The Community-based Global Learning Collaborative, the Pennsylvania Council for International Education, and the Philadelphia Higher Education Network for Neighborhood Development are cooperating to support a series of fall events designed to deepen understanding of local inclusivity and its relationship with global processes and understanding. Join us for these free, discursive webinars.  August 11, 1 – 2:15 PM EST: A Toolkit for Understanding Local Issues in Global Context, Including Racism and Structural Inequality – Presenter / Facilitators: Nicole Stokes – Associate Provost for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, St. Joseph’s University; Eric Hartman – Executive Director of the Center for Peace and Global Citizenship, Haverford College Beginning with a focus on how to live and practice racial equity everyday, Dr. Nicole Stokes and Dr. Eric Hartman will share a set of resources designed to expand local understanding of global injustices, and ways to foster classroom discussions and dialogues about inequality and racial discrimination. The goal is not for educators to become experts…

In this joint webinar hosted by The Community-based Global Learning Collaborative (formerly the Globalsl Network) and The Forum on Education Abroad, panelists discussed their work on the article “Coloniality-Decoloniality and Critical Global Citizenship: Identity, Belonging, and Education Abroad” and the Special Issue on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion published by Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad in January 2020. Only four months after the initial publication, the world looks radically different, as barriers to access deepen, borders strengthen, and tired stereotypes resurface. Co-presenters share what their inquiry across multiple institutions revealed about the strengths of under-represented students in education abroad programs, while also exploring what the complexities of student-community interaction, and the vital roles of cultural humility and critical global citizenship have to offer to the current moment. A conversational video appears below. Here’s the article abstract: This article draws on existing literature, a large, multi-institutional dataset, and several case studies to explore two empirical questions: Do students of color…

July 17, 2020 Felipe H. Lopez lieb@ucla.edu @DizhSa This is the fourth in a series of blog posts by participants in the 2019 ACLS Digital Extension Grant project “Ticha: advancing community-engaged digital scholarship” (PI Lillehaugen) published on the Community-based Global Learning Collaborative, and Ticha. Previous blog posts are available here: Lillehaugen/January 2020; Flores-Marical/February 2020; and Kawan-Hemler/March 2020. Only a few weeks ago, I began my position at Haverford College as a Postdoctoral Scholar in Community Engaged Digital Scholarship, funded by an ACLS Digital Extension Grant. Starting this year of dedicated work on this project, I reflect on my long journey to help preserve my language. As a Zapotec speaker and writer, I actively try to maintain my community knowledge through my language. In 1992, as I started to realize that many migrants from my pueblo in Los Angeles were not passing on our language to our young generation, I sought out the help from linguists at UCLA to try to…