Globalization Team Meeting

June 28, 2006

Committee members were reminded that Julius Gribou had been elected Chair during the initial meeting held during the retreat, and Professor Gribou graciously agreed to serve in this role. The members agreed that the role of secretary should be rotated. Dorothy Flannagan offered to serve as secretary for the first meeting. Julius Gribou directed the members' attention to the guidelines that have been provided by Drs. Ambrosino and Welch, and suggested that the committee develop a timeline for completing our assigned tasks. He said that he is attempting to recover the notes that the committee produced during the initial meeting that occurred during the retreat, and said that he would share them with the members if they were made available to him. He suggested that we meet at least once a month, and that we invite Chuck Crane, Director of International Programs, to join the group's discussions. For the benefit of committee members who had not attended the retreat, he provided some background about how the committee was established and what other committees were formed as a result of the discussions that occurred during the retreat. Professor Gribou suggested that before the committee develop future goals, we should define globalization and determine the activities currently occurring at UTSA that promote it. Areas in which globalization is important include but are not limited to: * Preparing students to succeed in a global community * Curricular issues * Exchange programs for students and faculty * Study abroad programs * International students who come to UTSA * Research collaborations * Increasing our knowledge about how to operate in a global setting (e.g., writing a grant with collaborator from another country) with all of the constraints imposed by rules, regulations, etc. Discussions of globalization in the UTSA context should also include consideration of: * Library resources * Infrastructure (administrative, technological) * Fulbright and other funding * Federal, state (and local?) regulations * Accreditation issues Fred Hample asked if there was a university that we viewed as a model for our globalization efforts. Other universities have been recognized for their efforts to support international relations and to provide their students with international experiences, and some of them have provided guidelines about specific actions that should be taken to promote globalization. Goutham Menon said that he has a database that tracks the international work that is done by social work faculty, and offered to use it to collect information about the globalization efforts being made by faculty at UTSA. Victoria Jones pointed out that it is critical to get faculty/staff support for any ideas we may develop and offer the administration. We must have grass root support. Julius Gribou agreed, and said there also must be administrative support and infrastructure resources that are sufficient to support the implementation of ideas that result from the committee's work. It was generally agreed that there are a lot of opportunities for synergy between faculty and organizations on campus that are involved in globalization activities, but we need to centralize communication so that individuals know what others are doing and can make connections. A lot of the international projects that are most successful are those initiated by faculty members who take ownership for them. We need a mechanism for them to know what others are doing, and to communicate what they are doing to others. Victoria Jones also said that giving faculty the opportunity to make international connections and to have international experiences is important too, because they come back to UTSA and share their experiences in the classroom, with other faculty, etc. Goutham Menon said it is also important that faculty who are already exposing students to international issues and providing them with globalization experiences share what they do to provide other faculty with some guidance. If this is done, more faculty will know how to incorporate international issues into the learning experiences they provide students. It was generally agreed that it is an important first step to let others know what faculty, staff, and students are doing to promote globalization. Chuck Crane can provide us with a lot of this information, and the colleges and departments are also good sources of information. Nora Evans asked if we could get a website developed to collect that information. Goutham Menon said we could do a survey, and offered to construct a first draft. Christopher Wickham suggested that the committee may want to review our core curriculum to see if more globalization issues could be addressed through the core courses. In addition, he said the committee may with wish to discuss having a university-wide foreign-language requirement, more international fairs or other programs that expose students to other cultures, and certificate programs in areas related to globalization. Victoria Jones suggested that we should think about what we want our student population to look like in 2016. What are our needs going to be? How can we get more students exposed to international experiences? She pointed out that there is a continuum of experiences, some of which take more resources than others, and that many of our students do not have resources that would allow them to take a semester abroad. For them, less lengthy trips, or even technology-based experiences, may allow us to promote globalization within the budget constraints of more students. The members agreed that we need to discuss how we can prepare our students to be global citizens and to understand the responsibilities that accompany that. It is also important that each international program clearly define its goals, assess learning outcomes, and use those learning outcomes to improve/modify the program when appropriate. This will be consistent with SACs accreditation requirements. It was pointed out that legal issues are important to include in our discussions. There are many potential legal issues, including issues related to copyrights and intellectual property. There are also institutional policies that make international collaborations difficult; for instance, guest lecturers from other countries often cannot log on to our Web CT system to lecture or interact with students from UTSA because our institution does not allow them to log into the system. It was agreed that Julius Gribou would invite Chuck Crane to join our committee, and that we would invite individuals from other offices/colleges to join us during individual meetings as needed. Fred Hample suggested that we also assess the library resources so as to know what resources are currently available to support globalization, and Dan Gelo said that the library is very helpful in providing information of this type for discipline-specific programs. Julius Gribou offered to call another meeting in late July. Meanwhile, several committee members were asked to collect additional information, such as Goutham Menon, who agreed to develop a draft survey for the purpose of assessing the current international programs/projects that are in place at UTSA, and Fred Hample, who offered to learn more about what other institutions are doing to globalize their students. The meeting was adjourned at noon. Respectfully submitted Dorothy Flannagan

