Global Millennial Engagement: From Dialogue to Action (A Generation Progress Event)

Global Millennial Engagement: From Dialogue to Action

November 13, 2015, 10:00 am ET – 11:30 am ET

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Keynote presentation:
David Lewis, AudienceNet UK
David Kitching, AudienceNet UK

Panel discussion:
Layla Zaidane , Communications Director, Generation Progress
Lia Quartapelle, MP, Italy
David Lewis, AudienceNet UK
Hilary Leftick, Director of Volunteer Mobilization, Trudeau Campaign

Moderated by:
Matt Browne , Senior Fellow, Center For American Progress

The Millennial generation is shifting conventional wisdom on political engagement. While young people are more skeptical of institutions and less likely to identify with political parties, they are also more progressive then previous generations. What does this reality mean for political organizing as we know it? How do U.S. Millennials compare with their peers around the world? And how will they shape politics and policy in the decades to come?

Generation Progress, in partnership with Foundation for European Progressive Studies and AudienceNet, recently commissioned a groundbreaking new study called the Millennial Dialogue Project. This research on cultural norms, political engagement, and social change has now been conducted in over a dozen countries and will be presented by leading experts.

This event will look at today’s global youth engagement programs both inside and outside of established political systems in order to draw lessons and identify trends. Successful programs in the United States, such as the It’s On Us campaign, have demonstrated the potential to galvanize the Millennial generation with the right messaging and organizing strategies. Outside of the United States, young people have rallied around different causes and candidates because of similar principals: a message that resonates with them and a clear path to an achievable goal.

This panel brings together individuals from the advocacy and activists worlds, elected officials, and political campaigners for a conversation on why young people are skeptical of institutions, what motivates them to action, and how to leverage that knowledge into successful youth organizing tactics around the globe.

Keep Your Campus Globally Connected, Anytime, Anywhere, via NYTimes.com

The New York Times in Education offers a wealth of resources, activities and events to engage students in and out of the classroom. NYTimes.com enhances the educational experience for students and faculty alike by connecting them to the world off campus, enhancing awareness of current events and fostering critical thinking.

To learn more about our newest offering, Academic Site License, or our other affordable education digital offerings, please contact Lynn Hall, National Education Director at lynn.hall@nytimes.com.

And be sure to check out the free AASCU/The New York Times Teaching Toolkit.

Hotel Deadline Monday 10/6 for 2015 Global Challenges Faculty Institute

Thursday & Friday, November 6 – 7, 2014
Global Challenges Institute on Educating Globally Competent Citizens
The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey · Galloway, NJ

HOTEL DEADLINE: Monday, October 6, 2014

This two-day institute introduces participants to numerous tools for educating globally competent citizens. Global Engagement Scholars (faculty members) from 11 AASCU campuses describe how they have built courses and curricula around the Center for Strategic and International Studies’ 7 Revolutions framework to address seven Global Challenges: population, resources, technology, information, economies, conflict and governance. Institute leaders demonstrate the teaching materials and resources they have found most valuable in the courses they teach (including introductory, first-year, discipline-based and honors courses) and guide participants in anticipating how these same tools could be used effectively on their home campuses.

Each Institute participant will receive a faculty toolkit for using the global challenges content in campus courses and programs. This practical and insightful Institute is ideal for colleges and universities that want to deepen their commitment to providing effective international education in a variety of disciplines. That’s why AASCU is excited to provide reduced registration fees for campus teams. While individuals are certainly welcome, campus teams of three to five may find the Institute most instructive

Guest speakers include CSIS’s Scott Aughenbaugh and photojournalist Dominic Bracco II from the Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting.

To register, visit http://www.aascu.org/meetings/globalchallenges14/. Please note the hotel deadline of Monday, October 6^th.

To learn more about the Global Challenges curriculum, visit the following website: www.aascuglobalchallenges.org.

2013 Global Challenges Institute a Success

Approximately 50 faculty and staff members gathered at the AASCU offices in Washington, DC on Friday, November 8 and Saturday, November 9 for the American Democracy Project’s 2013 Global Challenges Institute: Educating Globally Competent Citizens. The Global Engagement Scholars presented the Institute, joined by Mike Jeffress, Director of Global and Emerging Issues for the National Intelligence Council’s Strategic Futures Group,  and Chris Mooney, a climate change science journalist. Students from three Global Engagement Initiative campuses — Fort Hays State University (Kans.), California State University Fresno and Kennesaw State University (Ga.) — joined the Institute on a panel moderated by Global Engagement Scholar Ken Hill to talk about their experiences in Global Challenges courses.

