CEA’s Global Issues Seminars for Faculty

CEA’s Global Issues Seminars (GIS) for Faculty focus on contemporary issues in culturally rich and politically important urban settings. Nine Global Campuses – Barcelona, Dublin, Florence, Madrid, Paris, Seville, Rome, Shanghai and Buenos Aires – offer outstanding sites for these summer seminars for faculty.

The main purpose of the GIS is to offer faculty who teach undergraduate courses the opportunity to learn first-hand about leading issues that will drive developments in the 21st Century.  Participants will, in turn, increase opportunities for both students and faculty colleagues on the home campus by sharing this new knowledge. The GIS is, thus, intended for faculty who are open to internationalize their teaching – to blending a global component into a course or to refocusing a course on a global issue. We hope that faculty sees that a necessary component of raising global awareness among students is encouraging them to study abroad.

In light of the current state of the economy and the very tight campus budgets for faculty travel, CEA is postponing its Global Issues Seminars for faculty until the Summer of 2012.

Under consideration for Summer 2012 are the following:

• Sustainability and the Global City
• Global Health Issues
• Global Terrorism and Transnational Crime
• Global Migration and Urban Identities

Each topic presents enormously challenging problems for the global community.  CEA Global Education brings academic experts, government officials, multinational agencies, the corporate sector, nonprofit advocates and citizen groups to bear on the GIS theme. Presenters explain how the local environment deals with the topic and how broader national and international organizations try to apply local solutions in wider contexts. 

Eligibility: All college and university faculty are eligible for this program. Preference will be given to faculty with undergraduate teaching responsibilities.

Application Deadline: CEA’s applications for its Global Issues Seminars will be available in the Fall of 2011.