Meet the EPIC fellows

The Education Partnership for Internationalizing Curriculum (EPIC) Community College Faculty Fellowship program brings together a cohort of community college faculty and academic staff from various disciplines to work collaboratively with Stanford staff for one academic year on self-designed projects aimed at internationalizing curricula. A new series features interviews with this year's EPIC faculty fellows. Learn more.

Meet the EPIC leaders

The Education Partnership for Internationalizing Curriculum (EPIC) Leadership program brings together a cohort of mid- and senior-level administrators from community colleges and minority-serving institutions across the United States to participate in leadership training and design programs at their home institutions to support international education. A new series features interviews with this year's EPIC leadership fellows. Learn more.

Globalizing campus libraries

From multilingual poetry performances to making the hidden history of civil rights struggles on campus more visible and vibrant for a new generation of students, community college educators discussed a range of topics with nationally recognized library science experts at the first in a series of Global Educators Network (GEN) inquiry meetups for 2022-23. Participants engaged with a central discussion question: How can the campus library contribute to using a global, Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility (DEIA), and/or social justice lens in education? Learn more.

Global Dialogues Series: Liberalism and Its Global Trajectories

October 28, 2022 | Webinar

Even in the earliest days of its conception during the Enlightenment, liberalism has centered around core commitments to human dignity, individual freedoms, and human equality. And yet, liberalism as both a mode of political imagination and as practice in our world can often seem curiously elastic, shifting in the translation from political theory to lived experience under democratic and representative institutions. Indeed, liberalism’s vicissitudes seem intrinsic within the concept itself: while liberal thinkers decried Britain and France’s growing colonial ambitions in the mid-1850s, merely 50 years later would see liberal figures become the most prominent supporters of imperial expansion, whose vestiges of violence continue to resurface in global politics today. In our current moment, the liberal political imagination is at another critical inflection point as we witness the emergence of populist regimes around the world. The concept of “liberalism” and its global trajectories thus call for renewed attention to the friction between liberalism as theory and practice, liberalism’s long entanglement with empire and settler colonialism, and its challenges in an increasingly polarized world. 

Dwelling in this juncture between liberalism’s many practices, Liberalism and Its Global Trajectories explores the history and the current global political climate to consider the stakes of liberalism and its legacies in our world today. Learn more.

GEN Inquiry Meetup: Climate Change in Your Classroom

October 28, 2022 | Virtual Meeting

The climate crisis is the most international, intersectional, interdisciplinary, existential threat humanity will ever face. No one discipline or department can confront this planetary threat alone. Globally our students are already demanding greater focus on climate justice—and staging monthly climate strikes in schools around the world. As a global educator, what will your response be? What first steps, or leaps, can you take now? Join us for a shared dialog of urgency, innovation, and inspiration. Learn more.

Featured Speakers:

Dr. Sharon Sikora (Ph.D., Chemistry) was recently appointed to the steering panel for the National Assessment of Education Progress to help formulate recommendations for updating science criteria in "The Nation's Report Card" for 2028. She has written curriculum for the Smithsonian as well as an NGSS-based high school chemistry curriculum in the context of climate change. A former Congressional Einstein Fellow, she currently serves as Director of Middle School Curriculum for Sacred Heart Schools in Atherton, CA.

Dr. Scott Lankford (Ph.D., Modern Thought and Literature), a Global Educators Network Board Member, Foothill College English Instructor, and award-winning environmental journalist.

Teaching about Sri Lanka

The American Institute for Sri Lankan Studies publishes teaching modules designed for use by community college instructors, though each can also be used in introductory courses at four-year institutions. Each module is designed to enable instructors to integrate Sri Lanka material into general non-area studies courses and thus facilitate the internationalization of the curriculum. Each module is designed to be used for one or two class sessions. Learn more.