About the Award
CAORC recognizes the immediate and growing need for professors to provide a global perspective to their students. These administrators and faculty understand the value of developing internationalized learning environments that both broaden their students’ cultural horizons and foster critical thinking, communication, and leadership skills for an increasingly interconnected world.
To support faculty at U.S. institutions, CAORC offers fully-funded overseas seminars that help gain the requisite first-hand experience needed to improve courses connecting international issues with domestic concerns, thereby underscoring global interconnections through the creation of new and innovative curricular and teaching materials.
This seminar, administered by CAORC in collaboration with its member center in India, the American Institute of Indian Studies, funds participation in a two-week seminar that will include visits to Delhi, Jaipur, and Jodhpur. The award covers international airfare, lodging, internal transportation costs, program fees, and selected meals. The two-week-long seminar is currently scheduled for January 3 - January 17, 2026.
Seminar Overview "Entrepreneurship, Energy, Education, and Peace: Understanding Indian Innovation"
This seminar examines how India has been an innovative partner for the last 75 years in the fields of entrepreneurship, energy, education, and peace and security. From even before its independence in 1947, India has led the way in advocating for a more peaceful world through diplomacy, trade, and economic development. Faculty participants will explore how India has promoted small-businesses, including a focus on handicrafts and self-sustaining industries, vocational training, cultural heritage, and diplomacy, as well as industry aligned instruction in high-demand sectors, including advanced manufacturing, and technology. Through direct engagement with university faculty, small businesses and workshops, training institutions, and cultural centers, participants will learn how India has positioned itself internationally as an important economic, diplomatic, and technological center of power.
Designed for U.S. college faculty and administrators, the program will explore India’s strategies for building local economies, promoting peace and security, and designing innovative educational systems. This program supports U.S. priorities in economic competitiveness, energy security, person-to-person diplomacy, and workforce development. Participants will connect with Indian university faculty, community leaders, and NGOs to produce useful curriculum modules about the seminar themes to be presented on the American Institute of Indian Studies website for wider use in U.S. college classrooms.
Eligibility and Program Expectations
The program is open to full-time or part-time faculty and administrators at U.S. colleges and universities. The program is open to faculty in all fields, at all academic ranks, and from any academic or administrative department.
Applicants must be U.S. citizens at the time of application and must hold a valid, current U.S. passport that does not expire within six months of the last date of the program.
Previous Overseas Faculty Development Seminar awardees are requested to observe a one-year waiting period before applying for another program. For example, a January 2025 participant would next be eligible to apply in January 2026, and participate in Summer 2026.
As an outcome of the Overseas Faculty Development Seminar program, participants are required to develop and implement a project on their campus. Details and examples of these projects will be shared with awardees during pre-departure orientation. Projects should be implemented within one year of the conclusion of the program, at which time participants will be asked to share curriculum and/or documentation and submit a project report and/or curricular resource to be shared on the AIIS website. To learn more about the projects and see examples, sign up for one of our OFDS webinars.
The application deadline for this seminar is September 2, 2025 at 5:00 PM EST. Applications submitted after the deadline will not be accepted for review.
If you have questions, please email: fellowships@caorc.org.
**IMPORTANT: To apply for this program, you must already have a valid passport or be in the process of applying for a passport at the time of application.
OFDS 2026 India - Entrepreneurship, Energy, Education, and Peace: Understanding Indian Innovation
About the Award
CAORC recognizes the immediate and growing need for professors to provide a global perspective to their students. These administrators and faculty understand the value of developing internationalized learning environments that both broaden their students’ cultural horizons and foster critical thinking, communication, and leadership skills for an increasingly interconnected world.
To support faculty at U.S. institutions, CAORC offers fully-funded overseas seminars that help gain the requisite first-hand experience needed to improve courses connecting international issues with domestic concerns, thereby underscoring global interconnections through the creation of new and innovative curricular and teaching materials.
This seminar, administered by CAORC in collaboration with its member center in India, the American Institute of Indian Studies, funds participation in a two-week seminar that will include visits to Delhi, Jaipur, and Jodhpur. The award covers international airfare, lodging, internal transportation costs, program fees, and selected meals. The two-week-long seminar is currently scheduled for January 3 - January 17, 2026.
Seminar Overview "Entrepreneurship, Energy, Education, and Peace: Understanding Indian Innovation"
This seminar examines how India has been an innovative partner for the last 75 years in the fields of entrepreneurship, energy, education, and peace and security. From even before its independence in 1947, India has led the way in advocating for a more peaceful world through diplomacy, trade, and economic development. Faculty participants will explore how India has promoted small-businesses, including a focus on handicrafts and self-sustaining industries, vocational training, cultural heritage, and diplomacy, as well as industry aligned instruction in high-demand sectors, including advanced manufacturing, and technology. Through direct engagement with university faculty, small businesses and workshops, training institutions, and cultural centers, participants will learn how India has positioned itself internationally as an important economic, diplomatic, and technological center of power.
Designed for U.S. college faculty and administrators, the program will explore India’s strategies for building local economies, promoting peace and security, and designing innovative educational systems. This program supports U.S. priorities in economic competitiveness, energy security, person-to-person diplomacy, and workforce development. Participants will connect with Indian university faculty, community leaders, and NGOs to produce useful curriculum modules about the seminar themes to be presented on the American Institute of Indian Studies website for wider use in U.S. college classrooms.
Eligibility and Program Expectations
The program is open to full-time or part-time faculty and administrators at U.S. colleges and universities. The program is open to faculty in all fields, at all academic ranks, and from any academic or administrative department.
Applicants must be U.S. citizens at the time of application and must hold a valid, current U.S. passport that does not expire within six months of the last date of the program.
Previous Overseas Faculty Development Seminar awardees are requested to observe a one-year waiting period before applying for another program. For example, a January 2025 participant would next be eligible to apply in January 2026, and participate in Summer 2026.
As an outcome of the Overseas Faculty Development Seminar program, participants are required to develop and implement a project on their campus. Details and examples of these projects will be shared with awardees during pre-departure orientation. Projects should be implemented within one year of the conclusion of the program, at which time participants will be asked to share curriculum and/or documentation and submit a project report and/or curricular resource to be shared on the AIIS website. To learn more about the projects and see examples, sign up for one of our OFDS webinars.
The application deadline for this seminar is September 2, 2025 at 5:00 PM EST. Applications submitted after the deadline will not be accepted for review.
If you have questions, please email: fellowships@caorc.org.
**IMPORTANT: To apply for this program, you must already have a valid passport or be in the process of applying for a passport at the time of application.