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First Global Community College
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In the Summer of 1994, Dr. Pramote Nakornthab met with five others to share a dream of creating a two year Community College for the people of Thailand. Some years later the first students were enrolled in a borrowed classroom in Nongkhai to serve students of the North East of Thailand, predominantly from Issan Province. Instructors from England, Wales, and America volunteered their time to teach courses in English in the arts, sciences, and the humanities. Students at first were very few but during the Summer Institute of 1999 over 80 finished their first full year of instruction taught by a contingent of 6 Americans mostly coming from the Northern California region. A plan for the millennium includes an even larger group of students to be taught by year round volunteers. This year we are hoping to pilot a project whereby FGCC and partner universities will train students from Tambon organizations (small local area government units) with the understanding that, upon graduation, jobs will be waiting for them at home through their local Tambon organization. FGCC seeks to expand equity of access to higher education and jobs for the poor in North Eastern Thailand as well as Lao nationals residing near the Laotian border. Originally, we depended solely on volunteers from US community colleges and universities, but now we have over a dozen teachers from UK. Ideally, we would like to have teachers from all over the world. We do not pay salary or international airfare for short term teachers as we are a volunteer project in its early days. However, we will pay for food and accommodation in Nongkhai. While the service is a volunteer project we are able to provide free motel-like, modern air-conditioned rooms and a modest monthly food allowance of approximately US$100. If you would like to help us out and have an interesting time learning about Thailand and the North East in particular, please consider coming to teach at the First Global Community College on a volunteer basis. Our curriculum is based on the California Community Colleges and anyone familiar with its first two years will feel quite comfortable teaching at FGCC. Our students are primarily Thai high school graduates from the Nong Khai and Udon Thani provinces of Thailand's North East. We have nearly 100 students enrolled for the Second Semester, January-May, 2000, who will benefit from our three programs:
Most of our long term, (approximately a year) teachers come from their academic appointments on sabbatical, on leave, or at their retirement. We have attracted a remarkable collection of world scholars from UK, Australia, in addition to teachers from USA colleges and universities. Those able to stay for a year or more are assisted with their airfares to Nongkhai via Bangkok. Volunteers for a semester's stay are welcome, too, and are more likely to be mature professionals in education, retiring/retired graduates, or young graduate students. All are encouraged to contact us for specific information. Experience in the classroom is beneficial though certainly not required. Our students are diligent, sincere, hard working, and a joy to behold. Their collective enthusiasm is a continuing motivation to us who enjoy the opportunity to serve. This experience may well be life changing and will, at the very least, be memorable. Please visit our web site http://www.fgcc.net/ |
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