Shared Futures: Global Learning and Social Responsibility
General Education for Global Learning
Overview
Shared Futures: General Education for Global Learning was a curriculum and faculty development network that combined
the best theory and practice of general education reform with
the transformative promise of global content. In 2005, with support from the Henry Luce Foundation, AAC&U created a network
of sixteen colleges and universities working together to use global learning goals as organizing
principles for general education programs and to prepare students
for citizenship in a world of global change and interdependence.
In October 2006, AAC&U received a two-year grant from the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE) to expand and extend the work of the Shared Futures network. Through summer faculty institutes, curriculum development, and coordinated assessment of global learning across courses and schools, the participating institutions and AAC&U sought to:
- Make science requirements a more central part of global general education curricula
- Use general education to help students understand the connections between global learning and ethical citizenship.
- Use global learning categories and courses to assess key liberal education outcomes
Project Details
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This project is made possible by support from the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE). For more information about FIPSE, please visit http://www.ed.gov/fipse.
For more information about Shared Futures, contact Chad Anderson.
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