The CIE program transcends disciplinary boundaries in order to understand and address the complex issues of globalization and contextualization. Education and schooling issues are too complex and diverse to be addressed by just one disciplinary perspective. The fact is that education is the product of many converging forces from politics to society to economics to history to business and philosophy. We cannot understand why schools in countries halfway around the world are structured the way they are, or why educational policies in the U.S. deal with the topics they do unless we understand the various factors impacting these decisions. Most education fields already borrow from other disciplines in terms of theory and methodology, but CIE takes this one step further. Working closely with the graduate programs of Lehigh’s College of Arts and Sciences (CAS), the CIE degree programs breach the boundaries of disciplines, thus creating an opportunity for students to examine education-related issues from multiple perspectives.