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Long History, New Beginnings
STEPHEN L. SALYER and JOCHEN FRIED STEPHEN L. SALYER and JOCHEN FRIED 
Long History, New Beginnings
By: Louise Hallman 
After 12 years, 71 sessions, and more than 3000 participants from 80 colleges and universities across the United States, 2015 saw one of Salzburg Global Seminar’s longest running programs – the Global Citizenship Program (GCP) – transform into a new independent NGO: the Global Citizenship Alliance. But this isn’t the end of global citizenship education at Salzburg Global.  Even though the long-running Global Citizenship Program no longer appears on the Salzburg Global annual list of programs, global citizenship education is still very much alive in Salzburg. Now both Salzburg Global Seminar and the newly-formed Global Citizenship Alliance offer programs in association with each other, underscoring both organizations’ commitment to innovative, highest quality programs. The Global Citizenship Alliance was established in the Fall of 2015 to continue, strengthen and expand the work of Salzburg Global’s successful Global Citizenship Program (GCP), which in its 12 years had become one of the largest, most systematic, and most comprehensive programs on global citizenship education in the United States (where most of the partner schools are based). The Alliance has now assumed operating responsibility for the GCP and will hold six seminars in 2016.  Following a consultative process extending over several months, the senior leadership of Salzburg Global Seminar and the GCP staff agreed to place the GCP, also formerly known as the International Study Program (ISP), on new footing. Growing interest by program partners in a range of global citizenship education programs – the US as well as in Europe – argued for a dedicated organization able to respond flexibly to the needs and expectations of program partners and alumni. Many of the aspects that made the GCP unique will inevitably remain in the seminars run by the Alliance. Since its beginnings in 2004, the program sought to inspire and enact change within individual participants and their peer groups at their home colleges or universities. But beyond this, the program also aspired to change the very higher education institutions from which the students, faculty and administrators came.  In this vein, the Alliance will continue to operate programs for students, faculty, and administrators of higher education institutions. For its first full year of operation, the student sessions will continue to run in Salzburg, either at its original home of Schloss Leopoldskron or Schlosswirt Anif, just outside of the city. The faculty and administrator session will be held in the German city of Potsdam. The Alliance will also start to explore options for offering other programs and workshops in the US and begin developing an online platform to share the impact their seminars have had on their alumni. Announcing the Alliance’s launch in September 2015, Salzburg Global President Stephen Salyer said: “Salzburg Global believes in the mission and goals of the GCP and feels great pride in what it has achieved. “Steady support by Salzburg Global has allowed the GCP to build long-term partnerships, secure grants, and create brand recognition in relationship to our unique campus at Schloss Leopoldskron. We are pleased to help the GCP transition to a new operating structure and look forward to a close relationship for many years to come.” “We are grateful for and excited by this opportunity to take global citizenship education to new heights,” added Jochen Fried, now President and CEO of the Global Citizenship Alliance, who conceived the GCP and had been its Director ever since.  CONTINUING COMMITMENT
While the GCP team might be moving on to pastures new, Salzburg Global Seminar is still involved in global citizenship education programs.  In addition to its supporting role of the GCA, Salzburg Global Seminar continues to run the Mellon-Global Citizenship Program (M-GCP) and support the summer programs of the Global Citizenship Institute at St. Mark’s School in Southborough, MA, USA. Launched as a follow-on of the Mellon Community Fellows Initiative and with continued financial support of the Andrew. W. Mellon Foundation, the Mellon-Global Citizenship Program held its first Global Citizenship Summit in Atlanta, GA, USA, in October 2015. The Summit brought together 40 faculty and administrators from select Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) and members of the Appalachian College Association (ACA). They shared and received feedback on deepening their institutions’ global citizenship education work, expanded and enhanced multi-campus partnerships, and established new collaborative program activities. The M-GCP also awarded its first round of grants to support a Visiting Specialist Series whereby a global citizenship education expert will visit multiple schools to meet with faculty, administrators, and students. The grants also support Study Away Incentive Programs, which allows multiple institutions to coordinate on a shared domestic “study away” experience, an Undergraduate Research Conference, and participation in the next Global Citizenship Summit. The Global Citizenship Institute, conceived by Salzburg Global Fellow and St. Mark’s School teacher Laura Appell-Warren, is an innovative collaboration between the high school and Salzburg Global that adopts and adapts the GCP for the high school sector. It will hold its third summer program for high school students and their teachers in 2016. As Dr. Walter Fluker, Martin Luther King Jr. Professor of Ethical Leadership at Boston University School of Theology stated at the opening of the M-GCP’s 2015 Summit: “Global citizenship education is a conscious and courageous commitment to the future.” This is a commitment Salzburg Global Seminar will continue to honor.
ONLINE RESOURCES The reports from the Mellon Global Citizenship Initiative “Creating Sites of Global Citizenship” and the inaugural Global Citizenship Summit of the Mellon-Global Citizenship Program (M-GCP) are available online to read, download, and share. SEE ONLINE: m-gcp.SalzburgGlobal.org 
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Global Citizenship Summit Report
Global Citizenship Summit Report
By: Patrick Wilson 

Report of the inaugural Global Citizenship Summit is now online

The report from the inaugural Global Citizenship Summit is now available to read, download and share. The summit that took place from October 29-31 2015 at Clark Atlanta University in Atlanta, GA was held as part of the Salzburg Global Seminar Mellon-Global Citizenship Program (M-GCP).

This first summit focused on the theme of Sustainability and Innovation. An Undergraduate Research Conference with the theme, Global Sustainability: Cultural and Scientific Issues and Perspectives, was organized by Lindsey Wilson College and held in concurrently at Clark Atlanta University on October 30.

Approximately fifty educators and practitioners representing around twenty of the M-GCP institutions were brought together at the summit to showcase innovative global citizenship education approaches, share information and results, align work across the various activities of the Fellows, develop new spin-off activities and plan for the activities' ongoing sustainability.

Also attending the summit were prominent experts in global citizenship education as well as members of the Advisory Council of the M-GCP.

The summit built on the rich history and legacy of civil and human rights as global engagement by partnering with Atlanta-based institutions for events at the Jimmy Cart Presidential Library and Museum and the National Center for Civil and Human Rights, Inc.

The M-GCP has continued its work with a second round of project activity grants being awarded earlier in the year and also by making preparations for a second Global Citizenship Summit planned for the fall of 2016.

The Mellon Global Citizenship Program builds on the Mellon Fellow Community Initiative and supports thirty-six colleges and universities representing select HBCUs and members of the Appalachian College Association in their ongoing efforts to develop, implement and expand global citizenship education activities on their campuses and in collaboration with others involved in the M-GCP.

The Mellon Global Citizenship Program is made possible thanks to the generous support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.


More information about the Mellon Global Citizen Program can be found at the M-GCP website: m-gcp.salzburgglobal.org

 
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Salzburg Global Fellow Updates - March 2016
Salzburg Global Fellow Updates - March 2016
By: Patrick Wilson 
Compilation of our Fellows' recent achievements and landmarks Have you got some news - a new book, a promotion, a call for grant proposals - that you'd like to share with the Salzburg Global Fellowship? Email Salzburg Global Seminar Fellowship Manager Jan Heinecke.
Belabbes Benkredda, Fellow of Session 544 | Strengthening Diversity and Inclusion in Egypt, Libya, Tunisia and Yemen andSession 508 | Getting Transition Right A rights-based approach towards Diversity and Inclusivity, has been chosen as a 2016 Yale World Fellow. Each year, Yale University invites a group of exemplary mid-career professionals from a wide range of fields and countries for an intensive four-month period of academic enrichment and leadership training. Benkredda is part of the 15th cohort of Yale World Fellows whose mission is to cultivate and empower a network of globally engaged leaders committed to making the world a better place. Read the full press release hereJanikke Klem is a Fellow of the 48th International Study Program on Global Citizenship (ISP). Klem has been named among Silicon Valley's Women of Influence by the Silicon Valley Business Journal for her position as Vice President of Technology Credit Union. Her colleague Kate Duggan was also honored. CEO of Tech CU, Barbara Kamm said “Both Kate and Janikke have been instrumental in their areas of expertise -- ensuring that we serve the needs of our members while supporting our business units.” You can read the full article hereMalinda McPherson and Charles Limb are Fellows ofSession 547 | The Neuroscience of Art: What are the Sources of Creativity and Innovation? Their work has been featured in an article by the Atlantic entitled “Mapping Creativity in the Brain” that highlights new research on the neuroscience of creativity. The article references research led by McPherson and co-authored by Limb that asked jazz pianists to improvise in an fMRI scanner; the musicians were instructed to first review photographs of a woman wearing a positive, negative, or neutral expression, and then to try to match the photo’s mood with their improvised melodies. You can read the full article about their findings hereSridhar Rangayan is a Fellow ofSession 506 | Global LGBT Forum: LGBT and Human Rights: New Challenges, Next Steps. Rangayan was selected by a worldwide nomination to be part of the British Council’s inaugural “fiveFilms4freedom” Global List. The list consists of 33 inspiring people from 23 different countries who are changing social perceptions about LGBTQ communities throughout the world. As well as this, his documentary Breaking Free has won the Best Editing category of India’s 63rd National Film Awards. To read more details about the film and the fiveFilms4freedom Global List, please read our article hereDanish Sheikh, Fellow ofSession 551 | Global LGBT Forum - Strengthening Communities: LGBT Rights & Social Cohesion, has been featured in an article by the New York Times entitled “Dreaming of Gay Rights in Delhi.” The article talks about Danish’s assistance with two briefs in the Indian Supreme Court that is attempting to decriminalize homosexuality in India as well as his struggles he faced with his family accepting his sexuality. You can read our full article about Sheikh’s experiences here. Leana Wen, Fellow of Session 559 | Hooked on Health Care: Designing Strategies for Better Health, has appeared on a panel with President Barack Obama. The panel was moderated by Dr. Sanjay Gupta at the National Rx Drug Abuse & Heroin Summit in Atlanta, Georgia on March 29, 2016. On the panel Wen discussed Baltimore’s innovative work on addiction recovery. Wen is the Baltimore City Health Commissioner and along with the President, was joined by two people in long-term recovery, Crystal Oertle and Justin Luke Riley, who shared their inspiring stories. When commenting on the panel she said “It was a great honor to represent our City, and set the record straight on addiction: that it is a disease; that treatment exists; that recovery is possible.” The panel discussion can be seen in full below.
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Global Citizenship Institute Opens Registration for Summer Program
Registration for this year's Summer Global Citizenship Institute program is now openRegistration for this year's Summer Global Citizenship Institute program is now open
Global Citizenship Institute Opens Registration for Summer Program
By: Patrick Wilson 
Global Citizenship Institute seeks to foster responsible global citizens in schools for third year running The Global Citizenship Institute is hosting its third summer program at St. Mark’s School in Southborough, MA, USA from July 10 to 16, 2016. GCI is an innovative collaboration between St Mark’s School and Salzburg Global Seminar that aims to promote problem solving of both global and local significance by offering education and support to faculty and students from public, private and international high schools. Participants will have the opportunity to listen to leaders in the field of global citizenship and work with teachers trained at Salzburg Global Seminar. They will also work collaboratively with both school teams and teams from around the world to create action plans to take back home to their schools. The goal of the GCI is to offer an opportunity for students and faculty from diverse schools to explore, together with leaders in the field of global citizenship, the meaning of global citizenship and its implications on the local and global level for them as individuals, citizens, and as members of institutions. For teachers and students alike, the program offers a wealth of experience, a chance to make new connections as well as understand the responsibilities we all face as global citizens. The subsequent action plans formed at the program can then also teach colleagues, peers and students at the participants' home institutions about global citizenship. Outside of the classroom, there will also be opportunity to explore Boston, home of the Freedom Trail and other exciting sights like the USS ConstitutionThe Museum of Fine Arts, the Science Museum and much more. St. Mark’s School became a partner institution of Salzburg Global Seminar's long-running Global Citizenship Programme in 2011 and at the time was the first high school to send teachers to the program which usually is for higher education institutions only. The idea was formed that St. Mark’s would emulate the program by adopting and adapting it for the high school sector. GCI has also released a video from last year’s students discussing how they got engaged at the program and how future applications can as well.
If you’re interested in learning how to become a more engaged global citizen and create an action plan for your school, follow this link to register for the July program: http://gc-institute.com/registration Applications are on a first come first serve basis.
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Mellon Global Citizenship Program Announces Second Round of Grants
Mellon Global Citizenship Program Announces Second Round of Grants
By: M-GCP Team 
Awards to support global citizenship education at, and through partnerships among, Historically Black Colleges and Universities and Appalachian College Association members  Salzburg Global Seminar is pleased to announce the second round of grants awarded to select Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and members of the Appalachian College Association (ACA) to support the implementation of innovative global citizenship education programs.  These grants are made possible through the generous support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The grants are a feature of the Mellon Global Citizenship Program launched in 2014 to deepen and consolidate the successful global citizenship education work initiated with 36 partner institutions. The M-GCP is the outgrowth of the multi-year Mellon Fellow Community Initiative (MFCI), which ran from 2008 to 2013.  In 2015, seven grants were awarded through the M-GCP, and in 2016 an additional six grants have been awarded on a competitive basis.  The grants support partner institutions expanding and deepening their work as sites of global citizenship.  A unique feature of these grants is that they simultaneously support collaboration between HBCU and ACA member institutions.  The ACA and HBCU institutions share many common attributes based on their long histories serving unique and diverse student bodies and the broader communities around them.  Their distinct communities and geographical distances, however, have not encouraged collaboration among them, but the M-GCP (and MFCI before that) have helped the institutions to test and validate the multiple benefits that result from these cooperative efforts.  The M-GCP is also supporting the partner institutions in planning for the creation of a new independent consortium to facilitate ongoing collaboration as leaders in the field of global citizenship education.  The Salzburg Global program directors that originated the global citizenship program, Jochen Fried and David Goldman, explain that “ ‘Globalization at home’ is about teaching and modeling inclusion, diversity and reciprocity in the context of how one relates to an increasingly interdependent world. It is as much about crossing national or state borders as it is about crossing ‘borders of the mind’ by reaching out to ‘otherness.’ … The specific constellation of ACA and HBCU institutions offers a unique opportunity, through cooperation, to make ‘globalization at home’ and ‘citizenship without borders’ a powerful and tangible learning experience.”     The institutions receiving grants through the M-GCP will be supported in their efforts to expand collaborative activities, demonstrating the powerful value-added impact of cooperation among ACA and HBCU institutions, and to continue to work towards the creation of an independent organization to support ongoing joint projects and initiate new collaborations related to global citizenship education.   “Global citizenship is no longer just an idealized rhetorical term used in textbooks.  It is the reality that today's students will live as part of their future.  Those of us who are college educators will fail to provide future-focused preparation if we overlook this aspect of our students' educational experience,” stated Betty Overton-Adkins, an M-GCP Advisory Council member and Director of the National Forum on Higher Education for the Public Good at the University of Michigan.   The vital importance of global citizenship education for students was articulated by Sederra Ross (then a senior at Clark Atlanta University) at the 2015 Global Citizenship Summit, “Global citizenship education forces me to operate outside of my comfort zone. As an aspiring green chemist, [it] has given me the tools to make myself a better citizen and a better person. It’s like I have superpowers.”  This round of grants includes support for Visiting Specialist Series whereby a global citizenship education expert will visit multiple schools to meet with faculty, administrators, and students; Study Away Incentive Programs whereby multiple institutions will coordinate on a shared domestic ‘study away’ experience; an Undergraduate Research Conference; and a Global Citizenship Summit. To further consolidate and demonstrate the benefits of HBCU-ACA collaboration and build towards a long-term multi-institution consortium across these systems, the Undergraduate Research Conference and the Global Citizenship Summit will both be held this year in conjunction with the Appalachian College Association’s annual summit which takes place from September 29 to October 2 in Kingsport, Tennessee.   The following grants are being awarded for 2016  •Hampton University and Bluefield College: Global Directions of the Progressive Generation (Visiting Specialist Series) •Florida Memorial University and Berea College: Global African (Diaspora) Citizenship (Study Away Incentive Program) •Dillard University and University of Charleston: Immigration through the Lens of Global Citizenship (Study Away Incentive Program) •Howard University and Davis & Elkins College: Global Education – HBCU & ACA Collaborative Enrichment (Study Away Incentive Program) •Lindsey Wilson College (lead institution), Bennett College, Brevard College, Clark Atlanta University, and Ferrum College: Global Citizenship: Exploring Problems , Finding Solutions (Undergraduate Research Conference held concurrent to the Global Citizenship Summit) •Lindsey Wilson College (lead institution), Bennett College, Brevard College, Clark Atlanta University, and Ferrum College: Strength through Diversity: Partnering for Effective Global Citizenship Education (Global Citizenship Summit)  Salzburg Global Seminar congratulates all of the institutions that have been selected for grant awards.  
More information about the M-GCP can be found in the attached overview, as well as at the M-GCP website.  Please contact David Goldman at DGoldman@SalzburgGlobal.org for enquiries related to the M-GCP.  
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Colleges and Universities Re-Unite to Strengthen Efforts Toward Global Citizenship Education
Participants and speakers at the Global Citizenship Summit in Atlanta, GA, USAParticipants and speakers at the Global Citizenship Summit in Atlanta, GA, USA
Colleges and Universities Re-Unite to Strengthen Efforts Toward Global Citizenship Education
By: Adam Beeson 

