Crisis as Opportunity: Reimagining Global Learning Pathways through New Virtual Collaborations and Open Access during COVID-19

Authors

  • Samantha Brandauer Dickinson College
  • Julia Carnine Dickinson College
  • Katie DeGuzman Dickinson College
  • Bruno Grazioli Dickinson College
  • Lindsey Lyons Dickinson College
  • Nedra Sandiford Dickinson College
  • Eric Hartman Haverford College

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.36366/frontiers.v34i1.535

Keywords:

Education Abroad; Open Access; Virtual Learning; Interdependence; Sustainability

Abstract

ABSTRACT

In the spring of 2020, as COVID-19 forced the suspension of most U.S. education abroad programs, study abroad students returned home, summer programs were canceled, and international educators pondered the unlikelihood of resuming fall 2020 study abroad; larger questions about the future of international education and global learning with limited student mobility weighed heavily, two small liberal arts colleges in Pennsylvania, Haverford and Dickinson, and the membership of the Community-based Global Learning Collaborative started reimagining the future of global learning. What drove us was our collective commitment to building just, inclusive and sustainable communities, a spirit of collaboration and a desire to seek out future-forward and innovative opportunities for continued global learning. Around the world, xenophobia and nationalism were on the rise. One of the clearest continuous mechanisms for combating those horrors, student international mobility, would cease. It was clear that global educators had to do something, but what? This article is a case study about how we began to answer the question of what we could do. It follows the evolution of our thinking, emergent projects, lessons learned and new collaborative pathways.

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Author Biographies

Samantha Brandauer, Dickinson College

Samantha Brandauer is Associate Provost and Executive Director of the Center for Global Study and Engagement at Dickinson College. She has presented and written on intervention in student learning abroad and building inclusive, sustainable and equitable global communities. She was a member of the 2020 NAFSA Simon Award Selection Committee. She has previously held administrative positions at IIE; University of Maryland; Brown University and Study Abroad in Scandinavia - Denmark. She holds an M.A. from American University.

Julia Carnine, Dickinson College

Julia Carnine Ph.D. is director of the Dickinson program in France and contributing faculty at Dickinson’s French and Francophone studies department. She served as director for the LIU’s Global College in Hangzhou, China until coming to France in 2002. Dr. Carnine teaches in intercultural programs at the University of Toulouse, and conducts research on international student mobility. She is a member of Europe’s COST research group and APUAF (Associations of American University Programs in France).

Katie DeGuzman, Dickinson College

Katie DeGuzman is the Dean and Director for Education Abroad at Dickinson College. Katie holds a Master’s Degree from the University of Florida. She is an IDI Administrator, a member of the Forum on Education Abroad’s Financial Models Working Group and NAFSA’s Trainer Corps, a Fulbright grantee to Korea and served as co-chair of Diversity Abroad's subcommittee on First Generation/High Need students and on NAFSA's EA Subcommittee on Diversity and Inclusion.  

 

Bruno Grazioli, Dickinson College

Bruno Grazioli is Resident Director of and Contributing Faculty at the Dickinson College Italian Studies Program in Bologna (Italy). He holds a PhD and MA in Italian Studies from the University of London and MA in Pedagogy and Promotion of Italian Language and Culture from the University of Venice. His teaching experience, in Italian language, culture and literature, was developed over about two decades at different higher-ed institutions in the U.K. and in the U.S.A.

Lindsey Lyons, Dickinson College

Lindsey Lyons is the Assistant Director of the Center for Sustainability Education. Lyons completed her B.S. in biology from Lynchburg College and a M.S. in environmental education from Southern Oregon University. She strives to create greater clarity, commonality and deliberateness of purpose to infuse sustainability across Dickinson’s curriculum, co-curricular programs, global education programs, campus life, and operations. Lyons’ enjoys sharing best practices for proposing and implementing programs that guide institutions towards positive change.

 

Nedra Sandiford, Dickinson College

Nedra Sandiford is the Program Coordinator of Dickinson College’s study abroad program in Málaga Spain. A native New Yorker, she has been based in Spain for over 10 years. The Dickinson College alumna also holds a Master’s Degree in International Affairs from The New School. Nedra’s interests include the role of media in shaping power dynamics in international society, permaculture and sustainability, and diversity, equity and inclusion.

Eric Hartman, Haverford College

Eric Hartman is lead author of Community-Based Global Learning: The Theory and Practice of Ethical Engagement at Home and Abroad. He serves as executive director of the Haverford College Center for Peace and Global Citizenship and occasionally teaches in the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education. Eric co-founded both The Community-based Global Learning Collaborative and the global engagement survey (GES), initiatives that advance ethical, critical, aspirationally decolonial community-based global learning.

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Published

2022-03-10

How to Cite

Brandauer, S., Carnine, J., DeGuzman, K. ., Grazioli, B., Lyons, L., Sandiford, N. ., & Hartman, E. . (2022). Crisis as Opportunity: Reimagining Global Learning Pathways through New Virtual Collaborations and Open Access during COVID-19. Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad, 34(1), 9–23. https://doi.org/10.36366/frontiers.v34i1.535

Issue

Vol. 34 No. 1 (2022): April 2022

Section

Learning from COVID-19

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