GLA Report and Talks

GLA Globalizing the Liberal Arts Conference Report and Presentations

We have issued a report based on our GLA conference, that includes summaries of the keynote, plenary talks as well as the working group sessions. The report also includes recommendations for next steps in the final sections.

This Summary Conference Report can be downloaded at this link: report.on.gla.conference.ver.sept14

We also have uploaded the PDF and PPT files of keynote and plenary talks which are available below in the order of the presentations during the program.


Conference Program PDF

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SUNDAY, JUNE 3 – CONFERENCE OPENING 

4:30 pm     Evening welcoming reception | Founders Hall

5:45 pm     Buffet Dinner

6:45 pm     Plenary Keynote I: Hiram Chodosh, President, Claremont McKenna College, The Future of Learning (PDF) | PPT

7:15 pm     Roundtable Discussion on Globalization and Liberal Arts Education


MONDAY, JUNE 4 – DAY 1 OF CONFERENCE

8:00 am     Registration & Coffee Performing Arts Center, Lobby

8:30 am     Welcome & Introduction to Soka University | Overview of the conference | Performing Arts Center, Main Hall

8:45 am     Plenary Keynote II:  Patti McGill Peterson, Senior Fellow American Council on Education  Globally Engaged Institutions: Lists of Initiatives or Institutional DNA (PDF) | PPT


9:30 am     Plenary Panel 1: “The Role of the Core and GE Curriculum in Global Liberal Arts”

Panel Chair: Bryan Penprase, Dean of Faculty, Soka University of America

Presenters:

Bryan Penprase The Soka Curriculum (PDF)   | PPT

David Helfand, Professor of Astronomy, and Chair of the Committee on Innovative Teaching and Learning, Columbia University | Essential Ingredients of a Liberal Arts Curriculum

Terry Nardin, Professor of Political Science and Director of the Common Curriculum at Yale-NUS College (Singapore) |The Common Curriculum at Yale-NUS College (PDF)  | PPT

Noah Pickus, Dean, Undergraduate Curriculum Affairs and Faculty Development Duke Kunshan University (China) | The Duke-Kunshan University Curriculum (PDF) | PPT


10:30 – 11:00 am         Coffee Break | Performing Arts Center Lobby


11:00 am     Plenary Panel 2: “Centers for Global Learning: Variations in Structure and Operations”

Panel Chair: Mary Coffey, Associate Dean, Pomona College Oldenborg Center for Modern Languages and International Relations

Presenters:

Tamar Mayer, Director of the Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs and the Program in International and Global Studies, Middlebury College Expanding the Charge: Globalizing the International Center

Kate Patch, Senior Director of Global Initiatives, Grinnell College Institute for Global Engagement  Internationalizing the Liberal Arts Campus, Now What? (PDF) | PPT

Richard Detweiler, President, Great Lakes College Association (GLCA) Global Liberal Arts Alliance (GLAA) Developing Global Education Networks (PDF) | PPT

Anne Dwyer, Associate Professor and Director, Oldenborg Center for Modern Languages and International Relations, Pomona College Rebuilding “The Borg”: Reimagining a Residential Center as a Global Hub (PDF) PPT


12:00 pm             Plenary Panel 3:  “Study Abroad in a Connected World”

Panel Chair: Jane Edwards, Dean of International and Professional Experience, Yale University  Setting the Stage for Moving the Furniture (PDF)| PPT

Presenters:

Antonio González, Professor of Spanish and Director of the Fries Center for Global Studies, Wesleyan University Replicating Intercultural Learning in the High-Tech Classroom: Unforeseen Challenges (PDF) | PPT

Vanita Shastri, Dean of Global Education & Strategic Programs Ashoka University (India) | Development and Challenges of Student Mobility for Indian Institutions

Talya Zemach-Bersin, Postdoctoral Fellow, Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women, Brown University and an instructor in Yale’s Education Studies Program | The Cultural Politics of Study Abroad 


1:00 pm     Buffet Lunch | Performing Arts Center Lobby & Patio


2:30 pm     Overview of Parallel Sessions | Pauling Hall 216

Parallel Working Group Discussions I

Theme 1 | The Role of the Core and GE Curriculum in Global Liberal Arts  Pauling Hall 216

Theme 2 | Centers for Global Learning: Variations in Structure and Operations | Maathai Hall 207

