Resources for Knox Faculty

Guides and Application forms

Stellyes Center Application for Funds for Professional Development (for Knox faculty and staff)

Advising Students about Off-Campus and International Study Opportunities

Scheduling a Classroom Visit

We'd be delighted to visit your class! We can tailor recommendations for study abroad programs, international research programs, internships and volunteer opportunities to your course. Call or email us to schedule a visit and to brainstorm topics, length of time (anything from ten minutes to half an hour or more), and particular foci.

The Study Abroad Fair 

Encourage your students to attend this annual event, held on the Tuesday of the first week of October in the Seymour Gallery, 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM. All Knox students are welcome.

Info Sessions

Faculty program advisors may work with the Stellyes Center to set up information sessions--these can be thematically focused (study abroad and research abroad programs for STEM students, for example, or art, theatre and music opportunities in London and Vienna and Milan ) or focused on a particular program (Professor A. talking about her recent visit to SFS programs in Cambodia or Professor T. exploring pre-med and STEM programs with DIS in Stockholm and Copenhagen). Call or email us to schedule an info session - we can reserve the room for you, check that the AV works, and help with publicity.

Faculty-Led Short-Term Courses 

Interested in leading a short-term course? Contact the Director of the Stellyes Center. The Stellyes Center has sample budgets, planning resources, a comprehensive handbook, standard forms, and more. We are happy to support you in planning and executing your program.

Distinguished Global Studies Visitors 

Would you like to bring a scholar, activist, public figure or artist who is in some way connected with global studies to campus for a day or two? We probably can't cover all the costs, but we can contribute funding. See above for the application form and budget sheet. We welcome collaboration - and are delighted to help bring back Knox alumni to campus when they can help highlight to current students the value of international travel and study, globally-focused on-campus study, and post-graduate fellowship, service, and work opportunities.

International Education Organizations with Resources for Faculty 

• Diversity Abroad
• NAFSA
• Forum on Education Abroad
• IIE - Generation Study Abroad
• State Department - Students Abroad Webpages and Country Specific Information
• AFS Connect: Intercultural Insights for Global Citizens 

Faculty Development Opportunities

This includes grant programs for scholarly travel, teaching and research, and travel opportunities with international education and peace organizations:  

• Fulbright Scholar Program (CIES webpage) and US Fulbright Scholar Program (State Department webpage)
• Fulbright Specialist Program (short-term expert program for US faculty and administrators)
• Fulbright Travel Program (Insight and Service Trips)
• US State Department Exchange Programs for US Citizens (comprehensive alphabetical listing)
• State Department English Language Programs (for specialists in the field of English language education who wish to teach abroad as Fellows for 10 months or engage as Specialists in special projects and consulting for up to 3 months)
• Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation
• Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (see Research: Programs and Initiatives)
• Peace Corps Connect Travel Program
• Smithsonian Travel Programs (consider joining as a member of the educational team providing programming - guided tours, talks and lectures)
• American Council of Learned Societies - Fellowships and Grants
• Council of American Overseas Research Centers
• United States Institute of Peace - Grants and Fellowships
• IIE - Programs for Professional Development and Research
• IREX - Professional Development Resources (peace-building, education, international development and more)
• American Councils Research Fellowships and more (major grants for independent, overseas policy relevant research in the humanities and social sciences as well as language training)
• World Learning - Global Development Initiatives and Projects
• AsiaNetwork 
• Africa Network 
• The East-West Center
• The American Institute for Indonesian Studies
• CIEE Faculty Development Seminars (study abroad provider)
• CIEE Site Visits (study abroad provider)
• HECUA Professional Development (study abroad provider; HECUA provides faculty and staff development to institutions seeking to expand their visions of higher education and democracy. HECUA has experience in delivering programs in a variety of areas such as experiential education, diversity and higher education, civic engagement and community collaboration, student-centered teaching, transformative pedagogies, service-learning and social justice, arts and social change, public art, and environmental justice. HECUA offers professional education in the Twin Cities, Ecuador, Italy, New Zealand, Northern Ireland, and Norway. Knox is a member of the HECUA consortium, which includes Macalester, St. Olaf, Luther and Colorado College)
• IES Faculty Familiarization Trips (study abroad provider)
• IES Faculty Development Seminars (study abroad provider)
• IES Abroad Research Grants (for faculty)
• ISA Site Visits (study abroad provider)
• SIT Faculty Familiarization Trips (study abroad provider)
• SIT Faculty Seminars Abroad (study abroad provider)