Webinar
Inquiring into Personal and Social Responsibility
June 17, 2025
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Addressing global challenges demands thoughtful, informed, and responsible action. This webinar highlights the development of personal and social responsibility as a key component of students’ global learning journey. By attending, you will explore practical strategies for fostering students’ ability to evaluate ethical, social, and environmental challenges and to act thoughtfully and responsibly in addressing them within both local and global contexts.
Presenters will guide you through using the Global Learning VALUE Rubric to design activities and assessments that foster students’ growth in personal and social responsibility. The rubric, created by faculty experts and widely adopted across institutions, provides a structured framework for evaluating key learning outcomes, such as global learning, intercultural knowledge, and critical thinking. This webinar will focus on practical applications of the rubric to support students in engaging critically with complex global systems while building the skills necessary for ethical and responsible action.
What You'll Gain by Attending
- Gain the ability to define personal and social responsibility as key components of global learning outcomes.
- Learn how to use the Global Learning VALUE Rubric to evaluate student learning and development effectively.
- Discover strategies for designing learning activities that empower students to take ethical and responsible actions in both global and local contexts.
Presenters
H. Parker
Director of the Global Competence Initiative and Assistant Director of Student Mobility & Assessment and Latin America/Spain ProgramsPurdue University
Mary F. Price
Director of Teaching and LearningThe Forum on Education Abroad
Moderator
Dawn Michele Whitehead
Vice President, Office of Global Citizenship for Campus, Community, and CareersAAC&U
About the VALUE Rubric
The VALUE Rubrics are open educational resources designed to assist educators in evaluating students' original work across 16 broad, cross-cutting learning outcomes. The rubrics provide a common language for discussing and assessing student learning and enable institutions to measure progress reliably and consistently. The VALUE rubrics have been downloaded more than 800,000 times across nearly 3,000 institutions in more than 150 countries.
About the Series
“Inquiring into Personal and Social Responsibility” is the final installment in a seven-part series of AAC&U webinars presented in partnership with the Purdue University Center for Intercultural Learning, Mentorship, Assessment, and Research (CILMAR). This series offers professional development on facilitating and assessing global learning and intercultural competence using AAC&U VALUE rubrics.
To view recordings of previous webinars, visit the series website.
If you have questions about the series, please contact Annette Benson at abenson@purdue.edu.