International Faculty and Staff Development

The International Education Programs supports the professional development of its faculty and staff through travel and project grants which eventually benefit the students of Scottsdale Community College. These projects have enhanced curricula through international and comparative studies, provided a new appreciation for diverse cultures within the classroom or student service, and funded the initial phases of discipline-specific projects or partnerships which were ultimately supported by other sources.

Examples of previously-approved programs include the Fulbright Scholar Program and the International Faculty Development Seminars with Council on International Educational Exchange.

Applications and International Travel Proposals for any of these professional development programs are to be submitted to IEP by the second Friday of October, December, February, or March. The International Education Committee will review and award mini-grants each of those months. Final International Travel Reports are due within 30 days of program completion. Current Maricopa programs and their application precedures can be found here.

Past SCC participants have returned to their classroom and college roles with fresh global perspectives on their courses, student services, and programs.

"The cultural elements I learned in Mexico have been incorporated not only into the teaching of my class' script development and documentary subject matter, but also understanding the passions expressed in the one-on-one conversations I have with my Spanish-speaking students." -- Penelope Price, Motion Picture/TV Production Faculty; Guadalajara Language & Culture Program, 2006

"Exposure to another culture, other peoples, and another area of the world provided me with a global perspective of healthcare and post-secondary health education and has already been applied to my teaching of nursing students at SCC." -- Dr. Linda Treloar, Nursing Faculty; Maricopa International Faculty Exchange Program participant, Australia, 2005

"My new appreciation of both the strengths and weaknesses of globalization and my investigations into outsourcing of jobs and its impact on the U.S. economy have definitely added depth to the economics curriculum in the classes that I currently teach (ECN111: Macroeconomics)." -- Dilip Kumar, Economics Faculty; International Economics Conference, India, 2006

2006 Faculty Development Program to Prague, Czech Republic
(Photo by Geoff Reed)