UNC Global Affairs

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This week, our office hosted a group of research faculty from universities in Japan and administrators from the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) to explore potential partnerships and joint research opportunities with researchers and scholars at Carolina. The JST is a department under the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT), which focuses on research and development and implements diverse projects in collaboration with universities, research institutions and industries in Japan and overseas. JST also sponsors Adopting Sustainable Partnerships for Innovative Research Ecosystem (APSIRE), a grant program designed to establish networks among international research talent and mobilize future research leaders in science and technology-related fields. Facilitated by our exchange and sponsored programs team, this visit brought together JST administrators and Japanese researchers from various STEM-related backgrounds with UNC faculty and other local researchers through various activities such as joint research presentations and proposals, faculty round tables, on-site visits to university organizations like Innovate Carolina and off-site visits to centers like the North Carolina Biotechnology Center (NCBiotech). This visit also consisted of a reception on Wednesday evening at the FedEx Global Education Center, which offered fellow scholars, researchers and UNC Global Affairs staff the opportunity to network and exchange ideas. We look forward to facilitating future collaboration between Carolina and research institutions in Japan and hope to host our friends from JST again soon! Heather H. Ward Timothy Rose Walker Winslow Stephenson? Krista Northup

UNC Global Affairs continues to take pride in Carolina's Global Guarantee and the promise that a global education is available to every student. Go Heels! ??????

Last Friday, Nov. 15, our global education team — Sharmila Udyavar, Ed.D, Emmy Grace and Emma Davis — facilitated a virtual design workshop to outline best practices for implementing Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) in the classroom and highlight COIL initiatives at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and beyond. In collaboration with UNC-Chapel Hill Digital and Lifelong Learning and the SUNY COIL Center, this workshop featured presentations from our very own Sharmila Udyavar, Ed.D, associate director for global education, Manisha Mittal, instructional design manager at UNC Digital and Lifelong Learning, Caroline Sibley, teaching assistant professor of Arabic at UNC, Catherine Crawford, PhD, RNC-OB, clinical assistant professor at UNC Chapel Hill School of Nursing, and Hope Windle, director for international virtual exchange and instructional design educator at the SUNY COIL Center. Sharmila began the workshop by introducing COIL and discussing the four major components that make up the prescription for COIL courses at Carolina. Manisha Mittal then discussed sustainable ways to integrate COIL into course design, highlighting the importance of maintaining digital infrastructure by utilizing tools like Canvas, Zoom and Poll Everywhere and stressing the need to prioritize pedagogy and digital accessibility over technology. She also reinforced the constant presence of support systems at UNC Digital and Lifelong Learning and UNC Global Affairs to assist faculty with COIL implementation. Mittal's presentation was then followed by first-hand accounts from UNC faculty members — Caroline Sibley and Catherine Crawford — about their respective experiences implementing COIL into their unique coursework, and a final presentation from Hope Windle, who outlined the process for faculty who wish to partner with the SUNY COIL Center and discussed resources that the center offers to facilitate COIL design and organization. ?? Click here to learn more about COIL @ Carolina: https://lnkd.in/dHny6b6J

As part of this year’s International Education Week (IEW) festivities, members of our global education team attended U.S. Foreign Service Career Day at Duke University. This event, hosted by The Duke University Rethinking Diplomacy Program (RDP), featured special guest Ambassador Joan Polaschik, director of the Foreign Service Institute (FSI). During the day’s first session, Amb. Polaschik discussed how she first became involved with the foreign service and shared examples from various posts to narrate her richly rewarding career. Despite the outward appearance of being bureaucratic, Amb. Polaschik argued that the U.S. Department of State is inherently entrepreneurial, representing a highly fluid environment tasked with responding to complex challenges. She also emphasized the need for diversity at all levels to contribute a wide array of ideas to develop relevant solutions. She and Kathryn Crockart, former Diplomat in Residence for the mid-Atlantic region, then took questions from students. The second session spotlighted the Foreign Service Institute (FSI), where Amb. Polaschik currently serves as director. She described how the FSI continues to develop its training and learning culture and prioritize the examination of?six critical topics and their intersections — climate, global health, emerging technologies, economic statecraft, China and multilateralism. Many retired diplomats from Carolina Friends of the Foreign Service were also in attendance, contributing to Amb. Polaschik’s dialogue. We are always excited to engage in global conversations with our university neighbors and look forward to celebrating the final days of International Education Week 2024! ?? Click here to read more: https://lnkd.in/eTE8tEXy

