Education for Global Learning
The purpose of EGL is to create, promote, support and facilitate a range of international education learning opportunities and experiences for students, faculty, staff and administration on the local campus, throughout the state and around the world.
To carry out our mission, EGL is active in the following five areas:
- Faculty Development to Improve Teaching, Learning, Curriculum
- Study Abroad Programs
- Foreign Scholars and Students Programs
- Leadership and Professional Development
- Collaboration and Sharing of Resources
Faculty Development to Improve Teaching, Learning and Curriculum
Faculty Focus
- Develop and promote a variety of faculty development opportunities to improve faculty knowledge in critical content areas related to international, intercultural and global education.
- Develop and promote faculty development opportunities for improving strategies and practices for more effective teaching of international, intercultural and global content.
- Promote the infusion of international and global education across the curriculum.
Student Focus
- Develop and promote faculty development opportunities for assessing and improving teaching strategies and practices to increase student learning of international, intercultural and global content and skills.
Study Abroad
Faculty Focus
- Develop and promote opportunities for faculty to participate in faculty exchanges and in a variety of teaching, study and travel abroad opportunities.
Student Focus
- Develop and promote opportunities for students to participate in exchanges and in a variety of study abroad opportunities.
- Promote and publicize both EGL programs and individual EGL campus efforts in study abroad.
Foreign Scholars and Students Program
- Develop and promote the J-1 Visa program to enable member institutions to bring foreign scholars and students to local campuses to support their international and global education goals and activities.
Leadership and Professional Development
- Promote and support the attendance of EGL Campus Coordinators at key national conferences for organizations working in international, intercultural and global education, e.g. ACIIE, CCID, NAFSA and others.
Collaboration and Sharing of Resources
- Seek out and develop, as well as maintain, ways for participant colleges to support each other's efforts in international, intercultural and global education by sharing ideas and resources and by working together and learning from each other.
- Collaborate on grant proposals.
Benefits of Membership
- Study abroad semester programs in Oxford and Costa Rica for students
- Teaching abroad opportunities in Oxford and Costa Rica for faculty
- J-1 Visa license from the U.S. Department of State enables EGL institutions to more easily bring to their campuses a variety of international scholars, students and visitors.
- Annual Global Education Conference
Recent conference themes include:
- Fall 2006: "Understanding China Today: Challenges & Opportunities for Teaching & Learning"
- Fall 2005: "'Knowing' Our World: Impacts of Global Media and Cultural Change"
- Fall 2004: "Rethinking Bridges Across Borders: The United Nations, NGOs and Nation States as Agents of Change"
- Fall 2003: "Promoting 'Real' Security for World Citizens: Challenges from Science, Economics, Ethics and Human Rights" (Annual Global Education conferences are co-sponsored and funded through a partnership with the Institute for Global Studies at the University of Minnesota.).
- Faculty Development Workshops on Critical Content and Teaching Challenges in International and Global Studies.
- Support for local campus study abroad - both short term programs and semester programs including the semester in Zhaoqing, China developed by Anoka Ramsey CC, semesters in Florence, Italy and Mexico developed by Lake Superior College and new sophomore level study abroad semesters developed by Winona State University.
- Sharing of ideas and best practices for international and global education
- Representation on the EGL Board
Contact Information
For more information about EGL, contact EGL Chair Diane Pearson at Diane.Pearson@minneapolis.edu.
For information about the EGL J-1 Visa program, contact EGL J-1 Responsible Officer Kevin Kujawa at Kevin.Kujawa@minneapolis.edu.
Member Institutions
- Anoka Ramsey Community College
- Century College
- Inver Hills Community College
- Itasca Community College
- Lake Superior Community College
- Metropolitan State University
- Mesabi Range Community & Technical College
- Minneapolis Community & Technical College
- Normandale Community College
- North Hennepin Community College
- Ridegwater College
- Riverland Community College
- Rochester Community & Technical College
- Winona State University
