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Preparing students to face the professional, social, and civic challenges of an increasingly interdependent world is a higher education imperative. To this end, CIE facilitates international teaching and learning across the UWM curriculum with on-campus and overseas academic programs.

Interdisciplinary International Studies Through its teaching and research activities, CIE aims to explore globalization as it has been experienced, imagined,

transformed, and lived throughout history. This focus on globalization reflects the transnational forces that shape and

define our understanding of the world today. It also poses an intellectual challenge to traditional notions of liberal arts and

professional education. Advances in science and technology have converged with international trends in economic and

political sectors, with consequences that touch virtually every aspect of people’s lives and livelihoods.

Against this background, CIE coordinates and provides student academic advising for several interdisciplinary majors,

minors, and certificates. The programs reflect UWM faculty members’ research agendas and increasing attention

to important global themes, such as environmental

understanding of the broader world. They provide avenues

for students and faculty to expand the boundaries of the

classroom beyond Milwaukee to cities such as Santiago,

Accra, Paris, and Seoul. CIE also offers opportunities

for undergraduates to engage in overseas research and

internships. UWM students have studied, worked, and

conducted research in China, Egypt, Ghana, Japan, Jordan,

India, Italy, and Thailand, among many other countries.

Financial Aid & Scholarships

At UWM, financial aid is portable and can be applied

toward education abroad expenses; CIE develops financial

aid budgets tailored to each program so that students

receive the maximum aid allowable. CIE administers

several need-based and merit-based student scholarships

supporting Global Studies, International Studies, and Peace

Studies, education abroad, and overseas research. CIE also

coordinates the institutional review of Fulbright fellowship

applications, and works closely with federal funders to be

able to advise students in the preparation of applications for

Boren and Gilman scholarships. International students are

encouraged and eligible to apply through their academic

departments for graduate assistantships, including teaching,

research, and project appointments.

Co-curricular Learning

CIE film series, public lectures, conferences, international

career events, International Education Week activities,

and the Beyond Borders: International Living & Learning

Community in Sandburg Residence Hall provide many

opportunities for students to enhance their international

learning outside the classroom. Student organizations such

as the Global Student Alliance, AIESEC, and the United

Nations Student Association promote interaction and

friendship among US and international students as well

as global awareness in the community through social and

informational programs and internships.

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International education at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee (UWM) encompasses an array of programs and

experiences that expand understanding of the world beyond our borders. The Center for International Education (CIE)

provides the framework for students, faculty, and the community to make connections between the local and the global, the

national and the international, and to explore these within different kinds of learning experiences.

CIE fosters innovative approaches to understanding the challenges of living and working in our increasingly interconnected

world. Interdisciplinary academic programs, education abroad, and overseas research and internships provide students with

transformative learning experiences. Scholarly conferences and colloquia, publications, fellowships, course development and

travel funding, and interinstitutional partnerships support faculty members’ research. International student recruitment,

admissions, and immigration advising strengthen the quality and diversity of UWM’s faculty and student body and expand

cross-cultural learning. Programs for educators, business, media, and the public engage community members in dialogue on

contemporary world affairs. This comprehensive approach to international education aims to move UWM closer to the ideal

of having an interculturally-competent citizenry that is able to thrive in today’s world.

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sustainability, economic development, international public

health, immigration, human rights, and information

technology and security. They emphasize the importance of

language and cultural literacy in understanding the world in

which we live. CIE-administered academic programs include:

• Bachelor of Arts in Global Studies • Global Studies Minor • International Studies Major and Minor • Peace Studies and Conflict Resolution Certificate • Asian Studies Certificate • French and Francophone Studies Certificate • Middle Eastern and North African Studies Certificate • Russian and East European Studies Certificate

• United Nations Summer Seminar

To expand these programs and foster international teaching

across the UWM curriculum, CIE offers opportunities

for faculty to apply for course development funding and

facilitates faculty recruitment with immigration services and

seed funding for faculty lines.

