The overarching goal of the Global Fellow Program is to create and maintain an environment in which achievement of the student learning outcomes is possible. The program has been designed to encourage faculty/staff engagement in global activities, enable distinction and recognition among faculty/staff for engagement in global activities, and create and maintain a diversified and multi-disciplinary team with specialized global experiences and resources.
The Global Fellow Program is peripheral to the Global Scholar Program, enabling the university to establish an environment in which focus and attention will allow the preparation of students for an interconnected world to become the norm. All faculty and staff will be made aware of the Global Fellow Program through new hire orientation, training and development, community updates, as well as departmental and college meetings.
Application for status as a Global Fellow is available in the Spring semester every year, and is acceptable upon completion of at least 1 year of documented activity.
The QEP committee and a select group of distinguished Global Fellows will review the applications and ePortfolios and rate them using an established rubric Rubric Link
Based on participation and documentation, faculty and staff will be selected and awarded status as Global Fellows.
Induction and recognition ceremony (e.g., Spring Banquet), certificate of completion (Global Fellow status), honor medallion, distinction and recognition at convocations, yearly banquets, and other campus events.
Global Fellows are eligible to apply for internal support funding for assistance with global courses, global travel, global research, and global events.
All Global Fellows receiving internal support funding are expected to share their experiences at the induction ceremony.
The Global Fellow status is a lifetime recognition with no need to reapply.
Activities that better prepare faculty and staff to assist students in achieving the desired SLOs may be considered toward status as a Global Fellow. Examples include collaborative international or interdisciplinary global research, participation in international conferences or publications centered on global dynamics, engagement with global events outside of campus, fluency or training in multiple languages, continuing education or training in any globally relevant area.
All personal and professional development activities must be documented in the ePortfolio for consideration toward Global Fellow status.
All faculty and staff seeking status as a Global Fellow are required to create and maintain an ePortfolio. The ePortfolio is designed to encourage involvement in global instruction and activities and to house specific artifacts and reflection in much the same method as with the Global Scholar Program. Below you can find a link on how to access and create an ePortfolio.
How to Create an ePortfolio Link
The ePortfolio serves as a key component of assessment for the program, as well as an important consideration in selection of faculty and staff earning the Global Fellow status.
Since all undergraduate students are required to successfully complete at least one global course and will be recognized through the Global Scholar Program for completing additional global courses, identification and development of global courses is highly encouraged.
Through the Global Fellow Program, faculty and staff are encouraged and rewarded for enhancing A&M-Commerce global course offerings and for inviting global colleagues to campus. Global Fellows are required to log global courses developed and taught into their ePortfolio.
Research centered on global dynamics (e.g., issues, trends, systems, processes) that involves student engagement (e.g., papers, projects, thesis, conferences, publications) are also considered toward status as a Global Fellow.
All global research activities must be logged into the ePortfolio for consideration toward Global Fellow status.
Seeing that Global Scholars are required to participate in global events, faculty and staff are encouraged and rewarded for planning, sponsoring, organizing, and attending global colloquiums, conferences, and/or events.
Activities that are global in nature must be logged the ePortfolio, along with a personal reflection, to be considered toward earning the Global Fellow status. Although global travel is optional in the consideration of Global Fellow status, faculty and staff are highly encouraged to plan, sponsor, organize, and travel with students.
Global travel must include students and be logged into the ePortfolio along with a personal reflection however, globally relevant travel may include experiences within and without the United States as long as QEP SLOs are clearly defined.
