This volume of essays offers models for diverse, effective approaches to providing a global learning curriculum and instruction to undergraduates in small institutions. Small colleges face unique challenges when integrating international curricula and global learning, including limitations in staff, financial resources, and administration. However, those challenges can often inspire creative solutions. The collection of essays features small liberal arts colleges and universities across the US where global learning programs are thriving. The essays provide guidelines, important considerations and practical steps to administrators, educators, and staff who are building or revising their global learning programs in higher education institutions.
Erica Andree is director of the Center for Languages and International Collaboration and the Asian American and Native American Pacific Islander-Serving Institutions (AANAPISI) Initiative for Inclusive Student Success at Pacific University, Oregon, US. She also directs the Global Scholars Program, an undergraduate global learning curriculum which provides equitable access to the benefits of global learning. Andree holds an MA in comparative literature from the University of Washington, US. Jann Purdy, PhD, is professor of French and chair of International Studies atPacific University, Oregon. She is the editor of Language Beyond the Classroom (Cambridge Scholars, 2018) on service-learning for language programs. She has also published several articles and delivered numerous conference papers on intercultural communication, global learning pedagogy, and French literature. Dr Purdy teaches courses on intercultural communication, travel courses to France and Tahiti, wrap-around courses to support students studying abroad, and language acquisition courses. With Erica Andree, she co-developed the Global Scholars Program, a global-learning initiative at Pacific University.
