Faculty Development

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Date	Contact	Announcement	Replies
10/22/07	Paul Dunscomb History Dept afped@uaa.alaska.edu	The Office of International Studies and Programs and Program in Asia/Pacific Studies at Central Washington University (CWU) announces an exciting spring break offering for students and faculty to visit China with experienced China scholars. The program will provide an introduction to the complexities of modern China by visiting the country's Olympic city of Beijing, a regional economic and historical center, Xi'an, and rural areas across China's loess plateau of Shaanxi province from March 13 to 24, 2008. It will be co-hosted by the Northwest Socioeconomic Research Center (Xibei shehui jingji fazhan yanjiu zhongxin) of Northwest University (Xibei daxue). Participants will be simultaneously enrolled in a course entitled "Urban and Rural China" and earn 3 upper-division credits. For more information, please visit the site. The cost of the program will range from $1,550 to $1,825, based upon enrollment.
10/10/07	UAA Dept of Political Science 786-4897	UAA's Diddy Hitchins organizes Fulbright faculty study tours to Northern Canada - The University of Alaska Anchorage Department of Political Science is proud to announce the appointment of Dr. Diddy Hitchins, MBE, Professor Emerita of Political Science and International Studies, to a Fulbright Senior Specialist. In this role she will work with the University of Quebec at Montreal (UQAM) to design the prototype of a series of far northern Canadian faculty development institutes with study tours.
1/4/07	Mark Carper Dept. of Geography and Environmental Studies 786-6007 afmdc@uaa.alaska.edu	The University of Alaska is proud to announce its Institutional Membership with the American Research Center in Sofia (ARCS), “an organization dedicated to facilitating academic research in Bulgaria for North American scholars and collaboration between scholars from North America and countries in Southeast Europe (Albania, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia and Montenegro)". ARCS offers nine month and semester-long programs and fellowships to scholars and graduate students interested in learning more about the region and spending time in Bulgaria. “ARCS will host the programs’ lectures and seminars, organize related trips, and facilitate opportunities for taking Bulgarian-language classes, logistical support, and access to local libraries, museums, and other educational institutions.” The opportunity should be of particular interest to historians, anthropologists, ethnographers, theater and dance, economist, sociologists, political scientist and others involved in the social sciences and the humanities.