You are here:

• Home
• Available Programs
• CAL
• Citizen Scholars
• Global Leadership Badge

Global Leadership Badge

Back to Citizen Scholars

As you strive to become Global Leaders, we encourage you to think about how our political, economic, and social policies, our cultural practices, and our values and choices as residents of a major western nation affect those from other regions across the globe, and how we are also affected by what happens elsewhere. The Global Leadership badge leads you to engage with cultures other than your own, and to think about those experiences as stepping stones that can help you to cross cultural boundaries and perhaps even lead the way to implementing positive changes in global contexts. You are encouraged to choose experiences that take you into unfamiliar territory, that expose you to new cultural, social, political, or communal contexts, and that are not part of a course for which you are receiving credit (optional extra credit assignments may be counted). The point of these experiences is to expose you to new ways of thinking, unfamiliar practices or policies, or communities that you would not naturally or readily be included in. Cultural experiences as well as events focused on issues, problems, and local/global relationships are appropriate options. 

This badge connects to the other badges by increasing your knowledge about communities and issues, providing understanding and insight into issues, questions, and problems that might ground your academic/artistic engagements, and increasing your credibility and capability as you collaborate with others to address problems, issues, and concerns in community, regional, and global contexts.