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This is the area where your campus can tailor the following steps to facilitate a change in language and mind-sets on campus and in your community.
- Contact the American Council on International Intercultural Education (ACIIE) for advice and assistance.
- Faculty must be committed. Special efforts need to be directed to the professional development needs of faculty. A good beginning is to offer in-service programs for faculty and staff.
- Determine campus international resources: languages spoken, heritage of all faculty and staff, countries visited, those willing to serve on a global education task force.
- Create a global education committee of administrators and faculty to explore global education possibilities.
- Excite and involve the community. Create an advisory committee to help you develop a global education program.
- Conduct international issues forums.
- Locate an experienced two- or four-year school as a mentor.
have helped fuel ideas and ignite action plans on campuses throughout the nation.
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These organizations offer their expertise to community colleges looking to implement, boost, or sustain global education:
Resource Organizations
Many states now have community college global education associations:
National/State/Regional Global Education Consortia
Check out a copy of the second Airlie Conference report:
"Educating for the Global Community: A Framework for Community Colleges."
Your faculty, president, and board of trustees are now excited and poised to splash global education across the disciplines and programs your campus offers. Here's how you sustain those initiatives.
What is required to sustain global education on our campus?
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