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EA Faculty News

Fall 2023 Edition

Welcome to the Education Abroad (EA) Faculty News, our publication curated for faculty directors of CU Global Seminars and CU Global Intensives!  We hope your semester is off to a great start. We are happy to report record enrollment for summer and spring 2023. As the summer 2024 recruiting season is just getting started, please enjoy the inspiring highlights below from faculty and students.

- Sylvie Burnet-Jones, Director, Education Abroad


Faculty Highlights

Dr. Scott Taylor named RIO Faculty Fellow

Dr. Scott Taylor of the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology has been named a part of the Research & Innovation Office's 2023 RIO Faculty Fellows cohort. This program supports faculty conducting research through collaboration, community, and leadership development in their area of scholarship.

Dr. Taylor is the Faculty Director of the Global Intensive: Ecology & Evolution in the Galapagos Islands.

Prof. Geoff Marslett's Film "Quantum Cowboys" Wins Award

Quantum Cowboys, a film by Professor Geoff Marslett of CU's Department of Cinema Studies and “a freewheeling and mind-expanding trip through the Arizona desert” won Best Soundtrack at the 2022 Annecy Festival. Read more about Marslett's animated Western featuring a dozen different mediums in the Daily Camera, and watch the trailer on YouTube.

Professor Marslett is from the Department of Cinema Studies and he co-directs with Professor Chip Persons from Department of Theatre & Dance the Global Seminar: Filmmaking Abroad: Acting & Directing (Edinburgh, Scotland).
Lange, Anja Dr. Anja Lange Named Director, Herbst Program for Engineering, Ethics, & Society

Dr. Anja Lange, Faculty Director of Global Seminar: Self Awareness and Images of the Other in Xi'an, China and Global Intensive: Florence: Art & Politics has been named the Director for the Herbst Program for Engineering, Ethics, & Society at CU Boulder. Congratulations Anja!
DELUCA, Laura Dr. Laura DeLuca's Social Innovation Course Featured in Daily Camera

Dr. Laura DeLuca and her Social Innovation first year students were featured in the Daily Camera this Spring for brainstorming solutions to modern social problems in our communities. Dr. DeLuca also brings a group of students to Tanzania to study political ecology, culture, and development in the context of local indigenous communities on her program, Global Seminar: Conservation & Indigenous Peoples in Tanzania.
Tobias Hopp Dr. Tobias Hopp Recognized as Outstanding Graduate Student Mentor

This past May, Dr. Tobias Hopp, co-director of Global Seminar: International Strategic Communication in Paris, France, was named an outstanding graduate student mentor by the Graduate School. Recipients were nominated by students, department or program administrators, faculty or staff for their outstanding contributions either to mentoring individual graduate students, improving the overall climate of graduate education within their program, or improving the graduate program itself. Congratulations, Toby!
 
Dr. Jennifer Fluri Dr. Jennifer Fluri Selected for Excellence in Leadership Program (ELP)

Dr. Jennifer Fluri, Faculty Director of Global Seminar: Urban Geography, Society, & Culture in Prague, Czech Republic, has been selected for the CU Excellence in Leadership Program. This program recognizes faculty and university management that are high-performing and achieving and provides continued leadership development opportunities. Congratulations, Jennifer!
Dr. Lisa DeAlwis Dr. Lisa DeAlwis wins Marinus Smith Award

Dr. Lisa DeAlwis, Faculty Director of Global Seminar: Voices of Vienna in Vienna, Austria, was named a winner of the Marinus Smith Award this past Spring. Her nominator, Jillian Pace, had the following to say of her commitment to positive impact on her students:

“Dr. de Alwis embodies what it means to teach, allowing students flexibility with deadlines so that they can submit work that they are proud of. She creates a learning environment that encourages growth mindset by providing students the opportunity to earn grades that are reflective of their ability to respond to feedback and improve upon their work...”

Congratulations, Lisa!
Dr. Tom Zeiler Dr. Thomas Zeiler celebrates 10 years as IAFS Director, 30 years at CU Boulder

Dr. Tom Zeiler, Faculty Director of Global Seminar: French Connections (Bordeaux, France), will celebrate ten years as the Department of International Affairs' Director this school year, a milestone that coincides with his thirtieth year at CU Boulder.  Tom has also been taking students to Bordeaux on his Global Seminar program for over ten years as well. Congratulations, Tom!
Congrats Congratulations to Faculty Directors who have made tenure!

