Fostering Global Citizenship in Higher Education Conference 2007: Strategies for Campus-Wide Collaboration

Keynote Speech by Dr. Humphrey Tonkin

Negotiating a Culture on its own Terms: The Role of Experiential Education Abroad

Dr. Humphrey Tonkin is University Professor of the Humanities and President Emeritus at the University of Hartford. He joined the University of Hartford in January 1989 and served as President for almost ten years, stepping down in June 1998 to concentrate on teaching and research. In 1998-99 he was Visiting Fellow at the Whitney Humanities Center at Yale University. He served as president of SUNY Potsdam from 1983-88 and a Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania from 1966-83. He served as a trustee of World Learning from 1998 to 2007. He chairs the board for the American Forum for Global Education, is the Executive Director of the Center for Research and Development on World Language Problems, and is currently Vice-President for Research and Evaluation for the International Partnership for Service-Learning and Leadership. He is a senior biographer for the Modern Language Association and was the 2006 recipient of the Cassandra Pyle Award for Leadership and Collaboration in International Education and Exchange given by NAFSA: Association of International Educators. He received a B.A. from Cambridge University and a master's and Ph.D. from Harvard University.

Integrating Community Engagement into Study Abroad
Part 1: Methods and Models
Nevin Brown, International Partnership for Service-Learning and Leadership

As a growing number of colleges and universities in the region embrace the goals of civic engagement and global understanding for their students, it becomes increasingly important to develop effective campus-based strategies for connecting community engagement with study abroad. Among such strategies are service-learning, community service, internships and community-based research. While the presenter will discuss all four strategies, he will focus in particular on how service-learning can integrate them into a powerful tool both for deeper student learning and effective service to the community. The presenter will discuss how campuses can get started in organizing themselves to pursue international and intercultural community engagement, including examples of institutions from other parts of the U.S. as well as overseas that can be models of such work.
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Integrating Community Engagement into Study Abroad
Part 2: Ensuring Academic Rigor
Faculty members: Hector Vila, Middlebury College; Rebecca Hovey, World Learning/School for International Training; Dan Baker, University of Vermont; Moderator, Amy McGlashan, Vermont Campus Compact

Ensuring academic rigor is always a component of high quality experimental education abroad. Panelists in this workshop will describe how a focus on learning outcomes is enhanced and maintained within the context of the experiential components of their international courses and study abroad experiences. Panelists will work with participants to articulate a set of practices and principles that practitioners can refer to when incorporating community engagement into study abroad and/or designing an international service-learning course or experience.
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Capturing the Passion: Engaging Returning Abroad Students in Local Communities. Re-entry Part 1: Engagement, Programming, and Integration
Stacey Thebodo, Middlebury College; Patricia Siplon and Heidi St. Peter, Saint Michael's College

This session will address cross-cultural re-entry. What are the issues students face returning back to campus after a cross-cultural experience? How can study abroad offices, service-learning/volunteer offices, and faculty work together to help students channel their new knowledge and skills, interests, and passions resulting from an experience abroad into their lives and surrounding communities in a meaningful way? Programming ideas and challenges will be discussed in the session, and a successful model of a HIV/AIDS program involving communities in East Africa, the United States, and Vermont will also be presented.
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Capturing the Passion: Engaging Returning Abroad Students in Local Communities. Re-entry Part 2: Institution-Wide Change
Adam Weinberg, Wold Learning/School for International Training; Joan Mandle, Democracy Matters

As students return from transformational experiences abroad, they are eager for ways to put into action their newfound global awareness and inter-cultural understanding. In order to fully capture this passion, Universities need to consider holistic and institutional changes that weave global understanding and civic engagement into all aspects of campus life. This workshop will focus on how campus offices can work together to create long-term institutional changes that foster global citizenship throughout students' entire college experiences.
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Questioning Assumptions: Cross-Cultural Preparations' Critical Points
Sherwood Smith, UVM; Peggy O’Neill, Champlain College

This workshop will address key factors in the preparation of faculty, staff and students for cross-cultural experiential learning in the forms of classes and events both domestic and international. The workshop will engage the participants in designing and assessing approaches to address these critical issues and enhance the learning of critical thinking skills.

Learning Objective:
1. Examine different goals for cross cultural experiences
2. Understanding keys theories and models for awareness development
3. Explore the impact of different goals and models on participants own situations/context
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Using Critical Reflection to Foster Global Citizenship
Carrie Williams Howe, University of Vermont; Sherry Schwarz, Abroad View Foundation; Aynn Setright, World Learning/School for International Training

This workshop will explore the strategies and tools that can be used to engage students in critical reflection that encourages them to consider their roles as global citizens. The workshop will begin with an overview of the definitions and goals of critical reflection, offer an opportunity for participants to hear from panel members on specific strategies and tools they have found successful, and conclude with time for participants to consider when and how they might implement such tools in their own practice. Participants will be encouraged to think about collaborative strategies that might increase effectiveness of these tools.
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Global Experiences on a Local Level/Adding a Global Perspective to Local Engagement
Phil Crossman, Champlain College; Nancy Cathcart, Champlain College; Lily Hamburger, Middlebury College

Not all college students have the privilege of traveling abroad, and yet the competencies of global education require an authentic cultural immersion experience. Panelists in this workshop will describe how a focus on global and cultural immersion competencies has guided their curriculum development and engagement activities. Panelists will work with participants to articulate a set of practices and principles that practitioners can refer to when incorporating community engagement with global competencies.
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Assessment: Outcomes of Global Community Engagement
Ross Lewin, University of Connecticut

This workshop aims to help participants design study abroad programs that tangibly realize the goals of global citizenship. It will be organized around four parts. First, we will discuss higher education currents on assessment, global competence and global citizenship. Next, we will consider various assessment models currently available. Then, we will workshop one or two study abroad programs that have been developed/are being developed by the participants of the workshop. Finally, we will endeavor to design a template tool that participants can use and build upon as they design new study abroad programs.
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