Education Abroad

A vital part of CIE’s efforts to promote international learning

is the expansion of UWM’s overseas curriculum through

short-term and long-term study abroad, exchange, overseas

internship, and research programs. As the university’s

education abroad office, CIE supports faculty members’

efforts to develop and teach courses abroad and to evaluate

other institutions’ curricula for UWM course credit.

CIE offers numerous short- and long-term education

abroad programs in countries around the world. These

programs provide students an array of learning and living

opportunities in disciplines that complement their degree

studies at UWM. Yet UWM students are not limited to

programs offered by the university. CIE supports students’

access to other institutions’ study abroad programs with

individualized advising and assistance in transferring course

credits.

UWM’s overseas programs and partnerships allow students

to develop cross-cultural skills, language proficiency, and

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While maintaining a Global Studies research agenda, CIE is

committed to strengthening internationally-focused research

and teaching across UWM’s curriculum. To this end, CIE offers

course development support, international travel funding, and

assistance developing and editing extramural grant proposals.

Partnerships

A globally-engaged university is marked by a network of

meaningful and strategic partnerships that benefit from the

intellectual resources and capacity of multiple stakeholders

and engage scholars and students from across the university

in a multiplicity of interactions. Frequently founded on

faculty members’ individual research collaborations, these

relationships expand to yield benefits beyond the university’s

discovery mission and sponsored programs, with visiting faculty

arrangements and student exchanges that contribute to UWM’s

international reputation as a world-class institution.

CIE assists UWM faculty and administrators in developing

multi-level international agreements, providing advice about

administrative arrangements, managing campus approval

processes, and assisting with the coordination of visits to and

from partner institutions.

International Students & Scholars

International faculty and graduate students are central to

the university research enterprise, engaging in cutting-edge

research, initiating partnerships with overseas universities,

and expanding UWM’s access to the world of international

funding organizations. International students and scholars

further help to expand intercultural understanding and

play a critical role in internationalizing UWM’s faculty,

classrooms, and campus life. By bringing a variety of

experiences and perspectives to the ongoing exchange

of ideas that characterizes the best universities, foreign

nationals are an integral part of UWM’s community of

global citizens.

CIE plays an important administrative role in helping

UWM attract highly-competitive international students

and scholars. CIE coordinates overseas student recruitment

activities in partnership with UWM’s schools and colleges.

Through international student admissions and foreign

credentials evaluation, CIE enables qualified international

students to join UWM’s academic community. CIE

maintains institutional compliance with government

regulations as they pertain to visa status and provides

guidance to faculty, staff and students on issues related

to maintaining legal presence in the US. CIE staff also

interact on a daily basis with the international population

on a variety of issues ranging from international travel and

employment to cultural adjustment and personal concerns.

International students, researchers, and collaborations are the intellectual lifeblood of the globally-engaged university. CIE maintains a vibrant research agenda centered on globalization issues while supporting research activities across UWM by coordinating interinstitutional partnerships and the expansion of the university’s international student and scholar communities.

Research Support

CIE’s scholarly programs foster cross-disciplinary dialogue on

the manifestations and effects of globalization, encompassing

transnational themes of migration and cultural diversity;

economy, governance, and organization; physical and built

environments; language and intercultural communication;

media and society; and power and identity. “Global Studies”

brings together students and scholars from across the

university’s traditional divides through colloquia, conferences,

lectures, publications, and curricular planning meetings that

present and foster new scholarship.

CIE sponsors an annual conference featuring national and

international scholars and practitioners as well as UWM

faculty considering the causes and effects

of globalization from diverse disciplinary

perspectives. Conference themes cover a broad

range of topics and have focused on human rights; global cities;

technology; security; exile, migration, and diaspora; global

governance; world making; international law; and food.

The conference has gained an afterlife in edited works

published in CIE’s New Directions in International Studies

book series with Rutgers University Press. With nine volumes

and two in preparation as of 2011, the series seeks to find a

common ground among scholars and practitioners from a

range of disciplines and fields to address varied approaches to

globalization and transnational phenomena.

