The Global Initiatives Master Class Series is a workshop series offered by the Global Education Office to deans, associate deans, faculty and staff that provides support, recommendations, guidance and data-informed approaches to increasing global engagement.
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Global Initiatives Master Class Series
2024-25 Global Initiatives Master Class Series: Global Engagement Strategies
2025 Spring Workshops
Preparing Globally Ready Learners
February 6, 2025
11 a.m. -1 p.m.
Student Commons - Virginia Rooms C-D
Facilitated by:
Hilary Kahn
Associate Vice Chancellor for International Affairs
Indiana University Indianapolis
Workshop details:
This master class will help prepare faculty to be more intentionally global in their classrooms so that learners acquire the skills, knowledge and attitudes they need to be successful in our interconnected world. Rather than adding on a new and separate global dimension to teaching, faculty will be encouraged to consider how global perspectives and pedagogies can advance existing course, professional and disciplinary goals. Global learning will be framed as an imperative for public institutions whose missions are to serve communities, locally and globally.
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About the facilitator:
Hilary Kahn is an inspirational leader in the field of international education. She has held national and international roles including past president of AIEA, Executive Committee of CII with APLU, and inaugural member and chair of the National Academy of International Education. She has published widely and is an in-demand speaker and scholar not only in higher education internationalization and leadership but also in the academic disciplines of Anthropology and Global Studies. Professor Kahn is the associate vice chancellor of international affairs at Indiana University Indianapolis and associate vice president of international affairs for Indiana University.
Inclusive Program Design in International Education
March 27, 2025
11 a.m. -1 p.m.
Student Commons - Virginia Rooms C-D
Facilitated by:
Malaika Marable Serrano, Ph.D.
Vice President for Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging
Guild Education
Workshop details:
How can we ensure that international education is accessible and inclusive for all students? This workshop will explore strategies to prioritize inclusivity and accessibility, emphasizing the importance of equitable access to global learning. Faculty and staff will gain practical approaches to enhance inclusion in both education abroad and virtual exchange, with methods to address financial and cultural barriers, incorporate inclusive pedagogy, and design programs that reflect diverse, authentic perspectives. Participants will leave with tools to assess inclusivity and foster belonging, empowering all students to fully experience the transformative impact of international education.
About the facilitator:
For more than twenty years, Dr. Serrano has led Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging (DEIB) initiatives with a steadfast focus on embedding DEIB principles across organizations. Her experiences studying and teaching in Australia, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Italy, and Venezuela fuel her commitment to inclusive, culturally responsive environments. A frequent conference presenter, she has authored numerous articles and book chapters on inclusion practices in international education and human resources. Dr. Serrano holds a BA from USC, an MA from UMD, and a PhD from Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan. She serves on the boards of NAFSA and Fulbright Canada.
Fall 2024 Workshops
The Global Impact of a University – Can We Measure Global Impact?
September 10, 2024
11 a.m. -1 p.m.
Student Commons, Richmond Salons III-IV
Facilitated by:
Grant Chapman, MA, JD
Associate Provost for International Programs
Kansas State University
Workshop details:
There are many reasons and ways to measure the internationalization or global impact of a university. This workshop will present and highlight the innovative global engagement directory project. The global engagement directory goal is to portray the university’s internationalization activities, programs and partners. The global engagement directory is more than a listing of partners and agreements; it seeks to provide a “holistic” picture of global engagement leading to measure impact.
The goal of the workshop is to provide context on how a university can portray and measure global engagement. The workshop will use the global engagement directory project as an example with the outcome of providing a global engagement blueprint or guideline for VCU to use.
About the facilitator:
Grant M. Chapman is the associate provost for international programs at Kansas State University. Prior, Grant held faculty and administrative positions at Webster University including Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs, Director for International Programs and Director of the London campus. Grant holds Juris Doctorate and Master’s degrees from St. Louis University and a Bachelor of Science degree in political science (international public administration) from Oklahoma State University. He was Fulbright Scholar in Japan and is a member of Phi Beta Kappa. He succeeded in getting Kansas State University recognized as the IIE Heiskell Award Honorable Mention and Webster University recognized with the NAFSA Simon Spotlight Award. He is past President of Mid-American Universities International (MAUI) and has served on the Association of International Education Administrators (AIEA) governing committees. He writes and presents about international education, transnational education and international law.