Historically Black Colleges and Universities and members of the Appalachian College Association further partnerships at inaugural Global Citizenship Summit

More than 40 faculty and administrators from select Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) and members of the Appalachian College Association (ACA) convened at the first annual Global Citizenship Summit to share and receive feedback on deepening global citizenship education work, expand and enhance multi-campus partnerships, and establish new collaborative program activities. The Summit was hosted by Clark Atlanta University and co-organized by Morehouse and Spelman Colleges, October 29-31, 2015. 

“Global citizenship education is a conscious and courageous commitment to the future,” Dr. Walter Fluker, Martin Luther King Jr. Professor of Ethical Leadership at Boston University School of Theology, told Summit participants. “We are not sure how we will get to where we are going, but we are prepared to make this first step together.”

The Summit, which included programs at the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and Museum as well as the Center for Civil and Human Rights, was a result of a competitive grant process organized as part of the Mellon Global Citizenship Program (M-GCP) of Salzburg Global Seminar. The M-GCP was launched in 2014 to further the innovative work that moved 36 US colleges and universities – all of which are either HBCUs or members of the ACA – toward becoming sites of global citizenship education as part of the Mellon Fellow Community Initiative.  

Focusing on the theme Sustainability and Innovation, participants in the Summit heard from world-class speakers on global citizenship education and outlined concrete next steps for the creation of the Global Education Consortium, an independent organization that will support activities and partnerships developed through the M-GCP. An undergraduate research conference organized by Lindsey Wilson College was held concurrent to the Summit at Clark Atlanta University and was an opportunity for students to engage directly in the core theme and present their own innovations and ideas. 

“Global citizenship education is the umbrella that captures various projects found across university spaces,” Dr. Ronald A. Johnson, president of Clark Atlanta University, said. “One benefit of global citizenship collaboration is that we improve our understanding of each other and how we relate to the world itself. Universities must look at mechanisms for multi-campus collaboration to prepare students to move to a place in which they are more accepting and more understanding of the dynamics that make the human community who we are and how we all fit in the context of this planet. To me, that is at the heart of global citizenship education.”

The Summit offered 2015 M-GCP grantees the opportunity to discuss the process and results of recent multi-campus programmatic activities, including the global education visiting specialist series Global Citizenship Revisited: New Approaches to Achieve Global Competencies between Ferrum College, Bennett College, and King University, along with a partnership between Florida Memorial University and Berea College on Global African Diaspora Citizenship. Dr. Bettie Starr, vice president for academic affairs at Lindsey Wilson College, described the upcoming study away incentive program Trading Spaces, a collaboration between her institution and Clark Atlanta University, as an opportunity for urban and rural students to gain new experiences and perspectives that may otherwise not be available to them.

“Global citizenship education is a vibrant and integrated part of our campus,” Starr said. “We have revised our general education requirements to include the student-learning outcome ‘engaged local and global citizenship,’ and we have started a Center for Global Citizenship on campus. When the opportunity arose to collaborate with HBCUs, we jumped on it.” 

Students benefiting from the activities of the M-GCP also had the opportunity to address the value and impact of global citizenship on their educational experiences. 

“Global citizenship education forces me to operate outside of my comfort zone,” Sederra Ross, a senior chemistry major at Clark Atlanta University, told Summit participants. “As an aspiring green chemist, global education has given me the tools to make myself a better citizen and a better person. It’s like I have superpowers.” 

Throughout the Summit, participants met in thematic issue groups to identify opportunities for future multi-campus collaboration on global citizenship education programs. The Leadership Circle, a working group of senior administrators from M-GCP partner institutions, met with M-GCP Advisory Council members to outline specific plans for a new independent consortium to facilitate ongoing collaboration as leaders in the field of global citizenship education once the current program activities end in 2017.

In addition to deepening global citizenship work across academic institutions, the Summit also addressed the need for colleges and universities to form strategic partnerships outside of academia. M-GCP Advisory Council member Dr. Yolanda Moses moderated a panel of experts at the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and Museum that included Professor Wallace Ford, founder of Fordworks LLC, and Dr. Jennie K. Lincoln, director of The Americas Program at The Carter Center.

“The first study abroad programs at universities were a choice,” Lincoln said. “Global education is no longer a choice. The world is becoming flat, and the requirement for educators is to prepare students to be able to function in that world. Developing strategic partnerships between academia and the private sector, government, and non-profit organizations is critical.”

At The National Center for Civil and Human Rights, Inc, civil rights leader and former United States Ambassador to the United Nations Andrew Young, encouraged Summit participants and students from the Undergraduate Research Conference to identify strategic opportunities for interdisciplinary collaboration on solving the world’s most pressing issues. Fellow panelist Carlotta Arthur, program director of the Clare Boothe Luce Program at the Henry Luce Foundation, concurred, and reminded the participants both how unique and highly valuable the collaboration among the HBCU and ACA schools is.  

“The specific constellation of ACA and HBCU institutions offers a unique opportunity, through cooperation, to make ‘globalization at home’ and ‘citizenship without borders’ a powerful and tangible learning experience,” said M-GCP manager David Goldman.

Other speakers at the Global Citizenship Summit and Undergraduate Research Conference included Dr. Maghan Keita, director of the Institute for Global Interdisciplinary Studies at Villanova University; Anne Gahongayire, former Secretary General, Supreme Court, Rwanda; Deborah J. Richardson, interim CEO of The National Center for Civil and Human Rights, Inc; and Dr. Champa Patel, director of Campaigns Programme and interim director of the South East Asia and Pacific Regional Office at Amnesty International.


