Program Office
Through its Office of Global Citizenship for Campus, Community, and Careers (GC4), AAC&U promotes integrative global & civic learning through initiatives and practices that empower students to engage meaningfully and ethically with global challenges.
Higher education—and liberal education, in particular—plays an integral role in helping students become responsible citizens and preparing them for success in work and life. AAC&U leads and supports efforts across all types of institutions to strengthen global learning experiences at the heart of this preparation.
The Office of Global Citizenship for Campus, Community, and Careers promotes global learning by prioritizing equity, diversity, global engagement, perspective-taking, and social and civic responsibility. Such educational and institutional priorities help students and institutions address global challenges that connect and impact local, global, and international communities.
Through its emphasis on synthesis and advanced accomplishment across the educational experience, liberal education promotes integrative learning, requiring that students develop and demonstrate the ability to apply knowledge and skills to complex problems and in varied settings.
A partnership between AAC&U and Interfaith America, this initiative helps shape campus culture by establishing best practices for engaging religious diversity, encouraging interfaith cooperation, and integrating diversity, equity, and inclusion into institutional interfaith practices.
AAC&U researches and shares institutional practices and models for intercultural mentoring that enable students to develop and apply skills related to critical thinking, creativity, problem solving, and integrative and global learning.
By offering resources and partnering with other organizations, AAC&U actively supports undergraduate programs that help students address real-world challenges by drawing on tools and strategies from the field of global health.
Virtual exchange (VE), including one of its most comprehensive forms, collaborative online international learning (COIL), provides students with affordable opportunities to gain global competencies within their coursework wherever they are.
This series of seven 90-minute virtual workshops offers professional development in the facilitation and assessment of one facet from the AAC&U Global Learning (GL) VALUE Rubric and/or the Intercultural Knowledge and Competence (ICKC) VALUE Rubric during each workshop. The series begins in early August 2024 and ends in mid-June 2025. Facilitators include educators from Purdue University’s Center for Intercultural Learning, Mentorship, Assessment and Research (CILMAR) and our invited guests from the University of Notre Dame, Florida International University, Indiana University Indianapolis, Allegheny College, Culture Beyond Borders, Concordia University, Purdue University’s College of Engineering, and the Forum on Education Abroad.
Visit the Purdue website to view the tentative schedule.
Each year, the AAC&U Conference on Global Learning delves deep into bold new ideas and transformative innovations that prepare all students to thrive in an increasingly interconnected world. Share with and learn from a strong community that includes leading visionaries and collaborators who value every voice and every perspective. Through an array of in-depth sessions and workshops, AAC&U explores the most relevant topics around global learning, community-based learning, and other high-impact practices in a global context. Participate in a meeting of minds from around the world.
Mentored undergraduate research in global contexts, or MUR-GC, integrates the high-impact practices of mentoring, undergraduate research, and global learning. This volume explores the power of integrating these practices by tracing their origins and how institutions and individuals have integrated them.
Focusing on the work of the Interfaith Leadership in Higher Education Initiative, a partnership between AAC&U and Interfaith Youth Core, this publication showcases institutional efforts to broaden, deepen, and strengthen commitments to interfaith teaching and learning.
This new book from Indiana University Press, captures the essence and complexity of international education in an interconnected and globalized world. GC4 Vice President Dawn Michele Whitehead is featured among the leading scholars, international educators, and policymakers who contributed to this call for a reconsideration of paradigms and critical reflection on the entire field of international education.
In the interest of preventing an apathetic generation of students who find no reason to partake in social or global activism, this new book—coedited by GC4 Vice President Dawn Michele Whitehead and published by the American Political Science Association—offers a compilation of lesson plans, classroom studies, and suggestions for educators to help teach how and why human beings ought to engage with the issues around them.
Global challenges offer critical opportunities for student learning. This issue of Diversity & Democracy highlights the multifaceted ways in which higher education is involving students in addressing the globally complex issues they will encounter throughout their lives. Contributing authors describe possible avenues into this work and raise pressing questions about equity and inclusion in a globally interdependent society.
Where global learning and DEI converge: students respond
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An overview of initial research and practice on integrating the high-impact practices of mentoring, undergraduate research, and global learning.
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How interfaith efforts on campus can enhance learning and community
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In an innovative alternative to high school in India, learners shape their education
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What current research tells us about the link between higher education and community engagement—and what we still need to find out
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