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Caryn McTighe Musil and Chad AndersonAssociation of American Colleges and Universities
New Frameworks for Diversity and Learning
October 20, 2012
SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY IN A DIVERSE
DEMOCRACY: INTEGRATING CIVIC, GLOBAL, AND US
DIVERSITY LENSES
THREE GOALS FOR THE SESSION
1. Expand understanding of the sources of convergences between civic, global, and US diversity educational movements and enumerate how to break the logjam that diminishes all three.
2. Develop new insights about how the national report, A Crucible Moment, can be a leverage point for maximizing the power of all three.
3. Accumulate a range of concrete actions that could be initiated on a given campus to foster new alliances and integration.
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OUTLINE FOR THE SESSION
9:30 Welcome, introduction, organization of the session
9:40 Trinitarianism: Moving from Disabling Disconnections to Collaborative Transformational Change
10:00 Points of Convergence
10:15 A Crucible Moment: Leveraging Collaboration and Alliances
10:40 Closing
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INTERACTIVE SESSION
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• What interferes with alliances and collaborations on your campus?
• Consider such things as different language used, differently located leadership, funding allocations, or structural location for doing the work, institutional priorities
TRINITARIANISM:
MOVING FROM DISABLING DISCONNECTIONS TO COLLABORATIVE TRANSFORMATIONAL
CHANGE
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CONSEQUENCES OF DISCONNECTING CIVIC, DIVERSITY, AND GLOBAL LEARNING
• Fragmentation
• Diminished resources
• Weakened conceptual framings
• Incomplete and partial knowledge
• Minimized transformative impact on the academy
• Curtailed intellectual, pedagogical, and social power
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Civic
Diversity
Civic
Global
DiversityCAMPUS
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CAMPUS
COMMUNITY
GLOBE
TRENDS THAT HAVE TURNED CAMPUS LIFE INTO A PUBLIC COMMONS
• From monocultural space to multicultural space• From access for the very few to access for the majority• From club med to expecting students to resolve their own
issues• From talking about democracy to doing democracy• From reaching out to the community to being part of the
community, both local and global• From being sequestered from the globe to bringing global
issues into the curriculum, campus life, and scholarship
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• FROM MONOCULTURAL DOMINANT NARRATIVES AND NORMS TO MULTICULTURAL AND MULTIPLE NORMS AND PERSPECTIVES
• FROM ACCESS AND SUCCESS TO WIDE-RANGING AND MORE COMPREHENSIVE INSTITUTIONAL GOALS
• FROM RACE AS MORE THAN BLACK AND WHITE AND DIVERSITY AS MORE THAN RACE TO MULTIPLE AND INTERSECTING DIFFERENCES
• FROM UNDERSTANDING DIVERSITY IN THE U.S. TO EXAMINING HOW IT ALTERS BEYOND U.S. BORDERS
TRENDS IN DIVERSITY
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GLOBAL STUDIES HAS EVOLVED TOO
FROM ONLY EUROPE TO MORE OF THE GLOBEFROM “US” and “THEM” to “WE” --AND FROM “OVER
THERE” TO EVERWHERE FROM ASSUMING DISCRETE, INDEPENDENT NATION STATES
TO INTEGRATED GLOBAL SYSTEMS• FROM ONE NON-WESTERN COURSE IN GENERAL EDUCATION
TO ADDRESSING GLOBAL ISSUES IN MULTIPLE CLASSES • FROM VISITING A PLACE TO BEING PART OF A PLACE AND A
PERSPECTIVE• FROM THE COLONIZERS’ VERSION TO THE SUBALTERNS
NARRATING THEIR OWN HISTORIES
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CIVIC WORK HAS EVOLVED AS WELL
• FROM VOLUNTEERING ONE’S TIME TO SUBSTANTIVE ACADEMIC INQUIRY AND CREDIT
• FROM ONE-WAY OUTREACH TO TWO-WAY EXCHANGES
• FROM A SINGLE CIVIC MODEL (Service Learning) TO MULTIPLE CIVIC ARENAS (Civic Problem Solving)
• FROM “WE” and “THEM” to “US”• FROM INDIVIDUAL CHARITY TO WORKING
COLLECTIVELY WITH COMMUNITIES TO CREATE FAIRER, MORE HUMANE SOCIETIES
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INTERACTIVE SESSION
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• Work within three different groups of civic, US diversity, and global educators to discuss the following:
• Given some of the shifts across each of these areas, what two or three big ideas offer bridges for collaborating, co-planning, co-teaching, or scholarly collaborations?
• What one or two things would you have to do differently within YOUR OWN GROUP to open up avenues to more productive collaborations?
KEY RECOMMENDATIONS FOR BREAKING THE LOGJAM: TO CIVIC EDUCATORS
1. Describing democracy
2. Deepening knowledge about diversity and global work
3. Abandoning exclusionary habits
4. Inventing integrative structures and patterns of collaboration
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KEY RECOMMENDATIONS FOR BREAKING THE LOGJAM: TO GLOBAL EDUCATORS
1. Embracing democratic social justice movements
2. Deepening knowledge about diversity and civic work
3. Abandoning dismissal of the local
4. Inventing integrative structures and patterns of collaboration
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KEY RECOMMENDATIONS FOR BREAKING THE LOGJAM: TO DIVERSITY EDUCATORS
1. Claiming democratic place and power
2. Deepening knowledge about civic and global work
3. Abandoning proprietary postures
4. Inventing integrative structures and patterns of collaboration
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IT IS A PROPITIOUS MOMENT TO COALESCE AROUND THE CALL FOR SOCIAL
RESPONSIBILITY
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A NEW ERA OF RESPONSIBILITY
“What is required of us now is a new era of responsibility—a recognition, on the part of every American, that we have duties to ourselves, our nation, and the world. . . This is the price and the promise of citizenship.”
