WCU Summer/Semester Travel Courses
IPS can assist you in developing your domestic or international travel course. Click here for specific information as detailed in the Faculty Guidelines (updated for 2011/2012). To link directly to the paperwork only (minimal instructions) which must be submitted for travel course approval, click here: Travel Course Paperwork. For a list of spring/summer 2012 travel courses being offered, click here: http://www.wcu.edu/22996.asp.
Grants, Scholarships and Fellowships
Faculty members can apply for grants through a number of sources to assist in developing faculty-led study abroad courses, facilitating international opportunities to lecture or conduct research, and to promote internationalization of the WCU campus. Below is a list of some of these granting agencies. If you would like to add a grantor agency to this list, please notify the office of International Programs and Services.AASCU
American-Scandinavian Foundation
CIEE International Faculty Development Seminars
French-American Cultural Exchange
Fulbright Opportunities for WCU
Fulbright-Hays Group Projects Abroad Program
This program 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.
Projects must focus on the humanities, social sciences and languages, and must focus on one or more of the following areas: Africa, East Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia and the Pacific, the Western Hemisphere (Central and South America, Mexico, and the Caribbean), East Central Europe and Eurasia, and the Near East. Applications that propose projects focused on Canada or Western Europe will not be funded.
German Academic Exchange Service
National Endowment for the Arts
National Endowment for the Humanities
Rotary Centers for International Studies in Peace and Conflict Resolution
US Agency for International Development
US Department of Education - FIPSE - International Education Programs
US Department of Education - OPE - International Education Programs
US Department of State - Citizen Exchange Division
Spain - Program for Cultural Cooperation
Faculty Exchanges
Faculty exchanges are possible with any of our partners. For further information on faculty and staff opportunities, please contact Dr. Lois Petrovich-Mwaniki, director of International Programs and Services, at lmwaniki@wcu.edu.