KAIGC Faculty Associate Dean

The charges of the KAIGC Faculty Associate Dean are as follows:

Foster interdisciplinary learning with a focus on critical global engagement through the lens of global/transnational interconnectedness and power dynamics

• Engage in cross-disciplinary conversations with faculty and staff colleagues to foster research collaboration
• Design and coordinate spaces for interdisciplinary collaboration and global learning
• Design and build innovative ways to connect and share out Macalester research on interconnected global/transnational/local issues

Develop and share theories and practices of global learning both connected to and beyond study away

• Facilitate community conversations and understanding about critical global engagement
• Collaborate with CEC, CSA, EPAG, Institutional Research, Student Affairs, to further integrate students’ study away and community engagement experiences into both disciplinary and general curricula
• Facilitate the recognition and integration of diverse ways of knowing into teaching and learning

Conceptualize and organize International Roundtable

• Formulate themes based on community input
• Suggest and invite potential speakers and/or artists
• Participate in the planning, organizing, and evaluating of IRT 

Mentor students and colleagues in 

• Critical dialogues about global and transnational issues
• Student research related to global/transnational interconnections