GATI

MSU's Title VI centers (CASID, WID, ASC, CLACS, and ASN) created a program funded by their Title VI grants and the Office of the Provost aimed at fostering collaboration of faculty across disciplines to engage in international research. The Global and Area Thematic Initiative (GATI) is designed to foster comparative and thematically-oriented multi-disciplinary programs of research and undergraduate or graduate training which are likely to bring national prominence to MSU in international and area studies and to attract external funding. From 1998-2004, GATI has made grants of more than $280,000 to more than two dozen projects involving approximately 60 faculty members from eight colleges.