Fulbright Global Challenge Teaching Award

McGowan, Philip (Recipient)

School of Arts, English and Languages

Prize: National/international honour

Description

The Global Challenges Teaching Award - Inequality will support a pair of teaching faculty – one at a US higher education institution (HEI) one at a UK HEI – to co-deliver a virtual exchange programme on the topic of inequality.

Paired with Julie Paxton (Ohio University) to co-deliver COIL module in the autumn of 2025.

Awarded date	17 Jul 2024
Degree of recognition	International
Granting Organisations	Fulbright Commission

Keywords

Liberal Arts
Inequality
Grenfell Tower
Citizenship
Equality
SDGs
Human Rights
Antigone
Claudia Rankine
Judith Butler

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As the world faces urgent global crises and the US navigates heated elections, a group of American and British universities are joining forces to tackle critical global challenges. The US-UK Fulbright Commission and the American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) are proud to announce the recipients of the 2024–25 Fulbright Global Challenges Teaching Awards (GCTAs). This initiative aims to strengthen international collaboration in higher education while advancing innovative approaches to digital learning by supporting faculty from both countries in co-delivering virtual exchange courses that address some of the most pressing issues of our time. These awards, launched in response to the growing need for international co-operation, support faculty as they create and teach courses on four urgent global challenges: climate change, inequality, polarization and division, and racial justice. In keeping with the Fulbright Commission's efforts to widen institutional participation the new cohort exemplifies this mission, featuring faculty from: Birmingham City, Strathclyde, Queen’s University Belfast and Lancaster in the UK and the College of Charleston, Ohio University, Brandeis and Fort Valley State in the US. Each award recipient will work with a counterpart from across the Atlantic, using virtual exchange and collaborative online international learning co-operation(VE/COIL) to foster cross-cultural understanding among students. Maria Balinska, executive director of the US-UK Fulbright Commission, said, "The Fulbright Global Challenges Teaching Awards are the Commission’s flagship initiative because they’re about democratising global learning and developing new inclusive ways of supporting international education exchange. We are tremendously excited to be enabling connections between classrooms in Northern Ireland and Ohio; the Midlands and South Carolina; Scotland and Massachusetts and the North of England and Georgia. We cannot wait to see what transatlantic collaborations come about as a result.” "We are incredibly excited to move forward with such an outstanding group of educators from a diverse range of higher education institutions," said Veronica Onorevole, director of innovative global education initiatives at AAC&U. "Their commitment to expanding access to international experiences and their innovative approaches to teaching and learning align perfectly with the goals of the GCTA." The Global Challenges Teaching Awards bring together faculty and institutions to co-create learning opportunities that transcend national borders and address the problems that we share as a planet.