This document discusses internationalization efforts at Normandale Community College. It began in 2016 with two U.S. Department of Education grants to support language and culture-focused study abroad programs and develop an International Experience Certificate. The campus-wide internationalization initiative is run through the International Experience Center and aims to foster intercultural competence, multilingualism, and local-global connections across disciplines. It defines what it means to be "global-ready" and provides resources to support internationalization, including speaker series, research sites, and professional development opportunities. The document invites reflection on current practices and continuing collaboration.

1. Teaching Local-Global
Connections Across
Disciplines
INTERNATIONALIZATION AT NORMANDALE COMMUNITY COLLEGE

2. Internationalization at Normandale
• Internationalization is an approach that has been used in 4-yr higher ed. settings since the 1990s to
provide interdisciplinary, sustainable international education opportunities to students. NCC has one of
the only 2-yr internationalization models in the country.
• Our internationalization work began in 2016 with the first of two consecutive grants from the U.S.
Department of Education Undergraduate International Studies and Foreign Languages Office awarded to
the NCC World Languages and Cultures Department:
• AGILE (Accessible Global Immersion Learning Experiences) 2016-2018
• Language and culture-focused study abroad, professional development, International Experience
Certificate
• CIRCLE (Customizing Internationalization to Reflect Community Learning Environments) 2018-2020
• Focus on diaspora, study away, Somali language and culture program

3. Internationalization at Normandale
(cont.)
• Campus-wide initiative run out of the International Experience Center – 2nd floor, College
Services
• Provides a framework for connecting classroom, co-curricular, and off-campus experiences in
order to foster intercultural competence development, multilingualism, and local-global
connections
• More information at https://www.normandale.edu/departments/humanities/world-
languages/internationalization
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NCCinternationalexperience

4. What does it mean to be global-ready?
Global-ready Normandale faculty, staff, and students demonstrate intercultural competence
and a commitment to collaboratively solving local and global problems. Intercultural
competence includes:
• an awareness of one's own cultural self
• an understanding of how culture shapes worldviews
• the knowledge that values are not universal and cultures are not static
• an understanding of how power functions locally and globally
• the ability to communicate effectively (verbally and non-verbally) with people from a variety
of cultural backgrounds.

5. NCC Internationalization Speaker Series – “How
does power function locally and globally?”

6. Internationalization Resource Sites
Multidisciplinary
Normandale Community College Diaspora Project
https://nccdiaspora.com/
Local-Global Connections 2020
https://2020localglobal.org/
Discipline-Specific
African Voices of Paris
https://africanvoicesofparis.com/
Vietnamese-American Literary Studies
https://vietnameseamericanliterarystudies.com/

7. Professional Development Resources
and Opportunities
American Council on Education https://www.acenet.edu/Research-
Insights/Pages/Internationalization/Intlz-in-Action-2013-December.aspx
Global Programs and Strategies (GPS) Alliance - University of Minnesota
https://global.umn.edu/
Center for Educational Resources in Culture, Language, and Literacy – University of Arizona
https://cercll.arizona.edu/
Society for Intercultural Education, Training, and Research
https://www.sietarusa.org/
Critical Internationalization Studies Network
https://criticalinternationalization.net/

8. Reflection
• How am I currently supporting the development of global-ready students in my
classes?
• How am I currently fostering an understanding of how power functions locally and
globally?
• Which resources shared today might be most useful for me as I seek to deepen my
understanding and practice in and outside the classroom?

9. Continuing the Conversation
Which resources would you like to see added to the multidisciplinary internationalization
resource sites?
What would you like to see as a focus area for our internationalization work for the 21-22
academic year?
Would you like to collaborate on an Internationalization Speaker Series event for the 21-22
academic year?
What types of internationalization professional development opportunities
would you like to participate in during the 21-22 academic year (curriculum design,
intercultural competence development – IDI, anti-racist/decolonial practices within
internationalization, etc.)?
Jen Bouchard, Internationalization Coordinator
Jennifer.bouchard@normandale.edu