GLOBAL OPPORTUNITIES
In today’s borderless world, American higher education continues to play a key role in building communities of learning across the hemisphere. Public universities are increasingly serving as a catalyst in carrying out the trilogy of education, research and public service in partnership with transnational universities. With few exceptions, public universities have internationalized their campuses by recruiting and enrolling more foreign students, conducting research in collaboration with international universities, and creating public forums for intercultural discourse between faculty and students across the academic and global spectrums.
The growing commitment to international education has not only enhanced the vitality of the undergraduate experience, it has also underscored the economic benefits of producing global citizens for the world of tomorrow. While a similar commitment can be found at the nation’s publicly-supported Historically Black Colleges & Universities (HBCUs), the internationalization of their curriculum, classrooms and campuses has been less than marginal, due to the less than marginal funding from public and private sources. In response to this challenge, in 2009, TMCF renewed its commitment to building partnerships between member-schools and world-class institutions of higher education in Asia, Africa and beyond.
In 2013, TMCF created the Payne Global Initiative (PGI) to create new and innovative education, research and extension programs designed to bolster human capital for tomorrow’s workforce. The PGI is one of several TMCF programs aimed at increasing the production of students in Science, Technology, Engineering, Agriculture and Mathematics, commonly referred to as STEAM.
GOALS
- To serve as a source of new ideas, best practices, and innovative policies and programs in the field of global education.
- To increase more opportunities for students to study abroad, to strengthen bilateral student and faculty exchanges, and to create strategic relationships in education and research.
- To devote greater attention to collaborating with other organizations to produce information that will provoke critical thinking and policy, with respect to global programs at publicly-supported HBCUs.
PGI PARTNERS & OPPORTUNITIES
Georgetown University Master of Science in Foreign Service
The Master of Science in Foreign Service (MSFS) is a two-year full-time professional master’s degree program with a distinguished faculty, and a curriculum that integrates multidisciplinary core requirements with skills training, internships, and field experience. The goal is to prepare creative leaders for professional careers in international affairs in the public, private, and non-profit sectors in the U.S. and beyond. Georgetown University is private and the oldest Catholic University. For more information, msfs.georgetown.edu.
The Payne Global Initiative (PGI) of the Thurgood Marshall College Fund (TMCF) was created to encourage our member-universities to play a more significant role in international education as a means of strengthening our competitive advantage in the global marketplace. A major focus of PGI is to encourage more students to take advantage of study abroad opportunities. Investing in study abroad helps students compete in the compressed world of today, where diverse human capital is vital to profit, performance, and productivity in government and industry. PGI continues to actively pursue international educational opportunities to augment the academic experience.
Institute of International Education (IIE) – Generation Study Abroad
Over the next 5 years, Generation Study Abroad will reach out to educators at all levels and stakeholders in the public and private sectors to encourage purposeful, innovative action to get more Americans to undertake an international experience. Putting IIE’s resources behind this campaign highlights the commitment to increasing study abroad that has been so much a part of the Institute’s mission for our first 95 years.
IIE hosted a reception at the TMCF’s annual Leadership Institute in 2014 and TMCF recently joined other prominent higher education associations and universities in IIE’s “Generation Study Abroad” Partner Network. The primary purpose of the Network is to double U.S. study abroad participation through collaborative and robust relationships across the academic spectrum. As a member of the Network, TMCF and its member-schools will have greater access to IIE’s resources, toolkits and exclusive opportunities to enhance the undergraduate experience through international education.
The Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University
The School of Foreign Service was founded in 1919 as a direct response to the involvement of the United States in the First World War. “Having entered upon the stage of world politics and world commerce, we assume world-wide obligations. Our viewpoint can never be the same again,” wrote Edmund A. Walsh, S.J., the School’s first dean. SFS predates the U.S. Foreign Service by six years.
Institute of International Education (IIE)
TMCF has maintained a long-term and mutually beneficial partnership with the Institute of International Education (IIE). IIE is a prominent international education and training organization dedicated to delivering program excellence to a diverse range of participants, sponsors, and donors. IIE’s mission is to advance access to education worldwide by managing international programs, conducting research and facilitating policy dialogue on consequential issues around global higher education.
Learn More
For more information about the Payne Global Initiative, contact:
Dr. N. Joyce Payne
Sr. International Affairs & STEM Advisor to the President
[email protected]
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