IEB Agenda
Faculty/Staff Track
Welcome and Morning Keynote: 8:30 am - 9:15 am
Time: 8:30am-9:15am
Title: Welcome and Morning Keynote: Delicious Innovation: How Newcomers Get a Start With Hot Meal Businesses
Place: Star of TX Ballroom (Community Building)
Presenter: Claudia Kolker, author of “The Immigrant Advantage”
Houston is full of newcomers from around the world — and as a result, rich with time-tested strategies these newcomers being for thriving even in great adversity. Author Claudia Kolker discussed an ingenious and delicious business model used by Vietnamese refugee women when they first arrived in Houston. It’s now being used by some Afghan refugees in their own quest to thrive here . The beneficiaries now include longtime Houstonians who crave convenience, discovery and delicious home cooked meals.
Concurrent Sessions 9:30 am - 10:15 am
Time: 9:30am-10:15am
Title: Student Poster and Artwork Contest
Place: Star of TX Ballroom (Community Building)
Presenters: LSC Student Poster and Artwork nominees
Nominated student posters will feature international/ intercultural-related research or a critical reflection on a college-sponsored international experience (i.e., study abroad/ study away, virtual exchange, National Model United Nations, internship, service learning, etc.). Nominated student artwork will feature works inspired by the conference theme and accompanied by a descriptive wall text.
Cash prizes will be awarded for outstanding posters in each category.
Time: 9:30am-10:00am
Title: Women, Work, and Resistance in World War II
Place: Flag Room I (Community Building)
Presenter(s): Professor Sandra Harvey, Professor of History, LSC-CyFair
In the U.S. we refer to WWII as the "good" war, but the women of Europe and England, the war was not a good one but one of hardship, deprivation, pain, and death. This discussion will explore my findings and how the material I gathered will shape a more global view of women and war in my U.S. History classes.
Time: 9:30am-10:15am
Title: Resources of Content for Your International Business Course
Place: Flag Room II (Community Building)
Presenter(s): Dr. Erkan Kocas, Assistant Director, MSU Broad College of Business International Business Center
Dr. Kocas will present online content sources for designing and enriching international business courses. His presentation will cover sources for modules, cases, videos, visuals, databases, blogs, and globalEDGE, MSU’s international business portal. He will also present ideas you can utilize while teaching international business.
Time: 9:30am-10:00am
Title: Building Bridges and Breaking Barriers with Cross-Cultural Empathy
Place: Texas Room I (Community Building)
Presenter(s): Dr. Lindsay Scott, Professor of Speech, LSC-Tomball; Dr. Terra Ruppert, Professor of Occupational Therapy, LSC-Tomball
Building bridges and breaking barriers requires that we develop a robust intercultural competency skillset. As our social world becomes more diverse and the challenges that communities face are becoming increasingly unjust, our capacity to use cross-cultural empathy is in greater demand. In this session, students, faculty, and practitioners will gain insight into the value that cross-cultural empathy has in building intercultural competency and will be given tools to develop an activist mindset.
Time: 9:30am-10:15am
Workshop: Any Course Can Be Internationalized: Getting Started and/or Reimagining Your IS Course
Place: Texas Room II
Presenter(s): Prof. Ann Van Heerden, Professor of Chemistry, LSC-CyFair and Dr. Dana Van de Walker, Director of Global Scholars, LSC-North Harris
Participants in this workshop will learn about internationalization in a variety of disciplines (e.g., natural science, social sciences, physical education, CTE) with a variety of pedagogies (e.g., virtual exchange, cultural reflections, field trips, linked courses) for application in their own course(s). This session will be led by a social sciences faculty member with extensive experience in international studies and global curriculum development, alongside a natural sciences faculty member who just started developing her IS course. N.B. Participating faculty will receive myWorkshops credit from Organization Development.
Time: 9:30am-10:00am
Title: Faculty International Exploration: Singapore
Place: TDC 113 (Training and Development Center)
Presenter(s): Prof. Shamim Arastu, Professor of Education, LSC-CyFair
Professor Shamim Arastu will share her Faculty International Exploration experience in Singapore. Learn about the rich culture, amazing architecture, and changing education system.
Concurrent Sessions 10:25 am - 11:10 am
Time: 10:30am-12pm
Title: Windows of the World – Culture Connections
Place: Community Building Foyer
Presenters(s): LSC ESOL and International students; Presiding ESOL faculty: Prof. Amy Tate, LSC-Montgomery; Prof. Madhulika Tandon, LSC-UP
Take a peek inside the cultures represented by ESOL and international students at Lone Star College. At their tables, students will present photos, artifacts, and cultural tidbits about their countries. Attendees will build connections through cultural conversations and learn a useful phrase or two in different languages!
