Globalization - an ever-widening and deepening process of increasing interdependence of peoples and states - has turned the world upside down. Globalization puts the world at risk, yet opens new and exciting opportunities for vast and unprecedented improvements in the lives of Americans and populations everywhere.
The logo of the Center for Global Studies (CGS) of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) symbolically captures these risks and opportunities as central to its three-fold mission.
First, CGS promotes and supports innovative research to define what globalization as a contested notion is, to identify the multiple and cumulative impacts of the powerful forces driving this process, and to make this knowledge known to interested parties around the globe, most notably to Americans in all walks of life.
Second, CGS works closely with UIUC's nine colleges, multiple disciplinary and professional units, and faculty and students to globalize the research, teaching, and engagement missions of the university.
Third, CGS works to make the knowledge and teaching programs on all aspects of globalization available to teachers and students in Illinois and elsewhere around the country from K-16. These resources are also accessible to business, professionals, media, governmental agencies, civic organizations, and all members of the interested public concerned with global problems and how to solve them for the benefit of the American people - and peoples everywhere.
CGS, a unit of International Programs and Studies, is designated a National Resource Center for the study of globalization under a Title VI grant of the Department of Education. The initiatives and resources of the Center are described in more detail in the options listed on its home page.
Additional information about the Center may be acquired by contacting the Director or Associate Director below.
Edward A. Kolodziej
Director of the Center for Global Studies
edkoloj@uiuc.edu
Steve W. Witt
Associate Director of the Center for Global Studies
swwitt@uiuc.edu
