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Topic
ADP's Global Engagement Initiative emerged from our five-year partnership with The Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), an international policy center in Washington, D.C., and their Seven Revolutions program. The program identified seven areas of change expected to be most revolutionary:
- Population
- Resource management
- Technology
- Information
- Economic integration
- Conflict and security
- Governance
CSIS's program was created to identify and analyze the key policy challenges that policymakers, business figures, and citizens will face out to the year 2030. CSIS promotes strategic thinking on the long-term trends that too few leaders take the time to consider.
Goals
The Global Engagement Initiative emerged from our five-year 7 Revolutions Initiative which was a partnership between CSIS, The New York Times, and 10 AASCU member institutions. The 7 Revolutions Initiative translated the Seven Revolutions identified by CSIS into curricular and co-curricular programs for undergraduates. The Global Engagement Initiative will continue this work by developing strategies, materials, and programs to educate globally-competent citizens. The Global Engagement Initiative is ADP's only Civic Engagement in Action initiative focused internationally. It contends with how best to educate undergraduates about world issues and prepare them to make informed judgments as, by-in-large, American citizens about pressing global challenges.
Achievements
The Global Engagement Scholars regularly host institutes about the initiative. Representatives attend these institutes from AASCU institutions that are interested in educating globally competent citizens. In addition to hosting institutes, the Global Engagement Scholars published Educating Globally Competent Citizens: A Toolkit (2nd Edition) in August 2012. The Toolkit is a collection of curriculum objects and materials that facilitate the teaching of the seven global challenges. This toolkit supports the national blended learning course that the scholars have created: Global Challenges: Promise and Peril in the 21st Century.
Resources
Global Engagement Scholars
- Steven Elliott-Gower
Associate Professor of Political Science, Georgia College
- Dennis Falk
Professor of Social Work, University of Minnesota - Duluth
- Darrell Hamlin
Assistant Professor, Department of Justice Studies, Fort Hays State University (Kan.)
- Ken
Hill
Lecturer,
Education, Kennesaw State University (Ga.)
- Matthew L. Hipps
Assistant Professor of Political Science, Dalton State University (Ga.)
- Keisha Hoerrner
Associate Dean, University College, Kennesaw State University
- Amy Jordan
Assistant Professor, Organizational Leadership, University of Arkansas - Fort Smith
- Shala Mills
Chair and Professor of Political Science, Fort Hays State University (Kan.)
- William Payne
Dean, School of Fine Arts, University of Minnesota - Duluth
- Nathan Phelps
Faculty, Honors College, Western Kentucky University
- Willie J. Redmond
Professor of Economics & Finance, Southeast Missouri State University
- Martin S. Shapiro
Associate Professor of Psychology, California State University Fresno
- Brett Whitaker
Instructor of Leadership Studies, Fort Hays State University
- Yohannes
Woldemariam
Assistant
Professor, International Relations, Fort
Lewis College (Colo.)
- Tina Zappile
Assistant Professor of Political Science, The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey
List of Participants