiscontributions to the intercultural field:

George Renwick: “Forty years ago, David recognized the need for a new field,Intercultural Communication. He set about to build, in his words, ‘a core support systemfor professionals in this field.’ He succeeded. His compelling vision and sincereenthusiasm engaged and encouraged hundreds of us in several countries. Hiscollaborative approach connected us for the first time with one another. His writing andediting skills provided for us a wide range of unique, useful materials. David'sextraordinary commitment kept him contributing to individuals and organizations in thisfield for thousands of hours over many years. All of us in SIETAR-USA today owe greatgratitude to David.” Stephen Rhinesmith: “I have a very personal memory of David. In September, 1965, mywife, Kathe and I moved as newlyweds to Pittsburgh for me to attend the Graduate Schoolof Public and International Affairs of the University of Pittsburgh. Shortly after we arrived,we found that the Pittsburgh Regional Council for International Education was in the samebuilding and that its director was David Hoopes. Kathe was looking for a job and becamehis assistant. This was the beginning of a long relationship for us with David. He and I,with assistance from Cliff Clarke at Cornell, began running some of the first InterculturalCommunications Workshops in Pittsburgh. I left Pittsburgh in 1969 and in 1972 becamePresident of AFS International Exchanges. When Al Wight was looking for a home forSIETAR after the Estes Park Meeting we had had earlier, David and I had a conversationabout who could pick it up and David suggested I take it on at AFS. I told him I feltstrongly that he should take it at the Regional Council in light of the work we had beendoing before I left. He agreed – and the rest is history. A wonderful man – thoughtfulpartner – and visionary for the field Intercultural Communications. We all have benefitedgreatly from his intellect, passion and commitment. Thanks, David – for everything.” The following comments are personal communications from the International Academy ofIntercultural Research listserv February 8-9, 2014: Janet Bennett: “The loss of David Hoopes is a quiet and profound one for those of usqualified as old-timers, or more graciously, as pioneers. I can only marvel at someone wholooks at a slate as blank as the intercultural one was in the sixties, and looks at the needas deeply obvious, and in the face of a country at war, thinks of starting an InterculturalNetwork, an Intercultural Press, and an intercultural professional association. We keep his

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books in a special corner of the ICI library, labeled "Classics," which is where his memorybelongs as well. I hope I am joined by others who explain this loss on social media, so thenext generations can recognize the contribution of this inimitable pioneer.”

Robert Moran: “My first meeting with David was in 1972 or 1973 in Washington. A smallgrant was received from the Dept. of Education or NAFSA to bring a small group of peopletogether to explore the new field of 'intercultural communication.' I recall there were about8 people in the room for a several day meeting including David Hoopes, Cliff Clarke,George Renwick, Toby Frank, Jean AbiNader and 2 or 3 others. I was a graduate studentat the University of Minnesota, Cliff was the foreign student advisor at Cornell and wewere ALL young and most at the early stages of our professional careers.

I have two very clear recollections of David, one is professional, the other is personal. Idon't remember his exact words but his advice to me was crystal clear. He told me tofocus on the application and relevance of any theory on communication or interculturalcommunication to the real world of the students, travelers or business people I amattempting to influence. That stuck. My second recollection is equally strong and verypersonal. I always believed and experienced David as a ‘good guy.’ David, thanks forsharing your gifts.”

Daniel Kealy: “I joined SIETAR in the mid 1970's and soon after I met and came to knowand admire David Hoopes. As Cliff mentioned, David played such an important role in hisdesire to see the intercultural field produce knowledge and identify skills needed forachieving success in an another culture. And he had a passion for promoting ways todisseminate and share information and ideas which led him to found the InterculturalPress. Like many others, I too lost touch with David over the years. I find it hard tobelieve that it is almost 40 years ago that my own career in the intercultural field began. Iowe a lot to David and many others, including yourselves who have written commentsbelow. May our field always endeavor to produce solid research which can inform practiceand enable our practice as interculturalists to inform research.”

