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Avoiding Stereotypes: Utilizing A Flipped Framework Of Hofstede’S Cultural Dimensions For Teacher-Student Intercultural Awareness, Maha Azzazi

Research and Reflection on Learning and Teaching in Higher Education

Cultural differences are increasingly being analyzed in a globalized world to minimize conflict and optimize successful intercultural interactions. Among the most used cultural frameworks is Hofstede's cultural dimensions. This framework has, however, been criticized as stereotyping nations and individuals from different countries instead of raising awareness and minimizing cultural conflicts. The paper will utilize Hofstede's cultural dimensions to discuss the differences and similarities of cultural behavior within these dimensions. Therefore, a framework will be developed to outline differences in cultural behaviors for educators and students, which can be analyzed on a case-by-case basis without intersecting with nationality and country of …

Interpreting English-Medium Instruction In Affiliated Colleges In India From A Third Space Perspective, Matthew A. Witenstein

Thomas C. Hunt Building a Research Community Day

English-medium instruction (EMI) as a global phenomenon continues to rapidly grow in non-native English-speaking countries (Dang et al. 2021). In Asia, evidence of this growth can be inferred by the sheer number of EMI-centered journal articles and edited volumes (Barnard and Hasim 2018; Fenton-Smith et al. 2017). I focus this study on affiliated colleges in India, where EMI interests reflect the aforementioned. Organizationally, the Indian higher education system is based on University of London’s federal university (Singh, 2003) where universities provide central functions like curricular and exam development and degree conferral. Colleges affiliated to them contain nearly 90% of the …

Improving Access For Women In Technical Vocational Education Training (Tvet) In India: A Policy Gap Analysis, Matthew A. Witenstein

Thomas C. Hunt Building a Research Community Day

This presentation provides findings from the first stage of my 2020 SEHS Summer Research Grant entitled “Improving access for women in Technical Vocational Education Training (TVET) in India: A policy gap analysis”. The focus centers on the first article to emerge from this work entitled “A bottom‑up approach to improve women’s access to technical and vocational education and training in India: Examining a non‑formal education upskilling programme”. The International Review of Education (IRE) first published the article online March 6, 2021 for the August 2021 issue.

Firstly, I will provide background context to the larger project (all accomplished with co-researcher …

Enhancing Global Consciousness On College Campuses And Beyond: Proceedings Of The 2020 Global Voices Symposium, Julius A. Amin

Proceedings: 2020 Global Voices on the University of Dayton Campus

The Global Voices Symposium is designed to educate, inform, and contribute to ongoing conversations to strengthen global consciousness and awareness on the University of Dayton’s campus and the larger Dayton community. It brings together faculty, staff, students, and community leaders to discuss and find ways to enhance global engagement within our community.

These proceedings contain content provided by the participants. Some presenters did not include their presentation materials in the proceedings. Texts have been edited for clarity.

Contributors, listed alphabetically:

• Frances Albanese
• Julius A. Amin
• Amy Anderson
• Philip Appiah-Kubi
• Paul Benson
• Treavor Bogard
• Anne Crecelius
• Sangita Gosalia
• Elizabeth Henninger
• Furaha …

Cover And Front Matter, University Of Dayton. Alumni Chair In Humanities

Proceedings: 2020 Global Voices on the University of Dayton Campus

Front cover, half-title, table of contents, symposium program, presenter biographies

Introduction: Enhancing Global Consciousness On College Campuses And Beyond, Julius A. Amin

Proceedings: 2020 Global Voices on the University of Dayton Campus

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Opening Remarks, Paul H. Benson

Proceedings: 2020 Global Voices on the University of Dayton Campus

Markers of pointed challenges to global understanding, relationship building across national boundaries, and development of resilient intercultural competencies abound. Each day, we are confronted with news of geopolitical conflict and violence, news of resurgent ethnocentric nationalisms, news of fear about cross-cultural contact and engagement, and signs of entrenched, willful ignorance about so many of the rich traditions, values, languages, and frameworks of meaning-making that shape the experience of the human family across the globe. As profoundly disturbing as these and related challenges are, it is vitally important for our educational and scholarly work as students, faculty, and staff that we …

Invocation, Joseph Kozar

Proceedings: 2020 Global Voices on the University of Dayton Campus

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Introduction Of Keynote Speaker, Amy E. Anderson

Proceedings: 2020 Global Voices on the University of Dayton Campus

It is my great honor and pleasure to call Dr. Julius Amin both a friend and colleague, and to introduce him to you this evening. I’m thrilled we have the opportunity to hear from Dr. Amin this evening about a critical global issue. I had the good fortune to travel with Julius to Cameroon about five years ago, and I learned so much from him. We appreciate his willingness to share his expertise and personal experiences about the current conflict and anglophone crisis in Cameroon.

