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<\/a><\/p>\nFor 20 years, UNC-Chapel Hill and\u00a0King\u2019s College London<\/a>\u00a0have demonstrated a commitment to building and maintaining a robust partnership. The\u00a0UNC College of Arts and Sciences<\/a>, King\u2019s School of Arts and Humanities and King\u2019s School of Social Science and Public Policy first collaborated in 2005, and the strategic partnership between the two universities has since expanded to include study abroad, teaching and research across numerous schools and departments.<\/p>\n Earlier this month, Vice Provost for Global Affairs and Chief Global Officer\u00a0Barbara Stephenson<\/a>\u00a0led a delegation from Chapel Hill to London. Noreen McDonald, senior associate dean for social sciences and global programs in the UNC College of Arts and Sciences; Elizabeth Olson, interim director of the\u00a0UNC Institute for the Arts and Humanities<\/a>;\u00a0Jason Kinnear, associate dean of\u00a0study abroad and exchanges<\/a>; and\u00a0Krista Northup<\/a>, director for global partnerships, joined Stephenson to meet with key leaders at King\u2019s to reaffirm the partnership and explore new areas for collaboration.<\/p>\n \u201cThe disciplinary variety makes this partnership unique and productive, and it allows us to sustain collaborations over time and constantly spark new ways to work together,\u201d said Northup, who supports faculty looking to engage with Carolina\u2019s strategic partners.<\/p>\n Much of the visit celebrated the many ways in which faculty from the two universities have collaborated over the years. Departments in the arts, humanities and social sciences \u2014 including English, classics, geography, history, music and philosophy, and some newer areas of study, like American studies, digital humanities, global studies and communication \u2014 have been critical to the health and vigor of the partnership. To date, UNC-Chapel Hill faculty in more than 30 departments have collaborated with King\u2019s faculty on more than 100 joint seminars, workshops and research projects and more than 800 joint publications. Together, they have organized annual joint conferences involving faculty and graduate students, while regularly visiting their institutional partners to give lectures, advise graduate students and pursue collaborative research.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s easy to measure the partnership with King\u2019s in terms of new books, articles and successful grants, but the visit made it clear to me that the most beneficial aspect is in the development of our esteemed faculty and students,\u201d McDonald said.<\/p>\n The delegation also emphasized the role of\u00a0Collaborative Online International Learning<\/a>\u00a0(COIL) in expanding the partnership. Since fall 2020, faculty at both universities have used COIL to connect students through eight different courses, many of them in the arts and humanities.<\/p>\n Many of these collaborations between Carolina and King\u2019s have been made possible by the\u00a0King\u2019s College London Collaboration Grant<\/a>, administered by the Institute of the Arts and Humanities (IAH). Faculty and graduate students from participating units at UNC-Chapel Hill may apply for the grant to support projects or events that advance the King\u2019s partnership.<\/p>\n \u201cOur partnership with King\u2019s faculty in the arts and humanities is the longest standing collaboration between the IAH and any of UNC\u2019s global partners,\u201d Olson said. \u201cMeeting with faculty at King\u2019s underscores the importance of sustaining funding for innovative scholarship that can only happen through partnership.\u201d<\/p>\n Since 2008, the IAH has partnered with the dean\u2019s office and other departments in the UNC College of Arts and Sciences to support more than 129 initiatives through the grant. The\u00a0call for the next round of funding is now open<\/a>\u00a0to participating departments.<\/p>\n \u201cOur strategic relationship with King\u2019s has all the ingredients of a successful global partnership, with the most important being committed faculty at both institutions,\u201d Stephenson said. \u201cBy working together on this visit, UNC Global Affairs, the College of Arts and Sciences and the Institute for the Arts and Humanities demonstrated Carolina\u2019s commitment to this partnership. Together, we can optimize institutional support for the partnership.\u201d<\/p>\n In addition to strategic meetings at King\u2019s, the delegation attended The Global Well: London \u2014 part of UNC-Chapel Hill\u2019s signature series of global networking events for Tar Heels living abroad. The\u00a0UNC Office of University Development<\/a>\u00a0organized the event, which brought together more than 150 Carolina alumni, families and friends based in the United Kingdom to connect with University faculty and leadership \u2014 including Chancellor Lee H. Roberts \u2014 and strengthen ties with Carolina\u2019s global network. Next month, Tar Heels will gather for\u00a0another Global Well event in Tokyo<\/a>.<\/p>\n Learn more about\u00a0how to engage with Carolina\u2019s global partners<\/a>, including the deadline for fall 2025\u00a0Global Partnership Awards<\/a>.<\/p>\n Courtesy of UNC Global Affairs<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A delegation from Carolina visited King\u2019s College London to celebrate ongoing collaborations and discuss new opportunities for faculty…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":468437,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7757],"tags":[748,14234,156164,393,156165,156166,4884,13625,257,16,156167,156168,156169,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-468436","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-carolina","10":"tag-collaborative-online-international-learning","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-global-heels","13":"tag-global-partnership-awards","14":"tag-great-britain","15":"tag-kings-college-london","16":"tag-london","17":"tag-uk","18":"tag-unc-institute-for-the-arts-and-humanities","19":"tag-unc-office-of-university-development","20":"tag-unc-study-abroad-office","21":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115304631581752754","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=468436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468436\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/468437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=468436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=468436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a>The delegation met with King\u2019s faculty like Joe Fort, a senior lecturer and director of performance in the King\u2019s music department. Fort discussed his unique, music-based collaboration with Michael Kris, a teaching professor of music at Carolina and Duke. (Photo submitted)<\/p>\n