CONTEXT
The International Youth Volunteerism Summit is only one part of a comprehensive set of global engagement programs offered by the Just Naïve Enough Center for Global Engagement at Northwestern University.
The Center was founded to fill the critical educational gap facing undergraduates interested in being a part of positive global change. While students have the energy, passion, and drive to do good by the world, they need education and development programs to help move beyond their good intentions and overcome the many challenges to responsible, effective, and sustainable global engagement.
The Center has programs that fall into four broad areas: on-campus capacity building, global engagement programs, critical analysis, and alumni engagement.
On-campus capacity building uses classes, seminars, and conferences like IYVS to build specific skills, knowledge, and resources students need to effectively engage with communities abroad.
Global Engagement programs put students into direct contact with partner communities around the world, often for collaborative project planning and implementation. Critical analysis is all the reflective and critical thinking that helps the CGE and its students better understand the challenges and opportunities for global engagement and design dynamic programs that speak to the specific and changing needs of undergraduates.
Alumni engagement programs include the digital alumni community, outcome grants, and all the other resources and infrastructures we utilize to help keep our alumni community a dynamically connected pool of leading young global change makers.
The Center for Global Engagement is supported primarily by the Northwestern University Office of the Provost and receives financial, logistical, and other forms of support from a number of participating university departments and offices. The CGE is housed by the Center for International and Comparative Studies, an interdisciplinary global research center that coordinates a significant number of campus global initiatives.
In its first year, the Center for Global Engagement is focused on developing two prototype global engagement programs; ENGAGE Uganda and ENGAGE Guatemala. ENGAGE Uganda will have students spend six months of courses preparing for a credited summer immersion experience in which they work in small teams to partner with Ugandan host community based organizations to collaboratively design and implement small scale community improvement projects. ENGAGE Guatemala will partner students with an innovative, human-rights-focused primary and secondary school through a spring break learning exchange, spring quarter class and optional funding and support for summer projects.
The International Youth Volunteerism Summit is only one part of a comprehensive set of global engagement programs offered by the Just Naïve Enough Center for Global Engagement at Northwestern University.
The Center was founded to fill the critical educational gap facing undergraduates interested in being a part of positive global change. While students have the energy, passion, and drive to do good by the world, they need education and development programs to help move beyond their good intentions and overcome the many challenges to responsible, effective, and sustainable global engagement.
The Center has programs that fall into four broad areas: on-campus capacity building, global engagement programs, critical analysis, and alumni engagement.
On-campus capacity building uses classes, seminars, and conferences like IYVS to build specific skills, knowledge, and resources students need to effectively engage with communities abroad.
Global Engagement programs put students into direct contact with partner communities around the world, often for collaborative project planning and implementation. Critical analysis is all the reflective and critical thinking that helps the CGE and its students better understand the challenges and opportunities for global engagement and design dynamic programs that speak to the specific and changing needs of undergraduates.
Alumni engagement programs include the digital alumni community, outcome grants, and all the other resources and infrastructures we utilize to help keep our alumni community a dynamically connected pool of leading young global change makers.
The Center for Global Engagement is supported primarily by the Northwestern University Office of the Provost and receives financial, logistical, and other forms of support from a number of participating university departments and offices. The CGE is housed by the Center for International and Comparative Studies, an interdisciplinary global research center that coordinates a significant number of campus global initiatives.
In its first year, the Center for Global Engagement is focused on developing two prototype global engagement programs; ENGAGE Uganda and ENGAGE Guatemala. ENGAGE Uganda will have students spend six months of courses preparing for a credited summer immersion experience in which they work in small teams to partner with Ugandan host community based organizations to collaboratively design and implement small scale community improvement projects. ENGAGE Guatemala will partner students with an innovative, human-rights-focused primary and secondary school through a spring break learning exchange, spring quarter class and optional funding and support for summer projects.
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