A Dayton, Ohio, Community Casts Two Challenging Questions: Why Does Africa Matter? Why Care About Cameroon’S Anglophone Crisis?, Julius A. Amin

Proceedings: 2020 Global Voices on the University of Dayton Campus

Certainly, this topic sounds important, even if it also sounds a bit overwhelming. That word global can seem intimidating, particularly when even the local challenges us. But this evening I hope to narrow the globe down and speak about Africa, and about the ongoing Anglophone Conflict in Cameroon. My hope is to show how and why the African Continent and Cameroon matter to us in this room and beyond.

Why The Symposium On Global Voices Remains Relevant In Campus And Local Community Discourse, Joann Wright Mawasha, Furaha Henry-Jones, Ernesto Rosen Velásquez, Bernard Jones Jr.

Proceedings: 2020 Global Voices on the University of Dayton Campus

In this session, panelists addressed the question of relevance and importance of global awareness on college campuses and beyond. They approached the topic through different disciplinary and professional lenses as they discussed a wide array of experiences. Their presentations more fully humanized the impact of global awareness and raised questions and challenges that were vital to the overall symposium conversation.

Student Voices On Global Consciousness, Maya Smith-Custer, Emily Shanahan, Miranda Melone, Elizabeth Henninger, Isabel Gerardino Ríos

Proceedings: 2020 Global Voices on the University of Dayton Campus

University of Dayton students share their journeys engaging as citizens of the world and discuss why it is important to foster true community in a global society.

Alumni Voices Of The African Immersion Experience, Mary Niebler, Jessica Saunders, Hayley Ryckman Ruland, Adanna M. Smith, Frances Albanese, Benedict J. Kolber

Proceedings: 2020 Global Voices on the University of Dayton Campus

In this session, alumni shared their experiences of African immersion while they were students at UD and how that experience has carried with them in their careers and personal lives.

Enhancing Global Awareness On Campus, Sangita Gosalia, Shuang-Ye Wu, Treavor Bogard, Anne R. Crecelius, Philip Appiah-Kubi

Proceedings: 2020 Global Voices on the University of Dayton Campus

The Global Education Seminar (GES) program is in its ninth year of existence. The program serves as a key faculty development opportunity and supports respective academic units’ strategic priorities for internationalization. Faculty from across disciplines commit to participating in a one-year, seminar-structured program prior to a three-week immersive experience in a particular region. The intent is to provide faculty with a mechanism to expand their understanding of the world and, in doing so, shape new or existing curriculum, faculty or student collaborations, research opportunities, and/or other international opportunities. Regions of focus for the GES program have included China, Argentina, Peru, …

The Urgency Of Global Awareness, Julius A. Amin

Proceedings: 2020 Global Voices on the University of Dayton Campus

The 2020 Global Voices Symposium occurred at a momentous time in the world. During the Symposium there was chatter about the looming threat of novel coronavirus (COVID-19), which already had ravaged communities in China. Few predicted its rapid spread. Less than a week after the Symposium, many governors and local leaders in the U.S. ordered K-12 schools and universities to close as a preliminary measure to curb the spread of the virus. Three weeks after the Symposium, eight states in the U.S. issued shelter-in-place orders for their citizens, and other states were contemplating similar action. Repeatedly, people were being told …

Obstacles To Excellence: Academic Freedom And China's Quest For World-Class Universities, Chelsea Blackburn Cohen

Biennial Conference: The Social Practice of Human Rights

China’s government has made significant investments to develop universities that already compete with the world’s best. Their progress has captured global attention over the years, with universities around the world forging partnerships with institutions in the People’s Republic of China (PRC), and scholars and students around the world flocking to study, teach, and research in the country. But while China continues to stoke its ambitions for developing more world-class universities, respect for academic freedom and other human rights essential to quality higher education lags behind, leaving scholars and students at risk, and the country’s goals in balance.

With the recent …

Addressing Mass Atrocity In Chile: Learning And Unlearning As A Function Of Social Memory, Irving Epstein

Biennial Conference: The Social Practice of Human Rights

In this presentation, I reference a chapter, that is taken from my newly published book, Affect Theory and Comparative Education Discourse: Essays on Fear and Loathing in Response to Global Educational Policy and Practice (Bloomsbury Academic, 2019). I argue that when schools fail to address issues of social memory or basic existential questions involved in the pursuit of meaning-making for the purposes of understanding human rights issues, popular support evolves for other institutions to fill the void. Through examining the case of Chile, efforts to memorialize victims of the Pinochet dictatorship occur in the absence of robust initiatives to address …

Program: Keynote Address, Author Imbolo Mbue, Misty Thomas-Trout

Proceedings: 2018 Global Voices on the University of Dayton Campus

Program for keynote address of the Alumni Chair in the Humanities symposium "Global Voices on the University of Dayton Campus."

Program dimensions: 8.5 inches wide, 5.5 inches tall

Promotional Poster: Global Voices On The University Of Dayton Campus, Misty Thomas-Trout

Proceedings: 2018 Global Voices on the University of Dayton Campus

Promotional poster for the Alumni Chair in the Humanities symposium "Global Voices on the University of Dayton Campus" features schedule of sessions and a photo of the keynote speaker, Imbolo Mbue, author of the novel Behold the Dreamers.

