Partnering to nurture change presentation

Partnering to Nurture Change: Supporting Diversity and Global Engagement Across Campus4th Annual Diversity Abroad ConferenceFrom Outreach to Support: Navigating Expansion and InclusionApril 3 -5, 2016, Atlanta GeorgiaDorothea Hast/Maria Martinez/Bidya Ranjeet/Anthony Brooks

From: At Home in the World: Educating for Global Connections and Local Commitments

“Globalization has blurred the lines between the global and the local, as well as the distinctions between international and domestic diversity. To become responsible, productive citizens…our students must possess an understanding of their own cultures and those of their neighbors at home and abroad. They also need the skills to analyze interconnections between global and local systems…” (acenet.edu/news-room/Pages/AHITW-Toolkit-Main.aspx).

UConn Core Value: DiversityIn our culturally and intellectually diverse community, we appreciate differences in one another as well as similarities, and aspire to be an increasingly inclusive educational institution that attracts, retains, and values talented people from all backgrounds…We embrace diversity not as a keyword for token inclusion of the underrepresented, but as a commitment to fostering a welcoming environment in which all individuals can achieve their fullest potential and in which open and respectful communication is facilitated (http://academicvision.uconn.edu/introduction/core-values/)

UConn Core Value: Global EngagementThrough outreach, research, and partnerships, we promote sustainable development and a happy, healthy, and inclusive society. This engagement is local and global, based on intercultural understanding and recognition of the transnational nature of the challenges and opportunities we face (http://academicvision.uconn.edu/introduction/core-values/).

UConn Study Abroad Participation

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Ground level work: increasing study abroad participation for first generation/low income and underrepresented students

The Big Picture: Buy In From The Top President: 2014 Academic Plan:

Articulates Core Values Creation of Global Affairs: from

Director to Vice Provost to Vice President

New Diversity Task Force Report: New VP Diversity and Inclusion

Diversify and increase scholarship funding

Fund Raising Bring in Alums

Synchronous Efforts Diversity in Education Abroad builds from

below Global Affairs centralizes international units

and develops strategic plan New initiatives and interventions for specific

cohorts, i.e. African American males, first generation students, underrepresented students who want to become business majors or engineers, veterans, STEM Learning Communities, etc. Built in education abroad component.

Partnerships with international educational, civic and professional organizations: more opportunities for all students.

Education Abroad Identifies underserved groups who have less access to education abroad. Advocates for scholarships. Works with relevant units/offices/faculty to reach students, i.e. Veterans

Affairs, Center for Students with Disabilities, Cultural Centers, and Regional Campus advisors.

Development of new programming and opportunities.

Student Support Services SSS serves first-generation, low-income and/or underrepresented

students Provisional acceptance to the university Pre-collegiate summer program

Access to study abroad for SSS students Advising Practices Staff as Resident director University’s commitment Educating students and university about the value of

study abroad Meeting students’ needs at multiple levels

SSS Students: Ethnicities AY 2015-16

Category Number PercentAsian 183 16%

American Indian/Pacific Islander 2 0%Black 390 34%

Hispanic 396 35%White 51 4%

2 or more 115 10%TOTAL SSS Students 1136 100%

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SSS Students: Impact of Study Abroad

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SSS Study Abroad Graduates, 1996-2015

QUESTIONS?

CONTACT INFORMATION Dr. Maria Martinez: maria.martinez@uconn.edu

Dr. Bidya Ranjeet: bidya.rangeet@uconn.edu

Dr. Dorothea Hast: dorothea.hast@uconn.edu

Mr. Anthony Brooks: anthony.brooks@uconn.edu

Thanks to the Diversity Abroad Network and UConn Global AffairsPhoto: “Cappadocia” by Ximena Garcia