Northern California Advocates for Global Education The Global Studies initiative at SJSU provides a home for NCAGE, helping local faculty to network with and promote international education. Mark McKenna serves as executive secretary.  Click here to join NCAGE Click here for the NCAGE brochure Click here to see a flyer for the NCAGE forum on Teaching for Global Peace.

The latest NCAGE forum was November 5-6, 2009, at Mission College. The event was cosponsored by the United States Institute of Peace and focused on teaching about the Islamic-Muslim World and its relations with the West. 

A Brief History of NCAGE

In the early 1990's, a small group of NAFSA members in Hawaii conducted some short-term training in areas of international education for their state’s high level college and university administrators. Upon learning about this project through a program at the 1993 NAFSA Region XII Conference, the initiators contracted the presenters, including Lee Zeigler (formerly of Stanford University), Maurice Harrari (International Association of University Presidents) and Melinda Wood (East-West Center, Hawaii) for guidance in developing a more permanent international education feature in Northern California. In 1994, with development grants from NAFSA-AIE and the Council for International Educational Exchange and with business and clerical support from the Institute of International Education, NCAGE was launched.

Current NCAGE Leadership

Click here to view the current list of Institutional Members to NCAGE

Mission Statement

Northern California Advocates for Global Education (NCAGE) is dedicated to strengthening the international role and responsibilities of post-secondary education in service to society, and in facilitating the involvement of the private and public sectors in the pursuit of these goals. It is motivated by the imperatives of an interdependent and multicultural world that increasingly demands its citizens possess global awareness and competencies.

Promoting Global Education

In keeping with its mission statement, NCAGE seeks to engage higher education administrators, faculty and staff in promoting global education. Active members come from community colleges, 4-year universities, and Ph.D.-granting schools, including both private and public institutions.
NCAGE activities led to a series of annual Forums on current issues.

NCAGE currently holds two regional meetings that attract scores of participants. The conference sessions deal with globalizing campus life, building international curricula, articulation between schools, and study abroad programs. Since 2005 NCAGE dispenses mini-grants to encourage innovation and collaboration among member institutions.

Click here to learn about Study Abroad Programs

For further information please contact Mark McKenna via email (mmckenna@gs.sjsu.edu)
or by phone (408-924-7197)