ACCIAC Faculty Development Grants

Each summer lead faculty, usually a team from two or three universities, invite faculty from all ACC universities to join a “research trip” around an important topic and geography outside the U.S. The dual purpose of these trips is to enhance the research and teaching capacities of each university and to advance research through collaboration, both among ACC universities and between ACC universities and international interests. The grant to support a research trip comes from ACC funds. Programs already funded are listed below.

CENTRAL & EASTERN EUROPE:  SOCIAL ISSUES IN  EMERGING DEMOCRACIES
Summer 2008
Drs. Cecil Greek and Tomi Gomory of Florida State University, Dr. Betty Blythe of Boston College with the support of Professor Pat Lager, Director of International Programs, FSU College of Social Work will lead a faculty development program focusing on the impact of globalization and democratization and the resultant social problems that have emerged in three developing democracies of Central Europe: the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Hungary between July 1-19, 2008.   We are recruiting a multidisciplinary faculty group who have had little if any opportunities to travel in these three countries but are professionally interested in the social issues and problems confronting such new democracies and are committed to incorporating such an experience into their teaching, research, and program development (e.g. study abroad or student and faculty exchanges) in these or other developing democracies.  Click here for an application (deadline = November 1, 2007).   For a fuller program description, click here.

Post-Conflict Reconciliation and Reconstruction in Africa, Summer 2007.
Led by professors Sylvain Boko (Economics, Wake Forest) and Craig Brookins (Psychology and Africana Studies, NC State), this venture aimed at introducing faculty from a wide spectrum of disciplines (and preferably without a lot of previous experience with Africa) to reconciliation and reconstruction issues in three African countries: Uganda, Rwanda, and South Africa. Involving both pre- and post- seminar activities, the core experience was field study in Africa. This project involved 11 faculty from 10 ACC universities.

Water Resources Research in Major Watersheds in Southeast Asia, Summer 2006.
Led by Stephen J. Klaine (Clemson) and E. Michael Perdue (Georgia Tech), this project involved 11 faculty members from 8 ACC universities.