Shared Futures: Global Learning and Social Responsibility

Previous Projects

The current Shared Futures project, General Education for a Global Century , has grown out of the development and success of previous activities in the Shared Futures initiative.

Funded Projects

General Education for Global Learning (2005-2009)
Shared Futures: General Education for Global Learning established a curriculum and faculty development network of sixteen colleges and universities in order to combine the best theory and practice of general education reform with the transformative promise of global content. This project was funded by Henry Luce Foundation. Additionally, in October 2006, AAC&U received a grant from the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE) to expand the work of the Shared Futures network and to make STEM literacy a more integral part of global general education.
More information is available here.

Liberal Education and Global Citizenship: The Arts of Democracy (2002-2006)
The first funded project in the Shared Futures initiative aimed to cultivate global knowledge and engagement among students and faculty through curriculum development in the undergraduate majors. It was supported by the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE) and culminated in the publication of two monographs, Shared Futures: Global Learning and Liberal Education and Assessing Global Learning.
More information is available here.

Liberal Arts Colleges and Global Learning (2002-2003)
In an effort to further develop the Shared Futures initiative, the AAC&U staff undertook a research project to identify best practices in global education among liberal arts institutions. The project was funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
More information is available here.

Events

AAC&U has organized several symposia and forums on issues tied to global learning. See below for information on some of these events.

"Advancing Sustainable Democratic Cultures: Citizenship, Human Rights, and Civic Responsibility," June 21-22, 2006. The Council of Europe Committee on Higher Education and Research and the International Consortium for Higher Education, Strasbourg, France.

"Recentering: Science and Global Learning in the Undergraduate Curriculum," January 25, 2006. AAC&U Annual Meeting, Washington, DC..

"Shared Futures: Diversity, Inequality, and the Challenge of Global Citizenship," January 22, 2003. AAC&U Annual Meeting, Seattle, Washington.