Category Archives: International Education

Global Studies seeking applicants for Scott Kloeck-Jenson International Grants

February 16, 2012   Division of International Studies   No comments

Applications are now being accepted for two graduate fellowships offered by UW–Madison Global Studies for Summer 2012:

  • Scott Kloeck-Jenson International Internship Grants to graduate students (working towards a doctorate) interested in undertaking practitioner internships on social justice issues.
  • Scott Kloeck-Jenson International Pre-Dissertation Travel Grants to support summer travel for doctoral students exploring potential field research sites.

These fellowships are awarded in memory of Scott Kloeck-Jenson who, after two years with the Peace Corps in Lesotho, began studying for his doctorate in political science at UW–Madison. He completed his M.A. in 1993 and then embarked on his doctoral research with the prestigious Fulbright and MacArthur fellowships.

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Global Education Summit aimed at spurring coordinated actions

February 13, 2012   Division of International Studies   No comments

A day-long Global Education Summit, being held February 24 at Monona Terrace in Madison, aims to bring together advocates from Wisconsin’s business and education communities, as well as other stakeholders, to seek concrete ways to collectively advance international education across the state.

State Superintendent Tony Evers and Gilles Bousquet, UW-Madison’s dean of International Studies and vice provost for globalization, are hosting the event. Bousquet, who chairs the State Superintendent’s International Education Council, and Evers will give opening remarks to frame the day’s discussion.

“Many of us who have participated in discussions with the business and education communities have come to realize that the various stakeholders agree on the importance of global education—including many of the same desired outcomes—but, for the most part, have not come together to help create environments for advancing these goals,” says Bousquet.

Previous efforts to strengthen international education in Wisconsin have produced recommendations, most notably from the Wisconsin International Trade Council (1998) and the State Superintendent’s Statewide International Education Council (2005). The Global Education Summit aims to serve as a catalyst for putting at least some of these earlier recommendations into action.

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Workshop to help teachers make a stronger case for French language

December 15, 2011   Division of International Studies   No comments

They teach what Bloomberg Rankings has identified as the third-most-important business language in the world, after English and Mandarin. Yet, as budgets for public education continue to tighten, teachers of French are struggling to keep their programs off the chopping block in Wisconsin and across the United States.

An upcoming workshop at the University of Wisconsin–Madison aims to bring teachers of French in Wisconsin together to talk about these challenges and prepare them to be more effective advocates for French instruction.

While pointing out that Spanish remains the most popular world language taught in U.S. schools, the Bloomberg Rankings rates French a couple of notches higher in importance for business, according to a report published August 30, 2011. The measures used to calculate the business importance of a language included number of speakers, number of countries using it officially, “financial power” and education and literacy rates.

“French continues to be an important language in international business and communication, diplomacy, scientific discovery and achievement,” says Gilles Bousquet, dean of the UW–Madison Division of International Studies, vice provost for globalization, and Pickard-Bascom Professor of French.

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For Ginsburgs, global interests are contagious

November 23, 2011   Division of International Studies   No comments

Her work, first with 3M and then with a commercial law firm affiliation, drew Sue Ginsburg into the international marketplace.

“I have been exposed to and learned a lot about our global economy and doing business with other countries,” says Ginsburg, who now heads GrowthLynx, a Minneapolis marketing firm.  “I love meeting people from other cultures, learning about their cultures, connecting the dots, helping expand business internationally, and figuring out how to successfully do business together.”

As her global affinity grew, she didn’t leave it at the office. She carried her international interests home, into her children’s classrooms and now to the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

“I always spoke to my children about where I was going, and what it was like, always emphasizing there were as many similarities as there were differences,” she says.

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