Friday Global Service-Learning Online Discussion, Milestones, Save the Date - ISL Summit 2016

[Announcement from he-sl listserv]

Dear Colleagues:

At globalsl, we are fortunate to be supported by institutions and organizations that are committed to advancing best practice global learning, community-campus partnerships, and cooperative development. I'm writing to share: 

·  An upcoming globalsl webinar opportunity (Friday, 10/16, Noon EST)

·  Recent guest blog posts and global engagement milestones to celebrate around the world 

·  And an important SAVE THE DATE for the next International Service-Learning Summit, which will be held November 6 - 8, 2016, at Kansas State University 

Friday Conversational Webinar: This Friday's (10/16) webinar features Richard Kiely, Janice McMillan, and Cynthia Toms discussing the philosophical assumptions and rationales supporting global service-learning. It will take place from Noon – 1:30 EST. Register and get more information here. This is intended as a conversational opportunity for individuals who wish to think together about the assumptions in the field, and is positioned in part as a response to Kenyan activist Boniface Mwangi's suggestion to "Help Your Own Country."

Exciting Updates and Guest Posts:
Recent posts at globalsl demonstrate our community's alignment with AAC&U's insight that global learning includes local learning. From diverse disciplinary perspectives, institutions, and nonprofit organizations, guest contributors are sharing thoughtful, engaged global learning. This engagement is coupled with significant effort to advance ethical understandings and actions in a world that could come to embrace common human dignity. Along with recent achievements in the globalsl network, guest contributions include: 

·  A Sacred Heart University philosopher's review of Between the World and Me, To Witness with White Eyes 

·  Reflections from a researcher, practitioner, and faculty member at the University of Maryland-Baltimore, who has been leading efforts to integrate the historically separate domains of public and global health, Global/Local: Much Discussed, Little Understood, and the Right Thing To Do

·  A review of outcomes relating to eight years of partnership between Northwestern's Buffett Institute for Global Studies and the Organization for Rural Development in Jinja, Uganda

·  A European graduate student's study of community-engaged study abroad in Ecuador, Exploring Manifestations of Decolonial Education in North to South Study Abroad 

·  DukeEngage's recent celebration of its millionth hour of service, along with expansion upon Duke's considerable civic engagement activities with Duke University College Advising Corps. The corps works to increase the number of low-income, first generation college and underrepresented high school students in rural North Carolina who enter and complete higher education. 

·  A brief video highlighting participant experiences and insights from Kansas State University's Staley School of Leadership Studies' first Leading Change Institute, "Ethical Global Partnerships, Learning, and Service." More than thirty individuals gathered from around the world for a four-day, facilitated discussion on advancing ethical global partnerships. As Janice McMillan, Director of the Global Citizen Programme at the University of Cape Town said, "we are at the beginning of a really important moment in the field of global service-learning." 

·  A 6-minute video profiling a Fair Trade Learning approach to community partnership in Trinidad, from Amizade Global Service-Learning 

·  A research opportunity relating to community impact from Child Family Health International (CFHI). CFHI, in collaboration with community and academically-based researchers from 9 countries, is studying host perspectives of learning objectives and competencies.  The study is open to anyone who hosts students from another country in your community and includes supervisors, staff, administrators, homestay hosts, and program leaders.  The umbrella is students in health-related settings, but these include both clinical (hospitals/clinics) and NGO's that do anything related to health and social determinants of health.  The research survey is in English, Spanish, and French.  Please distribute to your international partners and relevant colleagues:  www.ghcompetencies.org

Please send your own updates, share your syllabi or teaching tools, consider a guest post, join a webinar, and Save the Date for November 6 - 8, 2016, as we continue to develop an accessible, open, online community dedicated to better understanding, mobilizing, and advocating for best practice global engagement. 

Writing on behalf of a diverse array of incredibly dedicated individuals, organizations, and institutions committed to ethical global learning, cooperative development, and community-campus partnership, 

Eric

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Eric Hartman, Ph.D. 

Assistant Professor in the Staley School of Leadership Studies at Kansas State University, where our mission is to develop knowledgeable, ethical, caring, inclusive leaders for a diverse and changing world.

Editor & Co-Founder, globalsl.org