This two-day institute will bring faculty and staff from a variety of disciplines in the UW System and other institutions together with prominent international scholars as well as speakers from business, government and other organizations. The primary focus of the Institute will be to articulate the salient issues relating to culture, economics and gender and to consider their impact as we prepare a new generation of students to think and act globally. This examination, from a variety of perspectives, should provoke a dynamic interchange of ideas. This institute marks the beginning of a faculty development initiative by the UW System Institute for Global Studies to create curricular strategies for responding to the pressing need for a globally literate generation of students.
Projects can relate to credit or non-credit activities.
Proposals will be due November 15, 1999. The Institute Planning Committee will select awardees. Awards will be announced by December 15, 1999. The UW System Letters and Science Deans and UW System Business Consortium have committed support for sending faculty to the institute. Wausau Insurance Companies is the principal corporate sponsor of this event.