Current Projects

International Training Programs (ITP) implements short-term study and professional development programs in collaboration with both private and government funders. Each program is individually designed to meet the needs of the participants. ITP has the capacity to provide a rigorous academic experience through California State University, Chico, as well as a variety of site visits within the local community and throughout northern California.

Not only do participants from around the world benefit from these programs, but our university faculty, students, and local community, especially schools and citizens who host, learn about each other and extend the meaning of friendship.

ITP is currently planning and hoping to offer the following programs in spring and summer of 2025, 2026, and 2027.

Twenty-three secondary educators from twenty-three countries will take part in late January through mid-March in the 2025 Fulbright Teacher Excellence and Achievement Program (Fulbright TEA).  The project will provide participants with relevant professional development in General pedagogy, Discipline Specific (Language Development and Mathematics) Pedagogy, Instructional Technology, English as a Foreign language, site-based school visits, and weekend excursions to northern California sites of interest. 

Twenty international educators from twenty countries will take part in the first year of a new three-year (2025-2027) Study of United States Institutes for secondary educators (SUSI) project.  The three-year project will give three separate groups of international educators a deeper understanding of U.S. society, education, culture, values, and institutions. The 2025 group will be the first of the three groups. 

Twenty-five participants will be on the CSU, Chico campus as part in the Young Southeast Asian Leadership Initiative (YSEALI) from mid-April through mid-May of 2025. They will focus on issues related to Sustainability and the Environment. YSEALI is the “US government’s signature program to strengthen leadership and networking in Southeast Asia.”