What is IFDS?
CIEE International Faculty Development Seminars (IFDS) are in-depth encounters with the people, places, and issues that shape our world. Open to faculty and administrators from institutions of higher education, CIEE faculty seminars are programs with an interdisciplinary focus that offer a contemporary, global perspective.
Choose from 18 topics in 21 countries in 2012
The seminars consist of one to two intensive weeks of lectures by local faculty and experts from prestigious institutions, site visits that illuminate ideas explored in those lectures, and opportunities for lively discussions with international colleagues.
Adept in the local language and culture, our international staff of experts guide participants through an academic experience that participants have described as both professionally and personally “life-changing.”
Participants can count on:
- Introductions to scholarly communities overseas
- Opportunities to reexamine their own teaching and discipline in an international context
- Resources and information that apply to their curriculum
- An interdisciplinary group of fellow participants from a variety of institutions
- Opportunities to contribute their perspective and expertise to a scholarly dialogue
Participants return to campus energized and motivated to incorporate an international dimension into course design, teaching, research, and advising.