More information about the Mellon Global Citizen Program can be found at the M-GCP website: m-gcp.salzburgglobal.org

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Salzburg Global Seminar Proudly Announces the Launch of the Global Citizenship Alliance
Stephen Salyer and Jochen Fried officially sign the GCA into being at a celebratory ceremony at Schloss LeopoldskronStephen Salyer and Jochen Fried officially sign the GCA into being at a celebratory ceremony at Schloss Leopoldskron
Salzburg Global Seminar Proudly Announces the Launch of the Global Citizenship Alliance
By: Salzburg Global Seminar staff 

Newly established organization to operate Salzburg Global Seminar’s successful Global Citizenship Program

After 12 years, 71 sessions, and more than 3000 participants from 80 colleges and universities in the United States, the
Global Citizenship Program (GCP) is reorganizing to increase its scope and streamline its operations. The GCP’s staff have formed an independent organization, the Global Citizenship Alliance, which is assuming operating responsibility for global citizenship education programs previously run under Salzburg Global’s aegis. The Alliance will continue to offer sessions “in association with Salzburg Global Seminar,” underscoring both organizations’ commitment to innovative, highest quality programs. Following a consultative process extending over several months, the senior leadership of Salzburg Global Seminar and the GCP staff agreed to place the GCP, formerly known as the International Study Program (ISP), on new footing. Growing interest by program partners in a range of global citizenship education programs – close to home as well as overseas – argued for a dedicated organization able to respond flexibly to the needs and expectations of program partners and alumni.  Areas of interest for the newly formed Alliance include:
  • offering GCP sessions and workshops at locations in the United States and at the long-standing anchor location in Salzburg;
  • tailor-making programs for GCP alumni and other constituencies;
  • increasing input by GCP stakeholders, including engagement by partner institutions, faculty and students in program design, curriculum development and new initiatives.
“Salzburg Global believes in the mission and goals of the GCP and feels great pride in what it has achieved,” said Salzburg Global President Stephen Salyer. “Steady support by Salzburg Global has allowed the GCP to build long-term partnerships, secure grants and create brand recognition in relationship to our unique campus at Schloss Leopoldskron. We are pleased to help the GCP transition to a new operating structure, and look forward to a close relationship for many years to come.” “We are grateful for and excited by this opportunity to take global citizenship education to new heights,” commented Jochen Fried, President of the Global Citizenship Alliance, who conceived the GCP twelve years ago and had been its Director ever since. “From its beginning, the GCP has operated in close partnership with dedicated colleges and universities, and with a core faculty who have given the program inspiration and depth.  Now that partnership will further intensify. With participants from ages 17 to 70, we can together make global citizenship an essential ingredient in 21st century education.”  Astrid Schroeder, Chief Operating Officer of the Global Citizenship Alliance and former Program Director of the GCP added: “GCP partner institutions have built on their Salzburg experience to launch global education programs suitable for the communities they serve. The Global Citizenship Alliance will help expand these efforts and foster active cooperation among our partners.” On October 18, the GCA Board of Directors met for the first time to ratify the organization’s operating structure and elected Jochen Fried its president.  For 2016, the GCA has already announced plans for seven sessions, with additional activities under discussion with partner colleges and universities. For latest information, consult the new GCA website at www.GlobalCitizenshipAlliance.org.
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Global Citizenship and Universal Human Rights
Tarrant College students will form more than half the participants for GCP68
Global Citizenship and Universal Human Rights
By: Rachitaa Gupta 
Students from Texas, Kentucky and Florida come to Salzburg for GCP 68 Students from Texas, Kentucky, and Florida arrived in Salzburg this weekend for the 68th session of the Global Citizenship Program (GCP), May 23 to 30, 2015. This GCP will see 32 students from four different colleges of US come together to learn what it means to be global citizens and its relation to universal human rights. While more than half of the students will be coming from Tarrant County College, Fortworth, TX, students from Eastern Kentucky University, Houston Community College, TX and Seminole State College, FL will also be a part of the fellows at the session. Salzburg Global has a decades-long commitment to education and the idea that education can lead to a more peaceful, prosperous, stable, and sustainable world, and too this end launched its Global Citizenship Program 11 years ago to promote global citizenship education around the world. Salzburg Global firmly believes that educational institutions help create the next generation of globally aware and critically thinking leaders. The Global Citizenship Program's core mission is to facilitate institutional change in educational enterprises, primarily colleges and universities. Salzburg Global tries to take a very inclusive approach by partnering with educational institutions throughout US and encouraging them to promote the idea of global citizenship through their curriculum and policies. Faculty for the session include Santwana Dasgupta, director of Partnership for the Education of Children in Afghanistan, who has been a faculty member of several GCP sessions. She will be joined by Michael Daxner, professor of sociology and president emeritus of the University of Oldenburg, and senior research fellow at Berghof Conflict Research in Germany. Other faculty members include, David Goldman, former associate director of education at Salzburg Global and Alex Seago, Dean of the School of Communications, Arts and Social Sciences at Richmond, The American International University in London, England. Reinhold Wagnleitner, a core faculty member of the GCP will also be joining the session. Throughout the week long session, GCP students will partake in lectures on topics such as “Building Peace, One School at a Time in Afghanistan” and “Americanization, Globalization and Popular Music,” as well as plenary discussions and a day trip to the Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial Site in nearby Bavaria. They will also have opportunity to break in to small groups and develop their own action plans for promoting global citizenship.  One of the goals of the GCP is for the students to take these ideas back to their own colleges and universities, and spark change that encourages their peers to become global citizens as well. 
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Global Citizenship - Ethics and Engagement
Miami Dade students during their 2014 GCP session.
Global Citizenship - Ethics and Engagement
By: Stuart Milne 

Miami Dade College sends students to Salzburg Global Seminar for 12th consecutive year

Fifty students from Miami Dade College will arrive at Salzburg Global Seminar to participate in Global Citizenship Program Session 66 | Global Citizenship: Ethics and Engagement, from February 26 to March 5.

The long-running Global Citizenship Program aims to develop young people who are consciously prepared to live and work in the complex interdependent society of the 21st Century and contribute to improving the common global welfare of our planet and its inhabitants.

Salzburg Global partners with dozens of universities and colleges across the USA to put global citizenship at the forefront of academic curricula, extra-curricular programs and institutional policies.

2015 marks the 12th consecutive year Miami Dade College in Miami, Florida has traveled to Schloss Leopoldskron for a dedicated GCP session.

Salzburg Global is delighted to welcome back former Associate Director of Education David Goldman, who returns as a faculty member alongside Salzburg Global Fellows Farid Hafez, researcher in Political Science at the University of Salzburg and Tazalika M. Te Reh, PhD candidate at the American Studies Department of the T.U. Dortmund University, together with long-serving GCP faculty member Reinhold Wagnleitner, retired associate professor of modern history at the University of Salzburg and visiting professor of United States history at three American universities.

“Global citizens are consciously prepared to live and work in the complex interdependent society of the 21st Century and contribute to improving the common global welfare of our planet and its inhabitants,” says GCP Director Astrid Schröder.

“In an age of globalization which increasingly brings people in contact with other cultures as a result of changing social, political, and economic activities and technological advances, the need to understand international affairs, to recognize cultural values other than our own, and to understand world events from a variety of perspectives, has become increasingly critical. So has the need for people to think and act as global citizens in order to address some of the most pressing issues of global concern that are facing humanity in the 21st Century.”

As the world commemorates the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps, participants will travel to Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial Site in nearby Germany to better understand how and why the Holocaust unfolded, and witness first-hand the terrible consequences when understanding and acceptance of the other breaks down at the most extreme level imaginable.

GCP participants will be exposed to a number of perspectives on what it means to be a global citizen through faculty presentations, and develop these ideas further through small group discussions. Presentation topics include The United States of America and the World: Views from a Distance, Mapping Globalization, and The Islamic Faith Community in Austria.

Participants will also take part in a teleconference with GCP alumnus and Salzburg Global "Face for the Future" Lavar Thomas, who will be sharing his experiences as a Peace Corps community health volunteer in Kigali, Rwanda.


Global Citizenship: Ethics and Engagement is part of Salzburg Global’s long-running Global Citizenship Program. More information on the session can be found here: www.salzburgglobal.org/go/66. You can follow all the discussions on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram by following the hashtag #GCP66.

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Betty Overton-Adkins - "This Is a Place Open to New Ideas"
Betty Overton-Adkins speaks during a panel discussion at "Students at the Margins"
Betty Overton-Adkins - "This Is a Place Open to New Ideas"
By: Jonathan Elbaz 

"Students at the Margins" Fellow reflects on her experiences in Salzburg

Betty Overton-Adkins has observed higher education and Salzburg Global from a wide variety of vantage points. During her long career in higher education—working as a researcher, funder, policymaker and academic—she's attended sessions in Salzburg in the role of participant, facilitator and faculty.

As she discusses in an interview with Salzburg Global, she's observed how both the organization and higher education institutions worldwide have worked to embrace a more informal and inclusive approach. For example, at her first session in 1995, entitled "Higher Education: Institutional Structures for the 21st Century," participants never asked questions after lectures in Parker Hall, and everyone had to walk from the Meierhof to the Schloss for a coffee break.

Listen to the interview below.

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2015 GCP Brochure Now Available
2015 GCP Brochure Now Available
By: GCP Team 
Salzburg Global will host seven Global Citizenship Program sessions In 2015, Salzburg Global will host five student sessions and two faculty sessions through the Global Citizenship Program (GCP). The initiative's core mission continues to be facilitating institutional change in education—by developing students' abilities to think and act globally and by transforming campuses into "sites for global citizenship." The themes for student sessions in 2015 include "Ethics and Engagement," "Pathways to Global Citizenship: Roots and Routes" and "Global Citizenship and Universal Human Rights," "Global Citizenship: At Home and Abroad," as well as a special session for New York State-based Molloy College, while the two faculty sessions will focus on "Education for Global Citizenship: What, Why and How."
Download the brochure here
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Transition of David Goldman
Transition of David Goldman
By: GCP Team 
Associate Director of Education, David Goldman, decides to pursue other opportunitiesSalzburg Global Seminar announces that David Goldman, Associate Director of Education, has decided to leave the organization to pursue other opportunities effective August 29, 2014. David started at Salzburg Global as a Program Intern in 2001. He returned full time a year later and has served in many capacities since then – first as a Program Associate, then as Coordinator of the International Study Program on Global Citizenship (recently renamed Global Citizenship Program or GCP), and finally as Associate Director of Education. David has been an integral part of the organization – particularly the Global Citizenship Program and the related Mellon Fellow Community Initiative (MFCI).
 
Together with Jochen Fried, Director of Education, and Astrid Schröder, Program Director for the GCP, David co-created and developed these programs since 2004 and 2008 respectively. During this period he has established and maintained institutional partnerships with nearly 100 colleges and universities, worked with Foundations  and other third party funders to support these programs, helped facilitate strategic planning processes focused on institutional change for global citizenship at these partner institutions that education, and worked with over 3,000 students, faculty, administrators, staff. David developed and contributed subject matter expertise on global citizenship, Holocaust memory and education, higher education policy, and strategic institutional change.
 
In addition to his work on the GCP and MFCI, David has directed sessions on higher education policy around the world aimed at increasing access, completion, success, and relevance for underrepresented constituencies. He has implemented programs both in Salzburg and off-site at locations ranging from Athens, Greece to Elkins, West Virginia and has represented Salzburg Global at international conferences such as the European Access Network’s World Congress on Access to Post-Secondary Education.
 
David has been a dear friend and colleague to many involved with the organization. His contributions over the years are appreciated and he will be missed. Salzburg Global wishes him all the best for the next phase of his career and future endeavors.
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GCP Influences Launch of New Global Citizenship Institute at Partner School
Global Citizenship Institute at St. Marks School
GCP Influences Launch of New Global Citizenship Institute at Partner School
By: Tanya Yilmaz 

Success after partner institution launches its own Global Citizenship Institute aimed at high school level

To paraphrase a quote by Anatole France: ‘When a thing has been done and done well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.’ This tongue-in-cheek dictum was the precept of an exciting joint venture between St. Mark’s School in Southborough, Massachusetts, and the Global Citizenship Program (GCP)* at Salzburg Global Seminar culminating in the launch of a new program, the Global Citizenship Institute at St. Mark’s which is intentionally modeled after the GCP.

St. Mark’s School became a partner institution of the GCP in 2011 and at the time was the first high school to send teachers to this program which usually is for higher education institutions only. Soon the idea was born that St. Mark’s would emulate the program by adopting and adapting it for the high school sector. The actual planning process took more than a year and involved a small team of champions from St. Mark’s as well as GCP staff in a consulting capacity. This work was generously sponsored by Bruce Wilson, a St. Mark’s board member and close friend of Salzburg Global who firmly believed in the potential of this joint endeavor and in the need to teach the lessons of global citizenship at high school level.  

The great moment came in early July when 33 students and 8 teachers from both private and public high schools based in Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, California, the UK, and Australia convened at the St. Mark’s campus for the inaugural Global Citizenship Institute. The GCI was led by St. Mark’s School faculty – all of whom are GCP alumni. Building on their experience in Salzburg, they have a similar understanding with regard to the defining ideas of global citizenship and how to make it tangible in the classroom. This spring, Laura Appell-Warren, Director of the GCI, participated in one of the GCP student sessions which gave her some further insights in terms of engaging youngsters in envisioning borderless citizenship.    

From the Salzburg Global side Astrid Schroeder, GCP Program Director, and Adam Beeson, former Salzburg Global staff member and now teaching at a high school, attended the week-long meeting in Southborough offering presentations and providing advice when needed. Peter and Hedy Rose, both long term GCP faculty, came as guest faculty. Two GCP student alumni, Kanza Naqvi (San José State University) and Jeremiah Lindgren (Kingsborough Community College) served as interns.

A beginning has been made and indeed a very successful one with plans for a second edition of the Global Citizenship Institute next summer already in the making. And what is more, the precept of ‘take it and copy it’ has worked and the GCP can now proudly call itself an incubator of global citizenship education also at high schools.  


