Spring Break
Officials discuss global education in Salzburg summit
Samie Hartley
Issue date: 2/19/07 Section: News
- Page 1 of 2 next >
San Jose State University Professor Bill Reckmeyer discussed the importance of global citizenship during the first Campus Dialogue of the semester on Thursday.
A group of 12 faculty, staff, students and administrators came to listen to Reckmeyer discuss the SJSU Salzburg Scholars Program, an international seminar that representatives from SJSU attend in the summer.
"The Salzburg seminar was created to make sure another World War II doesn't happen," said Reckmeyer. "It is an avenue for the international community to gather for a dialogue about difficult worldwide issues."
Last year, 13 SJSU faculty and staff attended the seminar as Salzburg fellows, Reckmeyer said, International Study Programs faculty chair. Sixteen Fellows will go to Salzburg, Austria this summer to attend presentations and activities at the historic Schloss Leopoldskron, the castle used as the setting for the film "The Sound of Music."
Reckmeyer said he was the first to take a laptop to the castle several years ago and now the building features many technological features for enhanced learning.
Jill Steinberg, a Salzburg fellow who attended the seminar last summer, said she is "blessed" to take a group of SJSU students to Salzburg this summer. For the first time, twelve SJSU students will attend the seminar as Salzburg scholars.
Reckmeyer, professor of leadership and systems, said the deans at the university are paying for the students to go, so all the participating students will receive full funding for this "intensive" weeklong study-abroad program.
"We think students need to know about the world we're in," Reckmeyer said. "Students need to be able to connect the dots globally."
He said global citizenship is an important concept to impart on students because all majors of academic study can be applied in a global context.
While there are many themed sessions throughout the seminar, fellows and scholars from SJSU attend the global citizenship seminar, and when they return, the representatives make the commitment to help globalize education at SJSU, Reckmeyer said, either by working on projects, bringing global citizenship into the curriculum or creating new courses based on things discussed in Salzburg.
A group of 12 faculty, staff, students and administrators came to listen to Reckmeyer discuss the SJSU Salzburg Scholars Program, an international seminar that representatives from SJSU attend in the summer.
"The Salzburg seminar was created to make sure another World War II doesn't happen," said Reckmeyer. "It is an avenue for the international community to gather for a dialogue about difficult worldwide issues."
Last year, 13 SJSU faculty and staff attended the seminar as Salzburg fellows, Reckmeyer said, International Study Programs faculty chair. Sixteen Fellows will go to Salzburg, Austria this summer to attend presentations and activities at the historic Schloss Leopoldskron, the castle used as the setting for the film "The Sound of Music."
Reckmeyer said he was the first to take a laptop to the castle several years ago and now the building features many technological features for enhanced learning.
Jill Steinberg, a Salzburg fellow who attended the seminar last summer, said she is "blessed" to take a group of SJSU students to Salzburg this summer. For the first time, twelve SJSU students will attend the seminar as Salzburg scholars.
Reckmeyer, professor of leadership and systems, said the deans at the university are paying for the students to go, so all the participating students will receive full funding for this "intensive" weeklong study-abroad program.
"We think students need to know about the world we're in," Reckmeyer said. "Students need to be able to connect the dots globally."
He said global citizenship is an important concept to impart on students because all majors of academic study can be applied in a global context.
While there are many themed sessions throughout the seminar, fellows and scholars from SJSU attend the global citizenship seminar, and when they return, the representatives make the commitment to help globalize education at SJSU, Reckmeyer said, either by working on projects, bringing global citizenship into the curriculum or creating new courses based on things discussed in Salzburg.
Be the first to comment on this story