September 11, 2006

Present: Julius Gribou, Chair Rich Diem, David Johnson, Nora Evans, Charles Crane, Steve Wilkerson, Fred Hample, Christopher Wickham, Goutham Menon, Mariane Lewis, Dan Gelo, Dorothy Flannagan Absent: Victoria Jones, Lynda De La Vina, James McDonald, Jesse Zapata Agenda Item: Rough draft of team report due by mid-October Discussion: Julius Gribou presented an outline of the topics he would like covered in the report, and asked that committee members to provide suggestions regarding other items they would like included. Rich Diem suggested we need to add emphasis on injecting globalization into the curriculum, and that this topic needs to be covered in more detailed in the survey the team is planning to send out to the UTSA community this week. Conclusions: Rich was invited to send questions that would address this for inclusion in the survey to Goutham Menon in the next day or two so that the survey can be distributed this week. Action items: Finalize the structure of the report Agenda Item: Final decision about content of survey and population to whom it will be sent. Discussion: Options about distribution were discussed by Steve Wilkerson. Suggestions for modifications were made by Christopher Wickham and Charles Crane. Conclusions: Team members decided that the survey should be distributed widely so as to obtain as much information as possible. Deans and Department Chairs will be asked to complete entire survey. Faculty will be asked to complete survey beginning with Question #2. Goutham will make minor modifications to wording of questions as suggested by other Team members. Action items: Distribute the survey this week. Begin identifying discussion groups. Agenda Item: Identifying information that can be collected while waiting for survey results. Conclusions: Charles Crane will provide Team with information about the International Programs currently being offered, the MOU's UTSA currently has with international colleges and universities, and the services that are available to support international/globalization efforts. Christopher Wickham and Marianne Lewis will review the Undergraduate and Graduate catalogs to determine which courses UTSA offers that contain international/global content, Fred Hample will find examples of institutions that we may wish to use as aspirational peers for benchmarking purposes, and Rich Diem will look at other universities and how they are intergrating international issues/globalization into their curriculum and campus. Action items: Julius will identify a subset of the Team to work with him to write the first draft. Comments/concerns: CHALLENGING SCHEDULE FOR THE FALL SEMESTER! Next meeting date: 9/25/06 Respectfully submitted by Dorothy Flannagan on 9/11/06

September 25, 2006

Present: Julius Gribou, Fred Hample, Richare Diem, Daniel Gelo, David Johnson, Goutham Menon, Christopher Wickham, Charles Crane, Mariane Lewis, Dorothy Flannagan Absent: Victoria Smith, Lynda DeLaVina, Jim McDonald Agenda Item: Status of Survey Discussion: Survey has been distributed and currently has a 27% response rate Conclusions: We will make survey available for a few more days in order to allow for more responses to be obtained. Action items: Goutham will consolidate responses and share them with committee by Friday. Agenda Item: Information about existing international MOA's, programs, and other activities. Discussion: Charles shared list of schools with which UTSA has MOA's. Fred sent list of countries from which there are students attending UTSA and the number of students from each country who are currently enrolled. Charles said there are currently 912 international students. Conclusions: Information about study abroad programs and other activities that promote globalization would be useful to have. Action items: Charles will provided committee with list of study abroad programs and other activities about which he has information. Agenda Item: Review of other information requested by committee Discussion: Marianne and Chris shared lists of courses with international curriculum with committee. Conclusions: Fred and Rich will work together to develop list of aspirational peers and models of integrated curricula. Action Items: Fred and Rich will gather information and share with committee. Charles will get details about this year's conference held annually at University of Minnesota for the purpose of discussing how to internationalize the curriculum. Agenda Item: Drafting Committee Report Discussion: Julius noted that rough draft is due very soon. Conclusions: All gathered information must be submitted to Julius and committee members by the end of the week. Action Items: Committee members will send suggested goals, objectives, strategies, and metrics to Julius by Friday, October 6, 2006. The committee will discuss all of these materials at the next meeting on October 9, 2006. Subsequently, Julius will work with a subset of the committee to draft an initial document for the committee's review. Comments/concerns Next meeting date: 10/9/06 Respectfully submitted, Dorothy Flannagan, 9/25/06

October 9, 2006

Present: Julius Gribou, Fred Hample, Richare Diem, David Johnson, Goutham Menon, Christopher Wickham, Victoria Smith, Charles Crane Absent: Lynda DeLaVina, Jim McDonald Daniel Gelo, Mariane Lewis, Dorothy Flannagan Agenda Item: Review of Information Discussion: Thanks to Goutham's hard work, the survey results were available for discussion in the form of an interim report. While some gaps and inaccuracies were identified, the report gives a helpful preliminary view of the state of UTSA's international/globalization efforts, as perceived by deans, chairs, and faculty. It was noted that departments apparently tend to use their foreign faculty to teach international content. It was also noted that faculty travel and student programs tends to target English speaking and Western European destinations. It was stressed that UTSA's globalization strategies should go beyond international content of courses and look at competencies that should be expected of an institution that embraces globalization. Writing courses, learning communities and the core curriculum were mentioned as key locations where globalization might programmatically be promoted. Conclusions: The survey results will form an important part of the preliminary report of the Globalization Team. Action items: Charles Crane agreed to find the number of faculty who have held Fulbrights and other international awards. The survey results will continue to be refined. Agenda Item: Rough draft input & writers Discussion: Julius sought volunteers to assist with composition of the rough draft of the team's report. Conclusions: Charles Crane, Vicky Jones, and Goutham Menon will join Julius at the word processor. Action items: The writing team will meet on Thursday, 10.12.06 at 8:00 AM in the Monterey building, Room MNT360. Agenda Item: Strategies Discussion: Julius requested that all team members use the four-column Strategic Planning Worksheet to lay out goals, objectives, strategies, and metrics. Conclusions: The form will be made available electronically. Action Items: Team members who have not yet done so are asked to complete the form and submit it to Julius by Wednesday, Oct. 11, at 5:00 p.m. Next meeting date: 11/6/06 Respectfully submitted, Christopher Wickham, 10/10/06

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