Scholarly Opportunities and Professional Development

CIEE International Faculty Development Seminars (IFDS)
CIEE International Faculty Development Seminars (IFDS) are in-depth encounters with the people, places, and issues that shape our world. Open to faculty and administrators from institutions of higher education, CIEE faculty seminars are programs with an interdisciplinary focus that offer a contemporary, global perspective. Choose from 20 topics in 23 countries in 2010

The seminars consist of one to two intensive weeks of lectures by local faculty and experts from prestigious institutions, site visits that illuminate ideas explored in those lectures, and opportunities for lively discussions with international colleagues.

Adept in the local language and culture, our international staff of experts guide participants through an academic experience that participants have described as both professionally and personally “life-changing.”

• Introductions to scholarly communities overseas
• Opportunities to reexamine their own teaching and discipline in an international context
• Resources and information that apply to their curriculum
• An interdisciplinary group of fellow participants from a variety of institutions
• Opportunities to contribute their perspective and expertise to a scholarly dialogue

Canadian Studies Grant Program: Faculty Enrichment (Course Development) Program provides faculty members an opportunity to develop or update a course with substantial Canadian content that will be offered as part of their regular teaching load. Applications due: December 1, 2009.

ETS 2010 Visiting Scholars Program
Each summer, visiting scholars from underrepresented groups spend 4 weeks at the ETS campus in Princeton, New Jersey, studying issues of test design and learning to develop test questions and related materials for a variety of assessment programs. Participants may also work on educational measurement and policy issues related to assessment equity and attend seminars on fairness in testing, from question conception through test administration and research.

After scholars return to their institutions, they may continue to serve as links between ETS and the academic community by contributing test questions, reviewing test content, serving on committees and collaborating on projects. December 4, 2009 — Deadline for submission of application packet.

The IIE Network Website

This is the membership website of the Institute of International Education. For education professionals, this site contains extensive Open Doors data tables and analyses, articles and reports on international education, upcoming events in international education, and many more resources for educators, such as their Interactive Newsletter, offering the very latest on events, conferences, awards, and more.

Humboldt Research Fellowship for Postdoctoral Researchers

• Postdoctoral scientists and scholars who have completed a doctoral
  degree within four years prior to the application
• Scientists and scholars who have completed a doctoral degree within
  twelve years prior to the application submission date are eligible

Smithsonian Institution Fellowship Program
The deadline for this year has passed, however, you can click here for future deadlines and further information.