The Center for Global Initiatives (CGI) is a research center at the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. It is part of the
National Resource Center The National Resource Center (NRC) Program of the U.S. Department of Education provides funding grants to American universities to establish, strengthen, and operate language and area or international studies centers that will be national resources ...
program of the
U.S. Department of Education. CGI offers grants and scholarships to students and faculty to travel abroad, complete internships, and develop internationally focused courses. CGI also serves as the home to the
Fulbright Program at
UNC-Chapel Hill.
History
CGI was founded as the "University Center for International Studies" in 1993. The name was changed in 2007 to Center for Global Initiatives.
Programs
CGI is the institutional home to the following programs:
Carolina for Kibera
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(CFK)
A
participatory development NGO operating in the
Kibera
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slum of
Nairobi,
Kenya.
Carolina Navigators
A
K-12
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International Outreach program that serves high schools in
North Carolina
Duke-UNC Rotary Center for International Studies
A joint program with
Duke University
Duke University is a private research university in Durham, North Carolina. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present-day city of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892. In 1924, tobacco and electric power industrialist James ...
, the center offers 2-year fellowships for international students to study at either school.
Scholars Latino Initiative (SLI)
A mentoring program that pairs
UNC-Chapel Hill students with Latino high school students with the goal of increasing college access.
Fellowships/Scholarships
CGI offers a variety of funding opportunities to undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, and staff.
FLAS
The Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) fellowships are federally funded academic scholarships designed to provide support and funding to graduate students studying the languages and cultures of specific foreign countries, in particular those in the strategic interest of the United States.
Fulbright Program
This program provides a 9–12-month fully funded international research/study opportunity or an English Teaching Assistantship for recent BA/BS graduates, Master's and doctoral candidates, young professionals, or artists and musicians.
Carolina Global Initiative
These awards are intended to support undergraduate and masters-level, as well as international PhD candidates gain global experience. Especially those with little to no prior experience.
C.V. Starr Scholarship
These scholarships support UNC students who demonstrate financial need to undertake an independent internationally oriented experience. They were established at UNC in 2004 by a donation from
The Starr Foundation.
References
External links
Center for Global Initiatives
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Global Initiatives