Faculty Opportunities
Albion faculty are in a unique position to expand Albion College’s International Footprint. Albion College wants faculty to have a variety of opportunities to broaden their global networks, engage in GLAA partnerships, and bring student groups abroad.
Global EL4A Exploration Grant
Learn More and Apply Here
Do you want to design a new EL4A course that directly integrates your current research, specialty, or passion project into the Albion College student experience? Are you curious about what it takes to offer an innovative Albion course that includes a 1-4 week immersive international field component? The Global EL4A Exploration Grant may be for you.
What is the Global EL4A Exploration Grant?
With the help of a generous donor, Global EL4A grants allow Albion faculty to explore an international location and meet with one of Albion’s global on-site partners to design a future EL4A global course (1-4 weeks abroad). It is an investment into your disciplinary expertise and vision to innovate curricular EL4A experiences, and provides you with support from Albion’s CIE team and Albion global partners on logistics and administrative red tape. Cristen Casey and/or Midori Yoshi will help you make these connections.
- Curricular Innovation: Design a brand-new, high-demand program that directly integrates your current research, specialty, or passion project into the student experience.
- Faculty-Driven : You will be the architect of a new, lasting program that elevates the profile of your department and the College.
- Future Impact: Your successful exploration trip will lead directly to a new course, giving future students a unique, life-changing opportunity found only at Albion.
The Exploration Grant ($3000-$4000) is expected to cover:
- Fully-Funded Travel: Round-trip airfare and ground transportation.
- Accommodation: Lodging costs for the duration of the exploration trip, usually 3-4 days.
- Program Assessment: Funds for site visits, essential entrance fees, and meetings with potential local partners (universities, museums, NGOs, etc.).
- Per Diem: A daily allowance to cover meals and incidentals during your focused travel period.
What Happens After I Return?
Grant recipients are expected to propose and offer a faculty-led global program within 2 years of travelling on the Albion Faculty Global Exploration Grant. They will receive significant support from the Center for International Education and on-site affiliated partner on logistics, budgeting, recruiting, and risk management. Faculty who receive a Global Program Exploration Grant also receive special consideration for start-up funding for years 1 and 2 of the program, with the expectation that the program will be self-sustaining in year 3.
Overnight Group Travel Programs
The Overnight Group Travel Program Timeline helps you get started. CIE Director Cristen Casey is available to brainstorm options. Schedule a meeting with Cristen anytime.
Faculty-led study abroad courses enable Albion students to travel internationally with the guidance and support of an Albion faculty member. Students earn credit in classes on campus followed by a 2-4 week international trip. Professional services are available to organize excursions, logistics, and on-site support. Examples of Albion faculty-led programs include the Holocaust Studies Service Learning Project, European Integration Rome Field Experience, Sup de V: Int’l Entrepreneurial Exchange, and Africa: Myth and Reality (FYS).
Students can apply for Albion Go! Grant funding to participate. Whether they travel or not, students can apply for a free US passport through the Albion Explorer Free Passport Program.
2024/25 Global Fellowship Opportunity, Scotland
The University of St Andrews is now accepting applications for their Global Fellowship Program for visits taking place during the 2024/25 academic year. The program provides awards to talented scholars from around the globe to spend up to one month in St Andrews, Scotland. During this time, Global Fellows will be able to undertake a course of research and study, explore potential collaborations, enhance existing relationships, advance research work and find the space to think in an inspirational environment.
Summer Teaching Opportunity, Italy
Every summer, it has been John Cabot University’s tradition to hire nearly forty visiting professors to join JCU vibrant, collegial and enjoyable community of educators. To continue this tradition, JCU wishes to invite faculty to apply for this teaching opportunity.
The program holds two, five-week sessions and a mini three-week session.
Should you wish to apply, send their CV and resume to Dean Arnone at [email protected]. If you have any questions, feel free to contact Dean Arnone ([email protected]) or the Vice President of Academics, Mary Merva ([email protected]).
Summer Teaching Opportunity, England
Call for Faculty Applications: Spring 2027 Summer 2027, Fall 2027 and Spring 2028
Harlaxton College is pleased to be accepting applications to teach at the Manor in Spring 2027, Summer 2027, Fall 2027, and Spring 2028. These applications are online and can be found by clicking https://pursueharlaxton.evansville.edu/register/teach-with-harlaxton.
Applications are due for Summer 2027 on December 15th, 2025.
Applications for Fall 2027 and Spring 2028 are due on April 1, 2026.
Please Note: We are still accepting applications for Spring 2027 even though the original deadline has passed. We are looking to fill a few more spots for that term. Please contact [email protected] with any questions.
GLCA Global Crossroads grants
Albion College’s international liaison to the GLCA/ GLAA is Dr. Midori Yoshii. GLCA grant proposals are submitted directly to GLCA. Prior to submitting a proposal to GLCA, discuss with Albion College’s Office of Corporate and Foundation Relations office.
GLCA Global Crossroads Grant opportunities include:
- Global Course Connections – Portions of two courses offered on two or more Alliance campuses in different countries are connected via technology. A requirement is that students across the courses work collaboratively to explore course topics. Courses looking for a Global Course Connections match can be found here.
- Themed Courses – The focus is on collaborative development of shared course materials, typically resulting in one or more course modules that are used in the courses offered by the collaborating faculty members.
- Global Learning Courses – Global Learning is different from Global Course Connections in three respects: Developing cultural competence must be an assessable outcome of all Global Learning courses; Global Learning courses must have at least two thirds of their syllabi in common; and at least one of the schools in each connection MUST be a GLCA school.
- New Directions in Global Scholarship – This program supports GLCA faculty members wishing to develop a new area of scholarly expertise that extends the global reach of current research or teaching. Recipients must seek out collaborators from Alliance institutions with expertise in the subject.
Study Abroad Familiarization Site Visits
Albion’s study abroad affiliates provide funding for Albion staff and faculty to participate in familiarization trips (“fam trips”) to their study abroad sites. Albion’s Center for International Education (CIE) is often able to pay remaining travel costs, if you conduct an on-site analysis of the study abroad program.
Program Familiarization Trips/ Site Visits are offered with: CEA Study Abroad; IES Abroad; International Studies Abroad, School for International Training; and Spanish Studies Abroad. Others may also be available.
Faculty Development/Teaching Grants
Grants are offered through Albion’s study abroad affiliates, and additional funding may be requested through CIE. Opportunities are listed on each study abroad affiliate website:
- Teaching Grants are offered through IES Abroad.
- Faculty Development Seminars are offered with: CIEE Council on International Educational Exchange; IES Abroad;and ISA International Studies Abroad.
- Scholar-in-residence opportunities are available between Albion College and Global Liberal Arts Alliance institutions. Funding is available through Albion’s GLCA Global Crossroads Grant.
International Recruitment Support
Would you like to help attract globally minded students to Albion College? Contact the Office of Admission at [email protected] to discuss opportunities to share Albion College with international prospective students.
Albion’s international recruitment initiatives share the Albion spirit through travel, partnerships, and digital marketing in order to attract a diverse and qualified student body from all corners of the earth. This could be students who’ve grown up abroad and hope to add an American education to their careers, US citizens who are finishing high school overseas and wish to return to the US for college, or international students at US high schools preparing to earn their bachelor’s in the US.
Recent recruitment initiatives include:
- Albion’s Referral Program to connect students to admissions staff.
- Establishing Albion Global Ambassadors – current students who interact with prospective students and share a sense of campus that can be hard to learn from afar. You can follow the Albion Global Ambassador Facebook page!