College Updates from World View
September 2011

World View Community College Calendar 2011-12,
Celebrate International Education Week,
and Resources for Teaching 9/11

Welcome back from summer vacation! All of us at World View look forward to working with our community college partners and friends during the new semester. We’re excited about new opportunities for you to internationalize your college and instruction. This year we are adding sessions on globalizing your course to our fall symposium, and in February we are offering a new workshop on internationalizing community college courses. We are also continuing the program of grants for instructors to create an international module for a course they teach. Please take a look at what’s coming up and give Neil or Leslie a call or email if you have any questions or ideas.
Neil Bolick, 919/843-5332, nebolick@unc.edu
Leslie Hodges, 919/843-8210, lhodges@unc.edu

Proposal Deadline November 14, 2011

In collaboration with UNC and Duke’s National Resource Centers, World View is providing grants for community college educators to create modules to internationalize their courses. Over 40 grants have been awarded to North Carolina community college instructors. Each grantee receives $750 to support module creation and a trip to UNC-Chapel Hill for research. At UNC they work with librarians and faculty arranged by World View.

There will be separate grant competitions for modules covering the following areas:
• Any area of the world or a combination of several areas or countries
• Africa
• East Asia
• Europe and the European Union
• Middle East and Muslim civilizations

More information, including proposal cover sheet and examples of international modules, is available at www.unc.edu/world/resources.shtml.
Please contact Neil Bolick (919/843-5332 nebolick@unc.edu) or Leslie Hodges (919/843-8210 lhodges@unc.edu) if you have questions or need additional information.

International Education Week (IEW) started in 2000 and today is celebrated in more than 100 countries worldwide. It celebrates international education and exchange worldwide. IEW is sponsored by the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs of the U.S. Department of State and the U.S. Department of Education. This joint initiative promotes programs that prepare Americans for a global environment and attract future leaders from abroad to study, learn, and exchange experiences in the United States. IEW is celebrated each November the week before Thanksgiving. The worldwide celebration of IEW offers an opportunity to reach out to people of every nation and to develop a broader understanding of world cultures and languages.

The IEW 2011 website http://iew.state.gov has been launched, and includes promotional materials, an interactive quiz, and opportunities to post and view planned events around the world.  In addition, IEW has a Facebook page and group, both of which can be accessed through the IEW website.

All individuals and institutions interested in international education and exchange activities, including schools, colleges and universities, and community organizations are encouraged to participate in celebrating IEW 2011.

The following list is just a start. Be creative in planning IEW events and let IEW know about your activities.

Host an International Career Day by inviting alumni and/or local international experts as speakers.

Organize a symposium on campus or in your community on an international theme. Some ideas include:

– The importance of foreign language study
– International exchange and study abroad opportunities
– International education as the key to homeland security
– The internationalization of higher education
– The global classroom: Internet exchange and distance learning
– Intercultural communication
– Dealing with culture shock

Recruit local citizens with overseas experience (Fulbright students, scholars, and teachers, former diplomats, Peace Corps volunteers, business leaders, or journalists) to discuss their international careers and the importance of international education and exchange. This can be as formal as a panel presentation or speech or as informal as a coffee hour or brown bag lunch.

Produce and/or screen a video about the experiences of international students on your campus and/or students or instructors returning from a trip abroad.

Show an international film from the UNC collection:www.unc.edu/world/cc_film_resources.shtml

Organize a festival spotlighting a particular country or region. In addition to films, live performances, or art exhibits, try interactive elements such as teaching students how to cook food of a particular country, learning a traditional dance, or learning the basics of a foreign language.

Host a Quiz Bowl on international affairs, geography, or world history. (For ideas,
take the IEW Quiz!)

Image from the Library of Congress

September 11, 2011 was the ten year anniversary of the 9-11 terrorist attacks on U.S. soil.  This tragic event changed the course of history for the both the United States and the international community. How should educators teach about the circumstances leading up to the event, the actual events of the day, and the aftermath in a thoughtful and appropriate manner?

Below is a compilation of resources for teaching about 9-11 and global conflict and resources for promoting peaceful resolution of conflict. To learn more about peace and conflict worldwide, join us November 9-10 in Chapel Hill for World View’s annual community college global education symposium.  Click here for more information.