*Since its own launch in 2004, the GCP at Salzburg Global has gained a significant subject expertise on global citizenship working with partner institutions to bring students, faculty, and administrators to Schloss Leopoldskron. The main goal of the Program is to initiate institutional change by forming long-term relations with these partners. It is designed to help build a critical mass of change agents on campus who introduce notions of global citizenship to the classroom and in fact into every aspect of campus life.

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GCP fellows from San Jose State University organize the First Annual Cultural Showcase
Erin Enguero introducing the show (photo credit to Codi Mills, Brody Kaplan and April DeOliveira)
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West Valley College celebrates third annual global citizenship conference
Dr. Brichko and Ms. Kalivitis lead break-out session #1.
West Valley College celebrates third annual global citizenship conference
By: Dulce María Gray 
Guest speakers included Director of Education at Salzburg Global Dr. Jochen Fried, Dr. Shannon Marie Gleeson and Dr. Roy Germano 'Back in 1976 in an essay titled “An Attainable Global Perspective” Robert G. Hanvey, the “father” of modern global education, noted that there are five major components of a global education. For the third consecutive year, the WVC Global Citizenship Committee has aimed to help faculty and administrators to consider and apply those “attainable global perspectives” by organizing and delivering the Global Citizenship Conference. This year, the focus of the conference was “Confronting Urgent Issues” that result from globalization, among them the state of immigration policies and how it affects students in community colleges particularly in California.' Read the full report of the event that took place last April.
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GCP Fellow awarded with Jack Kent Cooke Foundation scholarship
Jesus Bohorquez during GCP 60 final presentations.
GCP Fellow awarded with Jack Kent Cooke Foundation scholarship
By: GCP Team 
Jesus Bohorquez, GCP 60 fellow, was selected from 3,705 applicants representing 737 community colleges. Jesus Bohorquez was awarded with the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation Undergraduate Transfer Scholarship on May 3rd, 2014. Jesus attended GCP 60 last March, graduated from the Dual Language Program at the InterAmerican Campus, a component of the Honors College at Miami Dade College, where he majored in civil engineering. He is actively engaged in the community, was president of the Beta Kappa Iota chapter of Phi Theta Kappa at his campus and received the President's Volunteer Service Award, amongst other accomplishments. The GCP team joins Miami Dade College in congratulating Jesus for his achievement!
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GCP Faculty invited to lecture at Bronx Community College
Farid Hafez presents during GCP 51.
GCP Faculty invited to lecture at Bronx Community College
By: GCP Team 
Farid Hafez, Salzburg Global and GCP Faculty member, to present his lecture "Islamophobia and Racism" Farid Hafez has been invited by the Bronx Community College Muslim Student Association to lecture on islamophobia and racism. The event is open to all BCC students and will take place on Thursday, May 8, 2014, from 12:00pm to 1:45pm in room 109, North Hall and Library Building. It will be followed by awards to dedicated MSA members. Hafez has served as faculty for both Salzburg Global and the GCP, and has lectured to BCC students both in Salzburg and at a special joint event held in February 2013 at NYU's Deutsches Haus. His research focuses on Muslim organizations in Austria, the role of Islamophobia in Austrian party politics and Islamic political theory. He is the editor of the Yearbook on Islamophobia Studies, an author, lecturer and visiting scholar to universities around the world such as Colombia University, Indiana University in Bloomington, University of Minnesota, University of Chicago and New York University. For further information contact Dr. Abass Abdullahi (Biology Department) or email: bcc.msa@outlook.com
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Hedwig C. Rose, long-time GCP faculty, speaks at West Valley College
Photo by Dulce María Gray
Hedwig C. Rose, long-time GCP faculty, speaks at West Valley College
By: Dulce María Gray 
Dr. Rose shared her experience as a survivor with GCP partner institution WVC. Some students cried. Everyone in the audience was impacted by Dr. Hedwig C. Rose’s presentation.

On Thursday 20 February 2014, Dr. Rose spoke about her experiences as a child in Amsterdam during Nazi Germany’s invasion and occupation of The Netherlands. The Netherlands had hoped to remain neutral during World War II, but on 15 May 1940, one day after the bombing of Rotterdam, Dutch forces were forced to surrender. Up to then, Dr. Rose was a happy and curious six year old Jewish child who enjoyed the closeness and warmth of her parents and her older sister. She was very excited about attending school and hoped to study, like her sister, Latin, Greek, other languages, literature, music, and history. She delighted in her toys, friends, and neighbors–until the Nazis arrived. Then her father and her five uncles and their families were rounded up and taken away, never to be seen again. The last letter her family received from her father was from
Auschwitz concentration camp in German-occupied Poland. Of the 107,000 Jews deported to camps, only 5,000 survived. Seventy-five per cent of The Netherland’s Jewish population were killed during Nazi occupation. That is, of the 140,000 Jews who lived in The Netherlands before 1940, only 30,000 survived the war. That is the highest death toll of any western European country. Dr. Rose told her story, a story much like that of Anne Frank, one of the over one million Jewish children who died in the Holocaust–except that fortunately Dr. Rose survived. Dr. Rose, her mother and her sister went into hiding in a tiny secret compartment of the cellar of a store belonging to a family friend. The three of them huddled in silence, until at age eight, Dr. Rose awoke to find that her mother, lying next to her, had died during the night. Subsequently, the Nazis imposed arbeitseinsatz, the drafting of civilian men (between the ages of 18 and 45) who were then forced to labor in German factories. The family hiding Dr. Rose and her sister had a young son, and thus he too had to huddle in the cellar compartment. The Germans cut off all food and fuel shipments; food was taken out of The Netherlands or gathered into distribution centers and then rationed. Dr. Rose and the family subsisted on sugar beets and tulip bulbs. During the height of this hunger, the Dutch famine–”hongerwinter“–of 1944-1945, hundreds of thousands became malnourished; 18,000 people starved to death. Dr. Rose and her sister survived in that tiny space for three years until the country was liberated on 5 May 1945! In 1947, Dr. Rose and her sister arrived at the home of their aunt and uncle in Rochester, New York, where they finished growing up. She attended the University of Rochester and received a bachelor’s degree from Cornell University, a master’s degree from Smith College, and a doctoral degree from the University of Massachusetts. Throughout her professional career, Dr. Rose focused on teacher preparation, comparative schooling, the philosophy and sociology of education, and on the First Amendment rights of teachers and students. Today Dr. Rose is a well-known speaker, a frequent visiting scholar at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution (where she continues to research for her book on The Netherlands before and during World War II), a faculty member of the Global Citizenship Program at the Salzburg Global Seminar, the author of Freedom and Restraint in the Lives of American Teachers; she is working on a book titled Living the Life of Anne Frank: A Childhood in Hiding. Dr. Rose stressed that in telling her story she hopes to convey not just that the scars of the Holocaust are visible and present today, but also that history is alive and sadly recurrent; the world is still experiencing genocide. She hopes that her story will enlighten many and perhaps even prompt some to act against injustice.
Dulce María Gray was a participant of GCP 48. The post Dr. Hedwig C. Rose, Survivor and Scholar, Speaks at WVC was originally posted on West Valley College Global Citizenship Center's blog.
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Robert Cowan, GCP faculty advisor, published in The Chronicle of Higher Education
Dr. Robert Cowan (right) chats with session participants during GCP 38.
Robert Cowan, GCP faculty advisor, published in The Chronicle of Higher Education
By: GCP Team 
Robert Cowan writes about the challenges of teaching and studying in community colleges
In March,
Robert Cowan, associate professor of English at Kingsborough Community College of the City University of New York, published a piece in The Chronicle of Higher Education about the role of faculty and students in community colleges. "My students may work full time or take care of children or aging parents," Cowan writes. "It may take them time to exit remediation. But they are in community college to be in college, to be challenged by the same material and rigor that they will encounter when they enter the workplace or transfer to a four-year college. If they are to take community college seriously, then the teaching must be taken seriously by faculty." Read the full text: Unsentimental Education
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Kevin Mersol-Barg joins the GCP team as Program Intern for three months
From left: Jesus Bohorquez, Jose Antonio Alvarez, Kevin Mersol-Barg and Andres Eduardo Rodriguez during GCP 60.
Kevin Mersol-Barg joins the GCP team as Program Intern for three months
By: GCP Team 
Kevin began working with the GCP team in February and will be in Salzburg until May. Kevin graduated from the University of Michigan in May 2013 with a B.A. in Public Policy. Prior to graduating, he founded and helped lead a student movement that successfully lobbied the University of Michigan to extend in-state tuition to undocumented students. After graduation, Kevin worked at a think tank that conducts research on access to higher education and as the finance director for a successful political campaign. He is from Metro Detroit, Michigan, where he grew up with his three siblings and enjoys biking.

