SUNY Broome recently invited the SUNY COIL Director, Hope Windle, to offer a day-long workshop for our campus, and invited other SUNY campuses to join in as well.
All day Wednesday, January 14, 2026, SUNY Broome faculty and staff, along with a grad student and the COIL Coordinator for SUNY Albany, faculty and staff from SUNY Empire, faculty from SUNY Oneonta, and a Fulbright Scholar from Kenya, who is in residence at Oneonta, gathered for a lively and very enjoyable Zoom conference on Intercultural Education and COIL.
During hands-on workshops, participants experienced activities to bring to diverse classrooms and to meetings of colleagues–tools to build community. They also worked to design possible collaborations with people from different nations and disciplines–drawing on the learning objectives for the varied courses, along with the UN Sustainable Development goals.
SUNY Broome has continued its connection with Celaya, Mexico, and is also now expanding into partnerships with Ukraine and the Philippines. The SUNY COIL Global Network is huge, and offers many other opportunities to collaborate with SUNY COIL global partners around the world, SUNY Coil Global Partners map (pdf).
If you’d like to learn more about connecting your class with a colleague’s class and creating a COIL module together, please reach out to Kathleen McKenna at mckennakm@sunybroome.edu. COIL is a great hands-on opportunity to help students get ready to live and work in our ever shrinking world.
Submitted by: COIL
