Since 1996, Nana Rinehart has been the vice president of ISEP.

Her responsibilities include supervising the coordination and implementation of reciprocal exchanges among 275 member institutions in the US and 39 other countries involving 2,200 students annually; reviewing prospective member applications, overseeing integration of new members, and visiting new and current member institutions in the US and abroad; and meeting with administrative and teaching staff, students, and institutional leaders to review the program implementation and ISEP's overall contribution to campus internationalization. Before assuming a leadership role at ISEP, she served as program officer, administering student exchanges between ISEP member institutions in the US and Austria, France, Germany, Switzerland, and the Philippines.

Rinehart earned her Ph.D. at the University of Maryland, has taken graduate courses in education at The American University, and received her M.A. from the University of Copenhagen. She studied abroad in France and at the Universities of Oxford and Edinburgh. As a Fulbright exchange student, she attended Connecticut College; she also taught English at Trinity College and the American University in Washington DC.

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