Cultivating Global Competencies in a Diverse World

FAIN: AC-226779-15

Research Foundation Of The City University Of New York (New York, NY 10007-1044)
Alex d'Erizans (Project Director: June 2014 to November 2022)

A series of faculty workshops, curriculum development activities, and a regional symposium on world cultures and global interdependence at the Borough of Manhattan Community College.

The BMCC NEH initiative, Cultivating Intercultural Competencies in the Globalized Classroom, is an interdisciplinary three-year project designed to equip students with greater intercultural competencies to participate in a globalized world. More than simply embracing the notion of cultural diversity by encouraging the toleration of group differences, BMCC seeks to develop a broader agenda based on a common theme of enhancing intercultural competencies across course offerings in the Humanities so that BMCC students can better understand the interconnected world around them and be prepared to become effective agents of social justice and social change.

Associated Products

Faculty Development, as well as Pedagogical Strategies, Workshops for the fall 2015, summer 2016, and fall 2016 cohorts (Conference/Institute/Seminar)
Title: Faculty Development, as well as Pedagogical Strategies, Workshops for the fall 2015, summer 2016, and fall 2016 cohorts
Abstract: The project spearheaded faculty development spaces within which presentations from, and discussions with, NYU faculty prompted BMCC faculty to disseminate knowledge, explore ideas on best (classroom) practices, and develop their own thoughts and approaches regarding global issues, thus refining the latters' courses to create a more integrated learning experience for students. Subsequent monthly Pedagogical Strategies workshops, each focused on one competency, and to which all faculty and administrators of the BMCC academic community were invited, brought together workshop participants to provide “status reports” regarding the curricula changes they implemented concerning the particular global competencies they chose to nurture
Date Range: Fall 2015 - Spring 2017
Location: Borough of Manhattan Commuinity College, CUNY

Revised Syllabi of participating workshop BMCC faculty (Course or Curricular Material)
Title: Revised Syllabi of participating workshop BMCC faculty
Author: See participating faculty names in "Accomplishments" section
Abstract: Upon completion of the Faculty Development workshops, faculty participants revised their syllabi to integrate at least three (3) assignments/activities cultivating two (2) or more of the project's designated global competencies into their classes.
Year: 2016
Primary URL: http://bmcc.libguides.com/global; http://bmcc.libguides.com/c.php?g=503377; http://bmcc.libguides.com/c.php?g=503127
Primary URL Description: fall 2015, summer 2016, and fall 2016 faculty cohort information.
Audience: Undergraduate

Cultivating Global Competencies in a Diverse World: Pedagogical Strategies and Assessment of Student Learning in the Community /College Classroom (Conference Paper/Presentation)
Title: Cultivating Global Competencies in a Diverse World: Pedagogical Strategies and Assessment of Student Learning in the Community /College Classroom
Author: Vincent Cheng, BMCC
Author: Christine Farias, BMCC
Author: Jill Strauss, BMCC
Author: Karl O'Brien Williams, BMCC
Author: Cynthia Wiseman, BMCC
Abstract: The talk entailed an exploration by the panelists of how diversity and inclusion could be fostered in higher education, in a sustainable way, through interdisciplinary curriculum development emphasizing cultural understanding, responsible global citizenship, effective intercultural communication, and integrated reasoning
Date: 11/18/17
Conference Name: "Engaging With Diversity in the College Classroom," Faculty Resource Network, New York University, New Orleans, Louisiana, November 17 - 18, 2017

Integrating Global Competencies into the Curriculum (Conference Paper/Presentation)
Title: Integrating Global Competencies into the Curriculum
Author: Vincent Cheng, BMCC
Author: Cynthia Wiseman, BMCC
Abstract: The presentation lays out a professional development initiative at an urban community college in which faculty define and reflect on global competencies with the goal of instituting concrete curricula changes in the classroom.
Date: 11/19/16
Conference Name: Teaching a New Generation of Students, Faculty Resource Center, New York University, Atlanta, Georgia, November 18 - 19, 2016

An Interdisciplinary Collaboration to Integrate Global Competencies Across the Curriculum (Conference Paper/Presentation)
Title: An Interdisciplinary Collaboration to Integrate Global Competencies Across the Curriculum
Author: Alex d'Erizans, BMCC
Author: Vincent Cheng, BMCC
Author: Cynthia Wiseman, BMCC
Abstract: The presenters describe an NEH-funded professional development initiative entailing workshops scrutinizing globalization, and ultimately culminating in enhanced syllabi employing assignments targeting specific global competencies.
Date: 10/14/17
Conference Name: Making Connections: Creative Collaboration for Critical Literacy, TYCANE (Two-Year College English Association Northeast, Hartford, CT, October 13 - 15, 2016

Cultivating Global Competencies in a Divere World: A Faculty Professional Development Program at Borough of Manhattan Communtiy College (Conference Paper/Presentation)
Title: Cultivating Global Competencies in a Divere World: A Faculty Professional Development Program at Borough of Manhattan Communtiy College
Author: Vincent Change, BMCC
Author: Eva Kolbusz, BMCC
Abstract: The presentation reflects on a professional development program designed to assist participating faculty in revising curricula in order to cultivate global competency among students in the classroom.
Date: 7/27/16
Conference Name: Sixteenth International Conferrence on Diversity in Organizations, Communities, and Nations, Granada, Spain, June 27 - 29, 2016

Cultivating Global Competencies in a Diverse World (Conference Paper/Presentation)
Title: Cultivating Global Competencies in a Diverse World
Author: Vincent Cheng, BMCC
Abstract: The author will present on a interdisciplinary development program at Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY, designed to provide participating faculty with pedagogical strategies designed to support student development regarding specific global competencies.
Date: 7/2/16
Conference Name: The 22nd International Conference of the International Association for Intercultural Communicaiton Studies (IAICS) "Culture , Communication, and Cosmopolitanism," Shanghai, China, July 1 - July 3, 2016

Reimagining Borders and Boundaries Within a Globalized World (Public Lecture or Presentation)
Title: Reimagining Borders and Boundaries Within a Globalized World
Abstract: Serving as the capstone experience of the NEH project, the fall 2017 symposium endeavored to cultivate a space for participating faculty and presenters, as well as interested parties from outside the program, to explore the means by which we all grapple with the constant, and ever-shifting, challenges and notions of individual and group identities in an increasingly globalized world.
Author: Alex d'Erizans, BMCC
Author: Vincent Cheng, BMCC
Date: 9/29/17
Location: NYU Center for the Humanities; BMCC, New York, NY

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