(Pre-registration required)
Many campuses provide international programs for their students, either through semester-long study abroad or short-term travel courses guided by faculty members. With the right scaffolding and intentional spaces for reflection, global engagement can provide a uniquely rich opportunity for vocational discernment and exploration, exposing students to new perspectives and ways of life and, in turn, equipping them to ask deep questions of self, world, and others. Global engagement is also an avenue for higher education professionals to explore their own sense of vocation as educators.
This interactive workshop will introduce participants to the fruits of framing global engagement and education as a vocational journey. Workshop facilitators will offer case studies—profiling international programs for students, staff and faculty members, and administrators—and then will lead participants through a process of sketching programmatic possibilities for their home institutions. This workshop is open to any campus professional interested in enhancing or developing global education opportunities at their home institution. Campus teams are encouraged to attend.
Katherine (Kat) Brown, Director of Mission and Identity Programs, Loyola Marymount University (CA)
Joseph Connelly, Institutional Relations Manager and Program Facilitator, Center for Global Education and Experience, Augsburg University (MN)
Lisa Ho, Director of International and Off-Campus Programs, Ohio Wesleyan University