Different CBU faculty members lead travel/study trips annually. Some popular repeaters are Professors Pat Papachristou, Tracie Burke, Jana Travis, Max Maloney, Scott Geis, and Burton Fulmer. Please refer to the specific trip page for faculty and location.

Emily Mathis Forsdick, Ed.D.
Director of International Initiatives
Phone: (901) 321-3461
E-Mail: emathis@cbu.edu

As director of International Initiatives, I am privileged to indulge my passion for travel and exploration of all things exotic while developing affordable opportunities for students to share in my adventures. My lifelong wanderlust has taken me on many sojourns to Europe, Asia, Africa, South and Central America, the Caribbean, the Mediterranean, and Canada. Now my happiest moments occur when I am introducing CBU students to the art and culture of some distant place. Among my favorite stops are the Roman Colloseum, the Eiffel Tower, Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre, the Wailing Wall of Jerusalem, the Prado in Madrid, the pyramids of Egypt, the Kremlin in Moscow, the Great Wall of China. Please come with me on fall or spring break or May term! If you would like to study abroad for a summer, a semester, or a year, you can do that too.

Education: Degrees in French, English, and Higher Education Management from University of Tennessee and University of Memphis; post-graduate study in International Education, Kent State University. Ohio.

Teaching: Faculty positions at CBU in Literature and Languages, Global Studies, and professor of Education.

Administration: Administrative positions at CBU include Assistant to the President, acting Vice President of Institutional Advancement, Director of Graduate Programs in Educational Leadership for Parochial and Private School Administrators, Chair, Department of Human Development and Learning; grant writer.

Professional Development: President, Tennessee Association Colleges of Teacher Education (TACTE); Treasurer, National Association of Title III Administrators (NATTA); board member Immaculate Conception Cathedral Schools; educational consultant to U.S. Department of Education, Tennessee Department of Corrections, Tennessee Department of Consumer Affairs, National Council for the Advancement of Teacher Education (NCATE), and numerous colleges and universities in the United States and Puerto Rico.