Maximizing the Impact of Campus-based English Language Programs
October 24, 2024
11 a.m. -1 p.m.
Cabell Library, Room 250
Facilitated by:
Cheryl Delk-Le Good
Executive Director, EnglishUSA
Workshop details:
This interactive workshop will explore the crucial role of campus-based English language programs in advancing international education. Sector-specific data from the global English language program industry will be shared, focusing on trends relevant to potential initiatives. The audience will participate in discussions of multiple key areas where collaborative efforts with the English language program can enhance the teaching and learning experience for the entire campus community as well as support broader, more strategic internationalization efforts.
About the facilitator:
Cheryl Delk-Le Good has been active in international education for more than 30 years and has served as EnglishUSA’s executive director since 2015.
Cheryl's leadership extends beyond her current role, having served on the boards of EnglishUSA and UCIEP, as well as the Commission on English Language Program Accreditation. Her expertise in International Enrollment Management has been recognized by NAFSA, culminating in the 2022 Award for Outstanding Contributions to the field.
For 15 years, Cheryl led the Intensive English Program at Georgia State University as both director and faculty member. Her academic journey includes teaching positions at Western Michigan and Michigan State Universities, authoring two ESL textbooks, and conducting numerous program and curriculum reviews both nationally and internationally. Cheryl's educational background reflects her passion for languages and teaching. She holds a BA from Illinois Wesleyan University and dual MA degrees in French and TESOL from Michigan State University.
Fundamentals of Designing a COIL or Global Learning Doesn’t Just Happen
December 10, 2024
11 a.m. -1 p.m.
Student Commons, Richmond Salons IV
Facilitated by:
Casey Dinger, Ed.D.
Executive and Academic Director for Internationalization
University of Denver
Faculty Director, Global Engagement Living and Learning Community
Workshop details:
Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) is one type of virtual exchange where students from two partner institutions engage in purposeful interaction in a joint course which has potential to significantly contribute to intercultural and global learning. COIL can work with a course that faculty currently teach, or a completely new course can be developed. Students from both classes may interact synchronously or asynchronously for a few weeks or an entire term through whichever technologies are most relevant and useful.
Culturally diverse students work together on a project, class discussions, or similar group work with discipline-based and intercultural learning outcomes. Casey will introduce the participants to some evidence-informed principles of COIL including constructing global or intercultural learning outcomes; discussing the benefits; finding partners; and considering technologies for creating a COIL experience.
About the facilitator:
Casey Dinger deeply values the transformative power of understanding others’ perspectives and experiences in critically analyzing internalized belief systems and positionality. His passion for intercultural and global learning informs daily practice in centering critical feeling in teaching, faculty development and research in internationalization at home. He currently serves as the executive director for internationalization at the University of Denver and co-advisor for the U.S. Student Fulbright Program. Casey has worked in higher education institutions in both Minnesota and Colorado, receiving a doctorate in Comparative and International Development Education from the University of Minnesota.
2023-2024 Global Initiatives Master Class Series: Recruitment and Partnership Strategies
Spring 2024 Workshops
“Utilizing Institutional Data to Drive Global Strategy, Partnerships, and Profile”
February 1, 2024, 11 a.m. - 1 p.m.
University Student Commons, 907 Floyd Ave.
Richmond Salons III-IV
Facilitated by:
Jane Gatewood, Ph.D.
Vice Provost for Global Engagement
Office for Global Engagement
University of Rochester
A key part of knowing where an institution will have global success involves knowing where and how it is active internationally and its key players. This information is not always easy to obtain when so much international activity remains untracked, embedded in other activities, or composed of ad hoc and bespoke initiatives. Uncovering these activities using institutional data often reveals core international priorities and partners. A data-oriented process can also help improve institutional profile and reputation. This workshop will underscore the necessity of mapping core data elements to strategic institutional projects, such as reviews of international rankings, and support and development of international research activity. These approaches will also showcase methods to penetrate and transcend silos, revealing methods to uncover a more complete picture of campus internationalization.
