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Trixie Smith Invited to International Conference on Water in Africa for the Second Year
By Nathaniel Weeldreyer, as previously featured on the MSU College of Arts and Letters website at: https://cal.msu.edu/news/trixie-smith-invited-to-international-conference-on-water-in-africa-for-the-second-year/ Trixie Smith, Professor in the Department of Writing, Rhetoric, and Cultures (WRAC) at Michigan State University, recently was awarded a Strategic Partnership Grant from MSU’s Center for Gender in Global Context to attend the Fifth Annual International Conference on Water in Africa (ICWA), scheduled for March 2026, with additional support from MSU’s College of Arts & Letters and WRAC. This is the second time Smith will participate in the ICWA, a four-day conference annually hosted by the Water and Public Health Research Group at the…
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COIL Program Offers Cross-Cultural Teaching and Learning Experience with Faculty and Students in South Africa
By Kim Popiolek, as previously featured on the MSU College of Arts and Letters website at: https://cal.msu.edu/news/program-offers-cross-cultural-teaching-and-learning-experience-with-faculty-and-students-in-south-africa/ Trixie Long Smith, Professor in the Department of Writing, Rhetoric, and Cultures at Michigan State University, is part of the second cohort of the Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) Faculty Fellows Program-Africa and is partnering with a faculty member at the University of Pretoria in South Africa during the 2024-2025 academic year. An online cross-cultural teaching and learning method, the COIL program links university courses, faculty, and students in different countries to offer a collaborative intercultural experience. As part of the program, faculty from different…
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MSU Writing Center Expands Upon Partnerships with African Nations
March 24, 2022 Previously featured on the MSU College of Arts and Letters website at: https://cal.msu.edu/news/msu-writing-center-expands-upon-partnerships-with-african-nations/ While marking its 30th anniversary in 2021, the Writing Center at Michigan State University continued to meet the changing needs of a diverse constituency by expanding ongoing collaborations worldwide. In Fall 2021, Director Trixie Smith and Associate Director Grace Pregent traveled to Botswana with the purpose of developing a multi-faceted program featuring study abroad opportunities, student exchanges, workshops, and a plan to establish a writing center at Botswana Open University (BOU). The program builds on a collaborative partnership with African nations that launched in 2018 and involved MSU, BOU, Canada’s Carleton University,…