Promoting Intercultural Agility and Leadership Development at Home and Abroad for First-Year Students - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1668488361 ISBN 13: 9781668488362

Publisher: Information Science Reference, 2024

Synopsis

Promoting Intercultural Agility and Leadership Development at Home and Abroad for First-Year Students is a practical guide for international educators that focuses on promoting global learning experiences for first-year students on university campuses. The publication provides a toolbox for building robust global learning experiences for students, both at home and abroad, and showcases innovative approaches to fostering cultural agility. It emphasizes the importance of global learning at home and education abroad programming designed for first-year students and highlights the work of faculty and international educators who create global learning experiences. The book challenges many long-held assumptions about first-year student programming in international education and yields new insights into the first-year experience in academics, student development, and career preparation. University faculty and international education offices, first-year student program offices, student affairs/residential life offices, student success professionals, enrollment management offices, community-engaged learning and service-learning program offices, university assessment offices, university risk managers, international education organizations and universities hosting education abroad programs, and equity, access, and inclusion offices/chief diversity officers will find that the range of topics in this publication cover the transition from high school to college, summer travel abroad, living and learning communities, at-home global learning experiences, embedded study abroad in the first year, development of a growth mindset through global learning activities at home and abroad, virtual language exchanges, global citizenship course requirements and global learning, assessment of global learning in the first year, promotion of an equity lens, and much more.

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About the Authors

Jon Stauff is Assistant Vice President for International Affairs at South Dakota State University in Brookings, SD. He provides leadership in all areas of international education on campus, including international student and scholar services, education abroad, English as a Second Language, and international student recruitment. Stauff taught modern European history at St. Ambrose University and transitioned into international education administration full time. Stauff has also worked as the senior international officer at Monmouth University, The College of New Jersey, and Radford University. A past Fulbright Scholar to Germany and the recipient of several research grants from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), he has received support to develop international education programming from IIE, IREX, and the governments of Australia, Israel, and Spain. Stauff has served on the NAFSA EAKC leadership team as well as the NAFSA Region X team, and currently he holds seats on the advisory boards of several international education organizations. Stauff received an A.B. in History from the College of William & Mary and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in History from the University at Buffalo, SUNY.

Jill Blondin , associate vice provost for global initiatives at VCU, received her B.A. from Indiana University, and her M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Before leading GEO, Dr. Blondin served as the inaugural director of VCU Globe, a global education living-learning program devoted to building cultural agility. Under Dr. Blondin’s leadership, VCU Globe received the 2015 NAFSA Senator Paul Simon Spotlight Award and the 2018 Andrew Heiskell Award from IIE. Dr. Blondin has served as a Fulbright Specialist to Brazil (2018), as a speaker with the U.S. Department of State Study Abroad Engagement Grant Program and Fulbright Portugal (2019) and as an Expert Speaker on U.S. Study Abroad with the U.S. Embassy Guyana (2022). Dr. Blondin, a 2021-2022 AIEA (Association of International Education Administrators) Presidential Fellow and serves as Chair on AIEA's Member Outreach and Awards Committee. In 2023, Dr. Blondin was named one of the PIE 50 Top Voices in North America, and IIE honored her as the Senior International Officer of the Year.

Edition details

• Publisher: Information Science Reference
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1668488361
• ISBN 13: 9781668488362
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 292
• Editor: Stauff Jon, Blondin Jill E.