CIE offers further publication opportunities through its print

and online publications. UWM faculty members’ and students’

research is featured regularly in Global Currents, CIE’s biannual

magazine. Faculty members articles are published online in

global-e¸ an electronic journal CIE sponsors together with

international centers at the Universities of Illinois, North

Carolina, and Washington, UW-Madison, and UC-Santa

Barbara.

The Global Studies Research Fellows program promotes

scholarship and intellectual dialogue on critical globalization

issues while providing opportunities for fellows to obtain critical

feedback and showcase their work in publications and public

forums.

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With a gift to the Center for International Education, you can:

• Provide students with the international knowledge base and tools

needed to succeed in today’s world;

• Expand international teaching across UWM’s curriculum;

• Support language programs;

• Foster cutting edge research;

• Increase academic exchanges with overseas partner universities;

• Sponsor public programs on world affairs issues; and

• Strengthen resources for K-12 international teaching and learning.

CIE has a continuing need for student scholarship, faculty research,

and K-12 and public program support. Whether you support a specific

program or provide unrestricted funds, your gift allows UWM to be a

globally-engaged university.

For more information about projects and possibilities, please contact the

Vice Provost for International Education at (414) 229-4253.

If you already know what you would like to support, please make

your check payable to the UWM Foundation, with the “Center for

International Education” on the memo line, and mail to the address

on the back of this brochure.

The Wisconsin Idea, the belief that the borders of the

university extend beyond the confines of the campus, is an

integral part of UWM’s institutional identity. It provides

a foundation for UWM’s commitment to providing access

to high quality education for underserved audiences by

acknowledging not only the university’s obligation to its

community but also its potential for transforming lives. It

underscores UWM’s aspiration to expand teaching and

research to support not only institutional interests but the

economic vitality of Milwaukee and southeast Wisconsin.

The Wisconsin Idea is a framework for harnessing the

university’s resources for the benefit of all. International

education outreach is essential to enabling UWM to fulfill

its commitment to the city, state, and region.

SUPPORT CIE Institute of World Affairs

The Center for International Education is home to the Institute of

World Affairs (IWA), the state’s only World Affairs Council. Founded

in 1960, IWA has been promoting global engagement among

Wisconsin’s citizens for over half a century. It is the institutional

vehicle through which CIE provides high-quality outreach

programming on a variety of global issues.

IWA represents an important channel for linking university

scholarship with the wider community. From its administrative

home within CIE, the Institute draws on resources from across the

university to fulfill its outreach mission. In this way, IWA helps UWM

play a truly transformative role in the promotion of global awareness

in our community.

In addition to face-to-face programs for the general public, IWA

offers world affairs learning opportunities for specific audiences,

including K-12 students and educators, and members of the media

and corporate communities. The Institute has a special commitment

to providing access to underserved groups such as students from

financially-challenged urban and rural school districts.

Annual events include the popular Great Decisions lecture series,

Wisconsin High School Model United Nations, which brings

600 high school students from across the state to UWM for a

two-day policy simulation, the World Affairs Seminar, a

week-long program attended by high school students from around

the world, and the George F. Kennan Forum, which over

the last two decades has brought leading international figures to

Milwaukee to discuss timely global topics. International Focus,

the Institute’s weekly public television series, provides a means of

sharing information and ideas via a medium that reaches virtually

every household in the region. The Global Studies Summer

Institute assists educators with developing curricula on a variety

of international topics. Individual events featuring ambassadors

and other government officials, intellectuals, and artists provide

additional opportunities for the campus and community to

establish a dialogue on world affairs issues.

IWA offers a number of programming formats aligned to differing

learning styles, such as traditional lectures, film series, professional

development institutes, television and radio broadcasts, podcasts,

and a full array of other digital resources, including a growing

social media presence. Many of these resources are accessible

through the Institute’s Global Commons website,

www.globalcommons.org.

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Center for International EduationUniversity of Wisconsin–MilwaukeeP.O. Box 413Garland Hall Room 138Milwaukee, WI 53201U.S.A.www.international.uwm.edu414.229.3757 (Phone)414.229.3626 (Fax)