One of the primary functions of our office is to support the growth and development of mutually beneficial global partnerships! ??? ? As such, our global partnerships team – with support from the Institute for the Arts and Humanities – hosted a networking reception for Carolina faculty and staff who have been engaged in the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's nearly 20-year partnership with King's College London. Initiated in 2005 between UNC's College of Arts and Sciences and the School of Arts and Humanities and School of Social Science and Public Policy at King’s, this partnership has since bolstered joint activity in teaching, research and other initiatives in more than 30 departments across both campuses. UNC Global Affairs also offers Global Partnership Awards to support faculty who wish to travel to King’s to engage in collaborative activity. Learn more here: https://lnkd.in/gwy9Rbz2 ? The evening consisted of brief remarks from?Heather H. Ward, associate provost for global affairs, Krista Northup, director for global partnerships, and Noreen McDonald, senior associate dean for social sciences and global programs in the College of Arts and Sciences. Other speakers included two history faculty members from King’s – Jim Bj?rk and Chris Parkes (who will be teaching at UNC this fall on a faculty exchange) – and Milada Vachudova, Institute for the Arts and Humanities. All highlighted the importance of maintaining global partnerships and emphasized the importance of fostering new connections and collaborations within, and across, higher educational spheres.? ? We also formally welcomed the newest member of our global partnerships team, Meredith Bryson. Meredith will serve as our program manager for global partnerships and international travel. We are thrilled to welcome her to our team!

Looking to learn more about our work at the SEUS/Japan conference and North Carolina's relationship to Japanese industry? ???? Read this article, now published in our monthly newsletter and live on our website! ?? https://lnkd.in/ecYcRp9j ?? Click here to subscribe to our monthly newsletter: https://lnkd.in/eFSaBtTZ

Happy International Education Week! ?????? According to the?Open Doors 2024 Report on International Educational Exchange, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ranked ninth in the nation for study abroad participation! This is the university’s highest ranking in nearly 20 years, up four spots from last year. UNC was also the highest-ranking university in North Carolina. The Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs at the U.S. Department of State and the Institute of International Education (IIE) releases the annual Open Doors Report — now in its 75th year — during International Education Week (IEW), which, this year, is Nov. 18-22. The report distinguished Carolina as a continued leader in study abroad participation, ranking the university among other U.S. institutions?based on?reported data?for international exchange rates, including study abroad participation (2022-2023) and international student enrollment (2023-2024). “This achievement — ranking ninth in the nation for study abroad — distinguishes Carolina as a continued leader in global education,” Vice Provost for Global Affairs and Chief Global Officer,?Barbara Stephenson said. “This report confirms that Carolina’s Global Guarantee is more available, more attainable and more enriching than ever before.” ?? Click here to read more about Carolina’s rankings in the Open Doors 2024 Report: https://lnkd.in/ejvmjpgQ

This week, members of our team attended the 2024 NAFSA Region VII Conference in Jacksonville, FL. NAFSA Region VII, which comprises seven southeastern U.S. states, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands, aims to provide a platform to build bridges between professionals and institutions dedicated to advancing the field of international education across the region and around the world. ? Sharmila Udyavar, Ed.D and Emmy Grace — members of our global education team — presented on UNC-Chapel Hill’s Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) initiative at the conference alongside other international education professionals from NAFSA Region VII. Emma Davis, also representing the global education team, along with Thomas Lasater, the program coordinator for the Duke-UNC Rotary Peace center, and Annie Lundeen and others from ISSS attended the conference to connect with other globally minded professionals.

?? Carolina's global partnerships propel transatlantic research ?? Recently UNC-Chapel Hill welcomed researchers from a wide array of disciplines across multiple institutions to discuss rapid technological advances and growing concern over shaping today’s media landscape and the potential of misinformation to undermine democracies. The Center for Information, Technology, & Public Life (CITAP) at UNC hosted a two-day workshop entitled “Threats to Democracy: A Transatlantic Workshop on Media and the 2024 Elections.”?CITAP partnered with UNC Global Affairs, UNC Center for European Studies, UNC School of Information and Library Science (SILS), and the Thomas Mann House, Los Angeles. ?? “This workshop was a key opportunity to bring together partners to collaborate on a number of the really big, pressing issues of our time,” Daniel Kreiss said, faculty director and principal investigator at CITAP. The workshop featured two of Carolina's four strategic partner institutions, University of Tuebingen and King's College London, highlighting the strong international research and collaborative links between the universities. Curious to learn more? Read the full article on the thought-provoking workshop and its impact on the Carolina community ?? https://lnkd.in/dybDQqWc