Power of SUNY

Monroe Community College and UAlbany Join National Charge for Global Teaching & Learning

Monroe Community College and UAlbany are two of 32 colleges and universities chosen by The Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) to participate in a project to bring global perspectives to college and university teaching and learning. More than 140 institutions applied to be part of the initiative.

Funded by the Henry Luce Foundation, this new project, General Education for a Global Century, builds upon innovative efforts to reframe general education courses and programs, and create coherent curricular designs that address complex, global issues across divisions and disciplines. In concert with higher education partners across the country, MCC and UAlbany will help lead a high profile, national effort to:

• articulate essential global learning outcomes for all students;
• refine and disseminate models of global general education curricula that can be adapted across all institutional types;
• provide faculty development opportunities to help college faculty in designing and teaching interdisciplinary, integrative courses that focus on real-world global issues; and
• develop assessment tools for global learning outcomes.