Fostering Global Citizenship in Higher Education

Millennial Movement: Global Citizenship in the Rising Millennial Generation
Scott Beale, Chief Executive Officer, Atlas Service Corps

The 77 million members of the Millennial Generation are embracing technology, globalization, service and international volunteerism in record numbers. This rising generation is redefining what international volunteerism, civic engagement and global citizenship means in the 21st century. Scott Beale is the author of Millennial Manifesto, a political analysis of American youth, and is the founder of Atlas Corps, a “multinational Peace Corps” which brings nonprofit leaders from around the world to volunteer in the U.S. and sends American’s to volunteer abroad. Previously he served with the U.S. State Department in India, in the White House with President Clinton, and at Ashoka’s Youth Venture program. His keynote speech will examine the Millennial Generation world view and what global citizenship means among young people in the U.S. and abroad.

Scott Beale is the founder of Atlas Corps and an experienced social entrepreneur who has started three nonprofit organizations and helped thousands of people in his generation become agents for social change. He has worked in four continents, with nonprofit, government and business leaders from around the world, and through Atlas Corps has developed what many call a "global peace corps" - a multinational, multilateral international exchange program of nonprofit leaders from around the world. Scott is also the author of "Millennial Manifesto: A Youth Activist Handbook" and has given hundreds of speeches on the characteristics of the Millennial Generation. For a more complete bio, please visit: http://www.atlascorps.org/who.html

The mission of Atlas Corps is to address critical global social issues, by developing leaders, strengthening organizations and promoting innovation through an international exchange of skilled nonprofit professionals. Atlas Corps brings rising nonprofit leaders from the developing world to volunteer at U.S. nonprofit organizations for a 12-18 month fellowship, as well as sends skilled Americans abroad to Colombia. The financial model for Atlas Corps is very unique with 70% of the program expenses covered by a host organization cost share -- essentially nonprofits help defray the cost of the program by paying part of the costs associated with the volunteer. Recently the Washington Post profiled Scott Beale as "the Nonprofit Entrepreneur" and the Brookings Institution declared Atlas Corps a "best practice" in international exchange. With 550 applicants from 67 countries resulting in 13 Fellows from eight different countries, Atlas Corps is leading the way in developing a "global peace corps" and fostering global citizenship in the nonprofit sector.

For more information Atlas Corps, please visit: http://www.atlascorps.org/intro.html

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Please check back soon for actual workshop time schedule.

Workshop 1: Utilization of Self-Directed Learning Tutorials in Promoting Global Citizenship
This workshop is geared toward faculty and staff who promote experiential-, distance- and adult-education. The presenters will share tutorials created to stimulate and guide self-directed learning (SDL) among students at Georgetown University School of Medicine. Using new technology to promote SDL makes the presentation of key concepts consistent, exportable, and contributes to program efficiency and students' ability to reflect and think critically. Workshop participants will collaboratively outline challenges to self-directed learning, and innovative techniques for overcoming them. Participants will leave with examples of successful approaches to overcoming barriers in SDL, discover peer resources and the role of technology in promoting and capturing engaged learning.
Kathleen McNamara, Program Coordinator, Community Health Division, Department of Family Medicine; Donna Cameron, Ph.D. MPH, Health Educator and Director of the Georgetown University Medical Center’s Service-Learning Program

Workshop 2: Shortcuts & Toolkits to Better Citizen Diplomacy Training
As we send students out into an increasingly globalized world, it is our responsibility to prepare them for their role as citizen diplomats. Students who are aware of this role can play an active part in improving the image of their home country and fostering greater understanding between cultures. This session will present several case studies of concrete best practices for educating students about their role as citizen diplomats. Through discussion of practices employed by the presenters on their campuses, participants will learn strategies and tactics for implementing citizen diplomacy training at their own institutions. Participants will be given the chance to assess the practices and determine how they can be further developed and tailored for their particular work with students.
Erika Mercer, Study Abroad Coordinator, Univ. of Chicago

