Faculty Development Seminars
CIEE Summer Seminars
The Council on International Education Exchange (CIEE) can help you bring an international perspective into your teaching, advising, or research. CIEE is offering seminars in Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin American and the Middle East. The seminars are scheduled between late May and late July. Topics will include business and globalization, culture and identity, development and international affairs, and in-depth regional studies. For more information, please visit CIEE at www.ciee.org or call 1-800-40-STUDY.
International Teaching Opportunities
Denmark International Study Program (DIS)
The DIS program located in Copenhagen, Denmark is seeking faculty members who may wish to spend a semester or summer in Copenhagen and may want to teach a course while there. Faculty members will be compensated on a per course basis.
DIS was founded in 1959 and is an internationally renowned study abroad institution affiliated with the University of Copenhagen. DIS offers a number of specialized semester, full-year, and summer programs in a wide range of academic fields. Students have access to a large number of academically challenging and intellectually stimulating courses focusing on European themes and issues and utilizing Copenhagen's strong research environment and educational resources. Interested faculty are encouraged to visit DIS online at www.disp.dk
Semester at Sea Program (www.semesteratsea.org)
Semester at Sea visits between 10-12 countries each semester, offering a global, comparative international education for approximately 750 undergraduates each semester from more than 250 colleges and universities, representing 42 U.S. states and 7 different countries. Coursework is sponsored by the University of Virginia and is taught by nearly 65 visiting faculty members aboard the MV Explorer, a passenger ship that has been specially outfitted as a floating university. With approximately 45,000 alumni, Semester at Sea was founded in 1963 and is administered by the Institute for Shipboard Education, a non-profit, 501c3 organization.
Applications for visiting facuty are at http://www.semesteratsea.org/faculty-and-staff/overview/
Grants for International Teaching & Research
Traditional Fulbright Scholar Program
Each year, approximately 800 Fulbright awards are made to US citizens for teaching and/or research in more than 100 countries around the world. Faculty are encouraged to apply for these awards. They offer a wonderful opportunity to enhance one's knowledge of a different culture and new experiences that can serve to infuse the curriculum with global perspectives.
Fulbright Alumni Initiative Award Program
This award is made available to develop and sustain ongoing contacts and partnerships initiated as a result of a Fulbright award. Wheaton has already received one of these awards to support a bilateral exchange between Wheaton's Department of Music and the Music Department at the University College, Cork, Ireland.
Fulbright Scholar in Residence Program
The Worldwide Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence Program brings visiting scholars and professionals from abroad to lecture at U.S. colleges and universities for one semester or one academic year. This is yet another important way of offering our students unique perspectives on the subjects of their study from scholars based overseas.
Fulbright-Hays Seminars Abroad Program
The Fulbright-Hays Seminars Abroad Program provides an opportunity for short-term study and travel abroad to faculty with responsibilities for curriculum development in fields related to humanities, languages, and area studies. Seminars occur in ten different countries each year and cater to faculty with little or no experience in the host country who can demonstrate the need to develop and enhance their curriculum as a result of such exposure.
Fulbright Distinguished Chairs Program
The Fulbright Distinguished Chairs Program are viewed as among the most prestigious appointments in the Fulbright Scholar Program. Candidates should have a prominent record of scholarly accomplishment.
Fulbright Information
On-line Application
For more information, please visit www.cies.org OR contact:
Assistant Director Maria Bettua - 202.686.6245, OR
Senior Program Associate Jamie Oberlander - 202.686.6232
Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation was founded in Berlin in 1860 in honor of the eminent scientist, explorer and statesman, Alexander von Humboldt. The aim of the Foundation is to grant research fellowships and research awards to academically trained and highly qualified persons of foreign nationality, to enable them to carry out research projects in the Federal Republic of Germany, and to maintain the resulting academic contacts. During the past 45 years, more than 18,000 foreign scholars have received support under the Foundation's programs. The following are the programs through which these awards are granted:
Special Programs for U.S. Scholars
The College & University Affiliations Program
The International Visitors Program
For more complete information, please go to Humboldt Foundation web site
Private Foundations
There are a number of Private Foundations that fund grants that support research on a range of international education issues. Some of them include the following:
The Carnegie Corporation of New York
The Ford Foundation
The Freedom Forum
The W. Alton Jones Foundation
The W. K. Kellogg Foundation
The John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
The Andrew W. Mellow Foundation
Pew Charitable Trusts
The Rockefeller Foundation
The U.S.-Japan Foundation
CIEE Faculty Seminars
The Council on International Educational Exchange (CIEE) launched the educator-focused International Faculty Development Seminars (IFDS) in 1990 with the goal of encouraging U.S. colleges and universities to internationalize curricula. CIEE has offered over 150 seminar topics in nearly 40 countries since the inception of the IFDS series. Our professionals worldwide work through the year to develop new themes and sites with our network of CIEE Study Centers, contacts and Academic Consortium members.
Hosted by prestigious academic institutions abroad, the seminars are short-term, intensive experiences that offer you:
updates on global issues and regions that are shaping the course of world events
introductions to scholarly communities overseas
idea exchanges with international colleagues
the opportunity to re-examine your own discipline within an international context
global perspectives to incorporate into your administration, teaching and research CIEE’s International Faculty Development Seminars have spanned the globe with more than 125 programs in 35 countries.
International Teaching Opportunities
Denmark International Study Program (DIS)
The DIS program located in Copenhagen, Denmark is seeking faculty members who may wish to spend a semester or summer in Copenhagen and may want to teach a course while there. Faculty members will be compensated on a per course basis.
DIS was founded in 1959 and is an internationally renowned study abroad institution affiliated with the University of Copenhagen. DIS offers a number of specialized semester, full-year, and summer programs in a wide range of academic fields. Students have access to a large number of academically challenging and intellectually stimulating courses focusing on European themes and issues and utilizing Copenhagen's strong research environment and educational resources.
Interested faculty are encouraged to visit DIS online at www.disp.dk
