The Gerald H. Read Center for International and Intercultural Education

04/21/2025

🌍 Now Accepting Applications!
The Aggarwal-Blackburn Visiting Scholars Program at Kent State University invites international educators to join a fully funded academic and cultural exchange for up to one year!

✅ 2 courses per semester
✅ Faculty mentorship
✅ Cultural excursions
✅ Present your research

📌 Requirements:
– English proficiency (IELTS 6.0+)
– Study area within EHHS
– Brief research summary

📲 Learn more: link in bio

09/14/2024

Yesterday, we proudly welcomed our Fall 2025 Fulbright Scholars to Kent State! Excited for the journey ahead as they bring their passion and talent to our campus community.

05/08/2024

Aggarwal-Blackburn alumni spotlight - "Dr. Halis Sakiz is currently an associate professor of educational psychology at Mardin Artuklu University, Türkiye. He has been teaching courses on school mental health, inclusive education, and psychological and educational measurement"

04/05/2024

04/04/2024

Alumni Spotlight - "Assane Sow has become an English Language Teaching Inspector since last June through a highly selective competition among the most graduated and experienced English teachers of the country. We have 6 ELT inspectors for a population of approximately 6000 teachers. He taught English for 22 years in rural and urban secondary schools and was lucky to teach all levels from Pre-school to Master's degree. He was one of the 16 ILEP Scholars in 2018 at Kent State University and had the chance to lead the group that year.

He loved almost all the activities but agreed that the visit to Chicago, the Ohio State Capitol, and Supreme Court in Columbus were of great importance to him. He enjoyed the cultural diversity of the alumni and the cultural presentations. Assane took some audit courses which were of great interest and helped him in his career choice. He keeps on being amazed by the availability, generosity, and openness of host families. He can't forget that. The attitude of coaches and their helping spirit is unforgettable. He can't forget that letter he wrote to himself and that was sent later where he summed up the gist of the training and the different activities and the lessons learned. He keeps on reading it every month. He underlined the opportunity to participate in events like the 33rd Virginia Hamilton Conference and the NeoTech Conference."

03/21/2024

Alumni spotlight "Ana Ines Battaglino is a Math teacher in public and private secondary schools in Uruguay. She also coordinates the English staff at a private school and high school in the same country. She was one of the Fulbright TEA scholars in the Spring 2023 Cohort at Kent State University. The program hosted at KSU offered her the opportunity to improve her teaching strategies, sharing best practices in teaching methods with KSU's professors and other colleagues from 21 different countries. She explored formative and summative assessment and critical thinking skills, as well as building procedural fluency in mathematics and supporting productive struggle. She enjoyed the technology workshop about solving problems with technology in teaching and learning and the future trends in technology.

During the program, she had the opportunity to co-teach Geometry in Stow High School and share her experience with other colleagues at this school. Besides, she interacted with colleagues from other subjects and the principals from Stow School, allowing her the possibility to learn more about the US educational system.

When she returned home, she was able to share her knowledge of media literacy with her students and colleagues.

Her experience at KSU had a positive impact on her career, and she will continue teaching all her knowledge learned in the US to her own students and sharing it with her colleagues."

03/07/2024

Fulbright Alumni - "Liliana Nederita is an English teacher at the Liceul de Limbi Moderne si Management in Chisinau, Moldova. She is also a language teacher trainer at the America House Chisinau and America Centre ”Ion Creanga”. She was a Fulbright TEA scholar in the Fall 2023 Cohort at Kent State University. The 6 week program has enabled her to learn a lot about the American school system during the field experience where she had the opportunity to communicate, exchange ideas and co-teach together with a high-school language teacher from the US. She has also learnt a great deal about the middle school and primary school levels by visiting and being immersed in the school life, experiencing the life of an American student. She has not only learned at Kent State about how to develop the autonomy of students in the classroom, she has seen it in action at Hudson High. The Faculty members and Hudson Schools had done their best to give her a comprehensive view of the American educational system and even to experience the campus life through promoting participation in various volunteering and sporting events that took place on Kent State Campus. The Hudson High management team gave her an insight into the ”whole student” and the holistic, interdisciplinary approach to education, as well as the ”Explorer” concept interwoven into the teaching design of the Hudson Schools that made headway by implementing innovative instructional practices and becoming an example of excellency in the area. Upon arrival in her home country, Liliana has continued to teach students and train teachers, implement and share her American University and High School experience. She is actively involved in training language teachers in order to replicate the best teaching practices experienced in the US."

03/06/2024

Bring your family and join us for the International Children's Read Aloud event on April 9 at 4:30 PM in White Hall, room 200.

02/29/2024

Alumni spotlight -Frans Judea Samosir is from Medan, Indonesia, and is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Social and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Memphis. He has collaborated with various sectors including academia, government, and nonprofit organizations. He has also worked closely with individuals affected by HIV and substance abuse in Indonesia.

02/22/2024

Alumni Spotlight -Bobby Jose from Kerala, India, enhanced her teaching and global perspective through the International Leaders in Education Program Fellowship at Kent State University in 2014. Her experiences included presenting at cultural seminars, enriching classroom interactions, and exploring major US cities. Her return to India led to her authoring a celebrated book on her experiences and insights into education, society, and culture in the US and India, winning the Adv. Parayil Shamsudin Memorial State Award for the best travelog of 2022. Her engagement in socio-cultural and literary fields in India includes roles with DC Books, INTERACT, curriculum committees, and as a mentor for US Government-sponsored workshops. An active participant in teacher training, she also contributed to online education during the COVID-19 pandemic. Jose's commitment to global citizenship education and cultural exchange is evident in her seminars and international collaborations, alongside her involvement in various educational and social initiatives.

02/15/2024

Alumni Spotlight- "Simge Engelkiran previously worked as a Graduate Assistant at the Gerald H. Read Center, where she coordinated the Aggarwal Blackburn Visiting Scholars Program. Concurrently, she pursued her Ph.D. in Cultural Foundations. After completing her doctoral studies in August 2022, she transitioned to the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Office at Thayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth College, as a Post-Doctoral Research Associate. She has since been promoted to the position of DEI Program Manager. In this role, her responsibilities include creating educational programs for the Engineering School community about biases and integrating DEI principles into engineering education, particularly in fields like systems engineering that focus on designing systems for humans. She is dedicated to fostering a more inclusive and equitable learning environment. Simge often reflects on her time at the Read Center and Kent State, acknowledging that the practical and scholarly knowledge gained there has significantly contributed to her current responsibilities."