U.S. Diversity & Global U.S. Diversity & Global Learning:Learning:Meeting at the IntersectionsMeeting at the Intersections

Harvey Charles,Kevin Hovland, and Caryn McTighe Musil

AAC&U DLIE Network ConferenceHouston, Texas October 21, 2010

Workshop ScheduleWorkshop Schedule

2:00-2:15 Welcome and Introductions2:15-2:25 Framing the Workshop2:25-3:00 Intersecting Learning Goals ?3:00-3:30 Spaces for Strategic

Collaborations3:30-3:45 Break3:45-4:20 Case Study: Lessons from a

Campus4:20-4:45 Sharing Strategies4:45-5:00 Closing Comments

Participant IntroductionsParticipant Introductions

Name, Institution, and one burning question that you would like to see addressed during the workshop . . . all in thirty seconds

Diversity and Diversity and Global/International:Global/International:

Why the Fracas? . . .and things to

remember in the middle of it

Sources of TensionSources of Tension

Different histories Different languages Different structural locations Different personnel Different missions Different resources and different

sources of authority and respect

Five axiomsFive axioms1. There is good reason to be wary.

2. You have more capacity to transform your institution working collaboratively than singly.

3. You can learn a lot from one another.

4. Students need the knowledge, practices, and perspectives from both fields.

5. Human beings share a single planet; our fates are intertwined.

Trends in Institutional Approaches to Trends in Institutional Approaches to Diversity Diversity Trends in Institutional Approaches to Trends in Institutional Approaches to Diversity Diversity From Access and Success to Wide-Ranging

Campus Innovations in Multiple Locations

From Single, Isolated Programs to More Comprehensive Institutional Approaches

From “Fixing” New Students to Recasting Institutional Missions

From Single to Multiple and Intersecting Differences

More Diversity TrendsMore Diversity Trends Race as More than Black and With and

Diversity as More than Race

Diversity within and across U.S. Borders

Diversity as a Catalyst for Institutional Improvement

Diversity as a Means to Achieve Academic Excellence and Democratic Dispositions

Global Studies has Evolved Global Studies has Evolved TooToo From Assuming Discrete, Independent

Nation States to Integrated Global Systems

From Only Europe to More of the Globe

From “Us” and “Them” to “We”

From “Over There” To Everywhere

More Global/International More Global/International TrendsTrends From One Non-Western Course in

General Education to Addressing Global Issues in Multiple Classes

From Visiting a Place to Being Part of a Place and a Perspective

From Former Colonizers Telling the Story to Voice of the Subaltern Narrating Their Own Histories

Spaces in the IntersectionsSpaces in the Intersections

Comparative Perspectives on Cultural Diversity and Identity

Expanded Definitions of Diversity

America and the World

Diasporas, Migrations, and Immigration

More Spaces in the More Spaces in the IntersectionsIntersections Quests for Recognition and Community

Social hierarchies, Power, Privilege, and Discrimination

Global frameworks and common issues

Service Learning and Community-based Research in local and global contexts

Defining Learning Defining Learning Goals/OutcomesGoals/Outcomes

What should students know and be capable of and disposed to doing in their work and civic lives? Knowledge

select four primary ones Skills

select four primary ones Dispositions/Values

select four primary ones

Strategies to Match Learning Strategies to Match Learning Spaces with Desired Learning Spaces with Desired Learning OutcomesOutcomes

Working in small roundtable groups, share strategies that can be employed in the arenas where collaboration at the intersections of diversity and global campus work is already underway or could become a new site for enhancing teaching and learning?

A Case Study: A Case Study: Lessons from a CampusLessons from a Campus

Harvey Charles, Northern Arizona University

(see his separate power points)

Closing CommentsClosing Comments

At the Intersections: Shared At the Intersections: Shared Educational CommitmentsEducational CommitmentsPrinciples of Excellence

Teach the Arts of Inquiry and Innovation Engage the Big Questions Connect Knowledge with Choices and

Actions Foster Civic, Intercultural, and Ethical

Learning Assess Students’ Ability to Apply

Learning to Complex Problems

How Might You Form Multicultural How Might You Form Multicultural Alliances With One Another?Alliances With One Another? Deepen your collective knowledge

about each other’s work

Explore cross cutting topics relevant to both arenas

Explore the struggles for justice in and outside of U.S. borders

Examine research that reveals relation of these areas to student learning

AAC&U’s Common Learning Goals AAC&U’s Common Learning Goals Across Both Global and Diversity Across Both Global and Diversity LearningLearningTo develop the knowledge and commitment

to be socially responsible citizens in a diverse democracy and interconnected but unequal world, students will need to:

Gain a deep, comparative knowledge of the world’s peoples and problems;

Explore the historical legacies that have created the dynamics and tensions of their world;

Develop intercultural competencies to move across boundaries and unfamiliar territory and see the world from multiple perspectives;

Global and Diversity Learning, 2Global and Diversity Learning, 2

Sustain difficult conversations in the face of highly emotional and perhaps uncongenial differences;

Understand—and perhaps redefine—democratic principles and practices with an intercultural and global context;

Gain opportunities to engage in practical work with fundamental issues that affect communities not yet well served by their societies

Believe that one’s actions and ideas matter and can influence the world they live in.

“Diversity is about everyone.Global is about everywhere.”

Kevin Hovland, AAC&U

“Otis is training us to use the skills they have taught us to solve the world’s problems. We work together and learn from each other, because we can’t save the world on our own.” An Otis College of Art and Design Student

To learn more about AAC&U and its To learn more about AAC&U and its resources, visit resources, visit www.aacu.org and and www.diversityweb.org where you can where you can find the tri-quarterly, find the tri-quarterly, Diversity & Diversity & Democracy: Civic Learning for Shared Democracy: Civic Learning for Shared FuturesFutures

To reach any of us, email:To reach any of us, email:hovland@aacu.orgmusil@aacu.orgharvey.charles@nau.edu