Milton Bennett: “I'd like to put my voice into the remembrance of David Hoopes. He wasan important founder of the intercultural field, and, from my theoretical point of view, anearly recognizer of the developmental nature of our work. For those who are compilinghistories with reference to David, you may find my description of the early days of theIntercultural Communication Workshop (ICW), the Intercultural Communication Network,and Communique useful: Bennett, M. (2010). A short conceptual history of interculturallearning in study abroad. In W. Hoffa & S. Depaul (Eds) A history of U.S. study abroad:1965-present. Special publication of Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of StudyAbroad, pp. 419-449.”

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Juliana Roth: “Let me add to the touching letters that I owe David Hoopes a lot. I neverhad the opportunity to meet him in person, but his publications were of great help for me inthe years when the intercultural field was established in Germany. For me as one of thefirst persons to develop academic curricula for intercultural communication in Germany,the accomplishments of the US American colleagues were of utmost importance. I wasgrateful to be able to work with the files of David Hoopes in the archives of the ICI inPortland in 1995 (Janet and Milton, thank you for the chance you gave me!). Working withhis texts gave me invaluable insights.”

Cliff Clarke: “Ever since October of 1967 when I sent David a list of 35 principles thatdifferentiate the ICW that we founded at Cornell University from the Cross-CulturalCommunication Workshop that David’s associates in Pittsburgh had facilitated at Cornell,David became my strongest supporter and mentor in contributing to the field. I sharedwith him the 7-step developmental group process that we had experienced in our ICW’s atCornell, from ethnocentrism to integrated intercultural interactions, and he edited it forpublication in Readings Vol. 1 (1971 & 1975). After NAFSA first studied the ICW in theCuddybackville (NY) workshop (the first regional ICW in 1968, facilitated by the INCASgroup at Cornell) by sending Cornelia Spring and Dante Scalzi as their evaluators, andafter NAFSA read the results of 22 university consultations by their first InterculturalCommunication Consultant (Clarke, 1969-1971), NAFSA was finally ready for David tostep into leadership with their financial support for the first multi-institutional ICW facilitatortraining program (Wheeling, WV) which Robert Moran mentioned above. Onerepresentative from each of NAFSA’s 12 Regions attended, many of whom had invitedNAFSA’s IC Consultant to their campuses earlier. Through these two programs, manyseeds were planted simultaneously all around the country from coast to coast and the fieldbegan to grow rapidly.

When I shared with David my dream for the first intercultural workshop in Japan atNihonmatsu (1974), while we were at the first Intercultural Conference at the InternationalChristian University (1972), it was David who made it happen with all of his networks andwith the financial resources he gathered. When I shared with David my dream of buildinga professional development institute for the intercultural field at Stanford University (SIIC,1975), it was David who brought a large grant for it from NAFSA for 24 of the firstparticipants. He was always pushing from behind and pulling from ahead to lay thefoundation for and to execute the establishment of so many dreams early in the field. Itwas he who was chiefly responsible for bringing all of us together so that 'our field [will]always endeavor to produce solid research which can inform practice and enable ourpractice as interculturalists to inform research” (Dan Kealey, above). David truly integratedour discipline with his compassion for all of us, and brought into my life a deep sense of

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purpose for which I remain eternally grateful.”

Cliff Clarke and David Hoopes

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Mr. Hoopes with his wife Kay

Sandy Fowler, SIETAR-USA member

SIETAR-USA 14th Annual Conference:Deadline Nears for Proposal Submissions

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The Society for Intercultural Education, Training and Research (SIETAR-USA) invites youto submit a proposal to present at its 14th annual international conference to be heldOctober 22-25, 2014 in Portland, Oregon. The theme of the 2014 conference isPioneering Intercultural Leadership: From Awareness to Action.

