For Faculty & Practitioners

We welcome faculty, researchers and practitioners from countries around the world with interdisciplinary backgroundto advance education, research and practice together. We offer multiple opportunities for you to engage, including temporary teaching programs, the visiting-scholar programs, and collaborative research programs.

Temporary Teaching/Lecturing Program at Shandong University

Program Description

Temporary Teaching/Lecturing Program is a featured program of internationalization at Shandong University. This program aims to provide students opportunities of learning from language- and background-diverse experts, and to facilitate international collaboration between Shandong University and overseas institutes. We invite teachers, professors and researchers from overseas universities and institutes to deliver lectures, workshops, seminars, etc. to our students at Shandong University.

Below are the three types under this program. All types can be carried out virtually, or offline if circumstances allow.

Lecturing Type: An overseas professor/researcher is invited to deliver a lecture or a couple of series of lectures on the dates identified by the professor and a host teacher at Shandong University.

Regular Teaching Type: An overseas professor/researcher is invited to deliver a course or a series of lectures for minimally 16 academic hours (one academic hour=50 minutes). This type is open for application any time. Overseas professors can conduct teaching at any time of the year.

Summer Teaching Type: This type is identical to the Regular Teaching Type except that overseas professors conduct teaching during the summer break (usually from July to August). It is open for application in the spring and the due date is usually in March.

The following terms apply to all the types unless specified otherwise.

I. Requirements

• Associate professor or above, or equivalent ranking, and

• At least 5-year teaching experiences at oversea education or research institutes or universities.

II. Workload

• Lecturing Type: At least three lecture session (3 hours).

• Regular Teaching Type: At least 16 teaching hours, no upper limit. If carried out offline, the professor/researcher is required to stay at SDU for at least 10 work days, but less than 90 work days.

• Summer Teaching Type: At least 16 academic hours (1 credit unit), no upper limit. No requirement of stay length if carried out offline.

One teaching hour is composed of 50 min class and 10min break. Students can obtain one credit unit for every Sixteen teaching hours.

III. Funding coverage

• Remuneration/Salary: varies by types. Please contact the program coordinator for details.

• If carried out offline, the following expense is covered by the university:

        - International economy-class travel expense: reimburse ticket value but with maximum limit.

        - Local transportation between airport and Jinan: reimburse ticket values.

        - Accomodation (more information is available per request).

IV. Application Materials

• Your CV, including teaching experiences (date, course title, student body you taught) in the recent 5 years,

• Course title or an overall theme of all the lectures,

• The objective, description and expected outcomes of the lectures or course,

• A day-by-day decomposition of the lectures or course, including date, time, and lecture or course topic, and

• A copy of your passport front page.

V. Application process

• If you are interested in applying, please contact the program coordinator Dr. Naixue Cui at nursing@email.sdu.edu.cn. We will help file the application.

The visiting-scholar programs and collaborative research programs

These program provides Visitors/professors access to University resources and facilities so that they can conduct research on an approved topic while in residence. Visitors may audit courses on a non-credit basis with the permission of the course instructor. They may be able, from time to time, to consult with faculty members interested in their fields of study. The program arranges a number of informal functions for Visitors at which they are able to present their work and meet each other as well as other members of the School and the University.

Visitors must be sponsored by a faculty member who is willing to act as an advisor to the proposed research project, and it is the responsibility of a prospective Visitor to contact appropriate faculty members and arrange for such sponsorship. Visitors do not have faculty status, nor do they have access to office space, telephones, or secretarial services.

For further information about the application process, please contact nursing@email.sdu.edu.cn.