Global Partners
GALE strongly believes in fostering partnerships. As such, we work side-by-side with several global partners at MSU, including:
Alliance for African Partnership (AAP) is a consortium of 10 leading African universities, a distinguished research network for African research institutes, and Michigan State University (MSU) that builds on MSU’s over-65-year history of collaborating with African institutions. Its goal is to co-create innovative solutions to global challenges with our members, working collaboratively with other international partners to transform lives in Africa.
Global Innovations in Development, Engagement, and Scholarship (Global IDEAS) at Michigan State University convenes communities of practice to solve global challenges, nurtures partnerships to bring solutions to scale, and facilitates access to funding. Its mission is to catalyzes interdisciplinary thought, research, and action to solve global/grand challenges in an international development context. It facilitates communities of practice; collaborates and engages with external partners and donors; enhances opportunities for faculty and staff to conduct research, education, and engagement; and provides proposal development and project management to support MSU’s international objectives.
The Writing Center at Michigan State University operates with a broad vision of collaboration in the MSU community; peer-to-peer consultations with students, faculty, and the community allow us to expand ideas of literacy and composing beyond traditional models and geographic boundaries.
Office of University Outreach and Engagement at Michigan State University facilitates university-wide efforts to create an ecosystem of engagement by supporting the engaged activities of faculty, staff, and students; fostering public access to university expertise and resources; and by advocating for exemplary engaged scholarship, nationally and internationally. In all of its work, UOE emphasizes university-community partnerships that are collaborative, participatory, empowering, systemic, transformative, and anchored in scholarship.
The Center for Gender in Global Context (GenCen) serves as Michigan State University’s hub for gender and sexuality research, teaching, and engagement with a global perspective. Our mission is to connect scholars, students, and community stakeholders with feminist knowledge to advance social change.
Michigan State University’s Global Studies in the Arts and Humanities program provides students with the skills to understand the cultural forms of globalization in an accelerated, interconnected, and mediated world. Our program of study is built around a global humanities approach to critical issues, such as violence and justice, borders and migration, race and gender, and climate change and environmentalism. GSAH courses emphasize the crucial role of words and images in shaping how globalization is experienced. In parallel with sociological, political, and economic studies of “the global,” we train students to develop critical understandings and creative responses to globalization.