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Share the unique experiences of traveling faculty members Erik Esckilsen, Gary Scudder, and Ken Wade, as well as Dean Elizabeth Beaulieu, as they chronicle their Middle Eastern experiences in Champlain's Faculty Internationalization Inititative blogs. Betsy Beaulieu Erik Esckilsen Gary Scudder Ken Wade
In their third year of Champlain College's new Core curriculum, students take courses designed to deepen their awareness of global cultures and issues beyond their home borders. With the shared goal of providing an engaging, relevant, and up-to-date global education, College administrators and faculty adopted an innovative proposal for developing the third-year courses: Send the professors who will teach them beyond their home borders. What better way to craft courses exploring our ever-changing world than to have course designers explore the world?

In the first phase of this initiative, the Core division selected the Middle East as the region for course-development attention. In all, 12 faculty members from several College divisions, along with Core Dean Elizabeth Beaulieu, are spending portions of the summer attending conferences and cultural events, conducting research, and generally immersing themselves in Middle Eastern communities where extraordinary learning opportunities await. Their work takes them to Egypt, Israel/Palestine, Jordan, Morocco, Spain, Turkey, and the United Arab Emirates.

A second, similar course-development travel initiative is likely to take place in China in summer 2009, adding courses on that important region to the fall 2010 Core offerings.