Dr. Jolene Fisher - Associate Professor - Advertising, Public Relations, & Media Design - Co-Faculty Director Global Seminar: International Strategic Communication in Paris, France
Prof. Geoff Marslett - Assistant Professor - Cinema Studies and Moving Image Arts - Co-Faculty Director of Global Seminar: Filmmaking Abroad: Acting & Directing in Edinburgh, Scotland
Dr. Nicholas Villanueva- Associate Professor - Ethnic Studies - Faculty Director of Global Seminar: The Athlete as a National Symbol in Greece

Student News

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Spoorthy Reddy

Global Seminar Alumni Lisa Rhodes & Spoorthy Reddy Receive Fulbright Scholarship

We are excited to share that two Education Abroad alumni have received a 2023-2024 Fulbright Scholarship to continue their research and education abroad after graduation:

Lisa Rhodes to return to Vietnam and work on Primate Conservation Research. She will be working with Vietnamese conservation NGO in Da Nang that she was first introduced to with a visit on her program with Dr. Bert Covert and Dr. Jonathan O'Brien as a part of her program, Global Seminar: Primates of Vietnam.

Spoorthy Reddy will aim to work with local organizations that support the Irish Traveler population in Ireland to better understand how to provide accessible health care to this community. Spoorthy is an alumni of Dr. Visda Carson's program, Global Seminar: Doing Business in Europe in Aix-en-Provence, France.

Congratulations to Lisa and Spoorthy for joining the prestigious ranks of Education Abroad alumni that have received a Fulbright!

Russia Global Seminar Alum Benjamin Lourie Shares Experience in Russia during the Outbreak of War with Ukraine

In a fascinating interview with A&S Magazine, Benjamin Lourie shares his firsthand experience living in Moscow during the onset of the war. He talks about his perspective as an American expat fascinated by Russian culture, and choosing to leave in the wake of Russian response to dissent. Benjamin is an alumni of Dr. Artemi Romanov's Global Seminar to St. Petersburg. The program was his introduction to the country and sparked his passion for Russian language and culture.
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Alumni Spotlight: Palmer Dick-Montez

Palmer Dick-Montez is a Global Seminar: Exploring Ancient Mexican Peoples & Ruins in Oaxaca, Mexico alum that has since been accepted to a six-month archaeological project in Rio Viejo, where he will be organizing a field lab for a dig. Read Education Abroad's interview about how his Global Seminar experience shaped his current career trajectory and impacted him personally!


South Africa Global Seminar students featured by Deming Center for Entrepreneurship

Global Seminar: Entrepreneurship & Empowerment in Cape Town, South Africa alumni Alexis Grubman and Alexander Ayala shared their perspectives and the impact the program had on them with the Deming Center for Entrepreneurship in a Student Spotlight.

"We started as students. Adventurous ones at that, but still students; ranging from freshmen to upper graduates... Over six short weeks, our teams of hodgepodge students from all over the world grew together to become professional consultants and mentors who inspired brilliant entrepreneurs." 
Read more in Alexis Grubman's Student Spotlight.

"I spent hundreds of hours with my team, our clients, and the professors, but everyone was so committed and motivated to help the entrepreneurs that staying up late working on a report or designing a website was what I wanted to do. I stopped caring about my letter grade and focused on how I could contribute to my team. It felt liberating when the work I had to do and the work I wanted to do were the same."
Read more in Alex Ayala's Student Spotlight.

Be on the lookout for more Student Spotlights featuring Summer 2023 entrepreneurship program participants coming this Fall!

Faculty Director Resources

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Avoiding Curricular Pitfalls of Study Abroad

The Inside Higher Ed article Avoiding Curricular Pitfalls of Study Abroad by Northeastern University's Liz Bucar discusses navigating the risks of reinforcing injustices, power dynamics, and cultural appropriation in the development of faculty-led study abroad programs and the ways they are marketed to American students. Bucar explores this topic through the lens of her experience leading a study abroad program with students on El Camino, and the ways in which course design can either challenge or reinforce harmful narratives and assumptions.


WISE Conference

Wake Forest University posts resources from their past WISE conferences, which focuses on developing knowledge and skills for faculty leaders, program coordinators, and administrators who support students in their experiences abroad. Faculty directors are encouraged to explore resources from past conferences when building programs. The upcoming conference will be held February 8-10, 2024, for those who would like to consider attending this year.

New Programs

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Education Abroad is excited to welcome the following new Global Seminars and Global Intensives-- and to announce that our very first Faculty-Led Global Semester!

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Last Updated September 2023