{"id":4799,"date":"2012-09-06T19:10:47","date_gmt":"2012-09-06T19:10:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/?p=4799"},"modified":"2012-09-12T19:19:11","modified_gmt":"2012-09-12T19:19:11","slug":"professors-book-on-global-citizenship-explores-national-trend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/2012\/09\/06\/professors-book-on-global-citizenship-explores-national-trend\/","title":{"rendered":"Professors&#8217; Book on Global Citizenship Explores National Trend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4800\" style=\"margin: 4px 3px;\" title=\"JoBethBook\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/files\/2012\/09\/JoBethBook.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/>As colleges and universities throughout the US, including KSC, realize the value of global connection, service, and partnerships that engage the local and international community, two faculty members have co-authored a book to give practical advice and inspiration to this important trend. Through their work with the international field course, Global Engagement, that&#8217;s required of all honors students, Geography Professor <a href=\"http:\/\/academics.keene.edu\/jmullens\/\"><strong>Jo Beth Mullens<\/strong><\/a> and Associate Professor of Education <a href=\"http:\/\/www.keene.edu\/academics\/research_cuper.cfm?&amp;print=1\"><strong>Prudence Cuper<\/strong><\/a> realized that the stories they were hearing and witnessing showing how important these international experiences were for students and accompanying faculty were worth telling and examining.<\/p>\n<p>They sent a proposal for a book, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.infoagepub.com\/products\/Fostering-Global-Citizenship\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Fostering Global Citizenship Through Faculty-Led International Programs<\/em><\/a> to Information Age Publishing and had a contract within 24 hours.\u00a0<!--more-->&#8220;I believe one of the key factors in IAP&#8217;s decision to work with us had to do with the current commitment, by colleges and universities across the country, to forwarding the idea of global citizenship by offering short-term, faculty-led field courses. This is a relatively new trend in higher education that is rapidly surpassing the more traditional study-abroad model. Our book delves into the history and trends in international education, while also providing useful curricular and logistic information for faculty new to this type of teaching,&#8221; Dr. Cuper explained.<\/p>\n<p>Each chapter of the book begins with a travel tale of KSC student experiences. &#8220;The book clearly shows how our College&#8217;s commitment (within the mission statement) to forwarding global citizenship is, in fact, realized within the Honors program courses,&#8221; Dr. Cuper said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As colleges and universities throughout the US, including KSC, realize the value of global connection, service, and partnerships that engage the local and international community, two faculty members have co-authored a book to give practical advice and inspiration to this important trend. Through their work with the international field course, Global Engagement, that&#8217;s required of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/2012\/09\/06\/professors-book-on-global-citizenship-explores-national-trend\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Professors&#8217; Book on Global Citizenship Explores National Trend<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":171,"featured_media":4800,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[432],"class_list":["post-4799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-faculty"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/171"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4799"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4805,"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4799\/revisions\/4805"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}