The Office of the Vice Provost for Global Affairs has appointed Lornaida Avilés as its first Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) faculty fellow for the 2021-22 academic year. Avilés, an assistant teaching professor of Spanish at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, has developed an array of … Continued
As part of SPAN329, Akshatha Bharadwaj ’22, a statistics and analytics major with a minor in Spanish for the professions, shares her reflections on the Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) component of a course she took during the Spring 2021 … Continued
Katie Bowler Young, interim senior director for Global Partnership and Programs in the Office of the Vice Provost for Global Affairs, has been nominated for a Governor’s Award for Excellence, the highest honor a state employee can receive. The award recognizes contributions that make a positive difference … Continued
The Office of the Vice Provost for Global Affairs at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has announced an additional 15 Fall 2021 and Spring 2022 Curriculum Development Awards for Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL). As part of … Continued
An international online course connects students from three universities to explore how theater-makers can adapt, recover and thrive amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The first page of the syllabus for Adam Versényi’s undergraduate international theater course features this 1933 quote from … Continued
Whether the subject is music, medical anthropology or the business of health care, UNC COIL courses connect students with the world. Michael Kris misses live music. That’s natural, given that he is a professional musician, a teaching professor of music at Carolina … Continued
When classes once again shifted to remote delivery in Fall 2020, faculty across the College of Arts & Sciences, with the help of technology and instructional learning experts, say they were better prepared for it — having worked diligently since … Continued
The Office of the Vice Provost for Global Affairs, with support from the Chancellor’s Global Education Fund, is opening a call for additional proposals from faculty members interested in participating in the Connecting Carolina Classrooms with the World initiative. This initiative … Continued
Twelve faculty members at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill were granted Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) Partnership Awards through a new initiative launched in May, Connecting Carolina Classrooms with the World, from the Office of the Vice … Continued
