Faculty

Washington and Lee Program for Education in Global Stewardship offers opportunitities for participation in faculty development seminars and site visits abroad, course development grants, and invitations to visitng scholars from abroad.

Global Partners Project Faculty Seminar in Central Europe: Narratives and Boundaries: Transitions in Southern Russia and Its Environs June 2002. Global Partners Project encourages the study of Central Europe by scholars and teachers from a variety of disciplines. This two-week interdisciplinary faculty seminar in Russia, in late June 2002 will be at Kuban State University in Krasnodar. Faculty from a variety of disciplines are encouraged to apply; all applicants must be faculty at member institutions of ACM, ACS or GLCA, Inc. Expenses for the seminar will be covered by the Global Partners Project.

Council International Faculty Development Seminars provide short-term, intensive overseas experiences for faculty and administrators, hosted by prestigious academic institutions abroad. Seminars offer focused updates on global issues and regions that are shaping the course of world events, while introducing faculty to scholarly communities overseas.

Faculty Grants Newsletter (1998), by George Carras

Grant, Exchange, and Development Opportunities for Faculty

The Center for Global Education (Augsburg College) offers special development seminars for international educators and faculty. During the summer of 1998, seminars on Multicultural Perspectives in Education (July 6-19) and Education for Social Justice (June 20-27) will be offered in Mexico.

Civic Education Project is a private, international, non-profit organization that supports higher education reform in Central/Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. It accomplishes this by supporting Western-trained lecturers as teachers and innovators at universities throughout the region. The Visiting Lecturer Program places Western scholars for at least one academic year in positions at universities across the region. The Eastern Scholar Program identifies talented and motivated scholars from the region who have trained at universities in the West and are interested in working permanently in their home countries as full time academics. CEP assists these scholars by providing financial, program and institutional assistance for up to two academic years.

The Council for International Educational Exchange offers International Faculty Development Seminars which provide short-term, intensive overseas experience for faculty and administrators, hosted by prestigious academic institutions abroad. Seminars are designed to offer focused updates on global issues and regions that are shaping the course of world events, while introducing faculty to scholarly communities overseas.

The Fulbright Program offers support to faculty to pursue research abroad and sponsors several exchange programs. See their web site for information on various programs and opportunities.

IREX administers academic exchanges and promotes professional training, institution building, and technical assistance between the United States and Eastern and Central Europe, the Newly Independent States of the former Soviet Union, Mongolia and China. Short and longer term grants are available to scholars wishing to pursue research in the regions listed above.

Kansai Gaidai University in Osaka, Japan invites faculty members from affiliated institutions (of which W&L is one) to teach in its Asian Studies Program on the Visiting Professor Program. Course in this program are conducted in English. There is currently a vacancy in this program for Fall 1998. Applications are available from W&L's Office of International Education.

The National Council on US-Arab Relations offers faculty members an opportunity to learn more about the Arab world through two week study visits, partially subsidized by the Joseph J., Malone Fellowship in Arab and Islamic Studies. These visits are on-going to a number of Arab countries. More information may be obtained from malone@ncusar.org.

Rikkyo University in Japan invites applications from faculty for its 1999-2000 fellowship program. Scholars from abroad who wish to utilize research organizations and facilities can engage in joint research with Rikkyo's faculty or pursue their own project. Transportation and a stipend are offered for the fellowship which may last from 3-8 months. The application deadline is June 30, 1998.

Rotary Grants for University Teachers promotes international understanding and development by supporting US educators to teach in a foreign institution. Faculty make own arrangements with host university, Rotary will provide grant up to $10,000 for 3-5 months or $20,000 for 6-10 months of service.