Poster dimensions: 24 inches wide, 36 inches tall

Provost Remarks: Global Voices Symposium, Paul H. Benson

Proceedings: 2018 Global Voices on the University of Dayton Campus

Our studies of and engagements with global matters—people and practices, languages and histories, values and geographies—should not be regarded merely as a kind of overlay upon or supplement to whatever we might be inclined to think of as “our own,” as local, as domestic, as home. Our home is the world, the entire world—past, present, and future—in all of its dazzling multiplicity and variety. Whatever risks might attach to a naïve cosmopolitanism that undervalues the significance of our particular, localized practices, meanings, and relationships, it is essential for us to acknowledge, to explore, and embrace all of those global, …

Promotional Flier: Global Voices On The University Of Dayton Campus, Misty Thomas-Trout

Proceedings: 2018 Global Voices on the University of Dayton Campus

Promotional flier for the Alumni Chair in the Humanities symposium "Global Voices on the University of Dayton Campus" features schedule of sessions and a photo of the keynote speaker, Imbolo Mbue, author of the novel Behold the Dreamers.

Poster dimensions: 8.5 inches wide, 11 inches tall

Acknowledgments, Julius A. Amin

Proceedings: 2018 Global Voices on the University of Dayton Campus

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Global Connections And The Marianists, Una M. Cadegan

Proceedings: 2018 Global Voices on the University of Dayton Campus

For the past ten or fifteen years, I have been waging a one-person stealth campaign—I guess I am going to uncloak it today. That campaign is to change the university’s motto from Pro Deo et Patria (For God and Country) to Pro Deo et Mundo (For God and the World). “For God and Country,” adopted in 1920, reflected the sense among many American Catholics right after the First World War that they were, in a new way, fully American. “For God and the World” reflects our deepening sense today that our commitments and our awareness need to extend beyond national …

Thinking Critically About “Community”, Christopher Agnew

Proceedings: 2018 Global Voices on the University of Dayton Campus

Why hold this symposium now? In the past year, we have seen in this country a contest over definitions of community, over the basic rights of immigrants in this country, over the role of the U.S. in the wider world. Tensions are high, demagogues are out in force, and the results have been frightening to those targeted by the state, and frightening to those who see in these developments something too reminiscent of the worst parts of the twentieth century. It is appropriate in moments like this to appreciate the successes and recognize the problems, both realized and potential, that …

My Journey To And At Ud, Yanhui Hou

Proceedings: 2018 Global Voices on the University of Dayton Campus

In this presentation, a doctoral candidate shares her experience coming from her home in Shandong, Jinan, China, to the University of Dayton to earn a master's in higher education administration and doctorate in educational leadership.

Storytelling And Cross-Cultural Communication, Jia Yang

Proceedings: 2018 Global Voices on the University of Dayton Campus

Misunderstanding happens when a person is trying to apply a story of his/her native culture to people from another culture, and do not realize that the story might be interpreted differently by the audience. The same story may not deliver the same results as you predict in your native culture.

My Experience At The University Of Dayton, Amal Alrasheed

Proceedings: 2018 Global Voices on the University of Dayton Campus

“I am Amal. What is your name?” This “easy” phrase is what I used to say when I wanted to integrate within a new community back in Saudi Arabia. However, this phrase was the toughest phrase I could say out loud when I was a freshman at the University of Dayton. I faced a lot of challenges when I first came to UD. I was not prepared to handle the differences between my culture and the American culture. I wanted to be part of the UD community; however, people seemed uncomfortable whenever I opened a conversation. I had a tough …

Photos Of Session: Ud’S International Community, Julie Noeth

Proceedings: 2018 Global Voices on the University of Dayton Campus

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My International Experience And Perceptions Of American Culture, Blaise Mosengo

Proceedings: 2018 Global Voices on the University of Dayton Campus

I came to UD from Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo, one of the 54 countries in Africa. The Democratic Republic of Congo includes more than 250 tribes. Two principal values can define the Congolese culture, as well as the cultures of many other countries in Africa: hospitality and attachment to the family. In Congolese cultures, strangers are welcome and given particular care. In fact, being together is of a great value in this cultural environment. There is little room for individualism. We exist first as members of a family or a clan.

The perceptions of many …

Themes Which Shaped My Professional Journey, Jusuf Salih

Proceedings: 2018 Global Voices on the University of Dayton Campus

By the emergence of the new conditions of fast communication among diverse communities today, we are witnessing many changes in social, political, economic, and other aspects of modern societies. With mass communication and social media, the barriers among nations are falling, thus giving opportunities for openness and better understanding — but also to misleading and deceptive information. Therefore, these changes demand redefinition and reevaluation of the newly emerged conditions and accordingly adjustments to the new circumstances. Issues related to religion, ethnicity, and nationality are particularly complex and sensitive matters that can bridge but also divide people; therefore, they require thorough …