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Innovative Campus Strategies
Engaging Faculty from Across the Campus
Chatham College requires faculty teams that lead
study abroad programs to come from different disciplines, enabling them
to work closely with colleagues with whom they may not communicate on a
daily basis. The college also has noticeably broadened participation to
include fields that are less well-represented in internationalization
efforts, such as the sciences.
In 2003–04, Maricopa Community College
District offered faculty grants to internationalize and
"multiculturalize" their courses. Ten grants of $1,200 each funded
faculty release time to develop new modules or to infuse international
or multicultural perspectives into existing courses. A list of the 24
courses revised as a result of this initiative is posted on the
district's web site for reference by the faculty.
California State University–San Bernardino's
International Institute invites guest presenters and university
professors to provide examples of syllabi with international objectives,
contents, and resources. The Institute presents international research
agendas and data, and provides details of faculty travel grant
opportunities. CSUSB faculty members are then encouraged to participate
in Professors Across Borders, a program that engages
faculty in all five of its colleges in internationalization workshops
and programs and provides international faculty with professional
development travel grants.
Additionally, in order to receive institutional funding for travel
overseas through the Professors Across Borders program, faculty members
must submit proposals that, if funded, will produce at least two major
outcomes. First, upon returning from their travel, they must design a
syllabus for a new or enhanced class with internationalized emphases and
their students must provide written feedback (using a common instrument)
after completing the class. Second, Professors Across Borders must
develop a plan for getting CSUSB students to their target country for a
class or internship. Examples of successful proposals (and
implementation) include a communication studies professor who brought
students to Indonesia to study environmental communication; a health
science professor who designed a program to bring students to work in a
health-care setting in urban Mexico; an English professor who brought
students to Cuba to study Caribbean literature and cultures; and a
communication studies professor who set up internships in Argentina with
grassroots activist organizations and mass media groups. These projects
also nurture relationships with international partners.
San Francisco State University offers orientation in
international education endeavors, services, and professional
development opportunities for new faculty. Initiated in fall 1999, this
successful program has been integrated into the regular orientation for
new faculty, which is coordinated by the Center for the Teaching and
Faculty Development.
The University of Richmond's Faculty Seminar Abroad has taken place 12 times
since its inception in 1989. Each year, an interdisciplinary,
interschool group of eight to 12 faculty members studies a selected
country/region during the spring semester and then spends three weeks in
the country/region, meeting with academic counterparts (often at
universities with which the university has exchange agreements), with
business and political leaders, and with journalists and local
residents. Countries are selected based on the current world situation,
as well as institutional curricular needs. Faculty study and experience
the economic, political, religious, and aesthetic culture of the region.
The outcomes include new and revised courses, new directions and
contacts for research and teaching, strengthened cooperative agreements
with universities abroad and creation of new agreements, faculty
involvement in students' study abroad, and the creation of an
interdisciplinary intellectual culture on campus. As of 2006, 36 percent
of all faculty members had participated in the seminar, which is
explicitly intended as an opportunity for non-specialists to acquire new
knowledge and experience, resulting in new teaching and research.
Missouri Southern State University hosts a weekly
"brown bag" lunch and learn lecture series for faculty and staff. Topics
featuring international experiences are among the most popular. Past
lectures with international themes included "Can You Survive the Costa
Rican Rain Forest?" "Southern in India," "Anniversary of the Fall of the
Berlin Wall," "Nursing Students in London" "Food in the City: An
Istanbul Mosaic," and "A Man Without a Stool Is a Man Without Dignity: A
Presentation on African Art."
The University of Kansas holds lunches for
first-year faculty to orient them to the international opportunities on
campus and beyond. The lunches are hosted by the staff of the Office of
International Programs.
Webster University has a dedicated unit in the
development office that provides grant-writing assistance for faculty
preparing applications for internationally oriented federal and
foundation grants.
The University of Iowa (UI) offers a certificate
program for UI staff entitled "Building our Global Community." Through
this program, the International Programs Office of International
Students and Scholars (OISS) and UI Learning and Development (UILD)
offer workshops on skills and insights useful to faculty and staff as
they seek to educate and serve international students and scholars.
Those participants who complete the required introductory workshop and
their choice of four specialized workshops within a two-year period of
time receive a global certificate. Workshop topics have included:
"Employment Issues for Internationals," "Cultural Diversity in
Teaching," and "Learning to be Successful in a New Cultural and Academic
System," as well as country/culture-specific workshops on Russia, Japan,
and Colombia. Workshops are led by UI staff and faculty from departments
and programs such as ESL, Linguistics, Counseling Services, the Office
for Study Abroad, and Foreign Language Acquisition Research and
Education. For more information, see intl-programs.uiowa.edu/oiss/oissprograms_certificate.htm.
With regard to affiliated faculty, OISS has the authority to make
faculty appointments, budgeted or non-budgeted, for such reasons as
specific curricular needs, special projects such as grant-funded
programs, and the regularizing of unit responsibilities. Such
appointments are subject to all university policies and procedures
regarding faculty appointment and review and are made on the
recommendation of the Associate Dean and by a simple majority vote of
the Executive Committee present and voting, except that staff members of
the Executive Committee may not vote on faculty appointments. Their
recommendation is forwarded to the Associate Provost and Dean of
International Programs. Unless otherwise specified, all such faculty
appointments must receive the approval of the collegiate dean, or if
involving more than one college, several deans, or the appropriate vice
president, and the provost. Terms of such appointments will be set in a
letter of agreement, signed by the faculty member's DEO and the faculty
member, the Associate Provost and Dean for International Programs, as
well as the Dean or Vice-President of the unit in which the appointee
has his/her primary appointment (if any), and the appointee. The letter
will specify the faculty member's privileges and responsibilities within
International Programs, the frequency and procedures for review and
renewal, the allocation of funds, and the expected activities and
percentage of effort allocated to teaching, research, and service.
*Please contact the institution directly if you have
questions regarding specific programs.
Please direct questions about this page to:
international@ace.nche.edu
This page last updated on: 08/29/2008
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