Our Mission: The Center for Global and Intercultural Study (CGIS) develops inclusive and accessible educational opportunities around the globe, primarily for LSA undergraduates. Our academically rich programs foster intellectual curiosity and intercultural understanding by encouraging students and faculty to engage with host communities through conscious and responsible participation. CGIS is committed to furthering diversity within study abroad.
CGIS works closely with U-M faculty members who lead various types of programs abroad and the many international partners who host our students in countries around the globe!
For Faculty
CGIS Is now accepting applications for 2020 GCCs, GIEUs, and Maize Aways!
Proposing New Programs
CGIS works closely with UM faculty members to conceptualize, design, and implement study abroad programs. We offer a range of opportunities to teach abroad on short-term programs during the spring & summer.
Preparation
All instructors appointed to CGIS programs participate in faculty orientations that helps them prepare for the experience of teaching abroad. Topics may include health and safety, managing group dynamics, strategies for incorporating experiential learning, dealing with emergencies, and other best practices from the field. These sessions afford faculty members new to study abroad an opportunity to learn from colleagues who have already led programs abroad as well as from CGIS staff.
Support
All faculty members directing or teaching a CGIS program receive 24/7 support while on site, both from the on-site partners that CGIS contracts to provide logistical support and from the CGIS staff in Ann Arbor. Examples include:
- making logistical arrangements (housing, classroom rental, excursions),
- coordinating responses to medical situations, both locally (on site) and remotely (for emergencies),
- managing evacuations when programs have been suspended due to political unrest or natural disaster,
- liaising between students and their families or others as necessary,
- handling disciplinary issues, including coordinating with OSCR and the Dean of Students,
- advising faculty when situations arise that they are unsure how to handle.
Marketing your program
In order to ensure our office is effectively reaching students on campus, CGIS has a number of opportunities to market your future programs!
- CGIS distributes an annual Study Abroad Catalog that holds CGIS's entire program offerings for the upcoming academic year. Inside, students can find out information about affordability, steps to take to studying abroad, student stories, program descriptions, and more! Catalogs can be found on catalog racks in Ross Academic Center, West Quad, East Quad, East Hall, Weiser Hall, North University building, Chemistry building, USB, North Quad, MLB, Mason Hall, Angelle Hall, LSA building, Randall Lab, and Lorch Hall.
- Along with featuring your program in the catalog, CGIS houses all programs on our website. As leaders of your protential programs, the website is a great opportunity to encourage students why your program can be beneficial to their academic learning while also creating a unique global experience for them as well.
- Each prorgram links to M-Compass where students complete the application process, but M-Compass is also used university-wide to promote all international experiences along with funding and more!
- CGIS also utilizes social media platforms such as Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, and Youtube to get the word out on all programs. We're always looking to create content such has video interviews, Instagram stories or LIVE sessions, articles, etc.
*NOTE: CGIS does not create individual flyers for programs, however, should you feel that one is required due to unforseen circumstances, please contact Stephen Gonzalez.
Faculty Compensation
More information coming soon!
Explore your options!
Providers and Exchange Coordinators
In case of an emergency involving a CGIS student, follow the directions on the Emergencies Abroad page.
For questions or issues involving CGIS students, contact the CGIS advisor who is the liaison for your program. You may also call the CGIS front desk during business hours (M–F, 8:00-17:00 Eastern US Time Zone).
If you are an exchange partner and have questions relating to a student studying at the University of Michigan through CGIS, contact Sarah Pauling. Sarah will be able to connect you with the proper offices for questions relating to credits, grades, and finances.
For questions relating to institutional agreements and/or contracts, contact CGIS associate director Pardip Bolina.
Meet our 2019 Faculty!
Eric Beuerlein
Lecturer of French. Beuerlein will be leading French 230 in Grenoble.
Tatiana Calixto
Lecturer of Spanish. Calixto will be leading GIEU—Peru Healthy Kitchens.
Adam B. Eickmeyer
Academic Director. Eickmeyer will be leading GCC London—International Perspectives on Health & Health Care.
Frieda Ekotto Professor of Comparative Literature, DAAS. Ekotto will be leading Contemporary London.
José Luis Fernández-Garcia
Lecturer of Spanish. Fernández-Garcia will be leading Spanish 230 in San José, Costa Rica
Luisa Garrido Baez
Lecturer of Italian. Garrido Baez will be leading Italian 230 in Ferrara.
Raquel Gonzalez
Lecturer of Spanish. Gonzalez will be leading Spanish 232 in Alicante, Spain.
Lorraine Gutierrez
Professor of Psychology & Social Work; Director of the Center for Community Learning. Gutierrez will co-lead Contemporary London.
Ryan Hendrickson
Lecturer of French, Coordinator for French 101, 102, 103. Hendrickson will be leading French 232 in Rennes.
Mar Freire Hermida
Lecturer of Spanish. Hermida will be leading Advanced Language & Cuture in Santiago de Compostela, Spain.
Annette Joseph-Gabriel Assistant Professor of French. Joseph-Gabriel will be leading Black Paris.
Soyeon Kim
Director of the Korean Language Program. Kim will be leading GCC South Korea— Korean Campus Life.
Howard Lay
Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies. Lay will be leading Arts in Paris.
Ashley Lucas
Prison Creative Arts Project - Associate Professor of Theatre & Drama. Lucas will be leading GCC Brazil— Theatre & Incarceration.
Kathleen Meyer
Lecturer of French, Coordinator for French 231. Meyer will be leading Intermediate French Language Studies in Grenoble.
Kevin Miller
Professor of Psychology and Education. Miller will be teaching GCC China—Research in Educational & Cross-Cultural Settings
Leslie Pincus
Associate Professor of History. Pincus will be leading GCC Japan: Environmental Encounters in Japan: Past, Present, Prospects.
Ron Roosevelt
Lecturer of Spanish. Roosevelt will lead Spanish 230 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Javier Sanjinés
Professor of Spanish. Sanjinés will be leading Advanced Language & Culture in Granada, Spain.
Howard Tsai
Lecturer, Latin American and the Caribbean Studies/Anthropology. Tsai will be leading GCC Peru— Indigenous Communities vs. Globalization
Robin Wilson
Associate Professor of Dance at SMTD. Wilson will be leading Cuba: Roots, Culture, and Rhythm.
