PROMOTING INTERCULTURAL LEARNING AND MULTILINGUALISM Fries Center For Global Studies 20192020 ANNUAL REPORT TABLE OF CONTENTS OUR MISSION The Fries Center for Global Studies Executive Summary................................................................ 3 expands opportunities for the Wesleyan community to engage What’s New in 2019-20 ......................................................... 3 in local and global multicultural National Fellowship and Scholarship Winners ......................5 environments. We collaborate Study Abroad and Wesleyan Programs Abroad ....................... 9 with students, faculty, and staff to Study Abroad Major Accomplishments ................................ 9 advance the knowledge, language and COVID-19 Response.............................................................9 intercultural skills, self-awareness, Wesleyan Programs Abroad ................................................10 and empathy needed for responsible Study Abroad Participation ................................................. 11 participation in an increasingly Study Abroad Over Time ....................................................13 interdependent world. Study Abroad: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion ....................14 Promoting Intercultural Learning and Multilingualism ............15 VISION Wes and the World Blog & Newsletter ................................15 We aspire to a world in which Lead with Languages Collective .........................................16 humility, cultural self-awareness, Global Engagement Minor ..................................................16 and mutual understanding make justice and thriving possible for all. Intercultural Events ...............................................................17 We envision a university in which all 4th Annual Wes in the World Photo Contest .......................17 forms of learning, research, and 3rd International Education Week ......................................18 creative endeavor are enlivened by 3rd Annual Power of Language Conference ........................19 perspectives, languages, and Language and the Curriculum ............................................... 20 experiences from across the globe. Cultures and Languages Across the Curriculum (CLAC) .... 20 Arabic and Hindi-Urdu ........................................................21 2019-2020 Annual Report Produced by: Less Commonly Taught Languages .....................................21 Steve Angle Director Language Resource and Technology ..................................... 24 Fries Center for Global Studies Language Technology and Language Class Support ........... 24 Emily Gorlewski Fellowships ........................................................................... 25 Associate Director, Study Abroad Fullbright and Watson at Wesleyan .................................... 25 Zijia Guo Fellowship Events .............................................................. 26 Global Marketing Specialist Fellowship Outreach ............................................................. 27 Alice Hadler Class Visits ......................................................................... 28 Senior Associate Director Acknowledgements ........................................................... 28 Emmanuel Paris-Bouvret Global Exchanges ................................................................. 29 Director, Language Resources and Foreign Language Teaching Assistants (FLTAs) ................ 29 Technology UISFL Faculty and Student Engagement in India ............... 30 Hannah Parten Global Outreach ....................................................................31 Study Abroad Advisor Liberal Arts + Forums .........................................................31 WeChat ............................................................................. 33 Magdalena Zapędowska Assistant Director, Fellowships Professional Outreach and Networking ................................ 33 Contact Us .......................................................................... 34 3 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY This year can be neatly divided into two, dramatically January, 2020. New programs will be covered in more different parts: before and during the pandemic. We detail below; among the most impactful has been our will cover some highlights of the latter -- especially the biweekly Wes and the World Newsletter which reaches herculean efforts of the Office of Study Abroad staff close to a thousand students, faculty, and staff. In to respond to the crisis, as well as Emmanuel Paris- terms of opportunities for the future, we are excited Bouvret’s important work to support language faculty by two changes in particular. First, Zijia Guo, who for as they transitioned on-line -- a bit later in this report. If the past couple years has been Project Manager for we temporarily set COVID-19 aside, the FCGS in 2019- Global Initiatives based in the Office of University 2020 can be summed up with three trends: consolidation Communications, has now been appointed to an on- of previous initiatives, introduction of some significant going position as Global Marketing Specialist in the new programs, and major staff and curricular changes FCGS. We expect this to bring a new level of coherence late in the year that set us up well for next year. to the University’s global outreach efforts, some of which you can read about later in this report. Second, just Two examples of consolidation were the Cultures and before the end of the semester the Educational Policy Languages Across the Curriculum (CLAC) initiative, Committee approved a proposal from faculty and staff which grew from three classes in 2018-19 to eleven for a new Global Engagement Minor which will be run this year, and the UISFL-funded South Asia Initiative, out of the FCGS. With these and other projects that the which saw both the introduction of Hindi-Urdu classes FCGS staff is working on, we can be sure that next year and a successful trip by seven faculty members (all will bring more innovation at the FCGS, no matter what but one of them scientists) to Delhi and Mumbai in COVID-19 throws our way. WHAT’S NEW IN 2019-2020 People are what make the FCGS function, so it makes In addition, Konstance Krueger, a Master’s student at sense to begin with our newest colleagues. Hannah Loyola University Chicago, was the graduate assistant Parten joined us in August 2019 as Study Abroad in the Office of Study Abroad during 2019-2020. Advisor in the FCGS Office of Study Abroad. Before Konstance led our efforts in the Diversity Abroad self- joining the FCGS staff, Hannah worked in Yale assessment and presented dozens of First Steps group University’s Office of International Students and advising sessions. She became known as the Parent Scholars and Yale Summer Session. Her own study Whisperer for her excellent phone communication abroad experience at the University of Oxford led her skills. Konstance is facing the challenge of graduating to discover the field of higher education administration during a pandemic, when the job market has shrunk and student affairs. At Wesleyan, Hannah’s goal is to considerably. She has returned to Wisconsin, her support every student as they navigate the world of home state, and we very much hope she will be able to study abroad, from submitting an application to pre- continue in the field of international education! departure preparations to re-entry. When she’s not advising awesome Wesleyan students, Hannah enjoys We also have two other goodbyes. After more than roller skating, leading food tours in New Haven, and three years of exemplary work with us, Kia Lor left playing with her cute pup, Zero. in March to become the Associate Director of the Greenfield Intercultural Center at the University of As already mentioned, Zijia Guo joined us as Global Pennsylvania, where we wish her the best! A search Marketing Specialist in May, 2020, having previously for her replacement in the slightly reconfigured role served as Project Manager for Global Initiatives and, of Assistant Director of Intercultural and Language before that, as a Prospect Research Analyst in the Learning is nearing completion, and we look forward to Office of Advancement. With her new role, Zijia will welcoming a new colleague over the summer. Second, handle day-to-day execution of communication and at the end of this academic year, Alice Hadler, currently outreach for the Fries Center for Global Studies and Senior Associate Director, will retire from Wesleyan. collaborate with various campus partners to support Alice came to Wesleyan in 1995 with the first cohort global initiatives across the University, particularly for of Freeman Asian Scholars, to teach writing and to key markets such as China and India. In her spare time, provide academic support to the international student Zijia is an avid yogi. population, which was expected to double over the 4 What’s New in 2019-2020 (Continued) following few years. In the intervening quarter century, she oversaw that population as it grew from less than 25 in 1995, to nearly 300 today. Her mission has remained consistent: to build cultural bridges and foster transnational communities, to share and inspire the writing of stories from around the globe, and to help Wesleyan students find common bonds. She has been central to the mission of the FCGS since long before there was an FCGS, and we will miss her greatly! For more about Alice including an opportunity to honor her, please see “Celebrating Alice Hadler.” Another personnel-related