TAMU Programs

Texas A&M International Programs Office(IPO) has the mission of integrating a global perspective into the teaching, research, and public service programs of the University and reaching the goals of diversity and globalization imperatives of Vision 2020. Working closely with the Colleges and Vice President of Research, IPO has assisted in building strategic partnerships in targeted regions. This includes the 5-year Collaborative Research Programs between Texas A&M and CONACYT (Mexican National Council on Science and Technology) with joint funding of $1 million. Since 2001, it funded over 92 research projects between A&M and Mexican collaborators. A China-U.S. bilateral conference program started in 2003 in College Station, Texas continued in 2006 in Peking, China and then in Washington, DC in 2007. It generated great interest for long-term research and exchange collaboration between Texas A&M and Chinese institutions. The European Union Center of Excellence, one of ten such official centers in the United States and the only one in the Southwest, plays an important role by sponsoring and supporting conferences and lectures, publications, curriculum development and programs, annual graduate student and faculty research grants and scholar-in-residence, and visiting scholars.
IPO also provides enhancement funds to infuse an international perspective into academic programs through the Faculty Abroad Seminar in the Texas A&M University Center in Mexico. Since 1995, 90 faculty members have been awarded international curriculum development grants that assist them in creating new of revising existing courses with an international emphasis. Since 1996, over 220 faculty members have received international research travel assistance grants to facilitate developing research projects with their foreign counterparts. The Academy for Future International Leaders provides interdisciplinary study of global issues and leadership development for Texas A&M University undergraduates.