Promoting Intercultural Agility and Leadership Development at Home and Abroad for First-Year Students

A practical guide for international educators, focusing on promoting global learning experiences for first-year students on university campuses. The publication provides a toolbox for building robust global learning experiences for students, both at home and abroad, and showcases innovative approaches to fostering cultural agility. Promoting Intercultural Agility and Leadership Development at Home and Abroad for First-Year Students is a practical guide for international educators that focuses on promoting global learning experiences for first-year students on university campuses. The publication provides a toolbox for building robust global learning experiences for students, both at home and abroad, and showcases innovative approaches to fostering cultural agility. It emphasizes the importance of global learning at home and education abroad programming designed for first-year students and highlights the work of faculty and international educators who create global learning experiences. The book challenges many long-held assumptions about first-year student programming in international education and yields new insights into the first-year experience in academics, student development, and career preparation. University faculty and international education offices, first-year student program offices, student affairs/residential life offices, student success professionals, enrollment management offices, community-engaged learning and service-learning program offices, university assessment offices, university risk managers, international education organizations and universities hosting education abroad programs, and equity, access, and inclusion offices/chief diversity officers will find that the range of topics in this publication cover the transition from high school to…