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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
Resources
Webinars On-Demand
Video recordings of the following webinars are available for AAC&U members to watch on-demand:
- Fostering Civic Consciousness through Creativity-Based Pedagogy
- Webinar - Challenge, Connection, Collaboration: Identity, Religion, Diversity, and Interfaith Cooperation
- Engaging All Students in Global Learning—From High-Impact Practices to High-Impact Graduates
- Webinar: Global Learning—Beyond Study Abroad
- Global Learning Matters: Curricula, Careers, and New Perspectives from Global Health
- The Confounding Promise of Community: Why It Matters More Than Ever for Student Success