About the facilitator:
Jane Gatewood, Ph.D., is the inaugural Vice Provost for Global Engagement at the University of Rochester where she leads the institution’s global strategy and initiatives. She earned a bachelor’s degree from Emory University and a PhD from the University of Georgia. Her administrative experience includes developing institutional structures for comprehensive global engagement as well as developing complex bi- and multi-lateral international partnerships for research, education mobility, and economic development. She has spent the last 17 years working at the intersection of business, higher education, and government & diplomatic relations. She has been a Fulbright-Nehru scholar (India) and an Andrew W. Mellon Fellow at the School of Advanced Study (University of London). She was a visiting research editor for the Oxford English Dictionary (3rd Edition, Oxford University Press), and she recently edited NAFSA’s Guide to International Partnerships (2020). Her academic training and expertise are in modern literary history, lexicography, and corpus linguistics. She regularly consults and speaks on the importance of partnerships to international higher education.
“‘Be bold, be bold, be not too bold:’ Charting a Strategic Course for Academic Engagement with India”
March 21, 2024
11 a.m. -1 p.m.
Zoom
Facilitated by:
Kalpen Trivedi, Ph.D.
Vice Provost for Global Affairs University of Massachusetts Amherst
Workshop details:
Academic engagement with the world’s largest English-speaking democracy is a no-brainer in many ways. Yet, academic institutions, with notable exceptions, have generally struggled to establish stable and sustainable partnerships in India. In the post-pandemic the imperative to “do something” in India is gaining urgency. There are many attractive reasons for US higher education to partner in India: the high quality of Indian academic institutions, the strong presence of scholars of Indian origin and from diaspora in the US, the opportunity to rebalance enrollment and revenue streams away from China, the seeming openness of the Indian government’s new educational policies, to name some. Yet, the path forward is not always straight or clear. In this two-hour session we will examine several key considerations for crafting a strategy for productive and sustainable academic partnerships in India.
About the facilitator:
Kalpen Trivedi, Ph.D., is Vice Provost for Global Affairs at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, the land-grant flagship campus of the Commonwealth. He is responsible for the leadership of campus-wide initiatives for global engagement and he exercises operational and strategic oversight of the International Programs Office (Education Abroad, International Student and Scholar Services, International Partnerships, and Travel Health and Safety). Trivedi served previously as the Director of Education Abroad at UMass Amherst and prior to that, as Director of the University of Georgia’s Center and programs in Oxford, U.K., and faculty member in the English Department. He has nearly two decades of experience in international education with particular expertise in managing global partnerships, program design and evaluation, global operations and risk management, and international health and safety.
Recently named as one of the “50 Voices of North America” shaping international higher education by the Professionals in International Education (PIE), Trivedi has been previously recognized by the Institute of International Education as Senior International Officer (SIO) of the Year in 2021 and an AIEA Presidential Fellow for 2019-20. He is a member of AIEA’s Professional Development & Engagement Committee and immediate Past-Chair (2022) for NAFSA’s International Education Leadership Knowledge Community (IEL KC), having previously served on the IEL KC as Symposium & Training Lead, as well as being a member of the NAFSA Trainer Corps. He also serves on the Executive Committee of the Commission on International Initiatives of the Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities (APLU).
Fall 2023 Workshops
Is China Still an Essential Partner for American Universities?
October 4, 2023
11 a.m. - 1 p.m.
Facilitated by:
Brad Farnsworth
Fox Hollow Advisory, Principal
This workshop delved into the research and supportive data explaining why the U.S. must remain diligent in fostering academic programs and partnerships with China.Farnsworth delved into the research and supportive data that explains why the U.S. must remain diligent in fostering academic programs and partnerships with China, leading an engaging discussion with attendees.
About the facilitator:
Brad Farnsworth is Principal at Fox Hollow Advisory, a consultancy that focuses on international strategy, international student recruitment, and academic engagement with China. He also writes frequently on these topics. Farnsworth has been working with China for four decades, managing a variety of academic programs and partnerships while traveling there regularly.
From 2016 to 2020, Farnsworth served as vice president at the American Council on Education, where he led ACE’s global engagement strategy and strengthened its commitment to international higher education policy. He previously served as director of the Center for International Business Education at the University of Michigan, where he taught courses on international management, international economics, China, and globalization.
