Board of Trustees presentation on Global Citizenship Program
- 1. Bruce Umbaugh Professor of Philosophy Director, Global Citizenship Program October 4, 2012
- 2. Mission The mission of the Global Citizenship Program is to ensure that every undergraduate student emerges from Webster University with the core competencies required for responsible global citizenship in the 21st Century.
- 4. Meaningful work and fulfillment that you do well that makes a positive difference Something you love doing Based on Dave Pollard, How to Save the World
- 5. GCP Competencies are the Gateway to Career Success “Irrespective of college major or institutional selectivity, what matters to career success is students’ development of a broad set of cross- cutting capacities…” Anthony Carnevale, Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce
- 6. GCP and Career Success Department of Labor – Bureau of Labor Statistics Every year, more than 1/3 of the entire US labor force changes jobs. Today's Students Will Have 10-14 Jobs by the Time They Are 38. 50% of Workers Have Been With Their Company Less Than 5 Years. Every year, more than 30 million Americans are working in jobs that did not exist in the previous quarter.
- 7. Giving students what they need My own former students work in (for example) – study abroad advising – policy analysis – health care ethics – managing online learning – nonprofit advocacy – logistics management – museum administration
- 8. The Growing Demand for Higher Order Skills 8
- 9. “The service economy is creating a need for new and more complex skill sets—creativity, problem solving, communications, customer relations, computing, collaboration and teamwork. Increasingly, all workers have to be adaptive and flexible—able to respond rapidly and with independent initiative.” Council on Competitiveness, "Thrive: The Skills Imperative," 2008, p. 21 Giving students what they need
- 10. Giving students what they need Raising the Bar: Employers’ Views on College Learning in the Wake of the Economic Downturn, Hart Research Associates, for the AAC&U, January, 2010
- 11. Wage Premium for GCP Learning Outcomes The highest salaries apply to positions that call for intensive use of liberal education capabilities, including (random order): Writing Judgment and Decision Making Problem Solving Social/Interpersonal Skills Mathematics Originality Source: Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce
- 12. Cafeteria “A,” 1947, Duke University Archives. Durham, North Carolina, USA. CC by-nc-sa, Some rights reserved. Cold-war era general education
- 13. National Research and Best Practices The Global Citizenship Program aligns with: Webster University Mission and Values Employer needs Student needs
- 14. National Research and Best Practices The Global Citizenship Program aligns with research: Association of American Colleges & Universities Research on High Impact Practices Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
- 15. High Impact Practices • First-Year Seminars and Experiences • Common Intellectual Experiences • Learning Communities • Writing-Intensive Courses • Collaborative Assignments and Projects • “Science as Science Is Done”/Undergraduate Research • Diversity/Global Learning • Service Learning, Internships, Community-Based Learning • Capstone Courses and Projects
- 16. OECD “Skills Strategy” “Better Skills, Better Jobs, Better Lives: A Strategic Approach to Skills Policies” Launched May 2012
- 17. OECD “Skills Strategy” “Skills have become the global currency of 21st century economies.” -- OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurría
- 18. OECD “Skills Strategy” “Since skills requirements change and people need to adapt and learn new skills over their working lives to ensure occupational mobility . . . people should master foundation skills and . . . develop the general desire and capacity to engage in learning over an entire lifetime.” Better Skills Better Jobs Better Lives: A Strategic Approach to Skills Policies, OECD Publishing, 2012, p. 26
- 19. OECD “Skills Strategy” Curricula for the 21st century: • Knowledge – connected to real-world experience • Skills – including higher-order skills (Creativity, Communication, Critical Thinking, Collaboration) • Values • Meta-layer – integration and learning how to continue to learn
- 20. What do students need? • Knowledge • Skills • Abilities to integrate and apply
- 21. What do students need? • Knowledge Roots of Cultures, Social Systems & Human Behavior, Physical & Natural World, Global Understanding, Arts Appreciation, Quantitative Literacy • Skills Critical Thinking, Written Communication, Oral Communication, Intercultural Competence, Ethical Reasoning, Collaboration, Integration
- 22. Integrative Learning GCP integrates learning of Knowledge + Skill in a course
- 23. Integrative Learning Multiple skills in Seminars: – First-year Seminars • Interdisciplinary • address written communication, oral communication, critical thinking, and integrative learning – Global Keystone Seminars • Will address knowledge from interdisciplinary perspectives • as well as all the skills components
- 24. Integrative Learning Global Keystone Seminar: – Innovative – Third-year experience – All undergraduate campuses – Capstone experience for GCP curriculum – Bring together knowledge and skills of whole GCP – Critical thinking, written and oral communication, ethical reasoning, intercultural competence, collaboration, as well as multiple knowledge areas and disciplines