1. AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES
GLOBAL EDUCATION IN
AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES
Ketja Lingenfelter
Study Abroad Coordinator

2. THE PAST & THE FUTURE •Agricultural Sciences and Penn State University
•Foundation of Land Grant System
•Current concerns
•Growing world population
•Climate change issues
•Competing pressures on land use
•Global Engagement is NECESSARY
•Feed the Future Initiative

3. WHERE ARE WE NOW?
•$8 Million in internationally focused research funds IN FIRST HALF OF FY 2010/2011
Over 214 students studying internationally in AY 2010/2011
CAS International Research Awards
$9,000,000
$8,000,000
$7,000,000
$6,000,000
$5,000,000
$4,000,000
$3,000,000
$2,000,000
$1,000,000 $0
CAS Undergraduates Who Studied Abroad
250
200
150
100 50

4. STUDY ABROAD PROGRAMS Welcome to the Study Abroad Lounge! •Semester
•International Educational Embedded Experiences
•agricultural trade
•service learning
•sustainable development

5. 2010 IEEEs
SOUTH AFRICA

6. 2011 IEEES BRAZIL CHILE COSTA RICA FRANCE KENYA IRELAND ITALY MEXICO
MOZAMBIQUE
SCOTLAND

7. ACADEMIC PROGRAMS •INTAD-International Agriculture and Development
•dual title graduate degree program
•INTAG-International Agriculture Minor
•IAAS
•International Association of students interested in Agriculture
and related Sciences

8. ISSUES: SAFETY •Orientations •Faculty code of conduct
•GPA and Judicial Affairs checks

9. ISSUES: FUNDING
•Study Abroad Endowed Awards
•Tag Along Award

10. ISSUES: MEASURING IMPACT
•Measures of Global Competency
•Pre and Post Surveys
•Freshmen/Senior Global Competency Survey
Pre-Trip Survey
Post-Trip Survey

11. ISSUES: MEASURING IMPACT
Pre-Trip Survey
Post-Trip Survey
•Quotes from post-trip surveys include
Comments in response to: The most important outcome for me from
participating in this program was:
“Broadening my perspective of environmental issues and practices. Seeing how they effect other areas around the globe and not only my home country.”

12. ISSUES: MEASURING IMPACT
•Quotes from post-trip surveys include
Comment in response to: I anticipate this experience will affect my future interactions in multicultural academic, social and professional settings in the following ways:
“It has given me a greater understanding of the operations involved with international businesses as well as insight into cultural differences, so I am more confident in being able to have successful interactions in global relationships, whether they be personal, academic or professional.”
“Speaking Spanish, creating new connections in other countries, understanding that other countries and people of different nationalities are working on solutions for the same problems that we are in the United States, and to have fun and never say no to a new experience especially in a new setting (country).”

13. and those who do not travel read only one page.”
“The world is a book,
and those who do not travel read only one page.”
~Saint Augustine