Outreach
TISS outreach works closely with faculty and students at the area's historically black colleges and universities, aims to include more women in the field, and strives to create greater community awareness of national and international security issues.
In the past, as part of its outreach activities, TISS has organized talks, workshops, symposia, and conferences, including one designed to encourage students at HBCUs to follow careers in security studies. In the nineties TISS sponsored sponsored minority research interns and model United Nations for undergraduates at historically black institutions and in 2003 it worked with undergraduates at NCSU to develop a model EU program for High Schools.For nearly a decade, it sponsored a delegation of Shaw University students attending a model EU (and then UN). In 2005 it worked with the North Carolina Community Colleges to sponsor a series of lectures and workshops designed for first responders, notably law enforcement officers.
At the present time, TISS works closely with UNC's World View - a program designed to encourage K-12 and community college educators to globalize their schools. It encourages public debate of the most pressing security concerns of the day by organizing panel discussions. And, as it has done for the past fourteen years, it continues to send speakers free of charge to a variety of community groups (The TISS Speakers Bureau).
