GSHE Mission
The mission of Global Studies in Higher Education is threefold:
- To connect UW-Madison faculty, researchers, and students with external experts through the development of a Distinguished Speaker Series and Visiting Fellows Program that feature persons with cross-cutting experience in global business, higher education, government, and philanthropy. Both the Speaker Series and the Fellows Program are tied to programmatic infrastructure already in place in Global Studies and in the Department of Educational Policy Studies, including an EPS graduate concentration of study in “comparative and international education policy.”
- To establish longer-term collaborations between visitors and UW-Madison faculty, researchers, and students by creating Working Groups that cut across disciplines within the academy and join the academy with non-academic institutions. The purpose of the working groups, which, as with the speaker series and fellows program, are developed in close cooperation with the Division of International Studies, is to advance the themes of knowledge transfer, research networks, and student mobility across borders and institutional sectors that are at the crux of higher education today.
- To foster the development of student, post-doctoral, and faculty Internships with placement outside the academy. These internships serve two purposes. One is to accelerate the two-way exchange of ideas through in situ experience. The other, specifically in the context of our students, fulfills the practical mission of the university to ensure career development and job placement.
