Dialogue and Desiloing: �A Dickinson College Story
SAMANTHA BRANDAUER, ASSOCIATE PROVOST AND EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
CENTER FOR GLOBAL STUDY AND ENGAGEMENT (CGSE)
DICKINSON COLLEGE
COLLABORATIVE CO-DIRECTOR
Adrienne Maree Brown's radical imagination “So, so much of the work, for me, of radical imagination is like, what does it look like to imagine beyond the constructs? What does it look like to imagine a future where we all get to be there, not causing harm to each other, and experiencing abundance?”
Tippet, K. (Host). (2022, 23 June). We are in the Time of New Suns. On Being. (Audio Podcast). Retrieved from https://onbeing.org/programs/adrienne-maree-brown-we-are-in-a-time-of-new-suns/
What was the Center for Global Study and Engagement Story?
Focus on Education Abroad
A high number of students study abroad at Dickinson Center's around the world
High faculty participation
Integrated across the curriculum
Which Became…
Focus on Global Campus
Study Abroad with reciprocity (international visiting scholars and exchange students and long deep ties to host communities)
International Students – support & integration
Global Learning includes Community Engagement and Sustainability
Students, faculty and staff need to develop an Intercultural skill-set
What was our campus story?
Pillars on our campus:
Sustainability
Global Engagement
Civic Action and Learning
A Growing Commitment to DEI
What was our Disruption in 2020.....?
Summer 2020 – Cross-cutting conversations
Action
Iterative
Trust
Strategic
Co-created
As you navigate through the rest of your life, be open to collaboration. Other people and other people's ideas are often better than your own. Find a group of people who challenge and inspire you, spend a lot of time with them, and it will change your life."
~Amy Poehler
Cross-cutting collaborators
Center for Global Study and Engagement
Center for Sustainability Education
Center for Civic Learning and Action
Office of Equity and Inclusivity
What are our shared Goals?
Cross-cutting conversations �and change within our centers...�
Institutional Change
New Frameworks, New Story��
Building Just, Inclusive and Sustainable Communities
More holistic approach – not just intercultural also power and positionality
Meaningful cross-campus collaborations with our Office of Equity and Inclusivity, Center for Sustainability Education and Center for Civic Learning and Action (de-siloing)
Partners around the world as collaborators, co-creators and co-learners
Working toward centering justice
What are some �Outcomes?
ONLINE OPEN ACCESS TOOLKIT: Interdependence: Global Solidarity and Local Actions
What are some �Outcomes?
Institutional Strategic Plan:
���What is your story now? ��What do you want it to be?
Hope is fundamental to learning and to living. Hope recruits the imagination, giving us temporary respite from the difficult present while we consider how things might be made different. Research tells us that, particularly during periods of uncertainty, hope tilts us toward action and toward engaging with life—even as we remain uncertain about what will happen next.
Denise J. Larsen, How to Learn and Lead from a Place of Hope