In his role as Program Intern, Kevin helps facilitate GCP sessions and conducts research for future ones. For sessions, he prepares printed materials for participants and handles audio/visual technology. Kevin enjoyed getting to know the participants from Miami Dade College during GCP 60 and is looking forward to GCP 61 in April. The GCP team is excited to have Kevin on board.
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Reinhold Wagnleitner and the Importance of Twentieth Century Jazz
Reinhold Wagnleitner and his brother, Günter, performing together at the jazz informance.
Reinhold Wagnleitner and the Importance of Twentieth Century Jazz
By: Alex Jackson 
If music be the food of freedom, play on. “Of course music doesn’t change the world [on its own]. But it achieved a lot, with so much positive cultural capital for these countries outside the United States. For many, jazz was the sound of freedom.” Reinhold Wagnleitner is talking to me after his jazz informance, masterfully delivered alongside his brother, Günter. For some, the idea that jazz was the sound of freedom might now sound farfetched in a media age that has birthed the likes of X Factor champions, viral video stars and Britney Spears (Quote Alex Seago, the dean of Communications, Arts and Social Sciences at Richmond University in London, “Britney Spears is the music world equivalent of McDonald’s”). But Jazz certainly was the classical movement of globalization in the 19th and 20th centuries, reflecting on cultures, countries and continents in shift. For Reinhold, who played for many years in Austrian rock and jazz bands, and his brother, Günter, who was rejected from teachers’ colleges in Linz and Salzburg on the grounds that he was seducing youth with dangerous music, jazz truly is a liberating experience, that not only transports the fifty fellows from Miami Dade back in time, but provides social and cultural context through the gradient of mood, tone and speed in each almost operatic piece of music. “One thing I am sure of: when the Nazis were defeated in 1945, those who felt most liberated from day number one were the lovers of jazz and lovers of US American culture.” Jazz fever really took a hold in a unique moment in history. It was, for some time, not considered artistic at all, and was the reserve of minority groups, the repressed in New Orleans. But this history gave jazz music the flavor by which it went on to represent the underclasses in all oppressed regions. “Jazz really became the soundtrack of the twentieth century, especially (which is hard to understand for US Americans) in societies which had dictatorships. Whether it was National Socialist Germany, fascist Italy, or the Communist Soviet Union, and communist countries, in Poland and Czechoslovakia for example, in all of these there developed spectacular jazz scenes under the time of the Communist dictatorship because that was the music of freedom.” The twentieth century will be remembered as a period of conflict and occupation, whether physical or psychological. Countries found themselves in unusual positions, where they were at once touched by all other regions of the world: from colonialization, to European Civil War, to American and Soviet occupation. Such a unique mélange provided the perfect breeding ground for the growth of the jazz movement. “Already from the outset, what is seen as the classical music of America, and that is not only you the United States but of the whole double continent and the Caribbean, is created in the most untypical city of the United States,” explains Reinhold, who was recently invited to serve on the Editorial Advisory Board of the Encyclopedia of New Orleans. “New Orleans is a very particular place. It was touched upon by the Spanish and French empires and then by the British Empire, and became part of the United States as part of the Louisiana Purchase, and then there was this massive influx of former slaves that came via Cuba. And it was a hub, to all these cultures from the US indigenous population. So you have European influences behind it, American liberation and liberty behind it, you have Latin American, Spanish, French influences: so jazz is already the creolized outcome, the creolized product of earlier global influences. “That makes it the music of the diaspora.” Naturally, this made Europe, where millions of people found themselves displaced multiple times over just a few short decades, an ideal breeding ground for the jazz explosion. For some jazz is seen as the most important US contribution to the culture of modernity in Europe and beyond. “Many Americans thought jazz was worthless, and that is amazing when you look at the power that music brought to the United States through its global victory and we are talking about a global victory of the United States, without which US history and US culture would be completely misunderstood.” Whilst the furor around jazz has dissipated, it will certainly be remembered as the most divisive and unusual political tool of the twentieth century. The Taliban banned jazz music; Stalin went so far as to have all saxophones – in his opinion a sexual instrument – confiscated in the USSR. But the global appreciation for the phenomenon was seemingly unstoppable while under the shadow of oppression. In 1965, for example, Louis Armstrong managed to sell in excess of 15,000 tickets for shows in East Germany, where American music was often prohibited. The shortest standing ovation for any of his performances behind the Iron Curtain was 15 minutes. That is a testament to the power of jazz, which is unlikely to be replicated again. “The unique moment in jazz was the end of World War One and the hellraisers marching through the Tuileries Gardens in Paris and the rest is history. It is true now that the proliferation of media and the development of an incredible amount of different genres in music and all these niches will make it more difficult for a new musical or cultural production to become as dominant in all corners of the world.” In this diversification of sounds, there is now a more fluid cultural exchange between different musical spheres of influence. “The influence of the United States [music] in the world will not necessarily diminish but change; it will have a different color, it will have different nuances. So as the United States are developing into a really different nuanced culture, what’s going on will often be reflected in what non-Americans hear and see and will translate into their own cultures. US culture will also probably be more influenced by outside cultures and yet this will be a reflection of US influence on whatever the cultural products are elsewhere.” Of course, the proliferation and movement of different sounds is now a fast-paced global trend. What was once slowly reinterpreted around different continents is now quickly transformed by different cultures. Wagnleitner, whose project on music and culture, “Satchmo Meets Amadeus”, was awarded the Tolerance and Diversity Prize from the Embassy of the United States in Vienna, reflects on these changes by considering the 2012 internet fad, Gangnam Style, and whether it has limited Korean culture on an international level: “For the uninitiated music, has this is a typifying and stereotypfying thing. Music, like any production, can limit and can create stereotype, but only for those who don’t think a little bit about it.” He provides alternative examples:  “There are probably just as many waltzes being danced in London or New York as in Vienna and people that go to the Vienna state ball, half of them are not Austrian, but come from all over the world. No one in Salzburg, except music lovers or music students, hears Mozart every day and no one listens to the Sound of Music, yet that it is the most stereotyped thing about Austria and it has nothing to do with Austria whatsoever.”
There is an interesting conflux, then, between what artistic license music possess, when considering the duality between fads such as Gangnam Style, which are taken lightly, and contrasting that with recent anger following Coca Cola’s Superbowl Campaign, which featured a reinterpreted version of ‘America The Beautiful’ sung in several different languages. Together, we consider a number of quotes from social media, which expressed opinions of distaste for the advert. Amongst them: “Get the foreigners off the American coke commercial”; “This is America and we speak English”; “What a heinously un-American commercial”; “The language here should only be English.” The reaction to the commercial fits well with the theme of global citizens, and is really telling of the influence that art can have when trying to be provocative and evoke emotions. Rightly, Reinhold is somewhat astounded at these views. “The United States approached the world, saying “look we are a country of immigration and we are such a melting point and that is our beauty.” The promise that all the downtrodden of the earth can come and live a decent life here. Yet, you can’t allow America the Beautiful in German. Why not? That’s not a problem. A greater number of Americans come from German backgrounds than British backgrounds. The commercial is to show and illustrate the diverse background of the US. “And it is about diversity and it is ludicrous to think that this would be demeaning to the United States.”
The nationalities represented in the song are just a snapshot of America, and is the outcome of a global history, where America has touched on every continent and been touched itself by the movement of other countries, from colonization to immigration. What Coca Cola were aiming for is to reflect that America is still the land of the free, and the land where everyone is equal. The trope is certainly parallel with the jazz band ethos. “A jazz band is much more democratic and reflect the culture of the United States where everybody has a voice, they play together, everybody is listening to the other guys because you have to become quiet, faster, slower, you have to look for the keys to change so the whole idea of jazz.” “In jazz and in New Orleans jazz especially, every voice is as important as the other voice.”        
Reinhold also spoke about the development of the GCP over the past ten years and the changes in American student philosophy in that time. Read more from Reinhold here.
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Reinhold Wagnleitner - "The Very Idea of America Is a European Invention"
Wagnleitner delivers his lecture on the meaning of globalization to the participants of GCP 60 from Miami Dade.
Reinhold Wagnleitner - "The Very Idea of America Is a European Invention"
By: Alex Jackson 

Reinhold Wagnleitner discusses how attitudes to globalization and the GCP have changed in 60 sessions

Reinhold Wagnleitner, long-term faculty member of the Salzburg Global Seminar's Global Citizenship Program delivers his lecture on “The United States of America and the World: Views From a Distance” to the participants of GCP 60 from Miami Dade College.

“[Globalization] is a very, very complicated term and what we are doing is trying to find a way of untangling this web of meanings and of sometimes not very meaningful expressions,” he intones.

I ask Wagnleitner, a lecturer in modern history at the University of Salzburg, for a short description of globalization, but for the seasoned professor this would be akin to asking a politician to simply solve the recession overnight. “We cannot talk for 30 hours,” he jokes.

He tries to summate the key points that participants of the Global Citizenship Program should take away. “Globalization is a term that has been used predominately from the end of the Cold War in describing first of all an economic and financial shrinking of the world with loss of the Soviet zone of influence. The world seemed to become one market more or less, and the financial flows have become dramatically stronger. Globalization is also the movement of people: refugees, asylum seekers, immigrants, which are influenced by the wars, revolution, anti-revolution, so we have in a sense a global flow of people or at least many people try to get into this flow because they have to get out of horrible situations. Then we have cultural globalization where one could argue, pessimistically, that the whole world becomes a homogenous place but globalization has to be understood as both global and local, so ‘glocalization’ is coming in.”

Wagnleitner, who has also taught at numerous college institutions across the United States, first gave presentations to the participants of the Global Citizenship Program, then International Study Program, a decade ago. He explained how his talk had developed organically alongside an idea he had for a presentation at the Diplomatic Academy in Vienna, focusing on converging and diverging views of the United States.

Reflecting on a decade of preparing for this unique educational experience, Wagnleitner sees a significant shift in the attitudes of the participants. “The reaction of the students and faculty and administrators with whom we have been working has evolved from being a mostly defensive viewpoint, as if they were responsible for these growing negative views outside, into more understanding and the understanding of politics and elections and the influence of Presidents Bush and Obama. So I do think that the GCP participants in a sense reflect the changes of the US itself, of the mood in the country itself, and in the mood of others looking towards the United States. It is a very good reflection of that I think.”

In a decade that is bookended by 9/11 and the death of Bin Laden, Americans of all ages have had to come to terms with the idea that the US is not this beacon and bastion of liberty that they hold so dear. War has shot a hole in the belief of American justice and increased access to media coverage, thanks to 24 hour news channels, mobiles and the internet has led to a proliferation of sources by which students have reassessed their position in the world.

“The last ten years have definitely made more US Americans, and people of other countries, aware that they have to be more cooperative and we can’t do this just by war because, as we know, not that much has been achieved as was the plan. If the richest countries in the world are unable to solve their problems by war, maybe there needs to be a plan B.”

Yet, Wagnleitner, the chair of the Society of Modern History, is careful not to make grand or blasé statements. In a decade that has seen a lot of negative reaction, he insists that learning from mistakes is equally important. “We may make mistakes but not everything that we are doing is wrong.

“I do see these young US Americans who come to these programs here being able to go back and have a better understanding of the way things are done here and that there is not only one way to do things, and learn from that.”

As a recipient of the Tolerance and Diversity Prize from the Embassy of the United States in Vienna, Wagnleitner has long since believed in the need to be considerate and empathetic of alternative views from other cultures. Weighing in on topical issues, Reinhold puts his philosophy to practice in discussing Ukraine. “What has to be seen in the West is Russian feelings of security. NATO has gone eastwards and the Soviet Union was promised that NATO would not go eastwards. So whilst not supporting Russian imperialism in Ukraine, from a Russian viewpoint, and that is the empathy one has to have for an opponent, the actions are understandable from their side.”

More, Wagnleitner warns that discussions such as those at Salzburg need continue to provide fruitful outcomes because the media lacks total clarity on these big issues. “The biggest problem is not that they are bad or anything sinister like that, but it is that they are not informed. They are leaving out certain things, because they themselves do not know what is going on.”

There have been different ways of channeling this communication throughout history. Wagnleitner points to music, religion and the adoption of the English language as a lingua franca. “The spread of English to become at least the second language of many people who have the privilege of being schooled is potentially a force for understanding. Some people see it as a force of imperialism, cultural imperialism, but I would rather speak two or three languages, and thereby get deeper insights into another culture, into another way of speaking, into another literature and into another media usage, into another way of running a government, than being bound to only my language.

“Each language acquisition opens up a completely new world for the learner: how to do things, how to think.”

This is the very ethos of the GCP at Salzburg: to foster a new approach to cultural acquisition and understanding in students and the institutions that they attend. It is important that the study of this trend should occur in Europe, in order to better understand the history of relationships between much of the developed world. “America was not just discovered, it was conquered and it was also invented by Europeans; the very idea of America is a European invention," says Wagnleitner. 

“Globalization, which now people think is ‘Americanization’ – a term I only use in quotes because it doesn’t make much sense – was already begun by the Europeanization of the world, by European imperialism, by European colonialism,” he adds.      

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Salzburg Global 2014 Program Now Available Online
Program lists upcoming sessions and workshops
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Global Citizenship Program Staff on the Road
Associate Director of Education, David Goldman, in Greece to highlight Salzburg Global’s work in the area of education.
Global Citizenship Program Staff on the Road
By: David Goldman 
On October, 5, a one-day meeting was held in Athens, Greece on Educating for the Modern Global Economy. In cooperation with the Fulbright Foundation Greece and with support from the Greek Politics Specialist Group, roughly seventy-five people gathered to discuss the role of universities in preparing their graduates for the modern, global, knowledge-based economy. International experts such as Anna Glass, a Policy Analyst and Economist at the OECD, and Voldemar Tomusk, Director for Policy and Evaluation at the Open Society Foundation offered their views on recent trends in higher education from around Europe and around the world. Additionally, panelists from Greece representing a technology business enterprise and from the University of Athens discussed how these trends relate to the current Greek situation and 'moving beyond the crisis.' For more information, see the report. The event, organized under the auspices of Salzburg Global Seminar - Austria, provided an opportunity to highlight Salzburg Global's ongoing work in the area of higher education policy with a focus on increased access, relevance, success, and attainment. It also allowed us to connect with our Fellows in Greece, expand our network, and engage new partner institutions. Salzburg Global was particularly pleased to be working with the Fulbright Foundation Greece on this event. The relationship between the two organizations dates back nearly four decades, yet this was the first time that we jointly organized an event and the first time for Salzburg Global to come to Greece. From October 7-10, David was in Montreal, Canada for the first World Congress on Access to Post-Secondary Education where he served as a rapporteuer. The World Congress was organized by the European Access Network with support from the Lumina Foundation, Education Testing Services, and the Council for Opportunity in Education. Each of these organizations was involved in Salzburg Global’s recent series on Optimizing Talent: Closing Education and Social Mobility Gaps Worldwide. That series of sessions helped frame the agenda and spread the word about the World Congress. The event offered another great opportunity for Salzburg Global to spread the word about its programming in order to extend and deepen the impact while reconnecting with Fellows who share our passion for increasing educational access and success through smart policy decisions and advocacy work.
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New Book by GCP Faculty Member
New Book by GCP Faculty Member
By: David Goldman 
Postmonitions of a Peripatetic Professorcombines Peter’s passion for and skills as a sociologist, ethnographer, writer, teacher, and traveler. Throughout his career and life, Peter has been traveling the world, meeting people, observing cultures and reflecting on his experiences. In Postmonitions of a Peripatetic Professor, Peter recalls and retells stories about some of the memorable journeys he has taken and the interesting people he has met as he “comments on six decades of academic life in the U.S. and abroad, his work as researcher, editor and consultant, his excursions as a travel journalist, and some intimate portraits of those he met along the way.” The book can be purchased through Levellers Press. Peter and his wife Hedy Rose regularly serve on the Faculty of GCP sessions and other programs at Salzburg Global. Peter is the author of numerous books and articles including They and We, The Subject is Race, Strangers in Their Midst, Tempest-Tost, Guest Appearances, The Dispossessed and With Few Reservations.

