Best Practices Conference in June, 2001

Beloit College

Participants:

• Terry Bigalke
• Jan Bigalke

Project Title: Comprehensive Internationalization: One Department at a Time

Project Description:

A comprehensive approach to internationalizing the campus requires addressing the specific needs and opportunities of each academic department. The Department of Art and Art History at Beloit is a case in point. In the recent past students majoring in art history or studio art studied abroad in small numbers and usually in Florence. Faculty international interests rarely translated into on-campus curricular offerings or stimulated their students to routinely plan for a study abroad experience to augment their Beloit courses. This began to change with an infusion of new faculty who were receptive to overtures from the international programs office to cooperate on program development abroad.

The Beloit project will build upon progress made over the past two years to enhance international opportunities for students majoring and minoring in studio art and art history, and to design changes to the on-campus curriculum that will lead to a more comprehensive international experience for students in these fields. The team includes a professor of studio art (who is departmental chair), the director of the international programs office, and the campus specialist on educational technology.

Participants:

Name: Terry Bigalke

Title: Director of the World Affairs Center

E-mail: bigalket@beloit.edu

Presentation: Workshop A1: Insights into Internationalization at Beloit College, Friday, 1:30-3:00

Biographical Information: Terry Bigalke directs the World Affairs Center at Beloit College, which develops and administers 20 international exchange programs; international student services; summer intensive language study; and a program that places recent graduates in East Central Europe to teach English. Prior to arriving at Beloit in 1989, Dr. Bigalke was Assistant Director for the Midwest Universities Consortium for International Activities. From 1980 to 1983 he served as Program Officer and Assistant to the Representative with the Ford Foundation's Southeast Asian Regional Office, based in Jakarta, Indonesia, where he was responsible for institutional development grants. Earlier international experience included two extended periods of research in Indonesia and the Netherlands, and directing summer travel-study programs for American high school students in Western Europe. He holds a Ph.D. in Comparative World History from the University of Wisconsin-Madison; an M.A. in Southeast Asian History from the East-West Center at the University of Hawaii; and a B.A. in History and Asian Studies from St. Olaf College. In August 2001 he will begin the position of Dean of Academic Programs at the East-West Center in Honolulu.

Name: Jan Bigalke

Title: Instructor of Modern Languages and Literatures

E-mail: bigalkej@beloit.edu

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