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.
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