Peter Rose is Sophia Smith Professor Emeritus and Senior Fellow of the Kahn Liberal Arts Institute at Smith College. He and his wife, Hedy, live in Northampton and Wellfleet, Massachusetts.
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GCP Faculty & Administrators Sessions
GCP Faculty & Administrators Sessions
By: GCP Team 
From July 6-20, 2014, Salzburg Global Seminar will conduct two Faculty & Administrators Sessions at Schloss Leopoldskron in Salzburg. Approximately fifty-five participants from colleges and universities throughout the United States will gather to explore the factors that either support or restrain a comprehensive approach to global education within higher education institutions and to jointly develop strategies for those teaching and learning within those institutions on how they can incorporate a more comprehensive approach to global education. The session will include several formats including plenary lectures and discussions, small group discussions, and time for informal exchange and networking as outlined below. Plenary Lectures and Discussions Lectures will be delivered by an international Session Faculty who will speak about both the broad issues of globalization (such as sustainable development, global security issues, the image and role of the US, etc.) as well as specific perspectives, strategies and examples of global citizenship education at colleges and universities. Drawing upon case studies and experiences from both the US and abroad, the lectures will illustrate trends in education for global citizenship and the need for such education. The combination of looking at the “big issues” of globalization and some of the practical strategies and ways that these issues are affecting and addressed in US higher education will allow participating institutions and individuals to reflect upon and discuss how their institutional and individual work does, can, or should fit into this context. Some lectures will be followed immediately by a Plenary Discussion period in which participants are encouraged to ask specific questions that relate to their own interests, experience and work. The Plenary Discussion for some of the lectures will be held a few days after the initial lecture. This will allow participants to discuss the information presented in the lectures in formal settings such as the Thematic Group Meetings and Institutional Meetings as well as informally. Thus the Plenary Discussions in these cases can be more focused on the topics that are of particular interest and relevance to session participants. Thematic Group Meetings Several times throughout the session, participants, faculty, and staff will have the opportunity to engage in smaller Thematic Group Meetings focused on Thematic Conversations and Thematic Strategies. These two aspects will allow participants to explore some of the “big issues” of globalization in more depth in terms of how they relate to education for global citizenship in a broad sense (Conversations) and encourage them to develop practical ideas for addressing those issues in institutions of higher education (Strategies). The groups will be self-selected in Salzburg around themes that relate  to global citizenship education. Themes may include, for example, global commons and sustainable futures, the US as a global player, the importance of global civics, higher education at the juncture of the local and global, or others. Participants are encouraged think about themes that they are interested in discussing in Salzburg.  More detailed information on the Thematic Group Meetings will be provided at the beginning of the session in Salzburg. Institutional Meetings The Seminar recognizes that many of the participants attending this program are coming from institutions that have sent students and/or faculty to the GCP in the past. It is assumed that participants are aware of the initiatives and endeavors of past GCP participants at their institutions. The Seminar also recognizes that even though participants might be working at the same institution, they may not always have the chance to interact with their colleagues in the way that a week at the Salzburg Global Seminar affords them. Therefore, on several occasions throughout the week, time has been allotted for institutional meetings. Participants are encouraged to set their own institutional agenda for the week and to use this time in whatever way they feel is most useful and effective for their institution. In the past, participants have been encouraged to develop institutional initiatives or projects and action plans for how to implement them on their campuses. Some institutional groups may want to engage in this type of exercise. For others it may be more useful to discuss and plan ways in which they can further contribute to and enhance the institutional initiatives focusing on education for global citizenship that are already underway. And still others who may have specific expectations or assignments from their institutions can use this time to address those. Networking Opportunities Because networking opportunities are an important part of any conference, participants will have plenty of chances to informally share ideas and experiences as they develop personal and professional relationships that will hopefully continue beyond the duration of the session. If there are issues that are not explicitly addressed in the session schedule which participants would like to have a chance to discuss with colleagues, time to do so can be arranged formally or informally at reserved tables over meals or during the “flex time” that is listed on the schedule. UPCOMING DATESGCP 64 (Jul 6 – 13, 2014)
Education for Global Citizenship: What, Why, and How?
GCP 65 (Jul 13 – 20, 2014)
Education for Global Citizenship: What, Why, and How?
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Global Citizenship Program 60 | Pathways to Global Citizenship: Roots and Routes
Global Citizenship Program 60 | Pathways to Global Citizenship: Roots and Routes
By: GCP Team 
The session convenes 50 students and 5 faculty advisors from Miami Dade College. The Global Citizenship Program is a program offered by the Salzburg Global Seminar that provides and promotes global citizenship education in cooperation with a variety of individual and institutional partners. Global citizens are people who have developed the knowledge, skills, tools, values, and commitment to:
  • Understand the nature of globalization, including its positive and negative impacts around the world, and realize how it is transforming human society
  • Appreciate the diversity of humanity in all of its manifestations, from local to global, and interact with different groups of people to address common concerns
  • Recognize the critical global challenges that are compromising humanity’s future and see how their complexity and interconnections make solutions increasingly difficult
  • Collaborate with different sets of stakeholders, by thinking globally and acting locally, to resolve these critical challenges and build a more equitably sustainable world
Broadly speaking, global citizens are consciously prepared to live and work in the complex interdependent society of the 21st century and contribute to improving the common global welfare of our planet and its inhabitants. Session Faculty Alex SEAGO is chair of the Department of Humanities, Social Sciences and Communications at Richmond University in London, England. With an interdisciplinary academic background in American studies, cultural history and cultural studies, Dr. Seago has taught for a wide variety of American and British universities and colleges, including the University of Kansas, The Royal College of Art, Sotheby's Institute, Bournemouth University, Poole College of Art and Design, and the London campuses of the University of Maryland, University of Wisconsin and Syracuse University. Dr. Seago's research interests focus upon the area of cultural globalization - with particular reference to music, art and design. He has published in a wide range of journals and an article of his on global popular music in the 21st century was awarded the Stone-Suderman Prize by the Mid-Western American Studies Association. His book, Burning the Box of Beautiful Things: The Development of a Postmodern Sensibility, examines the relationship between art and design education and the rise of contemporary pop culture in the United Kingdom during the 1950s and 1960s. Dr. Seago received a B.A from the University of Birmingham in the United Kingdom, an M.A from the University of Kansas in Lawrence, and a Ph.D. from the Royal College of Art in London. He is an alumnus of the Salzburg Global Seminar. Dr. Seago's wife, Lubna, is joining him for the session. Tazalika M. TE REH is a scholarship recipient at the Urban Transformations Ph.D. Program, funded by the Mercator Foundation. She is part of the American Studies Department of the TU Dortmund, where she is working on her Ph.D. thesis on architecture, space and the racial. As a trained architect with research interests in architecture, African American studies, postcolonial studies, urban studies and architecture education, she earned degrees from the Universities of Applied Sciences in Cologne and Bochum and the Art Academy in Düsseldorf. The topic of her M.A. thesis was "Architecture from A to Z. Concept for an architectural TV show for kids." In 1997, she received a DAAD grant for a work stay in Boston/Cambridge, Massachusetts, at the architecture firm Moshe Safdie & Assoc. Her work experience incorporates architectural practice, the work as a curator and as the executive assistant to the board of the art foundation Stiftung DKM and its museum in Duisburg and teaching. Reinhold WAGNLEITNER is associate professor of modern history at the University of Salzburg and was visiting professor of United States history at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and the University of New Orleans, Louisiana. For many years he also played bass and sang in Austrian rock and jazz bands. He is a lecturer of history at Salzburg College and the former president of the Austrian Association for American Studies. In 1998, he founded the research group "History @ Internet." Until 2012 he was the chair of the scientific board of the Leopold-Kohr Academy and is the chair of the Society of Modern History. In 2001, Dr. Wagnleitner's project, "Satchmo Meets Amadeus" was awarded the Tolerance and Diversity Prize from the Embassy of the United States in Vienna. Dr. Wagnleitner is the author of Coca-Colonization and the Cold War: The Cultural Mission of the United States in Austria After the Second World War, the co-editor of Here, There, and Everywhere: The Foreign Politics of American Popular Culture. His most recent book is Satchmo Meets Amadeus. Dr. Wagnleitner serves on the Editorial Advisory Board of the Encyclopedia of New Orleans, which will be published to celebrate the 300th anniversary of the city in 2018. He is a Fellow and has served on the Faculty of many Salzburg Global Seminar sessions and is a Core Faculty member of the GCP, having participated in over fifty sessions for both students and faculty. Günter WAGNLEITNER has been a fixture of the Austrian music scene since the late 1960s. As early as the 1950s, he performed in Linz, Salzburg, and Vienna engaging a musical concept that connected classical music and jazz; church music and blues; light opera and Rock 'n´ Roll. Needless to say, that pioneering approach met with the total rejection of the gatekeepers of "High Culture." Günter's rejection from the hallowed halls of teachers´ colleges in Linz and Salzburg - the reason cited: seduction of youth with dangerous music - became legendary within the scene. Before he finally concluded his studies (piano and singing) at the Mozarteum and took a position as a music teacher at the Salzburg and Upper Austrian music schools, he undertook 25 years of touring with his own bands in several European countries. He worked as a pianist-singer-entertainer on numerous cruises on board German and Soviet luxury liners in the Mediterranean, in the North and Baltic Seas, the Black Sea, in the Atlantic Ocean and in the Caribbean. Recently he has toured Austria and Germany with his brother´s Informance "Jazz - the Classical Music of Globalization."
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The Mellon Fellow Community Initiative - Creating Sites of Global Citizenship
The MFCI is based on Salzburg Global's Global Citizenship Program, created in 2004
The Mellon Fellow Community Initiative - Creating Sites of Global Citizenship
By: Oscar Tollast 

Publication features essays, personal reflections and the next steps forward

A new report on The Mellon Fellow Community Initiative (MFCI) is now available to view online.

Produced by Salzburg Global, the report is entitled, ‘Creating Sites of Global Citizenship’.

The MFCI offers week-long seminars and shorter workshops for faculty and administrators to develop tailored approaches of incorporating global citizenship education into the fabric of their institutions.

In the last five years, the MFCI has brought together more than 250 people from 36 colleges and universities with world-class international faculty.

These students have been taken from either designated Historically Black Colleges and Universities or members of the Appalachian College Association.

The report includes a number of essays on Global Citizenship Education, personal experiences and reflections from MFCI participants, and information on the next steps forward.

In addition to this, Salzburg Global President and Chief Executive Officer, Stephen Salyer has penned a letter outlining the MFCI’s significance.

In an extract taken from this letter, Mr Salyer writes: “As this report demonstrates, the MFCI’s unusual constellation of partners is uniquely suited to developing and implementing innovative approaches to global citizenship education in classrooms, across campuses, and throughout communities.

“Through the MFCI, our partners have embarked on a journey to explore and reinterpret their own historical legacies for the 21st century.”

The MFCI is based on Salzburg Global’s Global Citizenship Program, created in 2004, which has brought together nearly 3,000 higher education administrators, professors and students from 80 colleges and universities.

Jochen Fried, Director of Education at Salzburg Global, and David Goldman, Associate Director of Education at Salzburg Global, have been involved in all stages of MFCI conceptualization, planning and implementation.

The initiative remains committed to strengthening educational access, success and relevance.

It holds a determination to find practical ways to advance global citizenship through rigorous teaching, research, cross-cultural exchange and community outreach.

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Justice Anthony Kennedy - “We Are All Trustees of Freedom”
Justice Anthony Kennedy - “We Are All Trustees of Freedom”
By: Salzburg Global Staff Writer 

US Supreme Court Justice speaks at Global Citizen Program

US Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy took the floor at Salzburg Global Seminar on Monday, July 15 to make some remarks “On Citizenship” to an engaged audience of university and college faculty and administrators.

Addressing participants from community colleges, small liberal arts colleges and large state universities, Justice Kennedy urged them to see themselves as the “trustees of freedom” and to encourage their students to also see themselves as such.

The more than 50 college professors and administrators were taking part in the 59th session of the Global Citizenship Program, held last week at Schloss Leopoldskron.

