Promote internationalized student learning
Establish a dataset to measure and map the degree of internationalization of our curriculum.
- May 2022 Status: Data mining from WesMaps is complete; currently working on analysis and visualization
Through curriculum development incentives and opportunistic faculty hiring, increase the international diversity of our curriculum
- May 2022 Status: relevant curriculum development initiatives currently in place include:
- Internationalizing and Decolonizing the Curriculum Faculty Seminar
- Cultures and Languages Across the Curriculum
- Support for course-embedded virtual exchange
- Once 1.1 is in place, we may want to establish a growth target (perhaps 10%), although we’ll want to attend to qualitative as well as quantitative assessments of improvement
- Additional curriculum development incentives would require modest additional resources.
Develop course-embedded, short-term study abroad opportunities with equitable access for any interested student
- May 2022 Status: Pilot program funded and underway for Spring 2023
Develop plans with each department so their students graduate “global ready”
- Connects to the Senior Survey question about “developing global awareness”; we will employ curricular integration of study abroad and other curriculum internationalization strategies
- May 2022 Status: Review of academic unit learning goals complete; next step is specific outreach by FCGS Associate Director for Intercultural Learning
Promote study abroad for all majors; target 50% participation in study abroad within 5 years, including an increase in the numbers studying in non-Anglophone countries
- May 2022 Status: FCGS initiatives working with specific departments are on-going