OISE Guest Speaker: Dawn Whitehead

Global Learning for All: Making the Case, Creating the Environment and Connecting with the Future

The problems of today transcend borders and boundaries and require solutions drawn from a variety of perspectives. In order to prepare students for life, work, and citizenship, all students must have experience with an internationalized curriculum. This session will provide practical models and methods to integrate international and global perspectives into your courses and curriculum, to make connections between campus academic experiences, community-based opportunities, and future careers. Dr. Whitehead will also provide an introduction and overview of key elements of global learning to guide this session. Participants will leave with a few items that can be immediately implemented in their courses.

If you would like to attend this talk remotely, please join us via Zoom!

ABOUT THE SPEAKER

Dawn Michele Whitehead is the Vice President of the Office of Global Citizenship for Campus, Community, and Careers at the Association of American College and Universities (AAC&U). Her work focuses on advancing practices and strategies to integrate global and experiential learning across curricular and co-curricular initiatives, general education and the majors, within professional schools, and on-campus and off-campus experiences. She also works closely with institutions to ensure that high impact practices are implemented with an emphasis on quality and equitable participation. Whitehead has presented nationally and internationally on global learning, civic engagement, community based global learning, curricular change, experiential learning, global health, liberal education, and strategic planning. She has also written articles and presented nationally and internationally on these topics and facilitated grant-funded projects to advance student success through curricular change. Prior to her work at AAC&U, Whitehead served as the Director for Curriculum Internationalization and as a faculty director for global service learning programs, and she taught Global and International Studies courses at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis. Whitehead earned her Ph.D. at Indiana University Bloomington in Education Policy Studies.