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  • 1.  IMPACT in Action - Building Partnerships with Global Organizations

    Posted 04-17-2022 20:49:00
    What is your experience collaborating with a global organization such as the World Bank, United Nations, World Wildlife Fund, etc...? Please share your strategies to establish, nourish and sustain such partnerships.
    How did scientists and professionals from those institutions help your students to expand their academic and/or research experience and earn distinguished credentials? Please share your ideas or work.

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    Barbara Leitherer
    Professor of Mathematics
    CC of Baltimore County - Essex
    Baltimore MD
    bleitherer@ccbcmd.edu
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  • 2.  RE: IMPACT in Action - Building Partnerships with Global Organizations

    Posted 04-24-2022 21:30:00
    While I haven't directly worked with a global organization, I'm introducing it to students in Contemporary Math classes. In Fall, I started incorporating the United Nations Sustainable development goals for a group project where they had to use resources from the official UN site. They could not simply google sustainable goals for their project. After identifying a goal that they agreed on, they had to come up with a Math question related to the goal. The interesting point was when they could connect global problems to something local, such as hunger or poverty.
    Establishing a connection to a global organization sounds daunting. Actually, the most connections outside our state I have made are via AMATYC. Glad to be part of this group and always learning from it.
    Thanks,

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    Manisha Ranade
    Santa Fe College
    Gainesville FL
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  • 3.  RE: IMPACT in Action - Building Partnerships with Global Organizations

    Posted 04-29-2022 14:29:00
    Edited by Barbara Leitherer 04-29-2022 14:32:51
    Using UN Sustainable development goals is a great idea to help students along to reach a higher level of understanding how global and local issues connect. I am curious about the type of math questions your students created. Could you share some with us?

    Making connections with global organizations requires good networking and follow-through with new acquaintances. Here are some suggestions that I have tried: 
    • Join an international organization. When I became a member of NAFSA (the largest international organization in the US), I met  people who connected me to other professionals, disciplines and organizations with whom I shared my vision and ideas. Show your passion for mathematical sciences and how much those disciplines are needed to explain, understand, and solve global problems. You may simply fill a niche. That happened to me in 2013. A senior director at NAFSA connected with me on LinkedIn and invited me to present at their annual conference about my globalized approach to teaching statistics. Since I had never been to an international conference before, I said yes and was thrown into an exciting collaboration with a professor in Brazil (who taught physics) and one in St. Thomas whose field was environmental science. Together we learned from and with each other and pulled off a globally oriented STEM presentation. This experience showed me that collaborations across disciplines are very meaningful as learning happens on so many levels and often with surprising aha-moments.
    • Join a global math special interest group through CIES (Comparative & International Education Society). This suggestion came from our ANET member Irene Duranczyk. https://www.cies.us/members/group_select.asp?type=17217
    • Connect with the Ontario Colleges Mathematics Association at https://www.theocma.org/  This suggestion came from  ANET member Dave Tannor and is a free site. 
    • Share your wisdom with international groups on social media.
    • Leverage the network at your own college. I have done committee work for our Global Education Action Board (GEAB) and have talked to my colleagues in my immediate circle of influence. At CCBC almost half of the math professors are foreign born. Many still have contacts to their countries of origin and will connect you with those, if you ask.  


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    Barbara Leitherer
    Professor of Mathematics
    CC of Baltimore County - Essex
    Baltimore MD
    bleitherer@ccbcmd.edu
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