For Faculty

Interested in chaperoning students for a global learning experience? Consider the following:

• What time of year you want to go and whether you want the trip to track with a semseter, intersession, summer session, or other
• Whether you want to focus on travel or coursework
• Whether you want the experience to be for-credit, non-credit, or not-for-credit (more of a tour)
• Whether you want a multi-country or multi-city/region experience or whether you want the students to be mostly grounded in one place
• Whether you want to stay in hotels or do homestays
• How you will support students in raising money for the trip (scholarshps, financial aid, grant money)

Faculty usually get a complimentary program free and lodging. Flight costs are negotiable. They would not currently get paid by LPC unless they were teaching a class.

Global internships can be chaperoned by faculty with potential integration of a teaching component with an internship course (for business faculty) or independent study or GNST (General Studies) add-on.

This would be more focused on the larger LPC community and the Tri-Valley, but students could also come on a Community Education trip. Think about how much of a leader role you want to play and how much you want to be involved in identifying a theme, setting the itinerary, and/or doing a little lecturing.

Many community colleges provide students with opportunities for virtual exchange, sometimes called Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL). Our own California Community College System is working on the Pan African Virtual College with Ghananian universities.

Faculty can consider allowing for virtual exchange in a module of their course or work with a partner institution to allow for exchange in an entire course. COIL Connect and SUNY COIL are great places to find partners, but faculty can also rely on discipline, field, professional, and personal connections. The AAC&U is one provider of training and have also partnered with Fulbright to offer the US-UK Global Challenges Teaching Award where faculty from the US and UK collaborate on an exchange. 

These days, organizations focused on faculty mobility and COIL (Collaborative Online International Learning) are actively promoting community college participation. 

ACCT Global Workforce Coalition

• India-U.S. Workforce Partnership Lab

CAORC (Council of American Overseas Research Centers)

• CAORC Home Page
• CAORC Overseas Faculty Development Seminars
• CAORC FLITE: Faculty Leadership for International Training and Exchange
• CAORC Fellowships

Fulbright (U. S. Department of State)

• Fulbright Scholar Award

This award can be for research or teaching or both. Faculty can align it with a sabbatical or take an unpaid leave of absence to do the it, per the CLPCCD contract. (Fulbright does provide faculty with a small stipend.)

• Fulbright Specialist
• Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence

This award supports inviting a scholar to visit LPC, but hosting a visiting scholar can often lead to additional exchange opportunities and college partnerships.