This session on ‘Education for Global Citizenship: What, Why, and How?’ focused on how colleges and universities can embed global citizenship education into the fabric of their institutions.

Justice Kennedy has a long relationship with Salzburg Global Seminar and the Global Citizenship Program.

He first came to a Salzburg Global session in 1988 – the same year as he was nominated to the US Supreme Court – as a member of the faculty for session 269 ‘American Law and Legal Institutions’.

He has since served as faculty or a guest lecturer at two law-related sessions, as well as five sessions of the GCP and the Salzburg Academy on Media and Global Change.

The session concluded on July 21 with participants having developed strategies to create, strengthen and implement programs designed to transform their institutions into ‘sites of global citizenship.’

The GCP is concluding its tenth year of programming and has fostered deep and sustainable change at over 80 colleges and universities.

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Salzburg Director of Education to Advise ETF
Jochen Fried speaking at the 56th session of the Global Citizenship Program
Salzburg Director of Education to Advise ETF
By: Salzburg Global Staff 

Jochen Fried joins European Training Foundation’s FRAME project

Jochen Fried, Salzburg Global Seminar's Director of Education, has been appointed to the advisory board of the European Training Foundation (ETF)'s FRAME project, which supports pre-accession countries to strengthen their human resource development.

ETF is a decentralized agency of the European Union based in Turin, Italy.

Its mission is to help transition and developing countries to harness the potential of their human capital through the reform of education, training and labor market systems.

The FRAME project aims to answer such questions as: "Which skills should we (in our country) develop towards 2020, and how can these skills be generated by the education and training system? What are the capacity needs of institutions to achieve the 2020 vision for skills? (This includes capacity review of policy planning, implementation and monitoring and the capacity to use foresight as forward looking policy making approach). What indicators are needed to monitor progress and targets for the 2020 vision of skills? How can countries create synergy in human resource development and learn from each other?"

"The countries seeking to accede to the European Union require a strategic approach to developing a vision for human resource development focusing in particular on the skills that are more likely to be needed in the period 2014-20," states the ETF website.

As member of the FRAME Advisory Board, Dr. Fried will attend the Torino Process Conference 2013: Moving Skills Forward on May 8-9.

The Torino Process  was launched in 2010, and is a biannual participatory analytical review of the status and progress of vocational education and training in the ETF partner countries, which include not only countries in the "Enlargement Region" such as the former Yugoslavian states and Turkey, but also the wider "European Neighbourhood" and Central Asia.

According to the ETF, "The objective of the Torino Process is twofold: to acquire up-to-date knowledge about the policies and their results in a country; and to strengthen the ownership, participation and evidence-bae of policy making to improve the performance of policies."

In his advisory role, Dr. Fried will be able to draw on his extensive experience and contacts accumulated during the Universities Project (1998-2003) and the Global Citizenship Program (2004-present) of Salzburg Global Seminar.

The cooperation with ETF will help strengthen SGS’s relations to the EU and generate synergies across our programs.

The Torino Process Conference 2013: Moving Skills Forward starts today, May 8 at 2pm CEST and will run for two days in Turin, Italy.

A guide to the conference can be found in the ETF's Issuu library and for those wishing to follow the conference live, ETF (@etfeuropa) and other participants will be tweeting on the hashtag #etftrp and posting on Storify.
 

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Salzburg Spirit Lives on in California
Event speaker Dr. Champa Patel, Head of Activism, Amnesty International UK works with students at GCP 53
Salzburg Spirit Lives on in California
By: Salzburg Global Staff Writer 
Series of Global Citizenship Program events held in California An interactive session at the University of San Francisco with students examining human rights activism, a lecture on “Human Rights: Does People Power Work?” at San Jose State University, and a workshop at West Valley College exploring the role of global citizenship at community colleges in the 21st century. These are just some of the activities that Champa Patel, Head of Activism, Amnesty International UK, was involved in during a recent trip to California. Dr. Patel serves regularly as a faculty member at the Salzburg Global Seminar’s Global Citizenship Program sessions and from April 16 to 19 she took the show on the road to three GCP partners. The University of San Francisco, which has been involved in the GCP since 2005, invited Dr. Patel to participate in three events: a session for Professor Noah Borrero’s teacher preparation course at USF's College of Education, an all campus event on human rights activism and a special session for the students who will be attending an upcoming GCP session in Salzburg in May. Each of the events were tied to Dr. Patel’s human rights activism work at Amnesty International and to themes that she explores in-depth at Global Citizenship Programs.  Next was an interactive lecture on “Human Rights: Does People Power Work?” at San Jose State University, also a GCP partner since 2005. About 50 students and faculty, many of whom are a part of the SJSU Salzburg Program, attended Dr. Patel’s lecture followed by time for an informal reunion of GCP Fellows from years past.  The final stop was West Valley College for a one-day workshop on “The 21st Century Educational Institution: Global Citizenship, Civic Engagement, and Student Success.” This workshop is part of an ongoing initiative co-organized by West Valley College, San Jose State University, and the Salzburg Global Seminar to incorporate coherent global citizenship programs in secondary schools, community colleges and at the university level. A further “mini-Salzburg” conference will be held at Leigh High School, San Jose, California in collaboration with SJSU and West Valley College on Friday, May 10. The workshop at West Valley College addressed questions such as: How does high-mobility, intercultural connections, and globalization impact our students and our pedagogy? What is the role of global citizenship in community colleges? How can global education emphasize the civic significance of preparing students with knowledge and for action? Can global and civic engagement affect student success? Peter Rose, Sophia Smith Professor of Sociology and Anthropology Emeritus and Senior Fellow, Kahn Liberal Arts Institute at Smith College and another long-time GCP Faculty member, also spoke at the workshop. This series of events coordinated by three GCP partner institutions is an example of how the Global Citizenship Program seeks to positively impact the lives of the students, professors, and administrators who attend sessions in Salzburg and to lay the foundation for ongoing institutional engagement and change. “The Salzburg spirit is still very much alive here [in California],” added West Valley College Art History Professor, Cynthia Reiss, who attended the 48th session of the GCP: Colleges and Universities as Sites of Global Citizenship in 2011.
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New Year, New Name - ISP Becomes the Global Citizenship Program
Kwasi Boateng from Bronx Community College takes the floor during the GCP session in April 2012
New Year, New Name - ISP Becomes the Global Citizenship Program
By: Louise Hallman 

2013 sees new name and new partnerships for Seminar’s longest-running program

If all good things must come to an end, a quick glance at the 2013 Salzburg Global Seminar program listing would suggest that the well-renowned International Study Program (ISP) has disappeared. But fear not! The Seminar’s longest-running program has not vanished, but been renamed the Global Citizenship Program.

Besides its new name, 2013 introduces a number of new facets to the Global Citizenship Program (GCP): the year will also see newly revised week-long programs launched and new partnerships being formed.

What’s in a name?

In essence, the International Study Program has always been a global citizenship program – indeed that principle has been at the very heart of the program since it was established in 2004 with its first two partners, Miami Dade College in Florida and Iowa State University.

The need for the new name, explains Dr. Jochen Fried, Salzburg Global Seminar’s Director of Education, came from the growing recognition of the distinction between ‘international’ and ‘global.’

“Global and international are not the same,” says Fried, who has been leading the Seminar’s higher education programs since 1999.  

“Global is the combination that is planetary and local at the same time – like climate change. Is climate change local? Of course it’s local – you experience it locally! But at the other end, it cannot be addressed on the local level alone. You can’t escape it by shrinking it to its local or national dimension. So it is global in reach.

“That is different from the ‘era of international’ when governments were basically still able to protect the people within a nation state against unwanted external influences and disruptions. For example, in economics they used tariffs, customs or import quotas to deliver on their promise, which is to preserve and promote the well-being of their citizens. But in a globalized world, the power and capacity of the traditional political actors, including governments, to do so is eroding.”

Many of the aspects that have made the ISP/GCP unique inevitably remain. Since its beginnings, the GCP has sought not only to inspire and enact change within individual participants and their peer groups at their home colleges or universities. Rather, the GCP has aspired to change the very higher education institutions from which the students, faculty and administrators come.

“[The GCP] was not just for the few select people to have a pleasant week in Salzburg but actually to become change agents in their own right, on their own campuses, which in turn requires the institutions to take a strategic approach in sending participants to Salzburg,” explains Fried.

“You can’t expect people to spend a week in Salzburg on an intense week-long program on global citizenship to come back and suddenly make everything change unless you empower them on their own campuses to do so.”

For many participating colleges and universities, the selection of students to come to the four annual week-long programs at Schloss Leopoldskron is very competitive. 

Of Miami Dade College, the largest higher education institution in the United States with around 170,000 students, only the best 50 students of its 800-strong honors program are chosen each year.

The annual faculty and administrators program, hosted at Salzburg during the summer break is equally selective.

Fried says that the GCP partner institutions have become very deliberate in appointing (and sponsoring) those who get to come to this program.

“Our partners understand that real change is a long-term effort and requires the buy-in of all the stakeholders, particularly of all faculty and administrators. So it’s the combination that the GCP is offering which makes the difference – that students, faculty and administrators are not just being sent on a short-term study abroad trip or a faculty development exercise in a vacuum. We tell our partners from the start that, if they do it right, over time they will build critical mass on their campus that they can draw upon to plant global citizenship education into the DNA of their institutions.”

Moving on

The program now has some 2500 alumni from almost 80 partner institutions. Many of these students have gone on to pursue higher degrees or seek employment in the international and global arena (and many have returned to Salzburg for SGS’s own internship program); the movement into these areas of study and employment is something many admit they would never have considered had it not been for their time in Salzburg.

The GCP staff in Salzburg, who include David Goldman, Associate Director of Education, Astrid Schroeder, GCP Program Director and Ginte Stankeviciute, the Salzburg Academies’ Program Associate, are trying to support students who want to actively move on from the program, identifying organizations into which graduates can place their global citizenship and social justice-seeking efforts, beyond the scope of those NGOs which are fairly obvious like Amnesty International, Greenpeace and UNICEF, etc.

But it’s not just the students who have ‘graduated’ from the program.

Of the 50 to 60 institutions currently active within the program, many, by virtue of the training of faculty and administrators through both sessions held in Salzburg and the on-site workshops offered at their campuses by the GCP team, have now fully embedded global citizenship into their programs and curricula.

Some institutions have even gone so far as to win national awards for their own global citizenship programs.

They are now ready to take their global citizenship education to the next level. As such, the GCP staff is constantly adjusting the program to partner institutions’ needs and specific requests.

This year, for example, all student sessions will have a specific thematic focus – ‘Global Citizenship and Universal Human Rights,’ ‘Global Citizenship: Ethics and Engagement,’ and ‘Pathways to Global Citizenship: Roots and Routes’ – in addition to the long-running ‘Global Citizenship: At Home and in the World,’ designed with the multi-time returning partners in mind.

Unlikely partners

The partner institutions of the Global Citizenship Program have thus far been all US-based colleges and universities.

But that is not to say that the students have been by any means the traditional image of an all-American student.

“It has become a characteristic of the GCP that we bring together very unlikely partners, and these unlikely partnerships have in and of itself become an asset of the program,” says Fried.

“The HCBUs [Historically Black Universities and Colleges] come together with the Appalachian colleges which serve a very different population; then you have the biggest US higher education institution [Miami Dade College, Florida]; as well as other large and small, urban and rural, community colleges mixing with the splendour and very wealthy liberal arts colleges, like the University of San Francisco. Everyone is coming together.

“This diversity is a unique strength of the GCP and adds a crucial element to the impact that participants and partner institutions alike attest: when it comes to global citizenship, it doesn’t matter where you are coming from—we need to get the same mindset. If we remain stuck in our boxes, we are missing the most elementary lesson of what global citizenship ultimately is all about.”

These unlikely partnerships are deliberate, encouraging students to confront, discuss and understand the national, linguistic, ethnic, religious, social and economic range and multiformity  alive in their own country of study, as well as the world at large. 

Whilst the GCP grew out of the Salzburg Global Seminar’s Universities Project, it is from community colleges that many of the GCP’s participants come. Dubbed by some as the “Ellis Island of US higher education,” these two-year institutions are often more diverse and more globalized than any other segment in US academia. 

"Take for example Kingsborough Community College,” says Fried. “23,000 [students] in Brooklyn, NY; like so many US institutions they have all the flags up of where they have students coming from. In the case of Kingsborough, there are 142 country flags. I doubt that except for the UN there are too many other institutions even in New York that are composed of a similar number of nationalities.

