CIES Announcement

Supriya Baily elected vice-president of CIES

The Comparative and International Education Society (CIES) elected a new Vice-President: Dr. Supriya Baily, Co-Director of the George Mason’s Center of International Education. This four-year term moves from Vice President, President-elect, President and Past President.

CIES is the world’s largest and oldest comparative and international education society with more than 3,000 members working on behalf of their 1,000 organizations to seek solutions to global educational problems.

Dr. Supriya Baily

Dr. Baily said CIES’s work is critically important now more than ever as “the world seems more divided” due to the rise of nationalist ideologies, effects of climate change, and while access to information and open sharing of knowledge are under attack.

Dr. Baily emphasized CIES’s role in bringing academicians, practitioners, policymakers, government officials, and activists together for a better understanding of educational issues, trends, and policies.

She said her journey with CIES started 24 years ago, when she “stuffed folders for 300 or so attendees” at a CIES conference, and continued with her recently concluding a three-year term as CIES Treasurer, serving on the Executive Committee of the Board of Directors.

CIES was established in 1956 to “foster cross-cultural understanding and scholarship.” However, CIES membership doubled within the last decade, which reflects “the global expansion of academic and professional positions as well as a commitment to international education and cooperation.”

High on Dr. Baily’s agenda as CIES’s Vice-President will be the society’s 66th annual conference (CIES 2022) which will take place in Minneapolis, MN February 27 - March 3, 2022. In the highly anticipated conference, CIES’s professional community will discuss the changing environment of international education, the increasing variety and involvement of actors and how these changes influence education globally and locally.

Dr. Supriya Baily is an Associate Professor of Education at George Mason University. She is also an activist, a scholar, and an educator. Her work, spanning thirty years, began as a teenager in India as a community organizer and leader. At George Mason University, Dr. Baily researches social justice issues in education, the marginalization of girls and women in educational policy and practice, and the role of teacher education to address educational inequity.

Daly joins TETP leadership team

Dr. Kimberley Daly

Another member of GMU’s Center of International Education, Adjunct Professor of Education Dr. Kimberley Daly has joined the leadership team of one of CIES’s special interest groups. Dr. Daly was appointed, for a two-year term, as the secretary of the Teacher Education and the Teaching Profession (TETP) SIG.

TETP says its mission is “to disseminate information and fosters dialogues about critical issues in teaching and teacher education from national and international perspectives.” Dr. Daly’s role includes looking after the overall administration of the TETP group, manage and update the groups’ listserv, and document TETP meeting minutes at and after the CIES annual conferences.

We wish Dr. Baily and Dr. Daly the best of luck in their new roles.