Counseling and
Educational Development
Bridges Postdoctoral Scholars Program
More than 20 years ago, the UNCG Department of Counseling and Educational Development created a unique postdoctoral program to offer counselor educators, advanced doctoral students, and clinicians opportunities for professional development, self-directed learning, and collaborative research. Originally, this program was conceived of primarily as a way to provide a professional “home base” for counselor educators and newly-graduated doctoral students interested in spending a semester or two doing research and sometimes coursework in conjunction with our Departmental faculty. Over time, it has grown to include international professor and doctoral students who want to supplement their doctoral coursework at their home institution with specific learning experiences at UNCG.
Postdoctoral Visiting Scholars develop their own programs of learning and research that can include conducting research, presenting professional development programs, participating in graduate courses offered by Departmental faculty, collaborating with faculty and doctoral students on areas of common interest, and in some cases providing technical assistance to doctoral students. This flexible program allows for an ongoing infusion of new ideas and perspectives that benefits faculty, students, and the visiting scholar. Some Visiting Scholars have come to work with a particular CED faculty member; others have had more specific projects for their time here. Our Visiting Scholars typically maintain close ties with the program after they leave Greensboro, including collaborative research projects, and the Department has enjoyed the many benefits of developing international connections around the globe.
Recent post-doctoral fellows include Dr. Mine Aladag, Assistant Professor, Ege University, Izmir, Turkey; Dr. Choo Yon Hong, Full-time lecturer, Cheonan University, Cheonan, South Korea; Dr. Fidan Korkut, Professor, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey; and Dr. Moshe Tatar, Professor and Chair, Department of Education, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel. Recent advanced doctoral student visitors from abroad have included Ilhan Yalcin from Ankara University, Ankara, Turkey; Ismet Koc from Ege University, Izmir, Turkey; and, Gokhan Atik from Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey. Typically, doctoral students who choose to spend one or two semesters with us are looking to study more intensively and work with individual faculty members who share their particular areas of interest.
For international applicants, it is important to allow 4-6 months lead time to complete, submit, and process all U.S. immigration/visitor paperwork. Please be sure to carefully read and follow the information regarding steps to take in meeting U.S. government requirements for temporary residence to study in the U.S. This information is provided at http://www.uncg.edu/ipg/visitingscholars.html
For the academic part of the application process, it usually takes about 6-8 weeks to review your application materials and respond back to you with an official acceptance or (occasionally) additional questions and request for supplemental information. All information can be submitted via email attachments. We try to expedite the process as much as possible, but how quickly the application is processed depends partly on the time of year it is submitted. Our regular semesters run from mid-August to mid-December and from late-January to early May. In general, faculty often are away from the university in the summer months (June and July), so applications submitted then may take longer to process.
Visiting Scholars_Information_Form.pdf