The UW System Collaborative Language Program invites you to participate in...

The UW System Collaborative Language Summit

When: October 28, 2016, 10:00am-3:30pm

Where: UW-Madison Memorial Union (Check TITU for room assignment)

"Our members believe that education and economic development are inextricably linked. In today's economy and world, global knowledge and international understanding needs to move from optional to foundational for our students." 

Stephen Turnipseed, Chair of Partnership for 21st Century Skills (P21)

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Agenda

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Vision: 

Every student in the UW System needs the opportunity to graduate globally competent, able to understand major world issues and multiple perspectives. True cultural competency can only be acquired through proficiency in more than one language and culture. Through collaborative efforts across UW System language programs and cross-disciplinary connections on campuses, every Wisconsin student can graduate globally competent and career-ready.

How? 

For the past 19 years the UW Collaborative Language Program has built a network of blended courses in languages such as Arabic, Chinese, Japanese and Russian. Recently we added Hmong and German as well. The technology is pedagogically sound and it is functionally feasible to look at a variety of blended learning approaches for offering languages such as French and German at novice through advanced levels.

Why?

It's time we plan for the future of language offerings throughout the UW System. Together we can identify ways campuses can work together in collaborative arrangements to share language courses and maintain or increase the number of majors, minors and certificates earned in languages. There is also growing interest from students in developing language skills for the workplace despite the lack of opportunity to take language courses alongside the core courses in their majors.

What?

The UW Collaborative Language Summit is designed to bring together faculty from throughout UW System to address the issues of decreasing opportunities for students and to develop a plan for collaboration that will increase the diversity of courses offered on each campus. In addition, participants in the Summit will discuss possible solutions to address barriers to instruction, including time constraints that currently prevent students from the opportunity to enroll in language courses.

Objectives: 

1. To diversify offerings for students in French and German throughout UW System in order to increase the numbers of majors, minors, and certificates earned in these languages. 
2. To build stronger cross-disciplinary relationships on campuses, thus better preparing students for a multi-lingual job market. 

Who?

UW System World Languages faculty and instructional staff, particularly French and German, language department chairs, and other administrative leaders as appropriate.

Survey/Registration Form Please complete by Oct. 1, 2016!

Parking: 

There is a bit of construction on this end of campus. I recommend the following parking ramps and garages on the east end of campus:

Granger Hall Lot 7, Fluno Center Lot 83, or City of Madison Ramp located at 415 N. Lake St. Additional options are Lake and Johnson Ramp Lot 46 and City of Madison Ramp located at 430 N. Francis.

A parking map may be found at: http://transportation.wisc.edu/resources/maps_campusparking.aspx

Block of hotel rooms: 

For those requiring to stay the night before on Oct. 27th, a block of rooms has been reserved at Lowell Center. Reservations must be made by Sept. 27 to guarantee a room at the state rate with this block. You have the following options to book a room:

1) You can make reservations by calling toll free +1-866-301-1753 (please refer to the Reference Event #88901 AND the Group Code: UWCOLLAB)

2) You can also make an online-reservation by following this URL (case sensitive!): http://bit.ly/uwcollab27oct

3) If the two options above should not be working or if you have any other questions, please email lowell@ecc.uwex.edu.

Survey/Registration Form Please complete by Oct. 1, 2016!

Sponsored by the UW Collaborative Language Program, with support from the University of Wisconsin-Madison Language Institute.