SJSU Salzburg Program Activities

The SJSU Salzburg Program sponsors a variety of activities for the campus and the public at large that are designed to promote global citizenship, in terms of raising awareness about press-ing global issues and encouraging people to work with others on improving them.  Some of these activities involve ongoing endeavors that are primarily focused on the campus itself, such as the SJSU Salzburg Mentoring Program and the San José -Salzburg Global Dialogue.  We have also been organizing a series of SJSU Salzburg Talks during SJSU International Week and other times throughout the year.

Other contributions include related professional activities that extend our engagement beyond the University.  These include the award of a pioneering grant from the Council for International Exchange of Scholars (CIES) to bring Dr. Jochen Fried, Director of Educational Initiatives at the Salzburg Global Seminar, as a Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence to the United States during the 2007-2008 academic year.  This award, which was a joint endeavor between San José State University and Bronx Community College, was the first of its kind granted by CIES to support a transcontinental partnership between a university and a community college in the country.  Dr. Fried spent the Fall 2007 semester as Distinguished Visiting Professor at San José State, where he co-taught an experimental new course on Global Citizenship with Dr. William Reckmeyer, and is a Visiting Professor at Bronx Community College during the Spring 2008 semester.

The SJSU Salzburg Program also helped organize the first ConnectEd Conference on Global Education, which was held in Monterey, CA in January 2008 and co-sponsored by Middlebury College and the Salzburg Global Seminar.  The conference attracted nearly 400 participants from 30 different countries and featured major talks by Leon Panetta, Scott McNealy, Jorge Casta-neda, Robert Kaplan, and David Rothkopf.  SJSU contributed two invited panel sessions at the conference, one organized by Dr. Fried and Dr. Reckmeyer on “The Salzburg Global Seminar – 60 Years of Global Education” and the other organized by SJSU Salzburg Scholars Devin Elston and Jun Wan on “Moving Towards a More Globalized World – From the Students’ Perspective” (which was the only student session accepted at the conference).