Workshop 3: Cross-Campus Collaboration, Reciprocity, and Sustainability: A New Model for Institutionalizing Global Citizenship
This workshop will present a collaborative model developed at Franklin & Marshall among the Office of International Programs, The Ware Institute for Civic Engagement, and faculty in partnership with on-site organizations and institutions in Cape Town, South Africa. With the focus being "global citizenship" rather than "international," the model not only emphasizes collaboration with both on-and off-campus entities but also draws strength from engaging multiple layers of the F&M community in developing a true reciprocal engagement of the College with the Cape Town area. The second part of the workshop will provide time for campus teams to apply a SWOT analysis to employment of such a model at their home institutions. Participants will leave the workshop with ideas for implementation of their own campus engagement model of global citizenship.
Patti Brown, Assoc Dean for International Programs and Susan Dicklitch, Assoc Dean of the College and Director of the Ware Institute for Civic Engagement, Assoc. Prof of Government, Franklin and Marshall
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Workshop 4: Promoting Global Citizenship through Campus Sustainability Initiatives
Given the current environmental, economic and social crises, there is a critical need for institutions of higher education to produce citizens who are competent about the state of the world and feel empowered to lead the way to create change. Using a global perspective to view consumption patterns and lifestyle choices on a college campus, we will discuss the need to explore sustainability in an inclusive and accessible manner that relates to the communities where our schools reside. This session will outline strategies to effectively involve students in planning for climate neutrality on campus through teaching, research, operations and community engagement. |
Amber Garrard, Sustainability Coordinator, Green Mountain College

Workshop 5: The VIH Program: A Multifaceted Approach to Global Citizenship
The Vira I. Heinz (VIH) Program for Women in Global Leadership develops global citizens by cultivating leadership and inter-cultural competency skills, instilling passion for life-long learning and civic engagement, and by mentoring students through their Community Engagement Experiences. This three-year program is an unparalleled opportunity for students of sophomore status at fifteen institutions in the mid-Atlantic states. It provides partial funding for international experiences and intensive weekend retreats dedicated to leadership and cross-cultural skill development. The final component of the VIH Program, the Community Engagement Experience (CEE), gives students the opportunity to 'think globally; act locally'; and thus, demonstrate what being a global citizen means to them.
Sarah Wagner, Program Coordinator of the Vira I. Heinz Program for Women in Global Leadership and Carolina Forero, Fulbright Scholar from Colombia (2008-2010), completing a masters at the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, University of Pittsburgh

Workshop 6: "Improving Our World" Interactive Project: Using Digital Storytelling and Global Classrooms to Promote Citizenship
This workshop will discuss a highly successful project that uses digital storytelling and the "global classroom experience" to teach students about global citizenship, international development, and cultural diversity. Digital storytelling enables students to compose powerful multi-media presentations on a wide variety of topics. The technology is widely accessible and easy to learn. The global classroom experience also uses a variety of information technologies to facilitate interactive teaching and learning across countries and cultures. We have used digital storytelling and the global classroom experience in higher education, public schools, nonprofits, and even businesses. People at all levels of expertise and technological sophistication will benefit from and enjoy this lively workshop presentation.
Reginald Avery, President and York Bradshaw, Chairman and Executive Director, Institute for Local-to-Global Community Engagement; Coppin State University; Tasha Thomas, Department of Languages, Literature & Composition, University of South Carolina Upstate;Liezell Bradshaw, Technology Coordinator, Rosemont Elementary and Middle School

Workshop 7: Collaboration and Engagement: Theater and our Global Community
Our presentation features a dramatic reading by refugees, students, and community members of the original play, Into the Morning Light, on issues of Iraqi refugee and displaced people today. With over 4.5 million internally and externally displaced Iraqis, this is a pressing humanitarian crisis. Our play offers personal stories of those nameless and faceless numbers of the Iraq war. Following the performance, the workshop provides discussion on integrating political events into arts performances to motivate social justice and promote human rights. Importantly, we include a focus on ways to open the arts to collaboration, inclusion, and engagement with our local refugee populations from Iraq and elsewhere around the world.
Dr. Dorothy Abram, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Social Sciences, Johnson & Wales University, Providence, RI and Faculty Advisor for the AWARE Alliance; Omar Bah, refugee from The Gambia, West Africa; Teddi Jahlow, refugee from The Gambia, West Africa; Chirag Mistry, student, Johnson & Wales University; Arunim Roy, Community Rep, AWARE Alliance; Jamuna Prakash, Community Rep, AWARE Alliance; Ruchira Parihar, AWARE Alliance. All of the above are also members of AWARE Alliance Refugee Theater, a group of students, faculty, worldwide refugees, and community members interested in socio-cultural inquiry, global engagement and artistic envisioning.

