Faculty and Staff Opportunities

The International Programs office works to develop opportunities for, and encourages faculty and staff to teach, present, and conduct research abroad.  This type of professional development, when integrated back into the classroom and workplace at Columbia broadens the perceptions and understanding of the faculty, staff and students.

• March 2007, three Columbia faculty members, Kevin Henry, Art and Design; Robert Lagueux, New Millennium Studies: The First-Year Seminar; and Margaret Sullivan, Marketing Communication, lectured in Dublin along with three colleagues from the Dublin Institute of Technology: Faculty of Applied Arts as part of a symposium on Teaching and Learning.  The symposium was presented at Columbia in October 2006.  This is the first in a series of programs the International Programs office will be presenting in collaboration with colleagues from arts institutions across the globe, to exchange ideas on processes in teaching and learning in arts and media education.  As we continue to develop relationships with institutions across the world, one of our goals is to provide opportunities for our faculty to share their research, teaching pedagogies and performances with our international colleagues, and to participate in the discussion on global educational issues.
• We continue to foster relationships with international organizations such as The European League of Institutes of the Arts (ELIA).  ELIA holds a biennual Teachers' Academy for college level educators in the fields of Architecture, Dance, Design, Fine Arts, Media Arts, Music and Theatre.  The 2007 Teachers' Academy was hosted by the University of Brighton, July 11-14.
• Teaching Artist Journal (TAJ) is edited by the Center for Arts Policy and has been published since 2003 four times a year by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc. The TAJ is an imaginative and heartfelt peer-reviewed publication addressing the fullest range of practice, research, theory, opinion, and issues related to teaching artists. It speaks to a wide representation of artistic disciplines, diverse educational approaches, and cultural contexts.

For more information about these opportunities, contact Chris Greiner at 312 369 7893 or cgreiner@colum.edu.