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Global Leadership Initiative

The Global Century Strategic Issues: 1. Partnering for Student Success 2. Education for the Global Century 3. Dynamic Learning Environment

The Global Century The challenges that our students will confront at graduation are those that are increasingly global concerns, such as: • Economic viability • Population and environmental change • Effects of technological advances • Ethical dilemmas • Generation and distribution of wealth and resources

The Global Century Our global society needs leaders and entrepreneurs to shape progress toward: • Innovation • New technologies • Civic and cultural engagement

GenEd courses Freshman : First ‘Testing the waters’ Year Presidential Lecture Seminars Discussions

GenEd courses Freshman: First ‘Testing the waters’ Year Presidential Lecture Seminars Discussions Linked Sophomore : GenEd ‘Diving in’ GLI Retreats courses Preceptorships

GenEd courses Freshman: First ‘Testing the waters’ Year Presidential Lecture Seminars Discussions Linked Sophomore: Gened ‘Diving in’ GLI Retreats courses Preceptorships Junior : SERVICE INTERNSHIP ‘Hands on STUDY experience’ RESEARCH ABROAD Capstone Fair

GenEd courses Freshman: First ‘Testing the waters’ Year Presidential Lecture Seminars Discussions Linked Sophomore: Gened ‘Diving in’ GLI Retreats courses Preceptorships Junior: SERVICE INTERNSHIP ‘Hands on STUDY experience’ RESEARCH ABROAD Capstone Fair CREATIVE Senior Capstone : RESEARCH PROJECT ‘Creating new APPLICATION solutions’

GenEd courses Freshman: First ‘Testing the waters’ Year Presidential Lecture Seminars Discussions Linked Sophomore: Gened ‘Diving in’ GLI Retreats courses Preceptorships Junior: SERVICE INTERNSHIP ‘Hands on STUDY experience’ RESEARCH ABROAD Capstone Fair CREATIVE Senior Capstone : RESEARCH PROJECT ‘Creating new APPLICATION solutions’ Graduation Certificate Diploma Notation

GLI Spring Seminars JOUR 191H - The Net Effect GEO 191N - The Power of Numbers BIOB 191N - Human Genetics, Your Family, and Global Health Care BADM 191E (pending approval) -Doing the Right Thing: A Global Strategy for Good Business PSCI 191X - Issues in Global Public Health MCLL 191L - Human Rights Issues in Contemporary Latin American Literature & Film JOUR 110Y - News Literacy: Truth v. Truthiness MUSI 191L – Music, Meaning and Manipulation SOCI 191S - Food and Society in a Globalized World BIOB 191N - Global Climate Change: Science, Society, and Ethics

President’s Lecture Series Elizabeth Kolbert "On Field Notes from a Catastrophe : An Evening with Journalist Elizabeth Kolbert" Kevin M. Cahill "Romance and Reality in Humanitarian Action" William Robinson "Global Crisis: Immigration, Drug Trafficking, and Financial Meltdown"

President’s Lecture Series Ussama S. Makdisi "America and the Arab Struggle for Self-Determination" Stephen J. O'Brien "Three Decades of Genomics and AIDS: Tiptoe Towards a Solution" Forest Reinhardt "Global Natural Resource Markets: Perspectives from Business Strategy” Martin Bresnick "Listening to Images, Hearing the Text: New Music that Engages the Visual and the Literary" James K. Galbraith "The Great Financial Crisis and the Dismal Science"

2011 Cohort Number of Fellows: 150-200 Number of Majors Represented: 36 majors Percentage of Undeclared Majors: 23% Percentage of Female Students: 62% Percentage of Male Students: 38% Percentage of In-State Students: 50% Percentage of Out-of-State Students: 50%

GLI Committee Daisy Rooks, Department of Sociology (Co-Chair) Arlene Walker-Andrews, Office of the Provost, Academic Affairs (Co-Chair) Ray Fanning, School of Journalism Linda Gillison, Department of Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures Charles Janson, Division of Biological Sciences Michael Murphy, Department of Media Arts Charles Palmer, Department of Health and Human Performance Liz Roosa Millar, University Center, Student Affairs Tobin Miller Shearer, Department of History

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