Associate Director of Global Affairs and Director of Global Academic Initiatives
East Carolina University
Dr. Jami Leibowitz is the Associate Director of Global Affairs and Director of Global Academic Initiatives (GAI) at East Carolina University (ECU). In this position, she leads ECU’s award-winning Virtual Exchange efforts. Dr. Leibowitz’s primary responsibilities include working with faculty and staff to promote, help develop and support virtual exchange activities at ECU as well as lead and manage Global Partners in Education, a consortium of more than 50 international partner institutions in over 30 countries that actively participate in GAI activities each semester. She also serves as the Vice President of the International Virtual Exchange Consortium. Dr. Leibowitz received her Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of Connecticut in 2003 and was faculty in the Department of Anthropology at East Carolina University from 2002 until 2013 when she left the department to take on a full-time administrative position within Global Academic Initiatives. She recently completed a Fulbright Global Scholar Award for which she worked on a project to promote virtual exchange in regions that are underrepresented in the modality.
Building and Implementing a Global Learning Assessment Framework
Thursday, May 29, 2025
9:30 AM – 10:20 AM PST