The proposal submissions deadline is Wednesday, April 30, 2014. This year’s SIETAR-USA conference will explore pioneering innovations in interculturaleducation, training and research at the local, national and global levels. Understandingthat global leadership is more than just “going international,” or meeting the right quota,our keynote speakers, Master Workshops and special events will highlight truly pioneering

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strategies, ideas and solutions for successful integration of the intellectual, affective, andbehavioral aspects of working across cultures. The Pacific Northwest is a region known for pioneering individuals and ideas. Settingtrends for the entire country, it is home to groundbreaking organizations and leading edgeindustries such as Microsoft, Intel, Nike, REI, Amazon, and Starbucks, to name just a few. The population here revels in being both retro and “ahead of the curve” — sometimes atthe same time. To support our pioneering theme and the goal of a highly interactive conference, this yearwe are inviting interculturalists who are conducting research, creating innovative tools andtesting successful methods to present during two sessions dedicated to Interactive PosterPresentations.

These sessions will allow nearly two-dozen presenters the time and space to demonstratetheir innovations and receive individual feedback and critical inquiry from multipleparticipants.

For more information on this format, other format options and proposal components andsubmission guidelines, click here.

You can also visit the conference proposal submission site here.

Professional Development OpportunityThe Conference Program Committee is searching for Conference Presentation ProposalReviewers. Interested? Email Naomi at [email protected]. Otherquestions related to proposal submissions can be sent to the same address.

Naomi Ludeman Smith, 2014 SIETAR-USA Conference Program Committee Chair

Conference Co-chairs Eager to ShowcaseDiversity, Beauty of Pacific Northwest

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2014 Conference Co-chairs Lillian Tsai and Donna Stringer

This year’s conference Co-chairs, Lillian Tsai and Donna Stringer, are perfectly positionedfor heading up SIETAR-USA’s premier annual event. Equipped with passion for theorganization, a local grasp of the Portland and Pacific Northwest areas, and more thanfive decades in the intercultural field combined, they are ready to deliver the 14th annualconference in Portland, to you.

Last year, talk of finding the right team swirled within the tight-knit SIETAR-USAcommunity. Ms. Tsai, a Portland resident and cross-cultural trainer and facilitator, wasinitially approached by the conference oversight team. Immediately, she thought ofpartnering with longtime SIETAR-USA member Donna Stringer.

“I’ve always been impressed with, and inspired by, Donna,” Ms. Tsai said. “This was mychance to work with her as a mentor, and it’s turned out to be a wonderful collaboration.”

The admiration was mutual: “I, too, have a high regard for Lillian,” Ms. Stringer said. Theco-chairs have known each other for 12 years.

Ms. Stringer, a cross-cultural consultant based in Seattle, grew up in Oregon and has over40 years' experience in the intercultural field. After devoting 25 years to the global,high-tech marketing/corporate communications field, Ms. Tsai transitioned to theintercultural arena about 10 years ago.

Once SIETAR-USA’s conference oversight team members selected the co-chairs andindoctrinated them in conference planning strategies, the co-chairs quickly moved forward

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—making checklists, meeting venue officials, deciding keynote speakers, soliciting andidentifying critical co-chair roles, developing the web content, and in general lining up theessential components of a functional and successful conference.

"We could not have asked for two stronger leaders to co-chair the upcoming SIETAR-USAConference," said Conference Oversight Chair Sue Shinomiya. "Donna brings her stellarreputation as a legend in diversity and inclusion, and Lillian brings her far-reachingNorthwest network that ranges from top corporations to all areas of the publicsector. Never hesitating to push the envelope, try new things and bring in new people,both Lillian and Donna truly embody "Pioneering Intercultural Leadership."

Of course, as in any other year, what distinguishes the upcoming conference from others(beyond the theme) is the location. Portland, the co-chairs say, is the ideal spot for ameeting of intercultural minds.

“Portland is a pioneering land,” Ms. Tsai said. “There is a huge presence here with theIntercultural Communication Institute (ICI), their Master of Art’s program in InterculturalRelations (MAIR), their Summer Institute of Intercultural Communication (SIIC), and theincreasing diverse population.