U.S. Department of Defense, Remembering September 11, 2011: We Will Never Forget
This special feature has links to speeches, stories, and photo essays to commemorate the anniversary of 9-11. 
www.defense.gov/home/features/2010/0910_911/

CIA World Factbook
To find out general information about countries involved in global terrorism view the country profiles available from the CIA. The World Factbook provides information on the history, people, government, economy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for 267 world entities. Reference tabs include: maps of the major world regions, flags of the world, a physical map of the World, a political map of the World, and a standard time zones of the World map. 
www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/

Choices Program at Brown University, www.choices.edu 
The Choices Program offers several curriculum units and resources that can be adapted for higher education including:
A free Teaching with the News lesson, "Oral History and September 11".  This online lesson will help students to explore the attacks by interviewing people about their 9/11 experiences.  
A Global Controversy: The U.S. Invasion of Iraq (curriculum unit), supplemented by Scholars Online videos featuring academics and policymakers such as U.S. Sen. Jack Reed, encourages students to recreate the national public debate that took place as the country stood on the brink of invasion in March 2003, and to explore four distinct options the U.S. public considered at the time. Watch a video preview here.
The United States in Afghanistan (curriculum unit), includes an exercise aimed at helping students consider the costs and benefits of the war in Afghanistan and articulate recommendations for U.S. policy there.
Responding to Terrorism: Challenges for Democracy curriculum unit activities include role-playing to consider a range of options for U.S. policy toward terrorism and then letter-writing to national policymakers based on a student's views.

The National 9/11 Pentagon Memorial, Education Materials
The Pentagon Memorial Fund is dedicated to offering valuable educational resources and materials surrounding the events of September 11, 2001 and the historic significance of the Pentagon Memorial.  Users can search a database of resources by keyword, grade level, subject, or specific resource type.
pentagonmemorial.org/learn/education-materials

Library of Congress, The September 11, 2001, Documentary Project 
This project captures the heartfelt reactions, eyewitness accounts, and diverse opinions of Americans and others in the months that followed the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and United Airlines Flight 93. memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/911_archive/

National Geographic: Starting from GROUND ZERO.
Ten years after 9/11, how have the survivors healed—and what wounds still remain? ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2011/09/remembering-9-11/gallery?source=emali_channel#/1 

National Geographic: 9/11 Interviews.
This web-only interactive includes over two hours of eyewitness accounts and expert commentaries about the policies and events that led up to the attack and aftermath. 
www.nationalgeographic.com/remembering-9-11/interviews/?source=email_channel

National Museum of American History, Bearing Witness to History: Remembrance and Reflection
A collection to commemorate the ten year anniversary and a corresponding digital archive of pictures of objects having to do with 9/11.  Be sure to explore the links to additional educational resources. americanhistory.si.edu/september11/ 

The Newseum,War on Terror: The FBI’s New Focus. 
The Newseum in Washington, D.C., is expanding its FBI exhibit with a new display of artifacts from 9/11 and other terrorist plots that have never been on display to the public before. The Newseum selected 60 pieces of evidence the FBI had in storage for use in terror trials, including huge pieces of an airplane that survived ramming into the World Trade Center towers. newseum.org/

September 11 Digital Archive
The September 11 Digital Archive uses electronic media to collect, preserve, and present the history of the September 11, 2001 attacks in New York, Virginia, and Pennsylvania and the public responses to them.  911digitalarchive.org/ 

read.write.think. The Post 9/11 Landscape, podcast
Teen readers will encounter page-turning suspense and hard-hitting social commentary in these books exploring the political and cultural landscape of our post-9/11 world. Tune in to hear how graphic novels place the events of 9/11 in historical context, how war stories put a human face on the costs of military conflict, and how young adult novels imagine roles that teens can play in working for a better world.
www.readwritethink.org/parent-afterschool-resources/podcast-episodes/post-landscape-30336.html 

Foreign Policy. Think Again: War
www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2011/08/15/think_again_war

National Archives, 9-11 Commission Records
www.archives.gov/research/9-11/ 

The New York Times. How Do You Teach About 9/11?
learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/07/19/how-do-you-teach-about-911/

Globalization101.org, Ten Years Later: The Global Impact of the 9.11 Attacks
www.globalization101.org/news1/9-11-Attacks

New York Times, Chilling Echoes from September 11
www.nytimes.com/2011/05/23/opinion/23mon1.html

CNN Special Edition, September 11 Attacks
topics.cnn.com/topics/september_11_attacks