Time: 10:25am-11:10am
Title: The Genesis of Veteran’s Day: The American Attack that began the End of World War I
Place: Star of Texas Ballroom (Community Building)
Presenter(s): Dr. Craig Livingston, Professor of History, LSC-Montgomery
A German offensive aimed at rupture of the British and French lines defending Paris was frustrated by an American counter-attack in July 1918. The reverse was so profound that Chancellor von Hertling observed that “the history of the world was played out in three days.” Hear Professor Craig Livingston explain how U.S. forces saved Western democracy in World War I and Veteran’s Day was founded. At 11am (The 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month) participants will observe a moment of silence while Navy veteran, Mr. Cruz Mendoza, performs taps.
Time: 10:25am-11:10am
Workshop: Developing an International Business Course: Strategies, Topics, Texts, Formats
Place: Flag Room II
Presenter: Presenter(s): Ahmet Kirca, Director, Michigan State University Broad College of Business International Business Center and Professor of Marketing and International Business
Professor Kirca will present the results of the latest Global Mindset Index Report that provides a snapshot of International Business Education at Community Colleges. His presentation will also overview curricular and non-curricular approaches to developing a global mindset in community colleges.
Time: 10:25am-11:05am
Title: Taiwan's Bilingual 2030 Initiative and the Opportunities to Build Connection
Place: Texas Room I (Community Building)
Presenter(s): Dr. Carolyn Ho, Professor of ESOL, LSC-CyFair
Come learn about the education initiative that is transforming K-16 in Taiwan and how to expand public diplomacy and build connections. As a teacher training specialist sponsored by the Department of State, the presenter will share her experience and observations based on her recent training projects with universities in Taiwan. Possible exchange and collaboration activities will be suggested.
Time: 10:25am-11:10am
Workshop: Globally Infused Teaching: The Fully Internationalized Course
Place: Texas Room II
Presenter(s): Prof. Janice Hartgrove-Freile, Professor of Psychology, LSC-North Harris
This workshop will promote the idea of internationalized courses with infused global content. It will include examples and discussion from diverse disciplines of course materials, intersection of global material with specific areas of course material, incorporation of diverse viewpoints, and exploration of implications. The workshop will illustrate and discuss strategies to actively involve students in the development of global awareness and will involve opportunities for participants to explore application to their own courses. N.B. Participating faculty will receive myWorkshops credit from Organization Development.
Concurrent Sessions 11:20 am - 12:05 pm
Time: 11:20am-11:50am
Title: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Reimagining Justice: The Holocaust, Slavery, and the Civil Rights Movement
Place: Flag Room I (Community Building)
Presenter(s): Dr. Angela Bell, Professor of History, LSC-CyFair; Dr. Jennifer Bourgeois, Professor of Criminal Justice, LSC-CyFair
Dr. Bell and Dr. Bourgeois utilized FIE travel funds to visit World War II, the Holocaust, and Cold War historical sites crucial to understanding alternatives to incarceration that are less punitive and more focused on rehabilitation in Germany, Poland, and the Netherlands. FIE travel funds allowed us to develop a learning community proposal, internationalize our courses, and provide visual references and stimuli for learning history for our students.
Time: 11:20am-11:50am
Title: Building Connections: An integrated international perspective in the Behavioral & Social Sciences with Educational and Sociological Approaches
Place: Flag Room II (Community Building)
Presenter(s): Dr. Barbi Seals, Professor of Education, LSC-UP; Dr. Vanessa Hemingway, Professor of Sociology, LSC-Tomball
The session would be helpful to anyone that is considering international experiences, internationalizing their course, or becoming aware of the impact of international and cultural experiences. The awareness and reflection of our international objectives translates into the classroom through lessons, virtual exchanges, professor experiences, and study abroad. Integration of experiences from Professional Development: Ireland 2022 through an international designated course framework from knowledge to implementation of global studies in the classroom. Educators and those trying to understand the world would benefit from the knowledge from the professors as they take their study abroad experience into the classroom.
Time: 11:20am-11:50am
Title: Breaking Barriers: Experience Efficiency with Minimal Facilities from Faculty International Exploration
Place: Texas Room I (Community Building)
Presenter(s): Dr. Vidushi Prasad, Professor of Biology, LSC-UP
The dictated teaching creates fear leading to health problems like obesity, depression, inflammation, neurodegenerative disease, cardiovascular diseases. Support a healthy open classroom learning without penalty. That is student-initiated learning rather than teacher-directed learning. Promoting the recognition and appreciation of any amount of effort helps generate a healthy learning environment.
