Kline Harrison named Vice Provost for Global Affairs
Kline Harrison, who has led Wake Forest’s global programs for more than a decade, has been named Vice Provost for Global Affairs.
Harrison joined the business faculty in 1990 and built Global Programs & Studies (GPS) from a small office supporting students studying abroad into a multi-faceted collection of initiatives establishing Wake Forest as a university with global reach.
“Our steadily expanding internationalization under Kline’s creative leadership has been a signal feature of the University’s development during the Hatch administration,” said Provost Rogan Kersh. “Emphasizing global moves – more students studying abroad, supporting faculty research around the world, vastly expanding our international student body, and globalizing curricula across our schools and disciplines – has transformed Wake Forest for the better. Kline, in his wonderfully collaborative way, has been an organizer of and inspiration for these historic changes.”The University’s re-accreditation in 2016 featured a Quality Enhancement Plan (QEP) dedicated to ‘Global Wake Forest.’ As a result, four new programs have been launched.
Categories: Inside WFU
Wake Forest represented at inaugural Global Senior Leadership Symposium
Wake Forest University Associate Provost for Global Affairs Kline Harrison, Director of Global Abroad Programs Jessica Francis and Assistant Dean of Global Study Away David Taylor were recently selected from a competitive applicant pool to participate in the inaugural Global Senior Leadership Symposium on Dec. 15 and 16. The forum is hosted by EF Education First, the Forum on Education Abroad and the Association of International Education Administrators, in partnership with EF’s educational partner, the Nobel Prize Museum.
The Global Senior Leadership Symposium is a unique opportunity for higher education leaders to collaborate with a global network of peers, explore international strategies from various cultural perspectives and discuss the role of education abroad and global mobility within higher education. Participants will engage in peer learning circles to discuss the future of internationalization and global learning, and they hear from eight Nobel Laureates and other thought leaders throughout the symposium.
“In this moment of unprecedented challenges that face our nation and our world, we at Wake Forest are actively reaffirming our longstanding commitment to international education and the essential role that global understanding—in all of its forms—occupies within our institution,” said Harrison, Francis and Taylor.
More information about the Global Senior Leadership Symposium is available here.
Categories: Faculty News, Staff News
Campus Connections to be held Feb. 8
Guest post from the Office of the Provost:
We look forward to seeing you Monday, Feb. 8, at 8:45 a.m. for our first Campus Connections of the new year.
If you are unable to be with us in Benson Center, Room 401, we hope that you will join us over WebEx.
In order to do so, please:
- Go to https://wfu.webex.com/wfu/onstage/g.php?MTID=e73a91a03c017b4335f0f7540105163dc
- Enter your personal information and the event password: w5H6JFPV
Categories: University Announcement
September 2015 faculty milestones
See a list of faculty and staff milestones in September 2015:
Categories: Faculty News
Wake Forest celebrates partnership with Suzhou High School
Harrison and Kersh join Chinese students at the interactive touchscreen kiosk donated by Wake Forest to the Suzhou High School library.
In November, members of Wake Forest University traveled to Suzhou, China, to celebrate a partnership between the Wake Forest Advantage program and Suzhou High School of Jiangsu Province.
Suzhou High School collaborated with the University for the first implementation of Wake Forest Advantage — an on-the-ground curriculum program created to help prepare international students, both academically and culturally, for transition to college in America. Wake Forest Advantage also helps connect Chinese students early in the application process with trusted admissions counselors in the U.S.
Categories: Events
