Title VI-A: What’s Left

1. Title VI-A:What’s Left Lisa Hollander and Lisa Spaulding Co-Directors

2. What we’re going to cover • 1) Where we have come from • 2) Why this is important • 3) What we have done so far • 4) What we are doing now (Y3) • 5) What’s Next

3. The Web Site • www.jeffco.edu

4. History The last Title VI-A

5. Title VI-A: 2002-05 • Focused on China (Y1) and Mexico/the Caribbean (Y2) • Expanded offerings of French and Chinese via ITV • Created the Global Education Certificate

6. This was a starter grant • No one expected it to succeed • But Ethel Sawyer, Janice Meyer, Dr. Kellerman, Dr. Farnsworth and all the participating faculty made it work!

7. Why this grant is a big deal . . .

8. Change in the Competition • More 4-Year Colleges can compete • Private 4-years, e.g. Harvard • Research I Institutions

9. Change in the Competition • Few readers are 2-year college instructors • Few Consortiums

10. 2007 Title VI-A Grants • 28 were awarded • 2 were community colleges

11. 2007 Title VI-A Grants • MCGE is the only consortium

12. 2008 Title VI-A Grants • NO Community Colleges were awarded a UiSFL grant

13. Why else this is important Have you listened to Dr. Farnsworth Lately????

14. Why this is important • The world up and changed on us

15. Why this is important • If our students are not prepared for a global economy, soon they will become part of a global underclass

16. Why this is important • Because we need to embody the change we would like to see in our students

17. Follow-up Grant • To Strengthen the Global Ed. Activities of the consortium colleges

18. Follow-up Grant • Higher standards • Greater expectations

19. The Grant

20. The Grant: Goals • Infuse 72 courses with African content (includes 2 new courses per year)

21. The Grant: Infusion • West Africa • Senegal • North Africa • Morocco • Y3—Any Africa

22. The Grant: Goals • Offer 10 of the newly created/altered courses/year online • We don’t need to do this as you-all do a great job training faculty in online pedagogy

23. The Grant: Goals • Expand Foreign Language offerings • Second year French (sort of worked) • First year Arabic (worked)

24. The Grant: Goals • Expand Quality of Support for students taking Distance Ed. foreign language courses

25. What we are doing now • Offer a state-wide conference on Africa • This will be the first of its kind

26. Africa in Missouri • February 25-27th at • The Lodge of the Four Seasons

27. Africa in Missouri • Focused on Africans in Missouri • We have lots of Africans here • Community and College resources

28. Africa in Missouri: Goals • Showcase resources available locally • Increase awareness of Africa

29. Africa in Missouri: Goals • Provide opportunities for student activities directors to see/experience potential African speakers/performers

30. Africa in Missouri: Goals • Provide opportunities for faculty to see successful examples of globalization and talk about what they are doing

31. Africa in Missouri: Goals • Provide training in how to globalize courses for both college and high school faculty

32. What is next: Recommendations • The grant ends this year • Campuses will need to determine if global education is important or not

33. What is next: Recommendations • Another Title VI-A grant (no one has taken this up yet) • Decide where foreign languages are going • Continue momentum • Technological decisions • Keeping adjuncts/hiring full-timers

34. What is next: Recommendations • This is the moment where officers have to make conscious choices • Critical mass of faculty • Global Education Certificate becoming commonly available • A more immediately tangible need

35. The Grant • Make the Lisas rich and famous!

36. Questions?