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  • CGS Faculty Affiliates Recognized in LAS Faculty Awards Announcement

    by Donna C. Tonini, MBA, Ed.DApr 3, 2025 4:00 pm

    We are proud to celebrate the achievements of two Center for Global Studies (CGS) faculty affiliates who have recently been honored through the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences (LAS) faculty awards and announcements.

  • Arts and Education without Borders: The 9th Annual Globalizing the Community College Curricula Conference 2025

    by Dr. Zach PetreaFeb 12, 2025 2:45 pm

    The 9th Annual Globalizing the Community College Curricula Conference 2025: Arts and Education without Borders conference was an immensely successful conference that will positively impact the Global Studies Program at Heartland Community College (HCC) in Normal, Illinois. The conference featured “innovative strategies and best practices for integrating global perspectives into community college curricula through the arts” and followed through with a diverse speaker lineup that provided multiple subject examples ranging from philosophy, art, composition, anthropology, and political science.  

  • Students Reimagine the Future in Global Sustainability Competition

    by Donna ToniniDec 9, 2024 4:30 pm

    On December 7, 2024, 14 teams from across the globe gathered via Zoom for the 4th annual Reimagine Our Future sustainability competition award ceremony. The competition brought together 249 students from 11 institutions in the USA, UK, Ukraine, South Africa, China, Austria, Colombia, and Italy, who spent eight weeks crafting innovative solutions for the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals and showcasing contributions of diverse disciplines such as engineering, health sciences, agriculture, and architecture to sustainability through factsheets. 

  • Investigating Intersections of the Local and Global: Exploring Migration Trends in Kraków, Poland

    by Donna ToniniAug 19, 2024 4:30 pm

  • Congratulations to “The Chancellor’s Call to Action Research Projects for 2024-25” Awards Recipients

    by Janet HusunukpeMar 1, 2024 2:45 pm

    The Center for Global Studies (CGS) congratulates CGS Faculty Affiliates Faranak Miraftab, Ken Salo, Scott Althaus, Anita Chan, Yannick Kluch, Teresa Ann Barnes, James Kilgore, Ian Brooks and former CGS Graduate Assistant Atyeh Ashtari for receiving the 2024-2025 Chancellor Jones Call to Action Research Program awards. The Chancellor’s Call to Action to Address Racism & Social Justice Research Program 2024-2025 awarded 12 research programs focused on systemic racial inequalities and injustice in our communities and higher education. 

  • CGS Congratulates its Faculty Recipients of the College of LAS Teaching and Advising Awards

    by Janet HusunukpeFeb 19, 2024 9:45 am

  • Global Studies Consortium at Aarhus University in Denmark, September 21-23, 2023

    by Steven W. WittOct 24, 2023 11:15 am

    From September 21 - 23, 2023, the Center for Global Studies participated in several days of conversation and discussion with fellow members of the Global Studies Consortium at Aarhus University in Denmark. 

  • CGS Congratulates its Affiliates and Recipients of LAS Dean’s Awards and Faculty Honors

    by Janet HusunukpeApr 14, 2023 4:45 pm

  • Impressive Illinois presence at the CIES Conference in Washington D.C. in February

    by Tonini, Donna CatherineMar 22, 2023 9:30 am

    At the CIES Conference in Washington D.C. in February.


  • Highlighting Teaching Excellence at the Faculty Retreat

    by Donna ToniniJun 21, 2022 10:45 am

    Each year UIUC holds a faculty retreat to promote teaching excellence, and awards faculty retreat grants that enable recipients to design and implement an instructional enhancement that has a high probability of improving education at Illinois. The theme of the 2022 annual faculty retreat was “Breaking Down the Garden Walls: A Promise of Access to Success.” The retreat highlighted the practices and approaches implemented by faculty across campus as they work towards a campus culture that fosters student success.  At the retreat, CGS Associate Director Donna Tonini caught up with CGS Affiliates Professor Eman Saadah, Director of the Less Commonly Taught Languages Program and Director and Language Coordinator of Arabic, and Professor Raquel Castro Goebel, the Portuguese Language Program Director, and an instructor in the Department of Spanish & Portuguese.