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University of Nebraska–Lincoln

The College of Education and Human Sciences

Strengthening the lives of individuals, families, schools and communities

International Connections

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We live in a global society and what happens across the country and around the world affects us all.

In the College of Education and Human Sciences we are working to improve the education, health and well-being of our fellow human beings across the world.
Kids From Ghana
Each summer the Dr. Leon Caldwell leads a group of students from across the United States to Ghana, West Africa where they have the opportunity to learn Twi (the common language of Ghana), the history and geography of Ghana, formal and informal education practices, traditional methods of healing and psychology. This unique educational experience features two weeks dedicated to classroom and service learning and two weeks of structured touring the historical and beautiful mixed terrain of Ghana. View Postcards from Ghana...
Ian Newman with Chinese Woman
Ian Newman, a professor in Educational Psychology, has been traveling to Asia to conduct workshops that help health care physicians improve their planning and educational skills. Newman recently received an award from the minister of health in Inner Mongolia for his contribution to health care in that region.View NPCADA web site...
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Recently, the College hosted a group of 24 middle- and high-school principals from Russia and the Ukraine as part of an internship program organized by the Department of Educational Administration. The internship featured presentations on citizenship and democracy designed to help the administrators develop educational curriculum and school governance programs in their home countries.
Muslim Women
The Department of Family and Consumer Sciences has joined in an effort to develop and design a College of Family and Consumer Resources at a new Muslim women's university in the United Arab Emirates. Arab women are being trained to be dieticians, family support workers, child care specialists and community family educators.
• Faculty members in Nutrition and Health Sciences have provided educational training in Tajikistan on food safety and food chemistry. Their goal is to improve the food industry in the former Soviet Union republic. Faculty also provided technical expertise on food processing and food safety in Bangladesh, Nepal and Nigeria.
• Our College has played a critical role in the development of positive approaches to strengthening couple and family relationships on the national and international level. Work began in 1977 on the National Symposia on Building Family Strengths series, which drew participants from across the country to the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. In 1999 the college developed an International Symposia on Building Family Strengths. The college has worked with institutions in Australia (2001) and China (2002) to sponsor Building Family Strengths Symposia in these countries as a way to enhance family life worldwide.