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Community College Master Teacher Institute
CCMTI 2024 – The Promises and Perils of New Technologies: Global Perspectives
August 6-7, 2024
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Sponsored by the National Resource Centers of the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies – University of Washington, the Northwest International Education Association, Global Business Center at the Michael G. Foster School of Business – University of Washington, and funded by the United States Department of Education.
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About the Community College Master Teacher Institute
“A terrific project for an often overlooked education sector (community colleges). There are few to no other opportunities like this for community college professors.” – CCMTI Participant
The Community College Master Teacher Institute (CCMTI) is a two-day training for community college instructors organized by the Center for Global Studies at the University of Washington. Founded in 2003 by Tamara Leonard, former Managing Director of the Center for Global Studies, the goal of CCMTI is to build the capacity of community college instructors to teach about international affairs, and in turn through the classes these instructors teach, increase community college students’ knowledge and understanding of global issues. The Institute aims to meet this objective in four ways: helping instructors become familiar with the topic; encouraging instructors to incorporate topics into new and existing courses; providing instructional resources for use both inside and outside the classroom; and fostering a resource network of community college educators within and beyond Washington State. The Institute brings together a vast network of dedicated professors, educators, researchers, and practitioners to share in the training and offer their expertise on the chosen subject.
Questions? Email Phil Shekleton (philross@uw.edu).
Past CCMTI Workshops
CCMTI 2023 – Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Global Context
The 2023 Community College Master Teacher Institute was held on the UW campus on July 24-25, 2023, and focused on how diversity, equity and inclusion issues are being addressed in different countries and contexts around the world. Educators learned how to add a global perspective when teaching these topics in their classrooms.
DEI challenges and efforts vary depending on different societal and cultural contexts, creating an opportunity to learn about how diversity, equity, and inclusion is perceived and promoted in other countries. Topics addressed at the 2023 CCMTI include:
- Indigenous rights and representation in Taiwan
- LGBTQ rights in global perspective
- Gender, caste, and DEI in South Asia
- Gender equity activism in China
The 2023 CCMTI used these themes to help educators think about how to integrate a global DEI perspective into the classroom. The two-day workshop featured a range of academic and practitioner experts examining these topics from a range of disciplinary and regional perspectives.
CCMTI 2022 – Globalization at a Crossroads: Integration and Fragmentation in the Global System
The 2022 CCMTI curriculum development workshop, held on the UW campus in Seattle on July 21-22, 2022, focused on changes and challenges to the process of globalization, and how educators can incorporate these pressing issues into their classrooms.
At the turn of the millennium, the world seemed to be moving towards ever closer economic integration matched by the seemingly ineluctable spread of liberal democracy. Less than twenty years later, many of the nations that had championed the benefits of global economic integration are experiencing domestic populist backlashes against globalization. Meanwhile, China and Russia have increasingly sought to use their power to challenge the liberal order, while rising powers like India and Indonesia create new centers of influence in the global system. Do these developments presage the erosion of globalization or perhaps a reset on new terms? Is the global system heading towards greater fragmentation, or will the need to meet global challenges like climate change and migration drive further cooperation and integration?
The 2022 CCMTI featured a range of academic and practitioner experts examining these topics from a range of disciplinary and regional perspectives.
CCMTI 2021: Into the abyss or taking flight – What’s the ‘new normal’ in our post-pandemic world? And are we really ‘post-pandemic’?
The 2021 CCMTI curriculum development workshop, held on July 16, 2021, focused on The New Normal? and how educators could respond to the changes over the past year as a resilient and dynamic learning community.
The workshop took an historical look at the past, considered what is happening today, and envisioned the future. From geo-politics to vaccine development to technology to elections to political change to crypto currency and climate change, there was much to consider and explore. Area and global studies experts presented on the issues facing their countries and regions, and how these places are moving forward in light of changes brought about by the pandemic and other global forces. Wide-ranging, engrossing presentations and conversations considered the impact of the past year and COVID-19 on teaching and learning, and considered ways to internationalize and decolonize the community college curricula and classroom. All participants received a copy of Felicia Rose Chavez’s “The Anti-Racist Writing Workshop: How to Decolonize the Creative Classroom” which has strategies and sample lesson plans for building community and centering voice in diverse communities and experiences.
The workshop examined the topic, The New Normal?, through various disciplinary perspectives such as economics, creative writing, communications, anthropology, environmental studies, business, geography, history, sociology, and other frameworks. Participants learned how to incorporate this timely topic into existing curricula and developed activities to bring back to the classroom. University of Washington and community college faculty and staff, practitioners, and graduate students led the workshop.
