Dr. Joshee’s teaching and research areas include international development education and culture studies. At the University of Connecticut, he developed several intensive, short-term international culture study programs and led student groups as a faculty member to Cuba, Thailand and Nepal. He strongly believes that courses dealing with global education and cultural understanding should be part of the core curriculum in American higher education and that it should be required for every student we graduate. Dr. Joshee has also held position at the University of Massachusetts Amherst as head of credit program in the Division of Continuing Education. He received his Doctoral and Master degrees in International Education at UMass. Additionally, he has a Master’s degree from the School for International Training in Vermont. His previous experience includes work with educators from many foreign countries, with the US Peace Corps and as a consultant to the World Bank and several USAID projects.