DAD - Educating global-ready graduates

Guest faculty

Dr. Darla Deardorff

Why participate

Confronted with rapidly changing economic, political, technological, and cultural realities, higher education institutions are charged with the goal of graduating globally competent students.

To undertake — or iteratively enhance — the work of developing globally-ready learners in today’s higher education landscape requires a thorough understanding of what comprises global and intercultural competence as well as the paths to developing and assessing these on a college campus in concert with other educational goals.

This workshop will offer a substantial exploration of these topics. It uses Interactive Learning to draw on participants’ own experiences and knowledge as well as evidence-based best practices so that they can begin to design and develop specific plans for integrating Intercultural competence and campus programs and curricula. 

The course instructor, Dr. Darla Deardorff, has unique insights into this topic as the head of the The Association of International Education Administrators. Darla has held leadership positions within the European Association for International Education (EAIE), NAFSA: Association of International Educators, and The Forum on Education Abroad. Among the 20+ publications she has (co)edited/authored are the SAGE Handbook of Intercultural Competence (2009) the Handbook of International Higher Education (2012, 2021), Intercultural Competence in Higher Education: International Students' Stories and Self-Reflection (2022), and the open access Manual for Developing Intercultural Competencies: Story Circles (2020).

Participant profile/requirements

This course is for you if you are a higher education leader including

• Post-secondary administrators, 
• Faculty members,
• Senior leaders including deans and provosts, 
• Student affairs staff, 
• HR and professional development specialists and trainers, 
• PhD students researching this area, and
• Consultants and others involved in higher education.

It is relevant whether you have a broad strategic responsibility for ensuring global readiness within your institution or you work more directly with international students, study abroad, internationalization-at-home, and/or global learning initiatives.

Contact us if you have questions about the suitability of this course for your circumstances.

Learning outcomes

In this course, you will learn how to help yourself and those you work with so that you/they can better: 

• Review key theories and concepts related to global and intercultural competence, including models that can be used to frame campus, curricular, and programmatic efforts
• Explore and analyze practices in higher education designed to develop and assess students’ (and other stakeholders’) global readiness
• Identify and develop practical strategies for infusing global and intercultural competence into campus learning opportunities across multiple levels of your institution 

Upon successful completion of the program, you will receive a Certificate of Participation listing 12 contact learning hours. 

Participant reflections

Here's what past participants have to say about this instructor:

• “Despite already high expectations, I was still surprised at how extremely enriching the different topics and formats were. I have already made a long list of activities, models, resources and topics to discuss and share with my colleagues.”
• “[Dr. Deardorff] responded immediately to my interests, was very approachable, and very wise.”
• “The training program is well tailored to the current needs of those who work in the context of intercultural competence [and] it offers a perfect networking space for deep connections through well-organised training sessions with incredible faculty…and it is a lot of fun!”

For course additional details see the Institute for Developing Across Differences website. 

Early-bird rate € 1050

Standard rate as from 15 February 2026: € 1125

Available dates