University at Albany
AC-7: Incentives for Developing Courses

CONAHEC (the Consortium for North American Higher Education Collaboration) and the SUNY COIL (Collbaorative Online International Learning) Center have established the International Faculty Collaboration for Teaching Climate Resilience in order to provide faculty members the opportunity to participate in an online professional development and mentoring experience to co-develop and co-teach a collaborative online international learning module related to climate resilience. Faculty members will also have the opportunity to visit their partner’s home institutions to participate as a guest lecturer, meet with other colleagues, conduct a virtual student-to-student event, and engage with the university community. UAlbany actively engages in this project and advertises to their faculty members to participate.   This unique collaboration builds on the strengths of both organizations, CONAHEC and the COIL Center, in facilitating international teaching collaborations.  Join us in the mission to build and improve international higher education collaboration to help shape how humanity responds to this critical challenge.   

Some of the unique benefits that this program offers to faculty members are:           Selected participants will be matched with an international faculty member.          Faculty members will participate in the online COIL Academy that includes training on intercultural teaching/learning, interdisciplinary collaboration, and technology integration          Groups will be mentored by professors with previous international experience in climate resilience teaching.          Participants will engage in conversations with experts in climate resilience. Other benefits to institutions include:          Provides low-cost replicable model in future semesters and expandable to new faculty/programs/courses.          Institutions that commit to initiating three or more faculty into the program will receive 1-2 hours of consultation on curricular internationalization.          The program may lead to other internationalization projects such as dual-diploma programs, study abroad courses, international research work, exchanges, and more.