Workshop 8: "Bringing Theory to Practice" Assessment Project
The workshop will demonstrate how to develop a campus-wide Global Learning assessment plan relevant to a range of undergraduate liberal arts programs with diverse goals and outcomes. Drawing upon Colorado College's experience with a Bringing Theory to Practice grant devoted to assessing short-term, international community-based learning (ICBL) programs, we will address practical challenges and expectations for designing programs that deliver highly effective global learning outcomes. After introducing the purpose and process behind the CC case study, we will ask how this assessment project fits with other assessment tools and case studies in Higher Education. To explore how to formulate assessment questions that measure learning outcomes, we will share selective examples of how some of our questions emerged and were honed through the group process. We will elicit audience participation by asking workshop participants to craft possible assessment items that correspond with selected outcomes. In conclusion, workshop participants will be asked to reflect on how this instrument may catalyze collaboration and inform initiatives on their own campuses.
Sarah Hautzinger, Co-Director Partnership for Civic Engagement, Colorado College and Rebecca Hovey, Engaged Global Scholar, World Learning/ SIT

Workshop 9: Exploring Intercultural Competence: An Essential Ingredient for Global Citizenship
This workshop explores the nature of intercultural competence (ICC), an essential ingredient for global citizenship and for understanding other people on their own terms. Exchange programs, study abroad, and other international, intercultural, educational experiences all afford excellent opportunities to foster the development of ICC, but few seem to understand its multidimensional nature nor effective ways to measure and monitor it.This workshop examines the components of ICC, including their relevance to second and foreign languages and tools to help guide its development and measurement. ICC, including language proficiency, are both needed in order to communicate and interact effectively and appropriately with people of other backgrounds and to help transcend one's native language-culture. In addition to investigating the dimensions of ICC, this workshop also explores its definitions, characteristics, components, developmental levels, and the role of language proficiency for intercultural success. Finally, it focuses on the imperative for intercultural educators and educational programs in maximizing and developing ICC in their students. The workshop is participatory and interactive and uses numerous visuals to support each phase of the session. Handouts provided.
Alvino Fantini, Professor Emeritus, SIT Graduate Institute

Workshop 10: Global Studies, Study Abroad and Curriculum Integration: The What, Where, Why and How of Global Integrative Learning
Curriculum integration generally refers to the correspondence and “fit” of study abroad programming with home campus curricula. In this workshop we seek to expand the notion of curriculum integration to look at how Global Studies can inform the study abroad curriculum and how, on return, the experience of learning abroad can be furthered through integrative learning across the curriculum. Traditionally study abroad has been oriented by a place-based, local cultural immersion pedagogy often defined by the construct of dominant national culture. The “integration” of global learning as part of study abroad entails linking this cultural immersion with global dynamics as a way of understanding culture in context. The “re-integration” on the home campus can occur through “high-impact” learning activities such as undergraduate research, senior capstones, service-learning, and other ways in which the global learning experience is transferred back to the wider campus community. This approach suggests a new thinking of curriculum integration which is not a credit-for-credit transfer, but a developmental and integrative approach to global learning.
Laurie Black, Dean for External Relations, Planning, and Enrollment Management and Interim Vice President, World Learning/SIT Study Abroad and Rebecca Hovey, Globally Engaged Scholar, World Learning/SIT

Workshop 11: A Civic Reflection on Global Citizenship Themes
Civic reflection is the practice of reading and discussing short pieces of literature as a means of reflecting on the central questions of civic life. This simple practice can help citizens talk more comfortably about values, think more deeply about choices, and respond more imaginatively to the needs of their communities. In this participatory session, workshop attendees will begin by reading a short essay or piece of literature related to global citizenship themes and then be guided by the facilitators in an actual civic reflection. Attendees will come away with ideas on how to incorporate civic reflection into classrooms, meetings, retreats and other gatherings. Information on The Project on Civic Reflection and their trainings will also be shared.
Facilitated by Melisse Pinto, Associate Professor of Political Science, Castleton State College and Ashley George, Service Coordinator, Center for Service and Civic Engagement, Champlain College, both facilitators have been trained by the national Project on Civic Reflection