Read more about the 2021 workshop in this article.
CCMTI 2020: Borders: Real and Imaginary
Are borders a political language? An ideology? A way of thinking? A way of being in this world? What are the implications of borders on globalization, identity, democracy, migration, global health, press freedom, climate change, Black Lives Matter?
These were just a few of the critical issues discussed and debated for five days in July 2020 by 32 competitively selected community college faculty who participated in this year’s CCMTI workshop, “Borders: Real and Imaginary.”
This curriculum-development workshop focused on how to respond as a resilient and dynamic learning community. Participants learned how to incorporate the timely topic of Borders into their existing curricula, develop activities to bring back to the classroom, and connect with colleagues interested in incorporating new information on international studies into their teaching and mentoring.
As one participant articulated, “The speakers brought great insight on how to think about the borders across time and space, at a time when the United States is rethinking its relationship with its own borders.”
This year, due to COVID-19 restrictions, participants learned through asynchronous and synchronous online classroom settings. The CCMTI adapted by utilizing the flipped classroom approach, allowing participants to view lectures specially created for CCMTI, read materials provided by presenters, write collaborative reflection pieces, and engage in a day of conversation and dialogue over Zoom and Microsoft Teams.
Read more about CCMTI 2020 in this article.
CCMTI 2019: Information Literacy and ‘Fake News’: The Search for Truth
This year’s two-day curriculum development workshop, held at the UW campus on July 11-12, 2019, focused on such relevant issues of “fake news”, disinformation, and media literacy, and explored a number of useful pedagogical methods, materials, and approaches for responding as a community of resourceful, dynamic educators. These topics were examined through a diverse range of disciplinary perspectives, including political science, economics, history, communications, information science, environmental studies, business, geography, sociology, and other frameworks. In total, 28 participants from 14 different community colleges in Washington State and Oregon gathered to learn how to incorporate various provocative ideas and insights into their existing curricula, develop practical activities to bring back to the classroom, and had several opportunities to network with new and existing colleagues.
CCMTI 2018: Global Populism- At Home and Abroad
The 2018 CCMTI workshop was held July 12-13, 2018 at the UW campus. Community college professors engaged in two days of discussions and lectures with UW faculty, graduate students, and practitioners on that year’s topic – Global Populisms.
CCMTI 2017: Global Human Security, A Multidisciplinary Perspective
“With the end of the Cold War a new and broader concept of security has emerged, one no longer characterized by the defense of the borders of our countries from clear and predictable security threats but rather, one characterized by multifaceted and multidimensional security challenges and threats that are more difficult to predict.
This broader approach to security recognizes the importance of political, economic, social and environmental factors, in addition to the indispensable defense dimension. The consequence is therefore that international security and stability depend on political, economic, social, and environmental elements, alongside military aspects.”
– His Excellency the Honorable Franco Frattini at the 29th International Workshop on Global Security.
Emerging cyber security threats, global warming, chronic and persistent poverty, human trafficking, health pandemics, the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, failed states and non-state actors, and international terrorism – these are just a few of the critical challenges facing us today.
This year’s two day curriculum development workshop focused on these issues and how to respond as a resilient and dynamic learning community. Community College educators examined global human security through the disciplinary perspectives of economics, communications, anthropology, environmental studies, business, geography, cultural studies, sociology, and other frameworks. Educators learned how to incorporate these topics into existing curricula, develop activities to bring back to the classroom, and connect with colleagues. University of Washington and community college faculty, practitioners, and graduate students lead the two day workshop.
CCMTI 2016: Global Tourism Institute Highlight
The 2016 CCMTI marked yet another successful institute, bringing together 24 competitively selected community college instructors from Washington, Oregon, Wisconsin, and Michigan. The topic was Global Tourism and sparked conversations from economic, environmental, anthropological, and sociological frameworks. Keynote speaker Crispin Thurlow (left) delivered an inspiring and engaging presentation on the tourism, globalization, communities and sustainability for the start of the 2016 CCMTI.
Read more about the 2016 CCMTI in the featured Jackson School event profile: https://jsis.washington.edu/news/taking-global-tourism-teachers/
Earlier Institute Themes
2016 Global Tourism: A Multidisciplinary Perspective
2015 Human Migration & Refugees: Peril and Hope
2014 Global Development & Changing Gender Roles
2013 At the Crossroads: Climate Change, the Environment, and Social Justice
2012 Global Education for a Sustainable Future
2011 Social Media and Social Change
2010 Global Human Security
For more information, please contact Phil Shekleton at philross@uw.edu