President Barack Obama
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LEAP’S ESSENTIAL LEARNING OUTCOME THREE
• Personal and Social Responsibility (PSR)
-- Civic knowledge and engagement—local and global
-- Diversity knowledge and intercultural competence
-- Ethical reasoning and action
-- Foundations and skills for lifelong learning
Anchored through active involvement with diverse communities and real-world challenges
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KEY FINDINGS FROM AAC&U PERSONAL AND SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY INVENTORY (PSRI)
• Across all categories, students and campus professionals strongly agree that personal and social responsibility should be a major focus of a college education.
• Across all groups surveyed, they also strongly agree, however, that there is a clear gap between what should be and what actually is.
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URGENT GLOBAL CHALLENGES REQUIRING INFORMED ACTION
• Poverty and structural violence• Civil wars and global terror• Environmental sustainability• Illiteracy and inadequate education• Gender inequities, traffic in women, violence against
women• Refugees, immigration, dislocation• Disease, health care, immunizations
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TROUBLING SIGNS IN US DEMOCRACY
• Resurgent nativism and anti-immigrant attitudes and policies
• Dynamically shifting racial categories even in the midst of intensified racial segregation
• Inflammatory, vitriolic public discourse with little regard for accuracy or facts
• Dysfunctional Congress and many state legislatures
• Assault on public, collective responsibilities and campaign to affirm the individual as the carrier of democracy and business its guardian
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Leveraging Collaboration and Solidarity
A CRUCIBLE MOMENT: COLLEGE LEARNING AND DEMOCRACY’S FUTURE
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DO STUDENTS SAY COLLEGE CONTRIBUTES TO THEIR CIVIC GROWTH?
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ENLARGE THE NATIONAL NARRATIVE:COMPLETION AND CITIZENSHIP
It is not either/or: • Correlation found between service learning (as well
as diversity experiences) and college completion
academic engagement
deepening connections with faculty
higher grade point
higher retention
more likely to complete degrees
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BACHELOR’S DEGREE ATTAINMENT BY RACE 25-29 YEAR OLDS
White, 34%Black, 18%Hispanic, 11%0%
20%
40%
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BACHELOR’S DEGREE ATTAINMENT BY FAMILY INCOME BY AGE 24
Top Income Quartile, 75.0%
Third Quartile, 27.7%
Second Quartile, 13.2%Bottom
Quartile, 8.6%
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CONTEMPORARY, COMPREHENSIVE DEFINITION OF CIVIC LEARNING
• Contestation and debates about principles
• Diversity past, present, and future
• Navigating multiple perspectives
• Our world, not just my rights
• Interdependence globally and locally
• New modes of collective action
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KEY RECOMMENDATIONS FOR HIGHER EDUCATION
1. Foster a CIVIC ETHOS across all parts of the campus and educational culture.
2. Make CIVIC LITERACY a core expectation for all students.
3. Practice CIVIC INQUIRY across all fields of study.
4. Advance CIVIC ACTION through transformative partnerships, at home and abroad.
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THE GOOD NEWS:
• The foundation has already been partially laid
• In the curriculum
• In new civic pedagogies
• In campus life
• In campus/community partnership and engagement in collective problem solving with others
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THE BAD NEWS:
• It is• Random
• Largely uncharted
• Lacking signage
• Without sufficient progression over time
• Optional
• Available to only some students
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THE EMERGING DESIGNS OF 21ST CENTURYCIVIC LEARNING
• Curricular civic pathways• Making civic literacy a core expectation for all
students in general education programs• Tulane University, Portland State University, St.
Edward’s University
• Integrating civic inquiry into a central field of study• Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Wagner College,
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
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OTHER DESIGNS TO BUILD UPON
• Powerful civic pedagogies• Intergroup and deliberative dialogue• University of Michigan, California State University at
Chico, Sustained Dialogue Programs
• Service Learning• Campus Compact, American Democracy Project,
California State University Monterey Bay
• Collective civic problem solving• University of Maryland, Duke University, Northern
Arizona University
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INNOVATIONS ON THE EDGES: NEW DEMOCRATIC SPACES
• Advancing Collaborative, Generative Civic Partnerships and Alliances• From charity to reciprocity to generative
partnership• Syracuse University, Widener College, Anchor
Institutions, Community-Campus Partnerships for Health
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THE CHALLENGE OF THE NEXT DECADES OF CIVIC LEARNING
• From elective to expected
• From one time to progressive learning over time
• From individually oriented civic action to collaboratively oriented action
• From parallel practices and programs to integrated ones across civic, diversity, and global knowledge and action
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INTERACTIVE EXCHANGES: STEPS YOU CAN TAKE ON YOUR CAMPUS
• Think about an existing strong program on your campus that is--or could be--part of a more comprehensive commitment to education for civic learning and democratic engagements.
• What concrete steps might you initiate to maximize its impact further by adding at least one more--if not both--other reform perspectives into the mix?
• Where and with whom would you need to begin to effect this more positive, transformational influence?
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“Diversity is about everyone.Global is about everywhere.”
Kevin Hovland, AAC&U
“Otis is training us to use the skills they have taught us to solve the world’s problems. We work together and learn from each other, because we can’t save the world on our own.”
Otis College of Art and Design Student
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Caryn McTighe Musil, Senior Vice President, [email protected]
Chad Anderson, Program Associate, [email protected]
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To download or order A Crucible Moment, see:http://www.aacu.org/civic_learning/crucible/index.cfm
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