Shared Futures

Chandler-Gilbert Community College

Paul Petrequin
Residential Faculty, History
paul.petrequin@cgcmail.maricopa.edu

Dr. Paul Petrequin is Residential Faculty in History at Chandler-Gilbert Community College.  He was formerly a tenured Founding Faculty member at Cascadia Community College (WA).  Paul received his PhD in History from the University of California, Santa Cruz, specializing in European Intellectual History. 

At Chandler-Gilbert, Paul is Co-Chair of the International Educational (IE) Committee.  Currently, the IE Committee is working to form a vision for a Certificate in Global Studies.  He has transformed his US History courses to have a global focus.  He also teaches courses in World History, World Religions, and the Modern Middle East.  He has developed a study abroad course to take students in Nicaragua for Spring Break 2006, and is working to develop a similar course to Venezuela in 2007.  He is also working on the University of Arizona Latin American Studies Consortium to help promote Latin American studies in the community colleges of Arizona.  In Summer 2005, Paul spent seven weeks in Spain to take intensive Spanish language courses as well as visit numerous cultural and historical sites.  He is working to develop a learning community in Fall 2006 focusing on the social, economic, and environmental aspects of global connections.  While at Cascadia Community College, Paul taught a learning community on Science and Issues of World Water Resources.  He was also a member of the Partnership for Global Studies, which was working to organize a conference on globalizing the curriculum.

Chris Schnick
Faculty Development Coordinator
chris.schnick@cgcmail.maricopa.edu

Chris Schnick has been a residential English Faculty member at Chandler-Gilbert Community College since 1997. He has played an active part of the college’s initiatives in service learning, learning communities, civic engagement, and global education, using them as a part of his curriculum and serving on college committees to advance the initiatives.

As the college faculty development coordinator, he schedules and facilitates workshops advancing college initiatives, develops and facilitates summer institutes, collaborates with the Maricopa Community College District faculty development committee, and works with college committees to support their faculty development initiatives. The faculty development team has developed a campus-wide theme called SEE Your World which focuses on Social, Environmental, and Economic concerns in our community and the world. Chris has worked to enhance teaching and learning through exploration of the theme. He has scheduled and in some cases coordinated campus events to connect multiple classes to the global theme, events such a Katrina Interdisciplinary Teach-in. He works to help other faculty incorporate the SEE Your World theme into their curriculum

Chris has been involved in planning and co-facilitating global-education events such as “SEE Your World: How to Connect to the Faculty Development Team’s 2005-2007 Theme” poster presentation at college All-Faculty Meeting (Fall 2005) and “Sharing the World’s Resources: A Discussion of Sustainability for Global Thinking in Your Curriculum,” a district-wide event with Charles Hopkins of UNESCO (Spring 2005).

In his roles as co-chair of the learning community committee, co-director of freshman composition, and faculty development coordinator he has helped define outcomes appropriate to the college mission statement and integrated these outcomes into the goals and directions of several committees as well as the English program.