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The Board of Trustees of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS) – Commission on Colleges has approved Florida International University’s reaffirmation of accreditation. The decision represents years of planning and documentation for the university’s Compliance Certification Report, Quality Enhancement Plan (QEP) and March 2010 site visit. “The reaffirmation [...]
The Tuesday Times Roundable is set to return to the Modesto Maidique Campus (MMC), and for the first time to the Biscayne Bay Campus (BBC) with a full schedule. This Quality Enhancement Plan Initiative had two successful semesters during the last academic year at MMC with a total of 600 plus students, faculty and staff members participating. The Tuesday Times Roundable is a series of weekly discussions of New York Times articles on global issues, events, and trends. The MMC series is sponsored by the Office of Global Learning Initiatives, The New York Times, and the MMC Student Government Association. The BBC series is sponsored by Office of Global Learning Initiatives, The New York Times, and the BBC Student Government Association, the BBC Campus Life and Orientation Office, the School of Journalism and Mass Communication, the Office of the Vice Provost at BBC, and the FIU Libraries.
An excerpt from Appiah’s book, Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers, will serve as common reading in global learning courses beginning fall 2010. By Sissi Aguila ’99, MA ’08 Internationally known philosopher and cultural theorist Kwame Anthony Appiah asked one thing of FIU students, faculty and staff during a [...]
Global Learning for Global Citizenship features team-taught, interactive undergrad courses that are designed to instill global awareness and engagement. By Deborah O’Neil The assignment: Devise a way to use technology, like the iPhone, to help Haiti rebuild. Three teams of students, each led by a professor, gathered to brainstorm. Lively [...]
FIU’s Global Learning for Global Citizenship kicks off the spring Tuesday Times Roundtable series for students, faculty and staff on Jan. 12 with a session on alternative energy. The Tuesday Times Roundtable is a weekly series of open discussions of New York Times articles on global current events. It is [...]
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By Sissi Aguila “Does anyone want to be President today?” asked Carol Giacomo, foreign policy journalist and member of The New York Times editorial board. The audience of more than 75 FIU students, faculty members and staff gathered at the Wertheim Performing Arts Center was silent with the exception of [...]
Foreign policy journalist and member of The New York Times editorial board Carol Giacomo will speak on “The Main Foreign Policy Challenges Facing President Obama: Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan and the Threat of Nuclear Weapons” in a presentation Friday, Nov. 20. The event is being hosted by the FIU Student Government Association, [...]
There was standing room only this week at the kickoff for the new Tuesday Times Talk series, part of FIU’s Global Learning initiative. More than 60 students, faculty members, and staff gathered in GL 220 to discuss a New York Times article about the introduction of cell phones in rural [...]
Under a curriculum framework draft developed by FIU faculty and approved by the Faculty Senate, students will take at least one global learning foundational course in the core and at least one upper-division course focused on global dynamics in their major as part of the university’s Global Learning Quality Enhancement [...]
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