This document discusses strategies for collaborating with faculty to build student engagement abroad. It identifies ways to connect with potential faculty partners such as attending campus events and utilizing existing programs. It also discusses supporting faculty development through grants, on-campus events, and site visits. The document uses Rwanda as a case study, outlining how a collaborative relationship with faculty there has led to multiple student programs in Rwanda since 2010 involving courses, independent study, and internships.

1. RWANDA: COLLABORATING WITH FACULTY
TO BUILD STUDENT ENGAGEMENT ABROAD
M Sheridan Embser-Herbert, Kari Richtsmeier, and Linda Umwali

2. Introductions
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M Sheridan Embser-Herbert, Ph.D., J.D.
Professor of Sociology and Director, Center for Justice and Law
Kari Richstmeier, Ph.D., Director, Global Engagement Center
Linda Umwali, CLA ’18, Economics and Finance

3. Learning Objectives/Goals
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How to identify potential faculty partners
How best to support faculty development
Rwanda – A ‘Case Study’

4. IDENTIFYING POTENTIAL
FACULTY PARTNERS

5. Identifying Potential Faculty Partners
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Get to know your faculty - connect with new hires right away
Campus events
- International Education Week
- Admission Events
Utilize other units’ existing programs
- New Faculty Orientation Seminar
- First Year Seminar

6. SUPPORTING FACULTY
DEVELOPMENT AND
COLLABORATION

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Grants – e.g., CIEE and multi-agency grants
On-campus events – e.g., international visitors
Team site visits - e.g., Senegal
Staff colleague program

8. RWANDA: A ‘CASE STUDY’

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“Wouldn’t it be great…?”
2010 – Collaborative opportunity
2011 – Faculty development opportunity
2011 – First Year Seminar
2012 – Hamline to Rwanda
2013 – Hamline to Rwanda, part II – scholarship!
2014 – 20th commemoration – visit to PIASS
2016 – Hamline to Rwanda, redux

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http://www.mprnews.org/story/2015/01/13/linda-umwali
Course planning with independent study students
Peer mentor while on the ground

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Protestant Institute of Art and Social Science workshop

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Student curated, student organized, student executed
Hamline to Rwanda: Hope and Healing After the Genocide

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What does the future hold?
January 2017
Courses in Cambodia, Cuba, Belize
Internships in Shanghai, China
Global Service Learning through Education, Thailand
May 2017
Courses in The Netherlands and Greece
2018 and beyond?

15. THANK
YOU