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  • Letter from the Director: November 2020

    Nov 9, 2020 8:30 am

    Dear friends, partners, and colleagues,

    During this global pandemic when so much has changed, it is important to remind ourselves periodically about our core purpose. At the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, the constant is our educational mission. Whether instruction occurs on campus and face-to-face, or virtually and across time zones, we teach and learn. Enabling student success is always our goal at the University.

     

  • Letter from the Director: October 2019

    Oct 14, 2019 4:30 pm

    GET's mission is to provide a gateway to expertise at Illinois for partners around the world through high-quality training programs. There are many positive stories to share about how we fulfill that mission. GET is building on our past legacy and looking to the future. While sustaining strong connections with corporate and university partners in China, we have established new relationships in countries like Saudi Arabia, Colombia, and South Korea. 

  • Kirby, a UIPD Therapy K9, looks at the camera during a visit on Sept. 21.

    New KAUST cohort visits with Kirby, a UIPD therapy dog

    Oct 5, 2022 9:00 am

    UIPD Detective Tara Hurless and Kirby, a therapy K9, met with members of KAUST Cohort 14 and Anna Kasten, the KAUST program manager from Global Education and Training on Wednesday, Sept. 21.

    Hurless was giving a Campus Safety Orientation, and explained what she did, and why Kirby tagged along.

  • Our Global Campus Podcast: Trading My Suit in Kazakhstan for Swag in Illinois

    Dec 17, 2021 5:00 pm

    Assel Aryn, the Vice-Rector of Almaty Management University in Kazakhstan, describes what it’s like to push pause on her career and embark on a study abroad experience later in life at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

  • Nurken Aubakir is currently serving as a Visiting Scholar at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA, in the framework of the national “500 scholars” scientific internship program by the Center for International Programs “Bolashak”. He is the Dean of the School of Transformative Humanities at Almaty Management University (AlmaU), which is among the top universities in KZ/Central Asia per the QS World University Rankings. In this photo he is posing in front of a screen that reads Kazakh Culture Day and is holding the Kazakhstan flag.

    Scholar Spotlight: Nurken Aubakir details his Illinois experience

    May 8, 2024 2:00 pm

    Nurken Aubakir is a 2023-2024 Visiting Scholar at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (Illinois) in the framework of the national “500 scholars” scientific internship program by the Center for International Programs Bolashak (The Bolashak Program). He is the Dean of the School of Transformative Humanities at Almaty Management University (AlmaU), which is among the top universities in KZ/Central Asia per the QS World University Rankings. 

  • Student Spotlight: Doha Amer

    Feb 11, 2020 9:30 am

    Meet Doha. Doha Amer is a current first-year student at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering within the Grainger College of Engineering. During the academic year 2018-2019, Doha was a member of the KAUST KGSP Foundation Year cohort at Illinois. 

  • Student Spotlight: Jiayi Li

    Aug 3, 2020 2:15 pm

    Meet Jiayi. Jiayi Li is a current student at the Harbin Institute of Technology in Shenzhen, China. Jiayi was a 2019 undergraduate summer school student in GET's Engineering Research Academy program. Her hometown is Chengdu, located in the Sichuan province of China. 

  • A photo of pink roses and other complimenting flowers sit in a vase atop a banquet table inside the Illini Union.

    Through the Lens: GET wraps up intensive training program with recognition ceremony

    May 6, 2025 2:00 pm

    CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Global Education and Training (GET) and Global Relations at Illinois International collaborated with the University of Johannesburg (UJ), a Universitas 21 global network partner, to host a 10-day intensive training program for the Future Professors Programme (FPP) and the Accelerated Academic Mentors Programme (AAMP).

  • Participants in the FFP and AMP programs administered by the University of Johannesburg pose for a photo alongside GET, Global Relations, Illinois International, and University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign leadership.

    UJ FPP, AAMP participants share experience from 10-day intensive training program

    Jun 26, 2025 12:15 pm

    Global Education and Training at Illinois International collaborated with the University of Johannesburg in South Africa to host a 10-day intensive training program on the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign campus in April 2025. 

    The program was designed for a diverse group of early-career and mid-career faculty from universities across South Africa. 

    The faculty were members of the Future Professors Programme or the Accelerated Academic Mentors Programme. In the video, three participants share their experience and what they learned following the first week of the program.

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    University of Illinois, Intensive English Institute selected to host Humphrey Fellows for long-term English training program

    Mar 3, 2023 9:15 am

    The Institute for International Education (IIE) has selected the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign as the host institution for the 2023 Hubert H. Humphrey Fellowship’s intensive, long-term English training program.

  • Bolashak fellows from Kazakhstan pose for a photo with the Kazakhstani flag and with members of Global Education and Training in front Foellinger Auditorium in July 2024.

    Visiting Kazakhstani scholars create, share video from Intercultural Spotlight Series

    Nov 13, 2024 1:30 pm

    Bolashak fellows attending the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign participated in an Oct. 28 Intercultural Spotlight Series event and created a video documenting that event. 

  • Watch: Global Education and Training welcomes students from Beijing University of Agriculture for agricultural management program

    Dec 16, 2017 8:45 pm

    Students from Beijing University of Agriculture share their experiences from Global Education and Training’s 2016 Agriculture Management Program. Developed together with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign’s College of Agriculture, Consumer, and Environmental Sciences (ACES), students participated in lectures with Illinois professors, site visits to local farms, and corporate visits while immersing themselves in the full American college experience. This program was generously supported by Archer Daniels Midland (ADM).

  • Watch: Summer Heritage Academy at Illinois

    Mar 1, 2016 8:45 pm

    Developed in conjunction with the Collaborative for Cultural Heritage Management and Policy (CHAMP), the Summer Heritage Academy is an intensive, immersive, interdisciplinary program focused on the inter-related areas of cultural heritage, heritage management, historic preservation, cultural tourism, and economic development. Led by University of Illinois professors with expertise in cultural heritage and historic preservation, the Academy has been specifically created for Chinese colleagues. It offers classroom learning, analysis of comparative case studies, practical field research experiences to enrich participants’ professional development and add value to the participants’ home institutions.