Global Learning and the College Curriculum: Nurturing Student Efficacy in a Global World

Posted by Association of American Colleges and Universities on May 30, 2016

Global Learning and the College Curriculum: Nurturing Student Efficacy in a Global World

A Network for Academic Renewal Conference
October 6–8, 2016
Denver, Colorado
Register by September 7, 2016, for best conference rates

AAC&U’s 2016 conference on Global Learning and the College Curriculum: Nurturing Student Efficacy in a Global World invites you to join with colleagues to learn how educators are placing real-world problem solving at the center of the undergraduate curriculum and discuss how global learning can be mapped equitably across the institution to chart a new course for inclusive curricular change.

Conference Highlights

Welcoming Remarks
Lynn Pasquerella, President-Elect, AAC&U

Keynote Address
Global Learning in (or Despite?) an Age of Technology
Kentaro Toyama, W.K. Kellogg Associate Professor, University of Michigan and author of Geek Heresy: Rescuing Social Change from the Cult of Technology (Public Affairs, 2015)

Featured Sessions

Nurturing Student Efficacy in a Global World: Student Perspectives
Making Global Learning Universal: Promoting Inclusive Excellence for All Students
Global Learning on US Soil

Plenary
Internationalization of Higher Education: More than Student Mobility!
Hans de Wit, Director of the Center for International Higher Education and Professor, Lynch School of Education, Boston College

In addition to a full roster of concurrent sessions and plenary presentations, AAC&U also offers practical Pre-Conference Workshops—three hours of active learning with some of higher education’s leading innovators in developing strategies, practices, and policies that lead to student success.

http://www.aacu.org/meetings/global/16/workshops

Learn more about this conference, view the conference schedule, and register online.

http://www.aacu.org/meetings/global/16

For more information, please call 202.387.3760, or write to Karen Kalla at network@aacu.org.