One of the dilemmas of preparing university graduates for the global world in which they live is offering broad access to students from various socio-economic levels. Florida INTERNATIONAL University, an institution that has long served a high proportion of Hispanic students, many of them with lower ability to pay for such "add-ons" as study abroad, has initiated a global component to their curriculum. Part of the strategy includes offering opportunities for student affairs staff to gain a fuller understanding of what is involved in being "global" as well as an assessment strategy to determine if FIU's efforts are working:
Read more: http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/02/20/florida-international-university-attempts-infuse-global-learning-across-curriculum#ixzz2LR14NWEr
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"...professional development workshops for faculty and student affairs staff and is working to increase the number and awareness of co-curricular activities that relate to global themes. The office also coordinates assessment: in addition to collecting data from the embedded course assessments, it is using the Global Perspective Inventory and an internally designed Case Response Assessment (CRA) to determine levels of global awareness, perspective and engagement among entering freshmen and transfer students and departing seniors."
Read more: http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/02/20/florida-international-university-attempts-infuse-global-learning-across-curriculum#ixzz2LR14NWEr
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