Revitalizing International Studies at Parkland College

Littleton, Jody; Scarborough, Isabel

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Title

Revitalizing International Studies at Parkland College

Author(s)

• Littleton, Jody
• Scarborough, Isabel

Issue Date

2022-08-05

Keyword(s)

• internationalization of higher education
• community colleges

Abstract

The Covid-19 pandemic has highlighted the importance of global connections in our rapidly changing world while simultaneously unveiling their fragility. At the community college level, there is a growing body of literature evidencing that students at two-year institutions greatly benefit from a globalized curriculum and international programming (Latiner and Valeau 2016, Cohen and Kisker 2018). Aware of the growing importance of internationalization beyond high school, we applied to participate in the International Studies Research Lab at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Our purpose was to study how to best build a plan to revitalize our home institution’s efforts to globalize our campus. To fulfill this objective, we researched best practices in Higher Education with an emphasis in two-year colleges. The following pages describe our findings and detail our plan to revitalize international studies at our institution— Parkland College.

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Language

en

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https://hdl.handle.net/2142/115166

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