A team comprised of faculty and students affiliated with the Comparative and International Development Education program within the Department of Organizational Leadership, Policy, and Development has secured a grant from the American Councils for International Education to support a partnership with M. Auezov South Kazakhstan University (SKU), focused on English Language Integration in Higher education Pedagogy. The project will feature a series of workshops, collaborative reflective activities, and a summit that will investigate sustainable collaborations between SKU and UMN.

The UMN team—which includes Associate Professors Bhaskar Uphadyay and Christopher Johnstone, affiliate faculty Marina Aleixo, and doctoral students Zhuldyz Amankulova and Elizabeth Orr—will be responsible for workshops on content and language integrated learning, teaching as reflective practice, cooperative teaching skills, interdisciplinary collaboration, integrating English into science disciplines, and Universal Design for Learning in higher education. The grant period is for one year.  Read more.