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TLA Presentation: Launching a Library-Focused Quality Enhancement Plan : 2020: PVAMU Quality Enhancement Plan

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2020: PVAMU Quality Enhancement Plan

Broadening Global Learning Opportunities Building Academic Leaders (B-GLOBAL) is a two-year learning community designed to improve the global competencies of 408 first-year students at Prairie View A&M University with less than 24 credit hours. The program seeks to broaden the undergraduate experience by implementing globally focused curricular and co-curricular learning opportunities that foster self-awareness, global awareness, cultural knowledge, and social responsibility.

Global competence is frequently used to describe a set of skills, values, and behaviors that allow a person to engage with other cultures appropriately, understand significant world issues or events and respond to them with appropriate action. Global competence is essential for developing academic leaders. Today’s leaders must be socially responsible agents of change in whatever field they enter. By incorporating globally focused experiences into the undergraduate curriculum, B-GLOBAL will help students use their knowledge and understanding of the world to make connections across cultures, ideas, and peoples to develop innovative solutions to pressing problems.

Learning Outcomes and Goals: Library Resources

After completing the B-Global Program, participants will be able to: Learning Outcomes and Goals 

  1. Identify their own cultural rules and biases and begin to question those rules or biases based on a growing global understanding. (Self-Awareness)
  2. Describe important issues that impact local and international communities and begin to connect his or her local actions to global contexts. (Global Awareness)
  3. Demonstrate a comparative understanding of another culture’s history, values, politics, communication styles, economy, or beliefs and practices. (Cultural Knowledge)
  4. Take informed and responsible action to address ethical, social, and environmental challenges in global systems by using interdisciplinary perspectives, knowledge, and skills. (Social Responsibility)

In addition to improving students’ learning and skill development, B-GLOBAL aims to improve the educational environment of PVAMU by promoting faculty development, the integration of global competence into both core curriculum and academic major courses and expanding the number of globally focused events on campus.

The following environmental goals will also be tracked over the study period on an annual basis:

  1. A measurable increase in “globally themed courses” added to the course inventory.
  2. A measurable increase in the number of students participating in on-campus events, symposia, or speaker series.
  3. A measurable increase in the number of students participating in internships, cultural exchanges, face-to-face or virtual study abroad, and taking additional globally themed courses.
  4. A measurable difference in retention and graduation rates of B-GLOBALers and those of their similarly situated cohort.
  5. A measurable difference in B-GLOBLers’ participation of student organizations in the first two years of college, use of career planning and placement services, and engaging in volunteer service on campus or in the community and those of their similarly situated cohort.

B-Global Development Committee: Library, Faculty and Staff Collaborations

B-GLOBAL will implement a series of high impact practices: READING!!!!!!!

John B. Coleman Library
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