Global Citizenship for Campus, Community, and Careers

Through its Office of Global Citizenship for Campus, Community, and Careers, AAC&U works to advance integrative global learning through embedded community-based settings of all types, local and international. This work is intended to align multiple areas of campus programming, both academic and cocurricular, to realize more wholly integrated campus initiatives that prepare students for life, work, and citizenship.

Programs

Interfaith Leadership in Higher Education

The Interfaith Leadership in Higher Education initiative, a partnership between AAC&U and Interfaith Youth Core, is focused on helping colleges and universities make interfaith cooperation an institutional priority and establish models for curricular and cocurricular experiences that enable students to navigate across deep differences in religious belief and worldview. Through the development of a series of institutes, workshops, and other resources, the initiative seeks to enhance institutional efforts to broaden, deepen, and strengthen commitments to interfaith teaching and learning.

Civic Learning and Democratic Engagement Action Network

The Civic Learning and Democratic Engagement (CLDE) Action Network advances the recommendations made in A Crucible Moment: College Learning and Democracy’s Future, the 2012 report of the National Task Force on Civic Learning and Democratic Engagement. Participating organizations promote civic learning through coordinated strategies and aim to keep the national civic engagement agenda visible through events, publications, research, and joint projects. The CLDE Action Network currently comprises twelve organizations.

Civic Prompts: Civic Learning in the Major by Design

Based on the premise that educating students to be responsible, informed, and engaged citizens should be an expected goal of every major, this multi-year initiative focuses on the department as a unit of change and the major as a site for deepening students’ knowledge, skills, values, and agency about their responsibilities to the larger society.

The Council of Europe

Through its involvement in the International Consortium for Higher Education, Civic Responsibility, and Democracy, AAC&U collaborates with the Council of Europe to highlight and advance the contributions of higher education to democracy on college and university campuses, their local communities, and the wider society.

The Educated Citizen and Public Health

Through the creation and organization of publications, presentations, and resources to help faculty develop public health curricula in all colleges and universities, the Educated Citizen and Public Health Initiative sets the stage for the integration of public health perspectives within a comprehensive liberal education framework.

Featured Publications

Tradition Shaping Change: General Education in the Middle East and North Africa

By: Maha Al-Hendawi and Abdelhamid Ahmed

This eBook surveys the landscape of general education and core curricula in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). A first effort of this kind, the eBook offers chapters on specific programs in Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar. Contributors discuss indigenous features of programs and address boundary-crossing or global goals and outcomes.

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Models of Global Learning

By: Indira Nair and Margaret Henning

Global education, or global learning, is not about national borders—it is about sharing problems, knowing that many challenges ultimately affect everyone because of the interconnectedness of today’s world citizens. Models of Global Learning provides a descriptive analysis of the global learning projects at twenty-four institutions that were part of the AAC&U Shared Futures Project...

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Resources

Educated Citizen and Public Health Listserv

The Educated Citizen and Public Health electronic mailing list is hosted by the Association of American Colleges & Universities. The listserv is designed to promote communication among educators and administrators who are active in the emerging interdisciplinary field of public health study for undergraduates, with a particular emphasis on liberal education.

Global Learning Definitions

Examples of guiding definitions of “global learning” from AAC&U member institutions seeking to be more intentional about global learning.

Global Learning Outcomes

Examples from AAC&U member institutions whose global learning outcomes identify what a global learner can do.

Global Learning VALUE Rubric

VALUE rubrics are intended for institutional-level use in evaluating and discussing student learning, not for grading. The core expectations articulated in all sixteen of the VALUE rubrics can and should be translated into the language of individual campuses, disciplines, and even courses.

Student Learning Outcomes

Examples from AAC&U member institutions that have created broad learning outcomes for all students that include a global focus.