“But we are not romanticizing this. There is the flip-side of globalization and there are clashes in this world. In a very real sense, community colleges of this type are pre-figuring the world as a global village, which will be our daily experience more and more in the future.”

These sort of diverse institutions are a good fit for the GCP because, as Fried says, “They are already globalized, and they are all about providing opportunities for the less privileged.”

Another new aspect of this year’s program is the active international expansion and invitation of non-American institutions to the program, starting with the July faculty and administrators session.

From there, Fried hopes to expand and, in the near future, have students from these other countries participate alongside their American peers, similar to the three-week Salzburg Academy on Media and Global Change.

Building from the ground up As the Global Citizenship Program forges new ground in 2013 with its new name, new programs and new partners, its ethos will stay the same.

In its recruitment and expansion, the GCP will continue to put an emphasis on the broadest possible crosscut of partner institutions.

According to Fried, for many, globalization has the distinct flavour of corporate elites dividing up power and wealth among themselves.

To a certain extent, especially in the United States, this is also reflected in whose children get access to the exclusive and expensive universities.

“The GCP combines academic rigor and a spirit of democratic egalitarianism, as it befits a program promoting citizenship with a global perspective.  

“That is kind of the pre-consideration that is critical for the idea of global citizenship writ large: all voices must be taken into account,” explains Fried.

“Those who are in the margins experience the impact of globalization in a way that those who call the shots in globalization will never know. And when you experience globalization from below, you probably have more answers for how to address troubles in the global village... 

“The constellation of our partner institutions reflects the spirit of what we mean by ‘global citizenship’ – it’s empowerment from below.”


The Global Citizenship Program will this year run on the following dates: February 28-March 7, March 24-31, May 19-25, May 25-June 1, with the faculty and administrators program on July 14-21 entitled ‘Education for Global Citizenship: What, Why and How’.

To find out how your institution can be part of the program, please contact Astrid Schroeder, Global Citizenship Program Director: aschroeder@salzburgglobal.org

We do not accept applications directly from students. Interested students must apply through their home institutions. To find out if your college or university is a partner, please visit our website.

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ISP 52 - King College Junior Micah-Sage Bolden Writes on His Experiences as an ISP Student
Micah-Sage Bolden (front row, right, blue shirt) with his classmates of ISP 52.
ISP 52 - King College Junior Micah-Sage Bolden Writes on His Experiences as an ISP Student
By: Micah-Sage Bolden 

Micah-Sage Bolden on visiting the Dachau Memorial and presentations by Astrid Schröder, Reinhold Wagnleiter and Darci Arnold during his time at Salzburg Global Seminar.

SALZBURG – May 15-18, 2012

My experience with the Salzburg Global Seminar from over the last three days has broadened my emotional range, my international confidence, and my mastery of collaborative action; just as the seminar challenged me intellectually so did it emotionally and socially.

One of the most touching experiences I have had was our trip to the Dachau Memorial. I had been reading about the Holocaust since I was young, but nothing could have prepared me for the heartbreaking weight of visiting a site that was host to the worst of what people of capable of, ‘singing with the voices of thousands of lost souls’. Each exhibit combined historical perspectives with an aura of sentiment unmatched by other memorials I have visited. Our excursion sparked passionate discussion upon our return that not only touched me intellectually, but also spiritually.

The day following our Dachau tour we explored the histories and culture of pre- and post- Cold War Europe with Astrid Schröder, continued our intellectually enriching group work, and experienced a joint class with students from the University of Salzburg taught by Reinhold Wagnleitner, held at the university. My discussions with the Salzburg students helped to explore the intricacies of the problems facing America and addressed European views of the social, political, and economic struggles of the United States.

Finally, Thursday’s presentation by Darci Arnold raised pertinent questions regarding the issues of corporate responsibility, the rising importance of data and integration between data, technology, and our lives, as well as the societal and cultural changes brought on by the advent of digital media and the digital economy. Our group work helped to solidify our views of global citizenship and its importance in our globalized society and aided in the development of lifelong partnerships in the pursuit of social justice and the maintenance of a global citizenship.

My experiences with the seminar have expanded my mental and spiritual capacities and enhanced my understanding of international perceptions of the United States.


Micah-Sage Bolden is a junior at King College in Bristol, TN, USA. He is majoring in history, political science and philosophy, concentrating on intelligence and security studies. He is the communications officer of the King Security and Intelligence Studies Group (KSI) and a member of the King World Awareness and Activation Campaign. He has served as the executive editor of King College’s Security and Intelligence Studies Journal; editor-in-chief of the Kayseean, a bi-weekly student publication; a member of the Board of Directors of the Appalachian Peace Education Center; and co-author of “Social Networking as a Paradigm Shift in Tactical Intelligence Collection” in the 2012 Mediterranean Council for Intelligence Studies. In the future, Micah-Sage would like work in diplomacy and social activism. 

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American Students Join Together in Salzburg for the 52nd International Study Program
Students of ISP 52 from King College, TN, Ferrum College, VA, West Virginian Wesleyan, WV and Bennett College, NC
American Students Join Together in Salzburg for the 52nd International Study Program
By: Louise Hallman 
King College junior Micah-Sage Bolden writes on his experiences as an ISP student Since 2004, Salzburg Global Seminar has gathered American undergraduates from partner colleges for week-long International Study Programs (ISP) covering global citizenship. The ISP provides an intensive international experience for participants to explore issues of worldwide concern and to view them from a perspective both literally and figuratively outside the borders of the United States. Students develop the tools to be more discerning in their assessment of information pertaining to world affairs and to understand what it means to be a “global citizen”. ISP 52 students came from King College, TN, Ferrum College, VA, West Virginian Wesleyan College, WV and Bennett College for Women, NC, to participate in classes on Mapping Ethnocentrism and Globalization, From Every End of This Earth: The American People in the 20th and 21st Century, Women in Islam and in Africa: Perspectives from Sudan and Beyond, The US of America and the World: Views From a Distance, Corporations as Global Citizens, and The Digital Economy & Brand YOU! The week also involved intensive group work and presentations, as well as an excursion to the Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial Site in Dachau, Germany. King College student Micah-Sage Bolden shares his experience in a three-part series. You can find these related to this article below.
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ISP 52 - Global Citizenship - At Home and in the World
Students visit the Dachau Concentration Camp, photo credit: Jon Robinson, ISP 52 student from Ferrum College, VA
ISP 52 - Global Citizenship - At Home and in the World
By: Micah-Sage Bolden 

King College junior Micah-Sage Bolden writes on his experiences as an ISP student

SALZBURG – May 15-18, 2012

My experience with the Salzburg Global Seminar from over the last three days has broadened my emotional range, my international confidence, and my mastery of collaborative action; just as the seminar challenged me intellectually so did it emotionally and socially.

One of the most touching experiences I have had was our trip to the Dachau Memorial. I had been reading about the Holocaust since I was young, but nothing could have prepared me for the heartbreaking weight of visiting a site that was host to the worst of what people of capable of, ‘singing with the voices of thousands of lost souls’. Each exhibit combined historical perspectives with an aura of sentiment unmatched by other memorials I have visited. Our excursion sparked passionate discussion upon our return that not only touched me intellectually, but also spiritually.

The day following our Dachau tour we explored the histories and culture of pre- and post- Cold War Europe with Astrid Schröder, continued our intellectually enriching group work, and experienced a joint lecture with University of Salzburg students taught by Reinhold Wagnleitner, held at the university. My discussions with the Salzburg students helped to explore the intricacies of the problems facing America and addressed European views of the social, political, and economic struggles of the United States.

Finally, Thursday’s presentation by Darci Arnold raised pertinent questions regarding the issues of corporate responsibility, the rising importance of data and integration between data, technology, and our lives, as well as the societal and cultural changes brought on by the advent of digital media and the digital economy. Our group work helped to solidify our views of global citizenship and its importance in our globalized society and aided in the development of lifelong partnerships in the pursuit of social justice and the maintenance of a global citizenship. My experiences with the seminar have expanded my mental and spiritual capacities and enhanced my understanding of international perceptions of the United States.

Micah-Sage Bolden is a junior at King College in Bristol, TN, USA. He is majoring in history, political science and philosophy, concentrating on intelligence and security studies. He is the communications officer of the King Security and Intelligence Studies Group (KSI) and a member of the King World Awareness and Activation Campaign. He has served as the executive editor of King College’s Security and Intelligence Studies Journal; editor-in-chief of the Kayseean, a bi-weekly student publication; a member of the Board of Directors of the Appalachian Peace Education Center; and co-author of “Social Networking as a Paradigm Shift in Tactical Intelligence Collection” in the 2012 Mediterranean Council for Intelligence Studies. In the future, Micah-Sage would like work in diplomacy and social activism.

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ISP 52 - Global Citizenship - At Home and in the World
Micah-Sage Bolden (center) discussing global citizenship with ISP 52 students James Schambach and Posey Swope
ISP 52 - Global Citizenship - At Home and in the World
By: Micah-Sage Bolden 

King College junior Micah-Sage Bolden writes on his experiences as an ISP student

SALZBURG – May 12, 2012

My first three days of the Salzburg Global Seminar have in many ways been everything I expected, and yet beyond anything I could ever have imagined.

Growing up in a valley of the Appalachian Mountains in Eastern Tennessee, it had always been a far off dream to see firsthand the idyllic landscape of Europe. My day of arrival in Salzburg was a day of firsts: my first time to leave the Southeastern United States, my first time ever riding in a plane, my first time in Europe, and yet the kindness with which I was greeted by the faculty, staff, and fellow attendees of the seminar resonated with a charm that echoed the Southern hospitality of my homeland.

The topic of the seminar – global citizenship – at first seemed as foreign as the Schloss or the mighty fortress on the hill, but just as the Schloss quickly became a second home, so too did the concept of global citizenship rapidly settle into the deepest confines of my mind and heart.

The plenary discussions of the seminar helped to make concrete the airy concepts of ethnocentrism and globalization, challenging me with firsthand encounters of global citizenship; sitting in the plenary discussions, surrounded by amazing minds from all over the world and the beautiful landscape of the Austrian countryside, it quickly became clear what global citizenship meant and how this should play out in our everyday lives. From the concise and informative sessions of Mapping Ethnocentrism and Mapping Globalization, to the insightful lecture regarding the dramatic migratory patterns of humanity, to the amazingly inspirational (and eye-opening) lecture by Najwa Gadaheldam on women in Islam and Africa, each session helped to solidify the concept of global citizenship while prompting edifying question and answer sessions.

My favorite moments of the seminar by far, though, have been the profound conversations I have shared with my fellow students and the faculty. Not only have I discovered kindred spirits that have further inspired and developed my ideals and future plans, but I have also been exposed for the first time to challenges that rarely transverse into my daily consciousness. My conversations with the students of Bennett College have, in particular, helped to develop my understanding of the problems of race and gender in our country as well as my understanding of the challenge of white privilege to equality and justice in the U.S. and the world as a whole; I have never before in my life had such weighty conversations that both influence my way of thinking and help me to understand the steps needed to confront these problems.

The first three days of the Seminar have already proven to be some of the most important of my life in regards to my intellectual and spiritual growth and have helped me to understand the need for cooperation in the confrontation of violence, hate, and injustice in our globalized society. As Mrs. Gadaheldam said, “Don’t think you can walk alone in this world and make a difference,” and it is with this powerful sentiment that I move forward to embrace the rest of the seminar.

Micah-Sage Bolden is a junior at King College in Bristol, TN, USA. He is majoring in history, political science and philosophy, concentrating on intelligence and security studies. He is the communications officer of the King Security and Intelligence Studies Group (KSI) and a member of the King World Awareness and Activation Campaign. He has served as the executive editor of King College’s Security and Intelligence Studies Journal; editor-in-chief of the Kayseean, a bi-weekly student publication; a member of the Board of Directors of the Appalachian Peace Education Center; and co-author of “Social Networking as a Paradigm Shift in Tactical Intelligence Collection” in the 2012 Mediterranean Council for Intelligence Studies. In the future, Micah-Sage would like work in diplomacy and social activism.

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Houston Community College Students Blog on Their Time at ISP 53
Houston Community College Students Blog on Their Time at ISP 53
By: Houston Community College 
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