Goal 2 - Provide Global Learning Opportunities for All
To prepare all of our students for the interconnected and interdependent world into which they will graduate, and to be competitive in this ever-increasing multicultural workplace, we must provide multiple and varied global learning opportunities for all of our students.
- Increase opportunity and access
- Support faculty in the creation or modification of globally-focused courses in every major
- Launch a Global Classrooms initiative for the inclusion of Collaborative International Online Learning (COIL) components into existing courses
- Explore partnering with CIE and the Center for Innovations in Teaching and Learning (CITL) to offer a faculty fellows program focused on this goal
- Offer workshop opportunities for faculty with this focus
- Increase the number of faculty-led and exchange programs, and increase student participation in both
- Through a sustainable funding model, provide incentives for faculty at all career levels to develop and lead faculty-led programs
- Through a sustainable funding model, decrease the cost of participation for students
- Advance academic integration of our UC Santa Cruz Global Exchanges through partnering with academic departments
- Develop virtual and in-person international internship programs
- Partner with academic departments and faculty to provide undergraduate international research exchanges with university partners abroad
- Establish internship/experiential learning opportunities during Summer Session
- Develop international online course exchanges
- Partner with the Academic Senate, departments, and faculty to offer online courses from universities abroad during the academic year to undergraduate students
- Expand and promote domestic study-away opportunities
- Expand domestic exchange opportunities
- Explore the development of faculty-led summer programs for domestic locations
- Expand the iFloor model
- Partner with the College Provosts and College Administrator Officers to expand iFloor to other colleges
- Partner with the College Provosts and College Administrator Officers to expand iFloor to other colleges
- Support faculty in the creation or modification of globally-focused courses in every major
- Expand foreign language training opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students to support their study and research
- Increase language curriculum tied to degrees and the Centers with regional research foci and area studies
- Develop language-focused exchange partnerships
- Develop undergraduate and graduate global studies/theory designations, minors, or concentrations
- Partner with academic units to develop minors or concentrations with global focus
- Facilitate inclusion of global concentrations and pathways in degrees