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The Comparative and International Education (CIE) program is a global, crosscultural, and transdisciplinary program that prepares graduates to work in and with schools – both in the U.S. and internationally – as agents of change in classrooms, schools, and educational systems as a whole.

Our signature degrees, the M.Ed. in Globalization and Educational Change and M.A. in Comparative and International Education , have a mixed instructional format – on campus, online, off-site – which is designed to accommodate our diverse body of global students (many of whom are professionals in the field and work internationally).

We invite students from various backgrounds from both the United States and abroad.  In addition to traditional classroom and school settings, our students come from (and should expect to move upon graduation to) government offices, ministries of education, research/policy institutes, and international development organizations.

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A Hidden Marketplace of Ideas

Making a Difference in South Africa

Lehigh Teams with Caring for Cambodia

Alex Wiseman won the award for the 1st Annual CIES Higher Education SIG (HE-SIG) Best of Books for the academic year 2008-2009!! The title of the book is "The Worldwide Transformation of Higher Education", which is a volume in the International Perspectives on Education and Society series published by Emerald Publishing. His name will be mentioned at the Higher Education SIG at the CIES Annual Meeting during the week of March 1, 2010 in Chicago.

Iveta Silova Wins 2009-2010 MLK Faculty Award!
Veronica Hunter, Greek Life coordinator, and Rita Jones, director of the Women's Center, presented the 2010 Martin Luther King Jr. Faculty Award to Iveta Silova, the Frank Hook Assistant Professor of Comparative and International Education. Silova's 2007 book, From Sites of Occupation to Symbols of Multiculturalism, explores social justice in former communist states. She challenges students to speak out on controversial topics such as minority education while promoting a safe learning environment. Her nominator said Silova "lives, breathes and exemplifies social justice."
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