Workshop 12: Mission-Driven Institutions: Fostering Global Citizens through International Service Learning
Fostering global citizenship is a topic in vogue nationally across higher education but what unique role and responsibility do mission-driven institutions have to foster global citizens? By illuminating one model of international service learning at a Catholic university, the presenter of this session will discuss how orientation and re-entry components of international service-learning are structured through the lens of the university’s mission to help meet goals of fostering both faithful and global citizens. This session will explore understandings of global citizenship from a mission-driven perspective, starting with examples from a faith-based institution, and then opening up a dialogue with participants on the roles and contributions that mission-driven institutions can have and bring to the national conversation surrounding global citizenship.
Rachel Tomas Morgan, Director, International Service Learning & Justice Education, Center for Social Concerns, University of Notre Dame

Workshop 13: Roundtable Discussion: International Service: Past, Present, Future
This roundtable discussion will look at service-learning initiatives that have been bold experiments and how they've become worldwide movements. Discussion will use Robert Terry's experience with the Peace Corps as an important historical perspective of an experiment in civil service that has become a much broader, large scale and world-wide movement. It will also include a look at Scott Beale's current work on new initiatives that are  redefining what service, civic engagement and volunteerism mean today . The discussion will focus on  past successes and challenges and how we can best  motivate the Millenial generation to participate in international service initiatives. 
Discussion with Keynote Speaker Scott Beale, Chief Executive Officer, Atlas Service Corps and Robert Terry, Author and Team Leader in Peace Corps Massachusetts Service Corps Oxfam America

Workshop 14: Roundtable Discussion: Fostering Global Citizenship in Fiscally Difficult Times
Even as the global recession offers signs of receding, educational institutions are still called to manage their resources in fiscally responsible yet creative ways. This discussion will begin with an overview of several ideas that educators can consider regarding the development of global citizens on their campuses, which will be followed by group discussions on strategies for successful, fiscally sound implementation. Strategies will include ideas such as establishing creative partnerships, communicating effectively with technology when travel is not an option, and supporting faculty with curriculum development for in-class learning, to name a few.
Sora Friedman, Assistant Professor, Chair, International Education Degree SIT Graduate Institute and Linda Drake Gobbo, Professor of International Education, SIT Graduate Institute

Workshop 15: Roundtable Discussion: Engaging Campus Leadership in Fostering Global Citizenship
"In tight budget times, how do we ensure that issues of civic education, campus engagement, internationalization and global citizenship do not fall off the radar screens of campus administrators? This session will be an interactive roundtable to explore the merits of a range of strategies. The starting premise of the session is that the narratives we have been using will not be effective in the current environment. We need to find ways of helping campus administrators understand how the issues we care about can be effective strategies for helping them manage large institutional challenges."
Facilitated by James Birge, President, Franklin Pierce University and Adam Weinberg, President, World Learning/SIT

Lunchtime Table Discussion:
Bob Terry, an early team leader in the Peace Corps, Massachusetts Service Corps, Oxfam America, and other social enterprises, invites you to learn about and critique his book-in-progress, Each of Us Should Try: 100 years of Bold Experiments in Transforming Lives through Civic Service. For background, please visit www.rcterry.com .

More workshops to be announced soon.

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October 6, 2009
9:00a.m.-3:00 p.m.
Ramada Inn
1380 Putney Rd.
Brattleboro, VT

Register for these Institutes online through the Fostering Global Citizenship portal or download a registration form. If you only plan to attend Day 2, please leave the Day 1 section blank.

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The conference will be held at World Learning/SIT's campus Oct. 5 and the Hampton and Ramada Inns Oct. 6 in Brattleboro, VT.

*Institute sessions take place in these hotels on Tuesday October 6.

Please contact the hotel directly to make your booking, identifying yourself as a participant in the "Fostering Global Citizenship" conference taking place at SIT. Rooms will be held at the conference rate until September 15, 2009. After this date, rooms may not be available and/or the rate may be higher. Information on additional accommodations can be found here or from the Brattleboro Chamber of Commerce.

Information on Brattleboro area restaurants.

Directions to SIT/World Learning:

Brattleboro, Vermont is 120 miles northwest of Boston, 200 miles north of New York City, and 90 miles north of Hartford, Connecticut. Brattleboro does not have its own airport but is serviced by bus, train, and limousine service from the regional airports. SIT recommends car rental for transportation.

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Detailed directions and transportation information to SIT.

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