Global Competence
NOVEMBER 17, 2009 TUESDAY AT 3PM CT

 
 
Barack Obama has it. George W. Bush didn't. It's called global competence and according to experts in higher education, it's something everybody needs, the ability to understand complex issues in a globalized world. We talk to educators and students about what global competence really means.

Guest
  • Fernando Reimers, Ford Foundation Professor of International Education and Director of Global Education and of International Education Policy at Harvard University
  • Larry Braskamp, Professor Emeritus at the Department of Leadership, Foundation and Counseling Psychology, Loyola University Chicago, and Senior Scientist at The Gallup Organization where he conducts the Global Perspectives Inventory
  • Catherine Skroch, UW-Madison student who is conducting research in Morocco under a Fulbright scholarship
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