B-GLOBAL will implement a series of high impact practices.
- The Global Common Reading Program embeds a series of readings into the common intellectual experience of taking composition. Students enrolled in ENGL 1133 composition courses will explore globally and culturally themed essays that are designed to promote global awareness, cultural knowledge, and social responsibility.
- The Global Learning Community is a living and learning community focused on improving global competence through shared coursework, targeted co-curricular programming, community service, and leadership development.
- The Global Leadership Certificate uses an e-portfolio embedded into the Canvas Learning Management System to track student performance and increase opportunities for reflection and growth. Students can earn verifiable badges for achieving certain competencies and these can be uploaded into social media platforms like LinkedIn.
- Global Capstone Experience To complete the Leadership Certificate, students will need to complete a capstone project related to global competence. This capstone is meant to integrate the skills that were developed over the two-year period and to highlight their social responsibility or action towards addressing a global or intercultural problem. Students may satisfy the capstone requirement by completing one of the following projects:
- Participating in a study abroad or study in the United States experience and keeping a journal/scrap book of their experiences.
- Participating in a globally focused internship experience.
- Producing an undergraduate research project over a topic related to one of the 15 global challenges identified by the Millennium Project.
- Designing and completing a substantial service-learning project with an investment of 25 hours that addresses a critical community need or works with a cultural group in the region and tracking their reflection in a journal.
- Designing a creative or artistic work that promotes global awareness or intercultural knowledge and presenting it.
True global leaders are defined not only by their worldly knowledge and connections, nor by the global opportunities they seize, but by how they contribute to the improvement of the multiple contexts in which they operate.
– Angel Cabrera, writing in the 2012 Harvard Business Review