IUPUI, Ivy Tech Partner on Global Learning
An array of international flags on display at IIUPUI. (photo courtesy: Liz Kaye/IU)
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As a subscriber you can listen to articles at work, in the car, or while you work out. Subscribe NowThe U.S. Department of Education has awarded a $310,000 grant to help fund a global learning initiative launched by IUPUI and Ivy Tech Community College. The effort will integrate high-impact learning practices into the first-year seminar and world-language courses at both institutions.
Through efforts supported by the grant, faculty and staff at IUPUI and Ivy Tech will integrate global-learning practices in their courses, such as global career paths and academic advising.
The schools hope to spark students’ understanding of the connections between global events and their local communities.
“It’s about preparing the next generation to be engaged, active, educated, informed and ethical citizens of the world,” said Hilary Kahn, associate vice chancellor for international affairs at IUPUI. “We want students to realize their larger position in the world and develop as individuals who understand and appreciate difference — national, political, cultural — and are able to engage across those boundaries.
Incoming students at IUPUI and Ivy Tech will encounter global-learning practices through IUPUI’s First-Year Seminars and Bridge Week and Ivy Tech’s First-Year Seminar courses.
IUPUI says it has been working for several years to increase access to study abroad programs. But the global pandemic has hampered many of those programs.
Kahn says this program intends to provide more students access to global learning without leaving the country.
“We want to provide as many different opportunities for students to experience global learning as possible,” said Kahn. “In the past, we’ve relied too much on study abroad. While we’ve been working for several years to successfully increase access to study abroad, this effort will open up the global-learning experience to all students at our institutions.”
The schools are aiming to implement the programming by 2023.