Citizens of the World

Presented By: Adrienne Reininga, Aimé Castillo, Hayley Steffen, & Aidín Castillo

Our ChargeAssessment of Global Citizenship as a Potential GE

Component: To conduct analysis of the arguments that

support or hinder instituting a global citizenship component

Compile student feedback and input How it is compatible with the existing diversity

requirement? How will it effect time to degree?

Make recommendation on the types of courses or other experiences that may fulfill this requirement

Aimé

“Is internationalizing the campus so important that students should pay the cost of $15,000

for an extra school year?”

“When you go abroad you become the ‘other’, even if you are a white student in Switzerland. And that is more valuable than sitting in a class

room.”

“Planning for an education abroad experience is like planning for O-Chem.”

“Global awareness needs to be more than studying abroad, it needs to be at the heart of

curriculum.”

What is global citizenship?

“Knowledge and skills for social justice, community building, and environmental

awareness around the world”

-UC Davis Academic Senate Committee on International Studies and Exchanges

Aidín

Why Internationalize?

“And what better place to prepare those world citizens, people who can see bridges instead of boundaries, than at our colleges and universities? I hope that a global perspective will eventually permeate our curriculum and our discussions and that the day will come when all of our students will be able to have an experience in another culture”

-Chancellor Larry Vanderhoef (2004 Convocation speech, “Crossing Boundaries Imagined and Real”)Hayley

Our Approach

Interviewed faculty, staff and students.

MyUCDavis survey (undergraduate students).

Four focus groups.

Aimé

Chancellor’s Fall Conference Recommendations

Establish a GE requirement.

Fulfill with a Study Abroad experience or an Escape Clause— “off-campus experience”

Appoint a Task Force

Integrate into the entire undergraduate curriculum.

Aidín

Faculty, Staff and Student Interviews

who attended the Chancellor’s Fall Conference

Trends:

Everyone we interviewed agreed that a global perspective was a valuable component.

Nearly everyone thought the GE needed to be revamped

Adrienne

Faculty, Staff and Student Interviewswho attended the Chancellor’s Fall Conference Concerns:

Time to degree

Number of units required

Problems already with the GE, especially Writing Requirement

Study abroad may not be a feasible option

How to make students see this as an opportunity not a requirement?

Adrienne

“General education courses are something all students have to face sometime in their college careers. Concerns over having to take classes that can be completely unrelated to a student’s actual major is a legitimate worry, but it doesn’t have to be”

Student Voice

Adrienne

Student Voice

Adrienne

Student Voice Diversity:

“We can’t expect people to understand international diversity if they aren’t aware of diversity issues on our campus”

“If you can’t get them to step outside of their box, at least you can get them to look out of the window of their box”

“This will allow people to interact with people outside of their own bubble…it will pop their bubble”

Adrienne

Student Voice

Reasons for internationalizing UCD:

“Is internationalizing UC Davis, just a marketing strategy?”

“If the point of GE is to make students well rounded, then the definition of well rounded should include international awareness. The administration could voice its importance by making it a requirement”

“Ethnic studies should be a requirement like the Subject A. Students should be mandated to take it in order to graduate”

Aidín

Student Voice

“The effectiveness of this GE component will depend on its structuring”

GE component should not increase the number of units

Courses offered under this component should be carefully selected so as to meet with the intended goal of the GE.

Aidín

How Important Do You Think It Is For Students To Graduate With a

Global Perspective?

30.2%

40.8%

29.0%

0%

5%

10%

15%

20%

25%

30%

35%

40%

45%

Very Important,should be a req.

Important, butdifficult to

incorporate intostudies

Not imporant,should be an

electiveHayley

n= 2,348

Break Down of Choice by Major

12046

90

272

239

110

101

220

164

96

50

168

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1000

Very Important,should be a req.

Important, butdifficult to

incorporate intostudies

Not imporant,should be an

elective

Social Science

Math and PhysicalScienceHuman Science

Humanities and CulturalStudiesExploratory

Environmental Science

Engineering

Bio. Science

Ag. ScienceHayley n= 2,348

This is important and should be a future requirement.

Most likely meet the requirement by:

Total: 1,346

279

206

150147

118

111

106

99

9436

Study Abroad

Add as an additonalGE

Integrate with anexisting GE Divsersitycourse option

Integrated with anexisting GE breadthcourse

Integrated with anexisting "major"course requirement

Hayley

This is important, but I would have difficulty incorporating it into my studies. While difficult, most likely incorporate by:

208

202

191

178158

148

101

94

67

4747

45 41 38Like the idea, butmajor already isconstrainingIntegrated with anexisting GE DiversitycourseStudy Abroad

Integrated withexisting GE breadthreq.Like the idea, but jobcauses timeconstraints Added as additonalGE

Total: 1,565 Aimé

This is NOT important and should be left as an elective option

I don’t think this should be required of me because:

Aimé Total: 1,392

282

180

165

156

141

140

139

12168

I don't see this asrelevant to myeducational goals

I would need to give upsome other academicinterest to take on anadditional requirement

I have a major whichallows little flexibility foradditional units and stillgraduate on time

CISE Proposal for Global Citizenship GE•Add 3 units to GE requirements

Study abroad experience Courses approved for GE Global Citizenship offered by the UC

Education Abroad Program, UC Davis Summer Abroad, UC Davis Quarter Abroad, International Internships, or non-UC study abroad programs

OR

An approved course offered on campus Focus on international or transnational phenomena Courses discussing movement of people or political/ social

movements beyond national borders Courses in international law, global economics, world history,

global politics, immigration, world agriculture, etc. (Thanks to CISE GE task force) Aidín

Recommendations Global citizenship would be valuable to the

undergraduate experience

Action Plan: Restructure the entire GE Avoid increasing units Restructure the diversity requirement so that the

diversity req. and global citizenship component have clear and separate goal

Urge the committee to continue to seek the student voice

Do not compromise the intent of this component

Appreciations

Professor Dan Simmons Diane Adams Professor Peter

Schiffman Professor Dan Potter Professor Charles Lesher Vice Provost Fred Wood Professor Ann Orel Professor Dennis

Dutschke Professor Eric Schroeder Steven Baissa Professor Jay Lund Professor Kathryn Radke Carrie Devine

Angelina Malfitano Eric Zamora Professor Robert Blake Professor Jeannette Money Gillian Butler Eisha Zaid Dr. Wesley Young Professor Jade McCutcheon Professor Bill Fleenor Professor Mimi Jenkins All the Students who participated in our focus groups

Sponsor: Dr. Gail “the great” Martinez