Global Leadership Initiative
The Global Century
Strategic Issues:
1. Partnering for Student Success
2. Education for the Global Century
3. Dynamic Learning Environment
The Global Century
The challenges that our students will
confront at graduation are those that are
increasingly global concerns, such as:
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Economic viability
Population and environmental change
Effects of technological advances
Ethical dilemmas
Generation and distribution of wealth
and resources
The Global Century
Our global society needs leaders and
entrepreneurs to shape progress toward:
• Innovation
• New technologies
• Civic and cultural engagement
Freshman:
‘Testing the waters’
GenEd
courses
First
Year
Seminars
Presidential Lecture
Discussions
Freshman:
‘Testing the waters’
GenEd
courses
First
Year
Seminars
Sophomore:
‘Diving in’
Retreats
GLI
Preceptorships
Presidential Lecture
Discussions
Linked
GenEd
courses
GenEd
courses
Freshman:
‘Testing the waters’
Sophomore:
‘Diving in’
Junior:
‘Hands on
experience’
First
Year
Seminars
Retreats
Presidential Lecture
Discussions
Linked
Gened
courses
GLI
Preceptorships
SERVICE
INTERNSHIP
STUDY
ABROAD
RESEARCH
Capstone Fair
GenEd
courses
Freshman:
‘Testing the waters’
Sophomore:
‘Diving in’
First
Year
Seminars
Retreats
Junior:
‘Hands on
experience’
Presidential Lecture
Discussions
Linked
Gened
courses
GLI
Preceptorships
SERVICE
INTERNSHIP
STUDY
ABROAD
RESEARCH
Capstone Fair
Senior Capstone :
‘Creating new
solutions’
CREATIVE
PROJECT
RESEARCH
APPLICATION
GenEd
courses
Freshman:
‘Testing the waters’
Sophomore:
‘Diving in’
First
Year
Seminars
Retreats
Junior:
‘Hands on
experience’
Presidential Lecture
Discussions
Linked
Gened
courses
GLI
Preceptorships
SERVICE
INTERNSHIP
STUDY
ABROAD
RESEARCH
Capstone Fair
Senior Capstone :
‘Creating new
solutions’
CREATIVE
PROJECT
RESEARCH
APPLICATION
Graduation Certificate
Diploma Notation
GLI Spring Seminars
JOUR 191H - The Net Effect
GEO 191N - The Power of Numbers
BIOB 191N - Human Genetics, Your Family, and Global Health Care
BADM 191E (pending approval)-Doing the Right Thing: A Global Strategy for Good Business
PSCI 191X - Issues in Global Public Health
MCLL 191L - Human Rights Issues in Contemporary Latin American Literature & Film
JOUR 110Y - News Literacy: Truth v. Truthiness
MUSI 191L – Music, Meaning and Manipulation
SOCI 191S - Food and Society in a Globalized World
BIOB 191N - Global Climate Change: Science, Society, and Ethics
President’s Lecture Series
Elizabeth Kolbert
"On Field Notes from a Catastrophe: An Evening
with Journalist Elizabeth Kolbert"
Kevin M. Cahill
"Romance and Reality in Humanitarian Action"
William Robinson
"Global Crisis: Immigration, Drug Trafficking, and
Financial Meltdown"
President’s Lecture Series
Ussama S. Makdisi
"America and the Arab Struggle for Self-Determination"
Stephen J. O'Brien
"Three Decades of Genomics and AIDS: Tiptoe Towards a Solution"
Forest Reinhardt
"Global Natural Resource Markets: Perspectives from Business Strategy”
Martin Bresnick
"Listening to Images, Hearing the Text: New Music that Engages the
Visual and the Literary"
James K. Galbraith
"The Great Financial Crisis and the Dismal Science"
2011 Cohort
Number of Fellows:
150-200
Number of Majors Represented:
36 majors
Percentage of Undeclared Majors:
23%
Percentage of Female Students:
62%
Percentage of Male Students:
38%
Percentage of In-State Students:
50%
Percentage of Out-of-State Students:
50%
GLI Committee
Daisy Rooks, Department of Sociology (Co-Chair)
Arlene Walker-Andrews, Office of the Provost, Academic Affairs (Co-Chair)
Ray Fanning, School of Journalism
Linda Gillison, Department of Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures
Charles Janson, Division of Biological Sciences
Michael Murphy, Department of Media Arts
Charles Palmer, Department of Health and Human Performance
Liz Roosa Millar, University Center, Student Affairs
Tobin Miller Shearer, Department of History
umt.edu/gli