Dates and to-dos
Summer 2025 Faculty-Led program proposal deadline is July 1
To propose or renew a Faculty-Led program, use this site for creating a proposal.
Summer 2025 deadline for Global Learning: Monday, July 1. 9-month faculty also need to submit proposals by July 1, so there is roughly a month left for those faculty to submit a proposal.
Have ideas for a new program but need to talk them through? Connect with the team! Email ip.globallearning@wsu.edu to request a meeting with either Kelly or a Global Learning team member.
Global Cougs in the news
WSU sophomore awarded an international internship in Dublin, Ireland |WSU Insider | March 22, 2024
WSU students report on refugee crisis in Armenia | WSU Insider | March 26, 2024
Shouts out!
We have so many champions across the university and the world, but this month we want to give special shouts out to the following GL heroes.
Margot Gildner and Mandy Schenkemeyer, both academic advisors in Kinesiology who have worked with Global Learning to strategically enhance access to Global Learning for their students.
Lexi Anderson (CSD/ESG) for her assistance with dramatically improving our Course Notification Form (CNF) process. This is especially important because it ensures that the courses posted for faculty-led programs have the correct attributes, therefore charging the correct fees, suppressing campus-based fees, and ensuring tuition-related revenue is sent to the correct college. Also, a shout out for Megan Styborski in Global Learning for constantly improving processes.
Erin Leverman from our Vancouver campus will be doing a site visit with our partner, IES, in Vienna this summer where she will learn more about internships abroad! We learn of new opportunities for faculty and non-faculty to do site visits fairly often and many of these opportunities are highly subsidized by our third-party providers hosting them.
Laurie Heustis, Chanel Denman, Chioma Heim, Kelli Gardner-Schrand, Alma Rocha, and Rich Giles are all academic advisors who have gone above and beyond to help promote and advise students regarding study abroad, even though it is not systemically added to the curriculum in their programs. Thank you!
Distinguished Scholarship Office with a special nod to April Seehafer and Angie Klimko for their work supporting our growing number of Gilman Scholarship applications. This year, 45 applications have been submitted!
Recently returned programs
This past winter break, spring semester, and spring break, we had four programs abroad supporting 54 students! Welcome back!
- Faculty-Led UAE: Culture, Business and Hospitality in Dubai
- Faculty-Led Italy: Design in Florence
- Faculty-Led New Zealand: Sustaining Human Societies and the Environment
- Faculty-Led Switzerland: Business – Winter in Switzerland
Upcoming Faculty-Led programs
This summer we will have 209 students abroad on Faculty-Led programs in 17 programs in 12 countries. Many thanks to all our program leaders for your dedication and sacrifice in providing these opportunities to our Cougs!
- Faculty-Led Italy: Food, Wine, and Culture of Italy
- Faculty-Led Spain: First Generation Abroad Seville
- Faculty-Led Greece: Epic Storytelling in Greece
- Faculty-Led Germany: Animation, Design, & Activism
- Faculty-Led Costa Rica: Animal Production Systems in the World
- Faculty-Led Ireland: Exploring the History, Culture, and Environment of Ireland
- Faculty-Led Greece: Business in Greece
- Faculty-Led Vietnam and the Philippines: OMBA in Southeast Asia
- Faculty-Led Ireland: Poetry and the Universal Landscape
- Faculty-Led Spain: Business in Spain
- Faculty-Led Germany: German Language, Culture, and History in Berlin
- Faculty-Led Spain: Comparative Health Systems & Hospital Shadowing
- Faculty-Led Thailand: Business in Thailand
- Faculty-Led Spain and Italy: Human Development in Barcelona and Florence
- Faculty-Led Kenya: Research Immersion in Nairobi
- Faculty-Led Spain and Italy: HD Internship Experiences in Barcelona and Florence
- Faculty-Led UAE: EMBA Business and Culture
- Faculty-Led Kenya: Global Leadership & Beekeeping in Kenya
Summer term “informal” travel opportunities for students
Are you or a fellow Coug taking a group of students (undergraduate or graduate) abroad for a conference, research, service, athletics, or any other reason, but not awarding credit? Use this new streamlined form to help you be compliant with university policy.
Updates
New International Travel Risk Management website (faculty/staff focus)
Streamlined resources to address international issues are now located on a new website for the WSU Compliance and Risk Management team. You will find guidance on international travel, research and security, cybersecurity and privacy, culture and diversity, and international compliance as well as answers to frequently asked questions.
We’re part of the myWSU entry portal!
You can now find a short link to the myStudyAbroad portal on the myWSU log-in page.
Would you like to contribute an article or announcement to a Cougs Abroad newsletter? Email Dr. Newlon.
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