Cornell faculty and staff are invited to join this online conversation with the Cornell International Education Network (CIEN) about Global Learning Assessment and Program Evaluation organized by Amy Kuo Somchanhmavong from the Einhorn Center. Come learn insights from current assessments at Cornell, and then split into groups to discuss the relevance to student learning, global community-engaged learning at Cornell, and your own work. The meeting invites conversation about two survey assessment tools being utilized on the Cornell campus related to international education and community engagement.

A multi-institutional global learning assessment tool, the Global Engagement Survey, that the Einhorn Center is using with their programs and their campus partners

A survey to learn more about Cornell international student involvement with community engagement and how to increase it

Speakers:

Amy Kuo Somchanhmavong, Associate Director, Global Community-Engaged Learning Programs, David M. Einhorn Center for Community Engagement (ayk3@cornell.edu)

Caitlin Ferrarini, Director of Assessment, The Community-Based Global Learning Collaborative (cferrarini@haverford.edu); PhD Candidate in the School for Global Inclusion and Social Development at the University of Massachusetts Boston

Richard Kiely, Senior Fellow, David M. Einhorn Center for Community Engagement (rck6@cornell.edu)

Bio for visiting speaker Caitlin Ferrarini: I am currently the Director of Assessment for the Global Engagement Survey with the Community-Based Global Learning Collaborative. I am also a PhD Candidate in the School for Global Inclusion and Social Development at the University of Massachusetts Boston. Before starting my doctoral studies, I worked in South America for five years as the Executive Director of WorldTeach Colombia and an Education Advisor with Fulbright Colombia. My professional and research interests include experiential education that promotes global learning, social action, and ethical community engagement. I am also passionate about the inclusion of non-dominant student groups in global learning programs. An example of my own analysis of Global Engagement Survey data is in the co-authored article: Coloniality-Decoloniality and Critical Global Citizenship: Identity, Belonging, and Education Abroad. I also enjoy vinyasa yoga, cooking, eating, and hiking with my husband, baby, and our cocker spaniel.

Resources: You can find more information about the Global Engagement Survey on the Community-based Global Learning Collaborative’s website including presentations/publications regarding validation of survey scales, conceptual framing, and different ways Collab members have utilized the assessment tool. The survey items document lists all survey questions and gives an explanation of key concepts. And this overview presentation is a useful introduction to the GES.

A.D. White Professor-at-Large Xu Bing will present the public lecture “What to Make of Art Today?” on Thursday, October 20 at 5pm at the Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium in Goldwin Smith Hall.

You may also attend the lecture via Zoom.

This event is part of an A.D. White Professors-at-Large (ADW-PAL) visit and is co-sponsored by the Johnson Museum of Art and the Cornell Council for the Arts.

Xu Bing is an internationally acclaimed Chinese artist whose creative and cultural interventions touch on the fields of public and ecological art, printmaking, new media installations, drawing, and sculpture. Xu Bing operates studios in New York and Beijing where he served as Vice President of the Central Academy of Fine Arts. For the 2022 Cornell Biennial, the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art has commissioned his newest Background Story, a lyrical light box in dialogue with an historical Chinese ink painting in the Museum’s collection. His biography charts the path of the international influence of Chinese contemporary art and its complex place in Chinese culture over the last forty years.

Xu Bing will visit Cornell as an ADW-PAL from October 17-21, 2022. He was elected as an ADW-PAL in 2015. His appointment runs through 2023.

Xu Bing's "Background Story" exhibition opens October 8, 2022 and closes January 22, 2023. Located in the Gold Gallery, Floor 2L, in the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art.

Xu Bing has created a new work based on a centuries-old Chinese painting, Woodcutter in the Winter Mountains by Yang Xun, in the Johnson Museum’s collection for his series Background Story. Through the manipulation of recycled plastic and miscellaneous trash from daily life, the artist dilutes or intensifies light to “draw” an ink-like image on glass that conveys traditional Chinese reverence for nature while serving as a warning about humans’ ongoing mistreatment of the environment.

2022 Cornell Biennial
Sponsored by the Cornell Council for the Arts and curated by Timothy Murray, the 2022 Cornell Biennial "Futurities, Uncertain" features exhibitions, installations, and performances by 23 international and 17 Cornell-based artists. Free and open-to-the-public events will rotate on the Cornell Ithaca campus and the Cornell Tech campus in New York City from July through December 2022.

Gain advice and insights about the process of turning your dissertation into a book manuscript from Rachel Blaidfeder, commissioning editor at Cambridge University Press. This is a great opportunity for advanced graduate students and postdoctoral fellows to get guidance from a publishing professional and ask questions in a casual conversation setting!

Rachel Blaifeder commissions a broad array of academic, reference, and trade titles within Cambridge’s political science and sociology lists. Within political science, she focuses on comparative politics, American politics, and Latin American politics and also have interests in gender and politics, religion and politics, political communication, and political psychology. Within sociology, she focuses on political sociology, historical sociology, and social inequality. She is interested in books that tackle big questions, especially those that combine insights and tools from across the social sciences.