Faculty
Abroad
Many
opportunities exist for faculty to study abroad.
The ACCD participates in a variety of federally
funded grant programs for faculty bearing
the Fulbright name.
Fulbright-Hays
Group Projects Abroad
[http://www.ed.gov/programs/iegpsgpa/index.html]
funded by the U.S. Department of Education,
provides grants to support overseas projects
in training, research, and curriculum development
in modern foreign languages and area studies
for teachers, students, and faculty engaged
in a common endeavor. Projects may include
short-term seminars, curriculum development,
group research or study, or advanced intensive
language programs.
In
this program, applicants propose the program,
purpose and itinerary. If successful, the
winner then selects the participants (usually
from their school or other schools in the
geographic area) for the programs which are
scheduled during the summer. Applications
are generally due at the beginning of November
each year and awards are generally announced
in March of the following year.
The
ACCD won a Fulbright-Hays Group Projects Abroad
grant in 2005. The project, entitled “The
Faces of Mexico,” provided 15 faculty
from the ACCD, Texas State University in San
Marcos and Lanier High School in San Antonio,
with a unique opportunity to study the pre-Colombian,
colonial, revolutionary and modern history
of Mexico. Covering more than 4,500 miles
by bus, participants traveled through 17 states,
visited 13 capital cities, toured dozens of
museums and archeological sites and met scores
of faculty and administrators from institutions
of higher education.
Fulbright-Hays
Seminars Abroad
[http://www.ed.gov/programs/iegpssap/index.html],
funded by the U.S. Department of Education,
provides short-term study and travel seminars
abroad for U.S. educators in the social sciences
and humanities for the purpose of improving
their understanding and knowledge of the peoples
and cultures of other countries. Support is
generally made available through interagency
agreements. The Department of Education transfers
funds through the State Department to Fulbright
commissions in various countries to pay the
costs associated with administering seminars.
This partnership allows the program to use
the services and expertise of bi-national
organizations to plan and conduct seminars
for U.S. educators.
Seminars
Abroad invite individual participants to apply.
If selected, a participant will travel with
colleagues from diverse institutions nationwide.
In contrast to the Group Projects Abroad,
the purpose and itinerary for Seminars Abroad
are administered by the U.S. Department of
Education and host country Fulbright Commissions.
Applications are generally due by the end
of September each year and awards are announced
the following spring for travel during the
summer.
Fulbright
Teacher Exchange Program
[http://www.fulbrightexchanges.org]
Since
1946, the Fulbright Teacher Exchange Program
has
helped nearly 23,000 teachers and administrators
contribute to mutual understanding between
the United States and countries around the
world.
If
you are a full-time U.S. teacher or administrator,
you may be eligible to apply to the regular
program.
For
U.S. teachers, this opportunity involves a
year or semester direct exchange with a counterpart
in another country teaching the same subject(s)
at the same level. Fulbright program staff
in the U.S. and abroad matches U.S. and overseas
candidates in the spring of each year. Fulbright
staff then proposes matched-exchanges that
each candidate and each school involved in
the application process must approve before
final selection to the program takes place.
For more information about the grant process,
see Selection and Grant Details. For a country
listing of teacher exchanges and more information
about country choices, see Country Index (Teacher
Exchanges) [http://www.fulbrightexchanges.org/View/ViewCountryIndex.asp].
For
U.S. administrators, the Fulbright program
offers non-simultaneous work-shadowing assignments
with an overseas counterpart. These exchanges
may be from four to six weeks in length, but
each partner must exchange to the other's
school during the same academic year. For
a country listing and more information about
these opportunities, see Administrator Exchanges
[http://www.fulbrightexchanges.org/base/administrator.asp].
Deadlines
for applications under this program vary by
country. See the Fulbright Exchanges [http://www.fulbrightexchanges.org]
website for language requires and other details.
Faculty
Development
The
ACCD provides support and partial funding
for faculty development programs abroad. For
more information on current opportunities
or to discuss your own proposal, please contact
Mark
Hagen
at (210) 208-8009.