Global Engagement Scholars

Institute participants engaged in conversations about how best to educate globally competent citizens and grappled with content and teaching materials related to the global challenges curriculum.They had this to say about the institute:

• This [institute] has been exhilarating and has inspired me as an individual teacher and as a member of the team promoting internationalization on campus.
• Thank you for a great conference. It was well organized and stimulating discussion. What a great introduction to this area for a newbie like myself. I hope to come back after implementing/sharing some of these ideas at my school. 
• I am teaching a new intro to global studies [course] and plan to construct it using the seven challenges. 
  

  Student Panel

• I think this institute was most valuable. It includes the most important challenges students will face in their adult lives. The presentations were comprehensive and illustrated very well how to integrate, embed global issues in a course or how to develop a course focusing on these. I fell energized and enthusiastic about discussing the ideas presenting during the institute with my dean and colleagues. Thank you. 

For further information:

ADP’s Global Engagement Scholars will offer a modified two-part Global Challenges Institute as a pre-conference workshop on Thursday, June 5, 2014 as part of the ADP/TDC National Meeting in Louisville, Kentucky. 

Copies of the Educating Globally Competent Citizens Toolkit (2^nd Ed.) and the Global Challenges Student Guide – which were free to Institute participants – are available for purchase on AASCU’s Online Bookstore.

Georgia College’s 6th Annual Global Citizenship Symposium

Literacy, Learning, Leading: Education for a 21^st Century World

This year’s symposium, held February 4-6, 2013,  featured speakers from the Georgia College campus, central Georgia region, and Harvard, Syracuse, and UNC Greensboro. Over the course of three days, 24 literacy events related to health, information, civic life, technology, and 21^st century pedagogies attracted over 1500 participants.

Alex Wirth speaking with students

Alex Wirth, Harvard sophomore used his presentation and handout, Building a Campaign for Change, to help audience members, 300 strong, think seriously about issues of personal importance and how to strategically think about making a difference as citizens who have the advantage of four or more university years. Wirth illustrated his campaign for change by speaking about the Presidential Youth Council he and others developed as well as a social media effort #bethegoodguys based on a Daily Show with John Stewart segment that documented the U.S. Congress desire to stop funding UNESCO. Several students reflected on Wirth’s keynote in a writing assignment by writing, “Alex Wirth left me feeling motivated to make a difference. Most times, when you leave a presentation, you are a bit confused…. This was not the case with his keynote address. When I left, the only questions that I was asking myself were about where I wanted to devote my efforts? How do I want to campaign for change.” Another wrote, “When leaving the symposium, I felt as though I was part of something big and that if I get involved in something that I am passionate about, I can make a change.”

John Saltmarsh, University of Massachusetts, Boston and Timothy Eatman conducted workshops for academic leaders – Pursuing the Carnegie Community Engagement Classification – and students – What does it mean to be a public scholar? John and Tim creatively shared their personal narratives relative to teaching democratic engagement and the time when their scholarship coalesced at the second evening keynote address, Journey to Politically Engaged Scholarship. Their stories of their respective learning, teaching, and interaction with students made for an enlightening and thought-provoking time.

Tim Eatman and John Saltmarsh

Barbara Levin, UNC Greensboro, an advocate for creatively utilizing technology in the K-12 classroom, delivered the final symposium keynote and subsequently served on a panel with representatives from area schools, Teach for America, and the U.S. Department of Education 21^st Century Community Learning Center grant program. Another panel, comprised of a principal, three teachers, and two 9^th grade students, shared their integrated lesson unit entitled Campaign 2012 where mathematics, language arts, technology and social studies helped students not only follow the national campaign but create avatars and a virtual campaign. The third day concluded with a two-hour session that attracted community members including county commissioners and school board members. Called Are we Making Academic Progress in Baldwin County? The first hour’s panel included representatives from K-12, Georgia College and an afterschool program that engages 1,000 grade 3-12 youth. The second hour provided for breakout sessions that addressed health and fitness, workforce development, the literate American student, and race relations in the community and schools’ cultures.

Interspersed throughout the three days were student performances, Miss Electricity, by Katharyn Walat and Crisantemi, Puccini, and the documentary film, Race to Nowhere. Gregg Kaufman, GC’s ADP Coordinator stated, “This year’s symposium was unprecedented for a number of reasons. Georgia College’s new president, Steve Dorman, attended events on all three days, the four college deans and many academic chairpersons, local elected leaders, and a former state senator joined the hundreds of students who explored literacy in its many forms and the symposium directly related to the university’s Quality Enhancement Plan goal of building a culture of engaged learning.”