There are numerous Fortune 500 companies headquartered here. We are a land ofsustainability and have unique cultural offerings. Diversity in every sense of the word ishere in Portland.”

Ms. Stringer echoed Ms. Tsai’s sentiments: “If people haven’t visited the northwest, thereis a majesty to this area that doesn’t exist elsewhere.”

Between now and October, it is the co-chairs’ chief responsibility to juggle the various“moving parts” of the upcoming conference, but having already confirmed three keynotespeakers and organized most venue logistics, they are well on their way.

For more information on the conference, check out the 2014 conference website, to beupdated soon: www.sietarusaconference.com.

Conference Keynote Speakers Announced!

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Paula Caligiuri, Psychologist, Author of Cultural Agility: Building a Pipelineof Successful Global Professionals

Michael Adee, Director, Global Faith & Justice Project, HorizonsFoundation

Dr. Terrell Jones, Vice Provost for Educational Equity, Pennsylvania StateUniversity

More information on the speakers will be posted on the forthcoming conference website.

Write Caption for Winning Photo of2013 Conference

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Winning Photo by: Dianne Hofner Saphiere

SIETAR-USA is hosting a caption contest on Pinterest! Join the fun and submit your owncreative caption (for the winning photo above) by clicking on this link. If you have aPinterest account already, add your caption in the comments below the photo and pleasefollow our boards! We have created other boards about the conference so please follow usto keep learning about Portland and the conference. If you are not on Pinterest and areinterested in learning and participating in the caption activity, we are sending out a tutorialvia the conference email listserv so please sign up by clicking this link if you have notalready.

What Would an Ethical Interculturalist Do?

SIETAR-USA is launching a new feature focusing on the ethical dilemmas practitionersface in the field. Each newsletter, we will post an incident that tests our ethical code. Weencourage members to respond (via template, located on our website) withrecommendations on how to navigate the situation, using the organization’s Living Code ofEthical Behavior.

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The ethics committee will then gather and consider recommendations, and advise thesubmitter accordingly.

Below is an example of some of the questions and responses included in an “ethicsdilemma” template, provided by Ethics Chair Mike Tucker:

Describe the situation: How did it start, who is involved, what are their roles, howdo things stand at present? Leave the Incident resolution open and ask SIETARmembers what they would do. "I have put a significant amount of time into a complicated training program. After havingconducted a needs analysis, many interviews, and written a draft training program, Ireceived an email from the person responsible for hiring me at the client organizationsaying that his budget had been cut and he would not be able to have me conduct thetraining or make a payment at the present time. He nonetheless asked that I provide adraft copy of my training program. I thought I was clear that the cost of developing thedesign and materials was part of the total package."

What provision(s) of the Living Code does this situation potentially or actuallyviolate, in your opinion? Code 8: Before accepting any engagement, I will ensure that I have worked to establish amutual understanding of the objectives, scope, work plan, timeframe, benefits and feearrangements. Code 16: I will understand and maintain the nature of the professional relationship withthose I serve. Code 17: I will adhere to a transparent structure of fees and expenses that is clearlycommunicated.

Do you have a particular question or questions you would like to ask? (Pleasemention them here.) What should I do? May I ethically withhold all materials until I have been paid? How do Imaintain a good relationship with this potential client?

The new ethics feature is an opportunity for interculturalists to share their experience and

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knowledge in addressing complex incidents in the field. More information on how to submityour own inquiry, or to respond to others can be found here. You can also contact EthicsChair Mike Tucker at [email protected].

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We have an open Board position for Newsletter Editor! Do you have experience injournalism, websites or communications and a passion for the intercultural work we do?Serving as editor is a great way to stay connected to intercultural practitioners in our fieldand to the ideas that shape our profession. If interested in the volunteer Board position,contact outgoing Editor Bobbie Stewart at [email protected].

“Let’s applaud Bobbie for all her great work on the newsletter. Way to go Bobbie! We’llmiss you in this role!” Christopher Deal, SIETAR-USA President

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