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Kevin Hovland

Kevin Hovland earned a BA in Russian Regional Studies from Columbia University and is ABD in History at Georgetown University.  He is Director of Global Initiatives and Curricular Change at AAC&U, working in the office of Diversity, Equity, and Global Initiatives.  He is responsible for the Shared Futures initiative, an initiative with current projects funded by the Henry Luce Foundation and the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education.  Current projects encourage colleges and universities to use global learning outcomes as an organizing principle for coherent and comprehensive general education curricular designs.

Hovland is the author of the AAC&U monograph, Shared Futures: Global Learning and Liberal Education as well as several articles further articulating global learning as an essential outcome of liberal education.  He is also program director for AAC&U’s annual meeting, project director for Educated Citizens and Public Health, and executive editor of Diversity & Democracy: Civic Learning for Shared Futures, an AAC&U periodical designed to provide campus practitioners with readily available information about successful diversity initiatives around the country and to support academic leaders and educators as they design and reshape their diversity programs, civic engagement initiatives, and global learning opportunities to better prepare students for principled action in today's complex world.