What's on Offer

What’s on offer

Each year accredited US colleges and universities submit proposals to host foreign lecturers on their campuses under the worldwide Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence (SIR) Program. The program targets US campuses that do not often host foreign faculty and/or that serve minority students – including small liberal arts colleges, community colleges and minority-serving institutions such as Historically Black Colleges and Universities, Hispanic-serving institutions and Tribal Colleges and Universities.

Many of these schools seek to initiate international programs and to internationalise curricula through global or area-specific academic programs on campus, which the SIR program supports by bringing lecturing faculty from abroad who can provide a unique addition to an institution’s academic offerings and activities.  Lecturers under the SIR program also offer US colleges and universities already engaged in international activities the opportunity to broaden or deepen their international or area-specific capacities.

Salem State College is a publicly supported institution of higher education, located in historic Salem, 15 miles from Boston, MA.  Total student population at Salem State is approximately 10,000 students, while 1,600 of them are enrolled in the Bertolon School of Business. In spring 2008, Bertolon School of Business hosted a specialist under the Fulbright Visiting Specialist Program: Direct Access to the Muslim World which was a successful engagement that helped the school to further globalize its curriculum.

The Fulbright Commission in Ireland on behalf of Salem State College is inviting applications from academics and relevant professionals in Ireland and for one SIR to undertake the following grant activities:

Teaching / lecturing

• teach two classes per semester at the Bertolon School of Business in Hospitality.  This is half of the normal teaching load of a regular professor.  The SIR should design presentations and programs that best fit with her/his background and discipline
• give several guest lectures to students in the Travel and Tourism Concentration in Geography

Curriculum development

• develop modules on hospitality in a global context that might be excerpted from the teaching activities. Such modules will be added to the program offered to students who take classes in Hotel Operations Management; Hospitality Marketing and Sales; Travel and Tourism etc.
• make suggestions for curricular changes in the Hospitality Management and Travel and Tourism concentrations and advise on the feasibility of a pure hospitality degree and concentrations in business and geography.

Campus / community outreach

• while living on campus co-ordinate several self-defined programs (e.g. discussion groups) that reflect his/her own experiences / interests
• visit / give talks to classes outside the School of Business.  Priority will go to those classes that best fit with the Scholar’s background and discipline
• give faculty “brown bag” lunch talks outlining his / her research
• participate in the School’s “Adopt a Nonprofit” program that provides service through in-class business/hospitality projects, faculty consultation and other stakeholder involvements
• participate in a range of meetings, seminars and events being organised by the School with a range of hospitality and local government stakeholders

The grant is for a full academic year: 23^rd August 2010 – 23^rd May 2011.

Depending on the experience, the estimated funding available to the successful Scholar is

• $30,000 from the Fulbright Program
• $20,000 ($12,000 salary supplement and $8,000 in-kind) from Salem State College.

Applications are also being sought from candidates in Switzerland.