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Join us for an encore presentation of Annette Benson's workshop on teaching intercultural communication using emojis. You may have participated in this session at NAFSA: Association of International Educators IV, V, and VI regionals or at the WISE conference, sponsored by Wake Forest University Global. If so, please tell a friend about this innovative session, as we visit the topic again at CILMAR's March meeting of the Purdue InterCultural Learning Community of Practice #PICLCoP. Since it is a virtual community of practice meeting, all are welcome, regardless of institutional or program affiliation.

REMINDER: Although previous episodes of the AAC&U-CILMAR Global Learning Webinar Series were on Wednesdays, the next one is this Friday, 2/7, 12:00pm-1:30pm EST. Details and registration are at https://lnkd.in/gvDyy84c

It's not too late to register for the first meeting of the Purdue InterCultural Learning Community of Practice (PICLCoP) in 2025! Building Bridges with STEM Students through Experiential Activities Facilitated by Aparajita Jaiswal, Kelsey Patton, and special guest Eric VandeVoorde Thursday, 2/30, 1:30pm-3:00pm EST, via Zoom Registration is at https://lnkd.in/gWD4qEvv

Have you been wishing that you hadn't missed the first session in the AAC&U-CILMAR Global Learning Webinar Series? Or did you attend but wish that you could review the material? Or do you wish that you could easily share what you learned during the webinar with someone else? You'll be happy to know that the content of the webinar on Facilitating and Assessing the Attitude of Intercultural Openness is now available at no cost in a self-learning format. To get started, go to https://lnkd.in/gP7SmWeY, click Offerings and then Access Course. Click Outline in the left hand menu to see all that the course has to offer. Since the lecturettes are all on-line, you might also be interested in perusing the YouTube content for the module at https://lnkd.in/gXJG6Wc5 A free HubICL account, hubicl.org/register, is required to access the course.

We are honored to have Professor Caryl Waggett, Global Health Studies, Allegheny College, join us as a facilitator for the next session of the 2024-2025 AAC&U-CILMAR Global Learning Webinar series. Dr. Waggett is the 2022 recipient of the Riegelman Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Public Health Education from the Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health (ASPPH). The award recognizes faculty who have made exemplary efforts to start or sustain an undergraduate program, collaborated with community partners and other disciplines, and garnered respect and enthusiasm from students. Waggett joined the Allegheny faculty in 2003 and is the founding chair of the College’s Global Health Studies Program. Over the past two decades, she has grown her work as an environmental health scientist into a thriving multidisciplinary public health major and minor. She regularly integrates active learning into her courses, including community-based participatory research focused on remediating local environmental hazards. In addition, she has contributed to the American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) initiatives on public health, liberal education, and educated citizenship, and has led workshops on experiential learning for ASPPH, the U.S. Centers for Disease Prevention and Control (CDC), the National Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Medicine, and numerous other academic and professional organizations. She recently completed her second term as co-chair of the Subcommittee on Master’s and Undergraduate Degrees in Global Health for the Consortium of Universities for Global Health (CUGH), which researches trends in global health education and develops resources for curricular development, advising, and assessment. Waggett is also the founder and director of Teach Global Health, an organization that has collaborated with ASPPH, CUGH, and other public health organizations to support excellence in teaching and mentoring at liberal arts colleges as well as research universities. Registration details for the webinar are at https://lnkd.in/gvDyy84c https://lnkd.in/gD273spi

In this presentation from November 2023 entitled "Leveraging Cultural Mindset to Improve Multicultural Engineering Teamwork," Dr. Franki Kung and Dante Bruno present research on the psychological barriers that prevent students and professionals in multicultural teams from collaborating effectively across cultures. To break through these barriers, the presenters recommend that students should develop relevant intercultural competence and skills as part of their curriculum. They also discuss recent findings on the benefits of a malleable cultural mindset and demonstrate a developing three-week online learning module, "Global Engineering Mindset," that helps students adopt a more adaptive cultural mindset going into multicultural teamwork. Franki Y. H. Kung, PhD, is associate professor, Psychological Sciences; and Dante Bruno is a PhD student, Industrial/Organizational Psychology, Psychological Sciences, College of Health and Human Sciences. https://lnkd.in/gdxz4vDM

To this point in the 2024-2025 AAC&U-CILMAR Global Learning Webinar Series, we have covered only one facet from either the AAC&U Intercultural Knowledge and Competence or the Global Learning VALUE Rubric; however, in this next installment of the series, we will cover a facet of both rubrics in the same session. Join us on Friday, February 7, 12:00pm-1:30pm EST, as Aparajita Jaiswal from CILMAR and our special guest Caryl Waggett from Allegheny College lead us in this enlightening conversation on intercultural and global self-awareness. More information is available at https://lnkd.in/gvDyy84c.

DON'T MISS THE FIRST PICLCOP OF 2025! Series: Bridging across Borders Session Topic: Building Bridges with STEM Students through Experiential Activities Facilitators: Aparajita Jaiswal, Kelsey Patton, and Eric VandeVoorde Thursday, 1/30, 1:30pm-3:00pm EST Registration at https://lnkd.in/gWD4qEvv Offered on Zoom This session highlights a series of five intercultural learning workshops embedded in an Purdue University Master of Engineering Management Program (MEM) course designed to foster collaboration, #CulturalAwareness, and adaptability in #MulticulturalTeams. Presenters will discuss the course design, the intersection of #InterculturalCompetence and STEM/engineering management, and the workshops' impact on students, as well as reflections, feedback, and workshop data, along with strategies for adapting these activities to various contexts. Attendees will leave with practical ideas for integrating intercultural learning into their teaching or training, equipping students with essential skills for global collaboration and innovation.

Congratulations to Dr. Paul Ebner on his recent appointment as the new animal sciences head in the Agricultural Research and Graduate Education | College of Agriculture | Purdue University. We have counted it a privilege to get to know Dr. Ebner as he participated in both the CILMAR Intercultural Pedagogy Grant and Seed Grant programs. A quick glance through the HubICL Collection "Research on intercultural learning and related topics from Purdue University's College of Agriculture," https://lnkd.in/grTrHBiS, reveals that Dr. Ebner has published on several topics related to #InterculturalCompetence: (1) Intercultural Competence in First-Year Animal Science Students, https://lnkd.in/gu-sHPer (2) Intercultural competence: Fostering skill development during emergency remote learning, https://lnkd.in/gMdvmAtc (3) Essential Skill Questionnaire: A Pilot Study Of A Self-Report Measure To Identify Undergraduate Level Of Essential Job Skills, https://lnkd.in/g5Sd4VHF https://lnkd.in/guxEuTcZ

Congratulations to the 32 faculty and staff who participated in the Worldview Workshops program in Fall 2024 and were awarded their completion certificate. The complete list of awardees is at https://lnkd.in/gXv-gDfv. Participants were from: Purdue University Libraries and School of Information Purdue University College of Liberal Arts Purdue University College of Health and Human Sciences Purdue Intercollegiate Athletics Purdue University Police Department Purdue University College of Science Purdue University College of Veterinary Medicine & Veterinary Hospital Purdue Policy Research Institute (PPRI) Purdue University | John Martinson Honors College Purdue University College of Education Purdue University College of Engineering Purdue Admissions Purdue Polytechnic Purdue University Counseling and Psychological Services Purdue Dining Services Purdue Business Operations Intercultural Relations Group Universidad Austral de Chile Interested in attending in 2025? Check out the flyer below!