Time: 11:20am-12:05pm
Workshop: Reaching Across the World: Virtual Exchange Tips, Tools and Experiences
Place: Texas Room II (Community Building)
Presenter(s): Prof Laura Taggett, International Faculty Fellow and Professor of English, LSC-CyFair; Prof. Shuang Xu, International Faculty Fellow and Professor of Economics, LSC-Kingwood; Prof. Carolyn Ho, Professor of ESOL, LSC-CyFair; Prof. Shamim Arastu, Professor of Education, LSC-CyFair; Prof. Stephanie Krueger, Professor of Spanish, LSC-CyFair
In this interactive workshop, participants will learn about virtual exchange opportunities in a variety of disciplines with colleagues from around the world. The goal of this session is to foster new and engaging virtual exchange opportunities for students across the Lone Star campuses. N.B. Participating faculty will receive myWorkshops credit from Organization Development.
Plenary Luncheon and Keynote Address 12:15 pm - 1:30 pm
Title: “Beyond Feel-Good Approaches to Intercultural Understanding: Insights from Brain-Mind Sciences”
Place: Star of Texas Ballroom (Community Building)
Presenter(s): Dr. Katie Caruso, Associate Vice Chancellor of Honors and International Education; Dr. Stephen C. Head, LSC Chancellor; Dr. Joseph Shaules, Professor at Keio University, Tokyo, and the Director of the Japan Intercultural Institute
Deep intercultural understanding requires more than a slogan or philosophical stance. Fortunately, recent research in brain and mind sciences is providing fresh insights on how to go beyond feel-good forms of intercultural education. This talk will explore how culture shapes our cognitive processes—thinking, emotion and identities—and the “natural biases” that often get in the way of intercultural understanding. These insights point the way towards pedagogy that leads to deeper forms of intercultural understanding.
Concurrent Sessions 1:45 pm - 2:30 pm
Time: 1:45pm-3:00pm
Workshop (limited attendance) with conference headliner, Dr. Joseph Shaules: Education for an Intercultural Mind: Beyond Feel Good Approaches to Difference and Diversity
Place: Flag Room I (Community Building)
Presenter(s): Dr. Joseph Shaules, Professor at Keio University, Tokyo, and the Director of the Japan Intercultural Institute
This workshop introduces the Intercultural Mind approach to intercultural education pedagogy. It is informed by recent research in cultural psychology that reveals how culture shapes cognition, emotion and identity at deep levels of the self. These insights allow for an empirically grounded approach to intercultural education—one that takes us beyond feel-good or ideological approaches. This workshop will introduce the Developmental Model of Linguaculture Learning (DMLL), a learning model grounded in these insights. This workshop will be interactive with opportunities to discuss the challenges and concerns of participants. Sample materials will be made available. N.B. Participating faculty will receive myWorkshops credit from Organization Development.
Time: 1:45pm-2:15pm
Title: Hurricanes & Volcanoes: Mapping Natural Hazards in the Eastern Caribbean
Place: Flag Room II
Presenter(s): Prof. Buck Buchanan, Professor of Geography, LSC-CyFair
This presentation focuses on a Lone Star College supported Faculty International Exploration (FIE) travel grant project to explore a region of the Eastern Caribbean impacted by natural hazards and to investigate and document environmental resilience, human redevelopment and recovery on island communities in Antigua, Barbuda, and Montserrat. The presentation also includes strategies used to internationalized curriculum in both academic and workforce programs (ex. Geography (GEOG) classes and the Geographic Information Systems (GISC) degree/certificate program).
Time: 1:45pm-2:15pm
Title: Comparing Higher Education Landscapes: How Fulbright Provides Valuable Lessons for Sharing Best Practices Between French and American Systems of Education
Place: Texas Room I (Community Building)
Presenter(s): Dr. Claire Phillips, Dean of Instruction, LSC-CyFair
Fresh from her October Fulbright higher education administrator's trip
experience, Dean Claire Phillips compares and contrasts the French and US systems of higher education and offers insights into what the two countries' higher ed professionals might learn from each other (time permitting, she will also review the process she took to obtain the Fulbright award).
Time: 1:45pm-2:30pm
Workshop: Applying for an International Studies Designation for Your Class
Place: Texas Room II (Community Building)
Presenter(s): Prof. Shuang Xu, International Faculty Fellow and Professor of Economics at LSC-Kingwood
Prof. Xu, International Faculty Fellow at LSC-Kingwood, will guide participants through the International Studies designation application process at Lone Star College. N.B. Participating faculty will receive myWorkshops credit from Organization Development.
Time: 1:45pm-2:15pm
Title: Internationalizing Math Classes
Place: TDC 113 (Training and Development Center)
Presenter(s): Prof. Nathan Fortenbury, Professor of Math, LSC-Tomball
The exploration of topics in Mathematics that pair with Global learning outcome. How each topic can be integrated into a standard math course to achieve the international designation for the Global Scholars program.