A Texas State University microbiology professor will travel abroad this month after he was selected to participate in a global seminar.
Dr. Rodney E. Rohde was selected to participate in the Global Citizenship Alliance (GCA) Seminar to be held July 9-16, 2017, in Potsdam, Germany.
The Global Citizenship Alliance will conduct its Global Citizenship Seminar for faculty and administrators, GCS12. Entitled Colleges and Universities: The Path to Global Citizenship, this seminar will be held in Potsdam, state capital of Brandenburg. Rohde is one of only approximately 50 faculty participants from colleges and universities throughout the United States who will gather to explore the factors that either support or restrain global citizenship education within higher education. The group will also jointly develop strategies to help advance a more comprehensive approach to global learning at their respective institutions.
According to a press release, the seminar is a competitive opportunity for faculty from across ACC to broaden their understanding of global issues and contribute to globalizing ACC.
In addition, Rohde will serve as a facilitator of the 2017/2018 Globalizing Curriculum Faculty Learning Community (FLC) at the University of Texas at Austin, as well as receive an appointment as a visiting scholar at the campus.
The FLC facilitators’ role is to provide intellectual leadership to help shape the content of the FLC program, according to the release. Facilitators also guide the other faculty participants in completing their projects to infuse global topics into their curriculum, such as creating a new module or syllabus.
“Rohde believes that globalization in his specialization area – infectious disease, public health, and laboratory medicine – is a synergistic fit between Texas State, ACC and UT Austin,” according to a release. “He envisions strengthening relationships for collaborative research and grants, as well as study abroad opportunities.”
Rohde has already entered in to preliminary discussions with ACC’s International Programs about Study Abroad, Study America, and grant opportunities as well as with UT Austin.
Rohde has been an Adjunct Associate Professor of Biology with Austin Community College (ACC) since 1995 teaching primarily Microbiology for the Health Sciences. Rohde also is Professor and Chair of the Clinical Laboratory Science Program at Texas State, as well as serving as Associate Dean for Research in the College of Health Professions.
