Developing Global Competencies in Higher Education

Program

Friday, April 4, 2003

Michael Sperling, Associate Provost for Interdisciplinary, Distributed and Global Learning

Fairleigh Dickinson University

Christa Olson, International Associate

American Council on Education

J. Michael Adams, President

Fairleigh Dickinson University

Ambassador Ahmad Kamal, Senior Fellow

UNITAR (United Nations Institute of Training and Research)
former Permanent Representative of Pakistan to the United Nations
Chairman of The Ambassador's Club at the United Nations

Scott Sernau, Associate Professor of Sociology

University of Indiana South Bend
Author of Bound: Living in the Globalized World (Kumarian Press, 2000) and
Worlds Apart: Social Inequalities in a New Century (Sage, 2001)

What are the new skills students should be acquiring to function in the global society? Who defines them? What are the responsibilities of institutions of higher education in the wake of globalization?

Madeleine Green, Vice President for International Initiatives

American Council on Education

Strategies in creating culture more conducive to international/global learning. What is needed to facilitate global learning? What areas need to be transformed?

These sessions are led by content area experts and designed as a continuation of the plenary discussions. Sessions will address and examine, in more depth, particular strategies engaged in transforming a college environment.

Group A — Setting New Objectives. Infusing the campus ethos with global learning objectives.

Group A will focus on learning objectives and curricular transformation with particular focus on infusion of the existing curriculum with international/ global material vs. creation of new curricula. The group will also examine best practices in creating new courses and programs of study.

Group B — Faculty Engagement Strategies for engaging faculty in internationalizing the curriculum.

Group B will examine different ways of engaging faculty in the transformation of the college environment with a focus on curricular transformation.

Group C — Role of the Co-curriculum in Creating Global Competencies

Group C will focus on co-curricular programming in support of learning objectives in creating global competencies. Can co-curricular activities be incorporated into the syllabus?

H.R.H. Prince Zeid Al-Hussein, Permanent Representative of Jordan to the United Nations;

Ph.D. History, Cambridge University

Saturday, April 5, 2003

Panel Moderator:

Jason Scorza, Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Political Science

Fairleigh Dickinson University

Digital communications, especially distance learning, present rich opportunities for engaging global information and faculty resources. Demonstration and discussion of this vehicle for global learning will be offered.

Visiting members of FDU’s Global Virtual Faculty will discuss the salience of the concept of global education, and its implementation in various parts of the world.

These sessions will synthesize the various definitions and practices addressed in the course of the conference and create a set of working reports that will later be disseminated to all conference participants.

Group A — New Competencies and Practices:

Disciplinary Education

Group B — New Competencies and Practices:

General Education

Group C — New Competencies and Practices:

Co-curriculum

Group D — New Competencies and Practices:

Study Abroad