About Us
Building on a decade of collaboration, the network of educational institutions and community organizations (formerly known as The Globalsl Network) has become The Community-based Global Learning Collaborative.
The Collaborative is a network of educational institutions and community organizations that advances ethical, critical, and aspirationally de-colonial community-based learning and research for more just, inclusive, and sustainable communities.
The Collaborative does this through several specific mechanisms:
Interdependence: Global Solidarity and Local Actions – a new, growing, and adapting collection of online learning activities and critical civic tools designed to deepen college-level learners’ understanding of and engagement with ethical interdependence. The resources include tools that support ethical engagement across cultures and power differentials as learners, researchers, and organizers.
The Global Engagement Survey, a multi-institutional study that examines the outcomes of high impact programming, such as engaged learning and study abroad, on local and global civic learning, cultural humility, and critical reflection
Mobilizing and disseminating Fair Trade Learning as a set of principles and practices that promote ethical community-campus partnership
Our ongoing learning opportunities and resources for practitioner-scholars including this website, our blog, and events and gatherings virtually and in-person to exchange ideas and mobilize knowledge.
Current sponsors and partners include: Amizade, Child Family Health International, Dickinson College, Elon University, Georgetown University, Haverford College, Northwestern University, Omprakash, Quinnipiac University, the University of Dayton, and Worcester Polytechnic Institute. Each of these institutions has demonstrated leadership and commitment by investing in this website as a space to accumulate existing research and best practice development at the nexus of global learning, community-university partnership, and sustainable development.
Community-based global learning is a term developed by academics and researchers who are also practitioners, and therefore is defined by a set of seven practical components: a) community-driven learning and/or service, b) development of cultural humility, c) global citizenship, d) continuous and diverse forms of critically reflective practice, e) ongoing attention to power, privilege, and positionality throughout programming and course work, f) deliberate and demonstrable learning, g) safe, transparent, and well-managed programs (Hartman et al., 2018).
Through a network of educational institutions and community organizations, The Collaborative advances ethical, critical, and aspirationally de-colonial community-based learning and research for more just, inclusive, and sustainable communities.
A network spanning numerous countries and communities, the Collaborative is hosted in the Center for Peace and Global Citizenship at Haverford College, and funded through member contributions.