Grants
Dickinson actively and strategically seeks grant opportunities
that enhance global research and study at the College. Grant
efforts represent a core activity of the Center for Global Study
and Engagement. The Center pursues grant opportunities
independently and collaboratively, serving as primary investigator
on some projects and supporting the efforts of faculty,
departments, or allied centers on others.
Dickinson's recent global study and research grants
include:
U.S. Department of State
Across Borders: Managing Trans-Boundary Environmental
Resources in the Middle East and the United States. This
two-year, $500,000 project sponsored by the U.S. Department of
State's Office of Citizen Exchanges supported two highly selective
groups of early career professionals in developing a
substantive understanding of how environmental, economic, social
and political factors converge to influence policy and practice in
the management of trans-boundary environmental resources. The first
group, early career professionals from the U.S., traveled to the
Middle East, taking up the competing interests in the Jordan River
as its focus. The second group, hailing from Egypt, Jordan,
Israel and the Palestinian Territories, traveled to the U.S.,
taking up competing interests in Chesapeake Bay Watershed as its
focus.
The Teagle Foundation
Enhancing Diversity and Diversity Education. This
$300,000 grant to Dickinson College, and its two partner
institutions, Bucknell University and Lafayette College, focused in
significant part on enhancing the international student experience. As part of the grant, the Center hosted a
workshop entitled: International Students in the U.S. Classroom: Academic
Challengesand Institutional
Responsibility. With support from the grant,
Dickinson also developed its
International Student Summer Institute, which provides
degree-seeking international students the opportunity to begin
their academic careers early, allowing for a period of adjustment
to academic and social life at the College. The one-credit
Institute aims to provide international students with a deeper
understanding of American culture and history, the liberal-arts
learning environment, and opportunities to improve their English
speaking and writing proficiency.
Henry Luce Foundation
Luce Initiative on Asian Studies and the
Environment. This $50,000 grant from the Henry Luce
Foundation supports innovative approaches to Asian Studies teaching
and research through the lenses of the environment and
sustainable development. Dickinson, a recognized leader in
Sustainability Education and Global Study, was one of only four
colleges to receive the grant in 2011. The grant brought
international experts on sustainability and environmental issues in
Asia to campus, and it provided funding for an interdisciplinary
study abroad program for Dickinson students, EnvironmentalPolicy, Education, Economics, and Activism: The View from Shanghai.
IIE Fulbright
Fulbright United States Gateway Orientation.
Dickinson was one of only eight U.S. colleges selected to host a
Fulbright Gateway Orientation. Sixty-five Fulbrighters from
forty-five countries participated in the five-day program, meeting
with community leaders, dialoguing on U.S. diversity, and learning
about U.S. history through a tour of the Gettysburg Battlefield
National Military Park.