Nine members of the 2010-2011 Long-term Educational Administrators Program (LEAP), sponsored by the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology (MEXT) paid a visit to Seattle last week. The group is composed of administrators from eight universities across Japan. They are one month into a year-long development program being hosted in part by the A.C.E. Language Institute at Montana State University. After three months of immersive language training and service learning, the participants will enjoy a nine month internship. During their visit to Seattle, the group met up with A.C.E. administrators and faculty from the central office and Language Institute at Seattle Pacific University.
Pictured from left to right, front row: Sayaka Minami of Osaka University Saho Tanaka of Kyushu University, Natsuko Kamiya of the University of Tokyo, Kana Morikawa of Kyoto University. Back row: Tony Fantham, A.C.E. Chief Operating Officer, Davey Young, A.C.E. Communications & Logistics Coordinator, Kazuya Yuasa of Osaka University, Sam Shepherd, A.C.E. Board Member, Akira Watanabe of Hokkaido University, Ryota Uozo of Nagoya University, Kazuhide Hata of Tsukuba University, and Yoichi Hirose of the University of Fukui.
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