Until her 2020 retirement, Penelope "Nell" Pynes was the Associate Provost for International Programs at the University of North Carolina-Greensboro, leading internationalization efforts, directing the University's Global Engagement Quality Enhancement Plan and promoting student/faculty exchange. She has served as President of AIEA and as Chair of NAFSA's International Education Leadership Knowledge Community and is currently a Senior Associate for Internationalization for the American Council on Education (ACE). She was the 2020 recipient of Diversity Abroad’s Trailblazer Award. A regular presenter on comprehensive internationalization and co-designer of several SIO (senior international officer) training programs, she has a doctorate in Germanic linguistics from UNC-Chapel Hill.
Penelope J. Pynes
ACE Senior Associate for Internationalization American Council on Education (ACE) Division of Learning and Engagement
IU Global