Global Learning for Global Citizenship:

1. Global Learning for Global Citizenship: FIU’s Worlds Ahead Contribution to International Development Lakhdar Boukerrou, Ph.D. Senior Program Manager

2. PRESIDENT’S VISION A leading student-centered urban public research university that is locally and globally engaged.”

3. FIU FACTS AND FIGURES • Opened in 1972 • Miami’s first and only four-year public research university • Academic Year 2010-11 • Faculty – 870 • Alumni – 140,900 • Students – 44,010 • Female – 56% • Male – 44%

4. ETHNICITY DISTRIBUTION • Hispanic 60% • White 14% • African-American 13% • Asian 3% • Not reported 6%

5. INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT TRIPLE HELIX Private Sector US Academic Institutions US Government Agencies Local and US Partners

6. GLOBALIZATION

7. CONTRIBUTIONS TO KNOWLEDGE

8. SUCCESS KNOWLEDGE IS NOT ENOUGH! FAILURE

9. INTERNATIONAL ACTIVITIES Georgia Russia Germany Japan France, Switzerland Canada Spain China Haiti, Dominican Republic Italy Mexico Pakistan Morocco Guatemala India Australia El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica Venezuela Kenya, Rwanda Tanzania Colombia, Ecuador Brazil Botswana Peru, Bolivia Argentina, Uruguay Chile

10. HIGHER ED FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

11. FIU INTERNATIONAL C&GFOR 2007-2011

12. FIU INTL. C&G PER COLLEGE FOR 2007-2011

13. GLOWS: A UNIQUE CONSORTIUM • GLOWS is financed by USAID and works to increase social, economic, and environmental benefits to people of the developing world. • GLOWS works on-the-ground in various regions of the world to implement water supply, sanitation, and hygiene services, improve water resources management, improve food security, adaptation to climate change, and build local capacity. • FIU and its partners facilitate knowledge transfer to new generations of future managers, scientists, and decision-makers both in the US and in those countries where the Consortium operates.

14. GLOWS: MECHANISMS • The Consortium is led by FIU and includes CARE, WaterAid America, Winrock International, World Vision, and the World Wildlife Fund. • As the lead partner FIU provides a mechanism by which science and innovation can be mainstreamed into GLOWS projects. • GLOWS offers an unparalleled network of in-country organizations for efficiently planning, implementing, and managing international development projects in virtually all countries with a USAID presence.

15. GLOWS PROJECTS

16. INTERNATIONAL APPROACH TO RESEARCH AND EDUCATION

17. ALTERNATIVE BREAKS • Objectives • Creating active citizens • Immerse students in diverse cultures and environments • Engage in service-oriented learning • Background • Program began in 1994 • Has grown into a network of 300+ students and over 50 steering committee/site leaders • Largest student run service learning organization on campus

18. ALTERNATIVE BREAKS 3-YEAR AT A GLANCE

19. STUDENTS EDUCATION ABROAD 2007-2010

20. EDUCATION ABROAD PROGRAMS2009-2010

21. INTERNATIONAL STUDENTSAT FIU 2006-2011

22. QUESTIONS • What are we doing to promote international development? • Where do we want to be both nationally and internationally? • How do we make our vision a reality?

23. QUESTIONS • How do we educate the local communities surrounding us about international development? • What human, financial, and other resources are needed? • How do we meet the new challenges?

24. ENGAGE IN THE CHALLENGE! U.S. universities have the duty and a unique opportunity, more so today than at any time before, to engage globally in international development efforts. These efforts help our students, faculty, communities, and country as well as others around the world.

25. FINAL THOUGHT “And when one day our human kind becomes full grown, it will define itself not as the sum total of the whole world’s inhabitants, but as the infinite unity of their mutual needs” Jean- Paul Sartre in his Preface to Frantz Fanon’s “The Wretched of the Earth”

26. DEVELOPMENT HEADACHE? International development shapes us and those we work with both in the US and abroad! THANKYOU … MERCI … GRACIAS … شكرا