Theme 3 | Study Abroad in a Connected World | Maathai Hall 303


4:15 pm     Coffee Break | Performing Arts Center Lobby


5:00 pm     Reports from the Working Groups | Pauling Hall 216

6:00 pm     Overview of Conference and Upcoming Working Groups


6:30 pm     Buffet Dinner | Performing Arts Center Lobby


TUESDAY, JUNE 5 – DAY 2 OF CONFERENCE 

8:00 am     Coffee & Refreshments Performing Arts Center, Lobby

8:30 am     Introduction to Second Day of Conference Performing Arts Center, Main Hall

8:45 am     Plenary Keynote III | Adam Weinberg, President,  Denison University Performing Arts Center, Main Hall | Creating a Globally Engaged Campus (PDF)


9:30 am     Plenary Panel 4: “The Global Liberal Arts College”

Panel Chair: Tamar Mayer, Director of the Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs and the Program in International and Global Studies Middlebury College

Presenters:

Jeremy Adelman (Virtual Presentation), Henry Charles Lea Professor of History and Director of the Global History Lab Princeton University | Can We Bring the World into a Course? (PDF) | PPT

Rosetta Marantz Cohen, Professor of Education and Child Study, Smith College | The Making of a School: Global Education in the Making (PDF) | PPT

Nadia Rabesahala Horning, Director of Social Entrepreneurship Programs, Middlebury College | Increasing the Flow of Ideas and People between a College and a Continent: the Middlebury-ALU Experiment

Trisha Craig, Dean of International and Professional Experience Yale-NUS College (Singapore) In Asia, For the World: Establishing the Liberal Arts Abroad (PDF) | PPT

Kara Godwin, Research Consultant Boston College Center for the International Studies of Higher Education |  Liberal Education’s Global Trends and Critical Questions: Where to go from here? (PDF) 


10:30 – 11:00 am      Coffee Break | Performing Arts Center Lobby


11:00 am     Plenary Panel 5:  “Capturing the Global Experience”

Panel Chair: Scott Carpenter, Marjorie Crabb Garbisch Professor of French and the Liberal Arts, Director of the Center for Global and Regional Studies, Carleton College | Global Pathways

Presenters:

Eva Posfay, Professor of French, former Associate Dean, Carleton College| Who Am I? Promoting Intercultural Reflection in the Classroom (PDF)PPT

Arne Koch, Dean of Global Engagement, Associate Professor of German, Colby College | Integrating Off-Campus Study: Colby College’s Faculty Mentoring (Pilot) Program (PDF) | PPT

Eric Feldman, Program Manager, Office of Global Learning Initiative Florida International University | Prompting Reflection with ePortfolios in a Global Distinction Program (PDF) PPT

Elaine Meyer-Lee, Associate Vice President for Global Learning and Leadership, Agnes Scott College | Building on Global Immersion Experiences in the Curriculum and Co-Curriculum (PDF)| PPT


12:00 pm    Plenary Panel 6: “Globalized STEM Education”

Panel Chair: Bryan Penprase, Dean of Faculty, Soka University of America

Presenters

David Drew, Professor of Education and Joseph B. Platt Chair in the Management of Technology, Claremont Graduate University | Liberal Arts and Engineering (PDF) | PPT

Kathy Takayama, Senior Science Education Fellow at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI)|  Inclusive STEM Education (PDF) | PPT

Katie Purvis-Roberts, Professor of Chemistry and Environmental Science, W.M. Keck Science Department of Claremont McKenna, Pitzer and Scripps Colleges | International Environmental Chemistry (PDF) PPT

Juan Manuel Fernández-Cárdenas, Professor of Education and Director of the Master in Educational Technology, Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico |  Understanding the teaching of STEM education through dialogue and transformative learning in Mexico (PDF)


1:00 pm       Buffet Lunch | Performing Arts Center Lobby & Patio


2:30 pm       Overview of Parallel Sessions | Pauling Hall 216

Parallel Working Group Discussions II

Theme 4 | The Global Liberal Arts College | Maathai Hall 207

Theme 5 | Capturing the Global Experience | Pauling 216

Theme 6 | Globalized STEM Education | Maathai Hall 303


4:15 pm        Coffee Break | Performing Arts Center Lobby


4:45 pm       Reports from the Working Groups | Pauling Hall 216

Roundtable Discussion: “What is a Global College?” | Pauling Hall 216


5:30 pm     Reception | Maathai Hall Patio

6:00 pm     Closing Buffet Dinner | Performing Arts Center Lobby

7:30 pm      Meeting Adjourns