Faculty as Global Learners: Off-Campus Study at Liberal Arts Colleges

by Joan Gillespie, Dana Gross, Lisa Jasinski

Overview

This co-authored collection offers valuable insights about the impact of leading off-campus study on faculty leaders’ teaching, research, service, and overall well-being. Recognizing that faculty leaders are themselves global learners, the book addresses ways that liberal arts colleges can more effectively achieve their strategic goals for students' global learning by intentionally anticipating and supporting the needs of faculty leaders, as they grow and change. Faculty as Global Learners offers key findings and recommendations to stimulate conversations among administrators, faculty, and staff about concrete actions they can explore and steps they can take on their campuses to both support faculty leaders of off-campus programs and advance strategic institutional goals for global learning. This collection includes transferrable pedagogical insights and the perspectives of faculty members who have led off-campus study programs in a variety of disciplines and geographic regions.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781643150192
Publisher:	Michigan Publishing Services
Publication date:	09/02/2020
Pages:	312
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Joan Gillespie is an instructor in Northwestern University’s graduate program in higher education administration and policy. She was Vice President and Director of off-campus study programs for the Associated Colleges of the Midwest and held senior positions at IES Abroad. She has published and presented papers on international program quality standards, assessment of student learning and development abroad, and undergraduate research in off-campus study.

Lisa Jasinski is Special Assistant to the Vice President for Academic Affairs at Trinity University. At Trinity, she led three academic service-learning programs to the Eastern Caribbean island of Dominica for pre-service teachers. While a doctoral student at The University of Texas at Austin, Lisa researched the implications of federal affirmative action policies in universities in southern Brazil. In 2020, she served as a Fulbright Specialist to Finland.

Dana Gross is Professor of Psychology at St. Olaf College. As Associate Dean of Interdisciplinary and General Studies (2013-2019), she worked closely with the Office of International and Off-Campus Studies. She is co-editor of Internationalizing the Undergraduate Psychology Curriculum: Practical Lessons Learned at Home and Abroad (APA Books, 2016) and has led January-term courses for undergraduates in India and China.

Table of Contents

Member Institution Acknowledgments vii

List of Figures and Tables ix

Foreword Milton Reigelman Centre College xiii

Executive Summary: Opportunities and Strategies to (Better) Support Leaders of Off-Campus Programs Dana Gross Lisa Jasinski Joan Gillespie 1

Introduction Joan Gillespie 19

Chapter 1 Faculty as Global Learners Joan Gillespie Lisa Jasinski Dana Gross 29

Faculty Voices

In Other Words Susan Jaret McKinstry Carleton College 58

"Let Me Introduce You to the Chief": Today's College Students Encounter Traditional Rulers in West Africa Claudena Skran, Lawrence University 62

Not Teaching Hiroshima Michael A. Schneider, Knox College 66

Chapter 2 Synergistic Approaches to Global Learning: Effective Institutional Support for Faculty Leaders of Off-Campus Study Programs Dana Gross 71

Faculty Voices

An Educational Riot in Botswana Stephen Volz Kenyon College 106

Mental Health Crises and the Faltering Student: Assessment and Response Nancy K. Barry Luther College 110

A Midnight Hike Emily Margaretten, Ripon College 114

Chapter 3 The World Is My Classroom: The Distinctive Pedagogies of Off-Campus Study Programs at Liberal Arts Colleges Lisa Jasinski 119

Faculty Voices

Welcoming the Surprising: Sensory Experience and the Sacred L. DeAne Lagerquist, St. Olaf College 162

Reading Literature Aloud in Its Home Place Christine S. Cozzens, Agnes Scott College 166

Building Partnerships in Mwandi, Zambia Verna Case, Davidson College 170

Dealing with Strongly Varying Student Research Backgrounds in Study Abroad James J. Ebersole, Colorado College 174

Chapter 4 Pooling Resources for Off-Campus Study Programs Through Institutional Partnerships: Benefits, Challenges, and Guidelines Joan Gillespie 179

Faculty Voices

The African Sky Is Best at Sunset: Debriefing to Reframe a Village Experience William G. Moseley, Macalester College 213

Picture This: Cross-Disciplinary Travel in Cuzco, Peru Kylie Quave, The George Washington University Chuck Lewis, Beloit College 217

Structured Fun or Downtime? Brian Caton, Luther College 221

Lessons from Auschwitz: Education and Outreach Amanda M. Caleb, Misericordia University 225

Chapter 5 Strategic Leadership for Off-Campus Study: How Colleges Reimagine the Place of Global Learning Lisa Jasinski 231

Faculty Voices

Promoting Inclusivity in Academia: A Case Study in Taking Underrepresented Students to Research Archives in the United States Marcy Sacks, Albion College 269

The HINI Outbreak in China: A Unique Research Opportunity Shiwei Chen, Lake Forest College 274

Florence and Chicago: Material Culture and Cities as Text Linda D. Horwitz, Lake Forest College 278

List of Contributors 283

Acknowledgments 289