About
The SGA Global Initiative is led by the SGA president and the SGA Committee on Diversity and Equality. Serving as an adviser to the initiative and providing much of the resource and opportunity content is the UWGB International Projects Coordinator, Jay Harris with help from student assistant Brianna Robb. Serving as blog moderator and adviser for the discussion sessions is Dr. Ekaterina Levintova. Information about international opportunities at or through UWGB will be provided by the Office of International Education and various faculty.
Site contributors:
Ekaterina Levintova, Assistant Professor, Public and Environmental Affairs (Political Science)
Alex Schreiber, UW-Green Bay SGA representative
Brianna Robb, UW-Green Bay student
Jay Harris, UW-Green Bay International Projects
Alex Liebmann, a UWGB student who created the Global Guy logo.
Why SGA?
Why the focus on global/international, and why led by the SGA? For starters, the SGA is about leadership and helping ensure the best education possible for UWGB students. Upon becoming SGA president, Sara Duginske promised innovative new policies and visionary changes. The Global Initiative is a proactive response to UWGB’s increasing emphasis on international education. The SGA is also responding to trends and reports on the national scene which suggest that excellence in education is only achieved with significant attention to global perspectives and international awareness. The same emphasis is encouraged by the national association of Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education, those who support student government activities on campuses across the country.
UWGB’s International Emphasis
- After Dr. Bruce Shepard became Chancellor at UW-Green Bay, he conducted an “environmental scan of campus and community.” When summarizing the results (“Educating the Chancellor,” July 2002), he outlined an action agenda including “Increasing international influences on campus.”
- In surveys conducted recently by UW-Green Bay, seniors ranked their knowledge of “contemporary global issues and problems” at low levels, while alumni said they felt weakest on “significance of major events in western civilization.”
- UWGB submitted its “Institutional Self-Study Report” recently as part of the accreditation process. The process requires an institution to assess “the usefulness of its curricula to students who will live and work in a global,diverse, and technological society” (Higher Learning Commission of the North Central Assocation of Colleges and Schools).
- “In keeping with its mission, international education has become a prominent feature of the UW-Green Bay learning experience. UW-Green Bay has expanded its educational opportunities for students to gain knowledge about and experience with other nations and cultures….These initiatives are consistent with the institutional mission and responsive to a world that increasingly has become a more diverse and global society.”
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