Announcement of Selected Teams for the COIL Faculty Fellows Program-Africa

Announcement of Selected Teams for the COIL Faculty Fellows Program-Africa

EAST LANSING, Mich. – Michigan State University’s Global Youth Advancement Network (GYAN), Alliance for African Partnership (AAP), and Office for Education Abroad are pleased to announce the selected teams for the second cohort of the COIL Faculty Fellows Program-Africa. Sponsored by AAP, this program is an opportunity for higher-ed teaching faculty (i.e., faculty or academic staff with teaching appointments) from any discipline to explore the theory and practice of Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) through global partnerships connecting AAP Consortium institutions.
More than 40 highly esteemed teaching faculty expressed interest in partaking in this fellowship program and given the quality of all team applications received, the selection committee decided to select seven teams, rather than six teams as initially planned.
Through COILed projects scheduled to run in 2025, Michigan State University fellows representing the Broad College of Business, College of Agriculture & Natural Resources, College of Arts & Letters, College of Education, College of Engineering, and College of Osteopathic Medicine will collaborate with African fellows from University of Nigeria Nsukka (Nigeria), University of Pretoria (South Africa), and United States International University-Africa (Kenya).
By making global learning accessible to their students and actively engaging in intercultural exchanges, two of the selected teams will help advance internationalization plans and strengthen ties between the Broad College of Business and two distinct African institutions: University of Pretoria (UP) and University of Nigeria Nsukka (UNN):•Antoinette Tessmer (Finance Dept., MSU) and Jade Verbeek (Dept. of Marketing Management, Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences, UP) will foster students’ cross-cultural thinking and interdisciplinary perspectives to address and effectively support the communication of global issues, such as sustainable investing.
•Thomas Rimer (Finance Dept., MSU) and Chukwudi Kingsley Onyeachu (Institute of Social Policy, UNN) will offer their students an opportunity to gain a new perspective on social policy issues, how finance/business relates to these issues, and how to develop the critical questions that may lead to their solutions.
View the official announcement on GYAN’s website for more information, and stay tuned to GYAN’s COIL webpage for future events or new Calls for Fellows.