“Global Partnerships as Collaborative Enrollment-Driving Ventures”
October 24, 2023
11 a.m. - 1 p.m.
Paulo Zagalo-Melo, Ph.D.
Associate Provost for Global Education
Western Michigan University
This workshop offered suggestions of how to optimize partnership engagement.
About the facilitator:
Paulo Zagalo-Melo is the senior internationalization strategist (affiliate) in the Global Education Office at Virginia Commonwealth University.
Previously, he was the Associate Provost for Global Education at Western Michigan University (WMU), overseeing the Diether H. Haenicke Institute for Global Education (HIGE), WMU’s comprehensive international office. Since he joined WMU in 2017, he developed a strategy of capacity-building partnerships that resulted in the first-ever WMU revenue-sharing agreement (2019) for three majors to be fully delivered outside the US (4+0 dual degree) in collaboration with a partner university. Presently, WMU enrolls over 1,100 students at its partnership-driven International Locations. In addition, he negotiated several dual degrees (undergraduate and graduate) with key partnerships in three countries – Indonesia, Dominican Republic, and Portugal.
Prior to his university administration career in the United States, Zagalo-Melo was the Director for Science, Technology and Innovation at the Luso-American Development Foundation, Portugal (2006-2013), and the Executive Director of Fulbright Portugal (1997-2006). During his tenure, Zagalo-Melo quadrupled the size of the Fulbright budget, by bringing additional governmental and private funding. While at Fulbright, he also served on the Executive Committee of Fulbright Directors from Europe and Israel (1998-2003).
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“Recruitment and Partnership Development in Africa: Challenges and Opportunities"
November 29, 2023
11 a.m. - 1 p.m.
Facilitated by:
Samba Dieng
Senior International Officer (SIO) and Executive Director of International Programs
Louisiana State University
This workshop discussed the opportunities and challenges in engaging in recruitment and partnership development in Africa. Specifically, an overview and discussion of the landscape for recruitment in African countries will be given. Information will be shared about the recently launched SEC SIO Africa Recruitment Initiative, which is intentionally designed to create and strengthen the impact of global programming and ensure institutional capacity and sustainability. The speaker will discuss global learning opportunities that are designed to foster student success, including study abroad.
About the facilitator:
Samba Dieng leads all global engagement initiatives on behalf of the institution. Prior to LSU, Dieng served as Director of International Students and Scholars at several institutions. He is active in organizations such as the NAFSA, the Institute of International Education (IIE), the Association of International Education Administrators (AIEA), the American Council on Education (ACE), and the Association of Public Land Grant Universities (APLU). Dieng currently sits on the board of the Association of International Educators (NAFSA), the largest organization of its kind in the world. He also sits on the board of IDP, the largest international recruitment organization in the world. Dieng was recently selected as a 2022 – 2023 Presidential Fellow at the University of Texas at Austin, where is currently pursuing his Ph.D. in Higher Education. He is originally from Senegal.
“Collaborative Approaches to Attaining Efficient and Sustainable International Student Enrollment”
December 5, 2023
11 a.m. - 1 p.m.
Facilitated by:
Mihaela Metianu, Ed.D.
Assistant Provost for Global Engagement
Florida Atlantic University
About the facilitator:
Mihaela Metianu serves as the Assistant Provost for Global Engagement at Florida Atlantic University. In this role, she leads global strategic initiatives, engagement, and planning with the goal of enhancing and expanding the University’s global reach and brand. She provides leadership to five departments within the Center for Global Engagement (Education Abroad, Global Academic Services, Intensive English Institute, International Enrollment Services, and International Student Service). Her expertise includes global student mobility, international student support services, international student recruitment, foreign credential evaluations, immigration services and compliance, SEVIS expertise (including ten years as an institutional PDSO), international student retention, global partnerships/agreements, and global safety and security.
Metianu brings more than 20 years of experience in international education. She joined FAU in 2006 and served in various leadership roles, including eight years as the Director of International Services. Mihaela stays connected professionally through NAFSA, (Association of International Educators) and AIEA (Association of International Education Administrators). She has presented at numerous annual conferences and currently serves as a member of the Public Policy Committee with AIEA.