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Global Citizenship Project

About the project

Student involvement

Coordinated by the intern in the Office of the Vice-President Students, the project was implemented by a team of 25 trained volunteers, made up of graduate and undergraduate students as well as alumni. Members of the project team contributed to the development of project materials and the process. Their main responsibility was to organize discussion groups within and across communities sustained by special programs and student organizations, ranging from interest clubs to undergraduate, graduate, residential associations and alumni groups.

Overall, the project hosted 20 discussion groups with a total participation of 180 undergraduate, graduate students and alumni representing 12 UBC Faculties/schools covering 34 programs within them. One third of the participants were international students and one third of all participants were graduate students. Notes taken at each discussion session were compiled in the report for presentation to different constituencies on campus well as for input into the University's Trek 2010 vision and strategic plan. Learn about the project findings by downloading the following documents.

Download Global Citizenship Project documents

Looking into the Future - Executive Summary (39KB PDF) Download the executive summary of the report Looking into the Future
Looking into the Future (381KB PDF) Download the full report, Looking into the Future: Views of UBC Students and Alumni on Global Citizenship
Student Engagement: Global Citizenship (140KB PowerPoint)

Project activities

Recruitment of project team; training sessions and on-line discussions for project team; participation in global education activities on campus by the project team; wrap-up event.
Twenty small group discussions with students and alumni to focus on four questions:

What does "global citizenship" mean to you?
What values, competencies and actions should UBC students develop and practice to be responsible global citizens?
What kind of programs and activities are available at UBC that contribute to educating students as global citizens?
What else UBC should do and what should be done differently?

Developing an electronic forum to continue exploring ideas that emerged from discussions.
Identifying programs and activities on campus that contribute to education of students as global citizens
Compiling an inventory of values, competencies and actions important to global citizenship
Identifying resources and links to local and international organizations with global citizenship mandate providing opportunities for students to get involved

Acknowledgements:
We would like to thank the following organizations and participating groups for providing sponsorship and support to make GCP discussions possible: Office of Vice-President Students, Department of Educational Studies, UBC Learning Exchange, IVCF International Friendship Group, Graduate Student Society, Global Outreach Students' Association and UBC Bookstore.

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