Title VI-A: What’s Left

Title VI-A:What’s Left

Lisa Hollander and Lisa Spaulding

Co-Directors

What we’re going to cover• 1) Where we have come from• 2) Why this is important• 3) What we have done so far• 4) What we are doing now (Y3)• 5) What’s Next

The Web Site•www.jeffco.edu

History

The last Title VI-A

Title VI-A: 2002-05• Focused on China

(Y1) and Mexico/the Caribbean (Y2)

• Expanded offerings of French and Chinese via ITV

• Created the Global Education Certificate

This was a starter grant• No one expected it to succeed• But Ethel Sawyer, Janice Meyer, Dr.

Kellerman, Dr. Farnsworth and all the participating faculty made it work!

Why this grant is a big deal . . .

Change in the Competition

• More 4-Year Colleges can compete– Private 4-years, e.g. Harvard– Research I Institutions

Change in the Competition• Few readers are 2-year college

instructors• Few Consortiums

2007 Title VI-A Grants• 28 were awarded• 2 were community colleges

2007 Title VI-A Grants

• MCGE is the only consortium

2008 Title VI-A Grants• NO Community

Colleges were awarded a UiSFL grant

Why else this is important

Have you listened to Dr. Farnsworth Lately????

Why this is important• The world up

and changed on us

Why this is important• If our students are

not prepared for a global economy, soon they will become part of a global underclass

Why this is important• Because we

need to embody the change we would like to see in our students

Follow-up Grant• To Strengthen the

Global Ed. Activities of the consortium colleges

Follow-up Grant

• Higher standards• Greater

expectations

The Grant

The Grant: Goals• Infuse 72 courses

with African content (includes 2 new courses per year)

The Grant: Infusion• West Africa

– Senegal• North Africa

– Morocco• Y3—Any Africa

The Grant: Goals• Offer 10 of the

newly created/altered courses/year online

• We don’t need to do this as you-all do a great job training faculty in online pedagogy

The Grant: Goals• Expand Foreign Language offerings

– Second year French (sort of worked)– First year Arabic (worked)

The Grant: Goals• Expand Quality of

Support for students taking Distance Ed. foreign language courses

What we are doing now• Offer a state-wide

conference on Africa

• This will be the first of its kind

Africa in Missouri• February 25-

27th at• The Lodge of

the Four Seasons

Africa in Missouri• Focused on

Africans in Missouri– We have lots of

Africans here– Community and

College resources

Africa in Missouri: Goals• Showcase

resources available locally

• Increase awareness of Africa

Africa in Missouri: Goals• Provide

opportunities for student activities directors to see/experience potential African speakers/performers

Africa in Missouri: Goals• Provide

opportunities for faculty to see successful examples of globalization and talk about what they are doing

Africa in Missouri: Goals• Provide training

in how to globalize courses for both college and high school faculty

What is next: Recommendations

• The grant ends this year

• Campuses will need to determine if global education is important or not

What is next: Recommendations

• Another Title VI-A grant (no one has taken this up yet)

• Decide where foreign languages are going– Continue momentum– Technological decisions– Keeping adjuncts/hiring full-timers

What is next: Recommendations

• This is the moment where officers have to make conscious choices– Critical mass of faculty– Global Education Certificate becoming

commonly available– A more immediately tangible need

The Grant• Make the Lisas

rich and famous!

Questions?