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

    Apr 14, 2023 4:45 pm6 views
  • Nathan Sonnenschein

    Global Studies, Librarianship, and the Job Market

    Mar 31, 2022 3:00 pm39 views

    Nathan Sonnenschein, a former graduate assistant at the Center for Global Studies, discusses how his experiences at CGS prepared him for the job market.

  • Donna Tonini, Eman Saadah and Raquel Castro Goebel posing in front of the desert backdrop

    Highlighting Teaching Excellence at the Faculty Retreat

    Jun 21, 2022 10:45 am36 views

    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.

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

    Mar 22, 2023 9:30 am81 views

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


  • Returning to French Archives Amid the Pandemic

    Oct 27, 2021 1:15 pm186 views

    International travel to France and French archives in year two of the pandemic.