Professional Enhancement Webinar: Cultural Competency vs Humility, Emotional Intelligence & Leveraged Vulnerability, & Global Health Practice with Carlton Rounds

Professional Enhancement Webinar:

Cultural Competency vs Humility, Emotional Intelligence & Leveraged Vulnerability, & Global Health Practice with Carlton Rounds

Monday, June 13, 2016

8:00pm-9:00pm EST

Join us for an enlightening discussion addressing emotional intelligence, cultural competency, relationships and vulnerability in the public health workplace. Specifically, as these areas pertain to public health service abroad. This webinar is an opportunity to apply the knowledge and theories you have learned in the classroom to real world situations. Mr. Rounds will also discuss the opportunities to partake in public health work abroad with his organization Cross Cultural Solutions.

Presenter: Carlton Rounds, Director of Campus Engagement and Public Health for Cross-Cultural Solutions

Carlton Rounds is the Director of Campus Engagement and Public Health for Cross-Cultural Solutions the leading international volunteer service organization in the USA. Carlton has been working in the fields of international education, volunteer service, public health, social work, and proactive social inclusion and diversity for nearly 30 years. He has traveled, served, and taught all over the world in areas of democratic transition with the intention of expanding the rights of marginalized people and communities. Carlton is an international education professional having led study abroad offices both public and private, admission offices, and financial aid centers, and in the role of selector and mentor for high level merit scholarship programs.

An expert in his field, Carlton has been honored with numerous awards for his diversity work and was recognized for being one of the top 100 innovators for 2011 through POZ Magazine, and was a first place national award winner that same year with Diversity Abroad Network. Carlton is also a member of the Building Bridges Coalition, and a certified Community Health Worker who focuses on communities affected by HIV both domestically and abroad.

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Going Global: Online Orientation and Interventions to Enhance the Study Abroad Experience - Carlton Chair

March 31, 2011 - Breakout Session A

Panelists:
Gabrielle Bosley, Bellarmine University(US)
Suronda Gonzalez, SUNY Binghamton (US)
Kris Lou, Williamette College (US)
Deirdre Sato, Puchase College (US)

Chair: Carlton Rounds

GAP Year Best Practices and Standards - Carlton as a Industry Reference by American Gap Association

GAP Year Best Practices

and Standards

Posted on April 1, 2013

It’s not a surprise that it’s taken so long to develop the Standards for Gap Years in the US, but after much effort, several drafts, and a lot of collaboration, I’m proud to say that they’re here!  Visitwww.americangap.org/standards.php to download a copy!

What’s in the Standards:  AGA’s Gap Year Standards hold five main certifications at this point: “Philosophy & Integrity”, “Partnerships”, “Backcountry / Developing Country”, “Service-Learning”, and “Independent Student Placements”.  Each of these certifications represent what any single organization will be doing when on program, and organizations will submit corroborative materials for each certification.  In most cases the Standards represent common-sense best practices, but their true value is in safety – primarily those issues that are potentially major but due to their infrequency are often overlooked.   The idea is to prevent the major issues through planning!

Why should I care?:
Simply put, Gap Year enrollment has shown consistent growth since the numbers have been tracked.  At this point we’ve been able to take a sample accross the industry and I’m pleased to see the growth of the industry.  However, as this form of pedagogy has grown, so too has the onus to ensure the highest caliber of instruction, and so, the Standards are beyond important!
o 2006-­‐2007 = + 35.3% enrollment
o 2007-­‐2008 = + 39.0%
o 2008-­‐2009 = + 4.2%
o 2009-­‐2010 = + 27.8%
o 2010–2011 no data
o 2011–2012 = + 34.9%
o 2012–2013 (March to March) = + 58.2%

How they’ve changed: The Standards have gone through many evolutions, but the big ones include:
* removal of the “Environmental Sustainability” section.  While this is a very important standard, it represents only one of many possible (such as women’s issues, etc.), and thus a larger plan is required to integrate these sub-certifications into the overall fold
* revised Gap Year pedagogy section that focuses more on outcomes
* revised Service-Learning section
* increased transparency about financial aid availability
* greater clarification about Philosophy & Integrity Indicators: policies about relationships, forms, incident reporting, student orientation, student re-entry process, hiring standards, and staff training.
* increased compatibility for online submission (coming in April!)

Who’s reviewed them: Thankfully, as these Standards have evolved, I’ve been lucky enough to incorporate some great feedback from peers in the industry.  The following people deserve a very special thanks for their comments in this documents evolution.  Holly Bull (Interim Programs), Robin Pendoley (Thinking Beyond Borders), Drew Edwards (Carpe Diem Education), Erin Barnhart (Effective Altruism and IPSL), Carlton Rounds (Volunteer Positive and formerly Cross Cultural Solutions), and Karl Haigler (Author of The Gap Year Advantage).  Without these tremendous people the Standards would not represent such a high caliber.

Carlton Rounds is interviewed by GoAbroad.com

Carlton Rounds is interviewed at the 

2016 NASFA Conference in Denver, Colorado

The Power of GAP Year for Youth!

Bringing Meaning to Study Abroad and Volunteering Abroad - Presentation and Training for Faculty of Whittier College

"The Office of International Programs is pleased to announce a visit from Carlton Rounds on the 22^nd of March (the Tuesday after spring break).  He will be talking about integrating study abroad into your work with students, but the presentation and the conversation that follows will be about much more: making learning abroad meaningful and life-changing. 

 

 

Details below, but first we would like to thank the Mellon Foundation for providing some of the funding, and Bernadette Morris in the Registrar’s Office for helping Whittier make this connection! Have a great weekend!

 

Andy Wallis & Kerry Gonzalez

OIP

 

THE DETAILS: 

 

Carlton Rounds: Bringing Meaning to Study and Volunteering Abroad

Dezember House

4:30-5:30

Tuesday, March 22nd

Andrew Wallis
Interim Director, Office of International Programs
Professor of Modern Languages & Literatures
Whittier College

Language Acquisition, Social Justice, and International Volunteer Service - Workshop!

COFLT - Spring Conference 2106

March 12, 2106 

Workshop 3:
Social Justice in the Languages

Language Acquisition, Social Justice, and International Volunteer Service

How can educators intentionally use language acquisition as a tool for developing critical thinking, emotional resilience, and cultural humility?  Can curricular integration promote a platform that advances social justice, inclusion, human rights, and peace?  We will explore these questions and generate ways to use international volunteer service to add value to the classroom experience.

Carlton Rounds

Carlton Rounds is the Director of Campus Engagement for Cross Cultural Solutions for over 20 years. CCS has special Consultative Status with the United Nations and is a founding sponsor with the Brookings Institution's Bridge Building Coalition for best practices in international volunteer service.

Carlton has been working in the fields of international education, volunteer service, and proactive social inclusion and diversity for nearly 30 years. He has traveled, served, and taught all over the world in areas of democratic transition with the intention of expanding the rights of marginalized people and communities.