The Global Citizen Scholar Program at Allegheny College
The vision of Allegheny College’s GCS Program resides in defining global citizenship as extending beyond the “global” to encompass both local and global communities and commitments.
Program Office
Office of Global Citizenship for Campus, Community and Careers
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.
Importance of Global Citizenship for Campus, Community and Careers
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.
Programs & Initiatives
Integrative Learning and Signature WorkIntegrative Learning and Signature WorkThrough 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.
Interfaith Leadership in Higher EducationA 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.
Mentored Undergraduate Research in Global ContextsMentored Undergraduate Research in Global ContextsAAC&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.
Global HealthGlobal HealthBy 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 / Collaborative Online International LearningVirtual Exchange / Collaborative Online International LearningVirtual 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.
Conference on Global Learning
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.
Recommended Reading
Planetary health learning objectives: foundational knowledge for global health education in an era of climate change
Planetary health is an emerging field that emphasises that humans depend on a healthy Earth for survival and, conversely, that the sustainability of Earth systems is dependent on human behaviours.
Mentored Undergraduate Research in Global Contexts: Integrated High-Impact Practices for Student Success
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.
Interfaith Cooperation for Our Times: Educating Citizens for a Diverse Democracy
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.
International Education at the Crossroads
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.
Teaching Civic Engagement Globally
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.
Engaging Global Challenges
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.
Citizens of the World
Where global learning and DEI converge: students respond
Latest Activity
Research
Global Learning and Institutional Transformation in US Higher Education
AAC&U invites faculty, staff, and administrators to take part in a national survey examining how global learning is embedded in US colleges and universities today.
On-Demand Webinar\
VE/COIL in Action: Industry Partnerships and Global Competencies
Discover how globally connected, employer-informed projects build essential skills like adaptability and problem-solving while expanding inclusive access to real-world, career-aligned learning.
Institute\
Institute on Experiential Learning and Engaged Dialogue
This institute helps campus teams foster experiential learning and engaged dialogue to prepare students for meaningful encounters on campus, in communities, and in their future careers.
Publication
Mentored Undergraduate Research in Global Contexts: Integrated High-Impact Practices for Student Success
Office Staff
Dawn Michele Whitehead
Vice President for Global Citizenship for Campus, Community, and Careers
Veronica Onorevole
Director of Innovative Global Education Initiatives
Amy Cooper
Director of Annual Meeting and Events
Megan Allen
Associate Director of Virtual Exchange/COIL Initiatives
Jane Turk
Associate Director