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  • Featured partnership: Zhejiang University 

    Oct 10, 2019 3:30 pm

    At Global Education and Training, we are proud to contribute to strengthening the University of Illinois’ strategic partnership with Zhejiang University (ZJU)  (浙江大学). From 2017 - 2019, we have developed training programs in coordination with ZJU, including:

  • GET to Know: Don Hardin

    Sep 11, 2019 1:45 pm

    Meet Don. Don Hardin is an adjunct instructor in the College of Applied Health Sciences Department of Recreation, Sport, and Tourism at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Don also has more than 30 years of NCAA volleyball coaching experience, at both the University of Louisville and the University of Illinois, where he was the head coach of the Illini women’s team.

  • GET to Know: Cheelan Bo-Linn

    Sep 4, 2019 9:30 am

    Meet Cheelan. Cheelan Bo-Linn is the Senior Specialist in Education in the Center for Innovation in Teaching & Learning (CITL) at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign and Instructor in the Department of Education Policy, Organization, and Leadership. In her position in CITL, Cheelan is responsible for the promotion of teaching excellence in campus-wide faculty consultations, programs and innovative initiatives.

  • GET to Know: Illinois International's Shanghai Office

    Mar 5, 2019 2:45 pm

    Meet Karen Weng and Li Na from Illinois International’s Shanghai Office. As ambassadors for the University, they actively contribute to the Illinois-China partnership.

  • 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).

  • Global Education and Training Renews Chinese Government Authorization to Train Chinese Professionals

    Nov 10, 2016 11:30 am

    The China Executive Leadership Programs (CELP), an initiative within the office of Global Education and Training (GET) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, recently signed a new 5-year cooperation agreement with the State Administration of Foreign Experts Affairs (SAFEA) in China.

  • GET Offers Training Workshops Abroad

    Oct 26, 2016 9:45 am

    GET will offer EducationUSA Leadership Institute workshops abroad in Kazakhstan and Japan in 2017, as a continuation of a similar program GET ran in 2015 after being selected as a host institution by the Institute of International Education (IIE) on behalf of the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA).

  • Gao Shusong: second row, third from the right

    Alumni Connections

    Sep 16, 2016 11:30 am

    Getting to know Gao Shusong, Specialist Programs for Administrator (SPA) participant.

  • 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.