This year, we are offering a Chancellor’s grant to complete the Faculty Grant in Global and Intercultural Course Development to support Abington full-time faculty across all disciplines in integrating global and intercultural perspectives into their courses.
Grant Objectives
- Deepen understanding of our diverse campus population and foster a more inclusive learning environment. This includes effectively teaching, integrating, and supporting international and linguistically and culturally diverse students through inclusive practices.
- Adapt existing curriculum to incorporate diverse global and local perspectives while maintaining core learning objectives. Faculty will create materials and activities that integrate these perspectives across a range of content areas.
- Identify a partner for collaboration, either a faculty member at an institution outside the U.S. or an international organization in the Philadelphia area. Please note that the program does not require traveling abroad or leading an embedded course.
Grant Amount: Each grant provides $2,500 per recipient. Funds will be awarded upon successful completion of all program requirements.
Proposals are due by November 14, 2025.
Eligibility
All full-time faculty at Abington College are eligible to apply. We welcome all full-time faculty from the divisions of arts and humanities, science and engineering, and social sciences, business, and education.
What can the grant do for you or your department?
As we move forward in drafting a new strategic plan, the campus community may think about enhancing students’ global competency to prepare them for the workforce, as well as promoting global citizenship for all members of the campus community. As an example, future engineers will work in multi-cultural teams. Engineering faculty will learn strategies to incorporate cultural sensitivity and effective communication methods into their courses, so that they may better prepare their students to be “global-ready” engineers.
deadline: November, 14, 2025.
Grant Timeline:
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*Faculty are encouraged (but not required) to use the grant award to help fund projects, materials, or activities related to the revised course. Some examples of productive uses of funds: providing students with textbooks, activity handouts or other materials; inviting speakers to your class; purchasing tools such as the Intercultural Development Inventory. Due to funding restrictions, we cannot provide additional funding, outside the $2,500, for projects related to course revision.
** Our expectation is not only a revised syllabus but also a record of feedback on your revised course after you teach it.
What does the grant program involve?
- Two to three reading group discussions (preferably in person)
- Three workshops with guest speakers to apply reading group concepts in practice (Zoom or in person)
- Opportunities to collaborate with faculty, staff, and grant program co-facilitators on your revised syllabus
What do past recipients have to say about the program?
“This was a great opportunity to learn more about internationalization…I am leaving this program with a new syllabus and a renewed sense of energy for teaching.”
“The resources (readings, discussions, workshops, the wisdom of the entire group) were extremely helpful. In future instruction, I have a much better sense of how to integrate global perspectives into any course, not just the one currently targeted.”
“I plan on utilizing the resources… to continually build an international component to my course. If anything, I have been inspired to truly internationalize my curriculum despite any roadblocks I may encounter.”
Proposals might focus on (but are not limited to) the following:
Develop a new/revised course syllabus that reflects culturally responsive pedagogy.
Apply theory and research on internationalizing the curriculum.
Partner with an institution or faculty abroad or at home to enhance students’ cultural competence.
Globalize the syllabus to include examples of readings, films, artworks, case studies, etc., from a variety of cultures.
Incorporate global perspectives by having students analyze communication styles, literary techniques, etc., from cultures different from their own.
Create a collaborative assignment or semester-long project with an international faculty member on campus or an equivalent course taught in another country.