The BCLA Dean’s Office invites faculty applications for funding to support Global Immersion courses being offered in Spring 2026. The Global Immersion Funding Program is designed to support courses that include Global Immersion trips as part of a semester-long course. BCLA’s support of Global Immersion courses encourages faculty to consider how a global experience enacts both the course objectives, as well as broader disciplinary goals such as Departmental learning outcomes and the University’s commitment to a Global Imagination. Further, the AAC&U asserts that global learning is a critical analysis of and an engagement with complex, interdependent global systems and legacies and their implications for people’s lives and the Earth’s sustainability (see AAC&U Global Learning Rubric). BCLA encourages faculty to consider how their Global Immersion course breathes life into an LMU Liberal Arts education.
The College will support as many course proposals as possible. The trips would take place during spring break, Easter break, or in the weeks immediately following the conclusion of classes in early May. Global Immersion is open to tenured, tenure-line, and term faculty (clinical and instructors), but priority may be given to tenured and tenure-line faculty. Contingent faculty (visiting assistant professors, part-time faculty, and post-docs) are not eligible.
Due Date: 5:00 P.M. on Monday, March 3, 2025.
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If an application is approved, the Dean's Office will work closely with the faculty member by providing financial and logistical support for the Global Immersion trip. Depending on the nature of the trip, this will include covering all faculty costs and supporting students with demonstrated financial need. Faculty leaders will receive a $2, 500 course development stipend for newly proposed courses.
To submit an application, please complete the fields below and attach the supporting materials as requested by 5:00PM on March 3, 2025. The application can also be emailed to the BCLA Resource & Planning Manager Jasmine Hamm (jasmine.hamm@lmu.edu) by 5:00PM on March 3, 2025. The online application saves work in progress, but after one month of inactivity, the response will be recorded as-is. Please note: Save and Continue uses cookies to save progress. It will only work if the survey is re-accessed on the same internet browser on the same computer.
All proposals will be reviewed by the BCLA Student Success and Engagement Committee, which will make recommendations to the Dean who makes the final decision. Applicants will be notified whether their proposal has been approved by May 9, 2025, so there will be sufficient time to plan and organize the course and trip over the summer.
Please direct any questions to Jasmine Hamm (jasmine.hamm@lmu.edu).