Widening access and equity through Collaborative Online International Learning and diverse reimagined global field school experiences
This project engages the university community in accessible COIL programming and builds a range of re-imagined field schools to offer equal opportunity for Capilao University students to participate in outbound mobility experiences. With strategically chosen partners with shared EDI values to provide diverse intercultural experiences, COIL programming will introduce imaginative intercultural learning experiences for 455 […]
Minding the GAP: Increasing International Travel Equity and Access for Canadian Students
Memorial University of Newfoundland creates a needs-based, equitable scholarship program for study abroad which prioritizes students who are low income, Indigenous and have accessibility needs. A Global Ambassadors Program fully realizes the transformational experience that international learning abroad can provide, including access to the latest safety and support tools available. MUN creates a “Launchpad” experience […]
International Student Mobility – Enhancement and Expansion Project
Carleton’s project will prioritize engaging underrepresented groups in international mobility experiences, including internships, exchanges and service-learning with the goal of providing increased equity around these high-impact experiences. Through partnerships with faculty, international partners and key departments, we will be strategic in our outreach to engage additional underrepresented students and develop enhanced supports. We will provide […]
Building international competencies in the field
Building on an existing field schools program, the project develops a series of short-term programs taught internationally by Concordia University professors. These programs, of a maximum of two weeks in duration, are taught in collaboration with partner institutions in non-traditional outbound student mobility countries, in particular, throughout Latin America, Africa and Asia. In order to […]
Four Directions to Mobility Access Pathway (MAP) Programming
This wholistic ‘four directions’ project reflects Mi’kmaq tradition to directly strengthen academic programming for indigenous, low-income, and students requiring greater accommodations or accessibility as part of an innovative global Mobility & Access Pathway (MAP) Program. The first direction focuses on innovative wrap around supports improving accessibility, the second direction provides for virtual mobility experience through […]
Skills for Global Innovators
The ‘Skills for Global Innovators’ project uses an endogenous concept of collaboration that connects the Agricultural Campus to its environs through credit, certificate and microcredit course offerings inclusive of an International Learning Experience (ILE) for two historically marginalized communities in Nova Scotia – Mi’kmaq and Black/African Nova Scotians (ANS). It engages internal and external partners, […]
International Field Courses for Indigenous and Black Student Global Leaders
Dalhousie University provides international field courses in non-traditional destinations (Colombia, New Zealand), focusing on delivering culturally appropriate mobility experiences for Indigenous, Black and African Nova Scotian students. Our partner institutions are the Universidad Catolica de Manizale, Colombia and Te Herenga Wake-Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. The project creates online and in-person international learning experiences, […]
International Field Courses for African Nova Scotian Global Leaders
Dalhousie University will provide international field courses in Ghana — a non-traditional destination — and the USA, focusing on delivering culturally appropriate mobility experiences for African Nova Scotian students. In partnership with the University of Ghana, Youth Bridge Foundation (a Ghanaian foundation committed to bridging gaps for positive youth development) and selected Historically Black Colleges […]
Developing Conservation Competencies in Namibia – the Cheetah Ecosystem (2021-2025)
Cheetah Conservation Fund (CCF) is an internationally recognized center for conservation of cheetahs and their ecosystems located in Namibia, Africa. One of the greatest threats to cheetah is human wildlife conflict since 90 percent of the world’s cheetah live outside protected areas. Vanier College students will learn to create a sustainable space; a world in […]
Global Employability Skills – Applied Learning Projects
NSCC provides international learning opportunities for students and employees through a variety of applied learning experiential projects in several non-traditional mobility countries around the world. All projects focus on innovation, entrepreneurship and employability skills and provide inclusive and equitable learning experiences for all. Students gain valuable global employability skills through hands-on learning projects related to […]