Student Mobility at Xavier University

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Student Mobility at Xavier University?

• Jose Ramon T Villarin SJ
• Xavier University Ateneo de Cagayan
• PHILIPPINES
• 27 Aug 2008

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Outline

• Mobility
• Description
• Rationale
• Internal
• External
• AJCU Service Learning Program
• Future directions

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Mobility

• Description
• Making connections, avoiding isolation
• Moving people and resources along these
  connections

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Mobility

• Rationale formative function
• Broadening of cultural horizons of our students
  and faculty
• Greater understanding and appreciation of our own
  cultures, our shared faith and Ignatian tradition
• Greater openness and commitment to important
  global and universal issues (e.g. economy,
  migration, environment)?

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Mobility

• Internal (local, national)?
• Inter-college collaboration
• Research and social outreach
• Projects agri enterprise dev, eco-sanitation,
  coastal and upland resource mgt
• Ad extra XU partnership with civil society
  (Church, NGOs), gov't, and private sector
• Cross-cutting formation concerns
• Spiritual formation (Campus Ministry)?
• Social formation (KKP-SIP)?
• Leadership development

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Mobility

• External
• International exchange (Searsolin, ATMI, CIM,
  Salamanca, SNUE, Sunchon)?
• Faculty development (Germany, Japan, Australia,
  US)?
• XU OICN Strategic focus and programs still work
  in progress

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AJCU Service Learning Program

• Learning while serving
• Previous XU experience
• Japan (Sophia, c/o F Mathy)?
• Korea
• Non-XU US (e.g. Juillard and Miarayon)?
• AJCU (present)?

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AJCU Service Learning Prgm

• Orierntation
• Self and Social Context

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AJCU SLP

• Campus and off-campus visits
• Sharing on cultures (Museo, Phil Culture)?

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SLP Core Programs

• Role of youth in nation building
• Men and women for others (EAP, etc)?

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SLP Core Programs

• Sustainable development (CRM)?
• Public education

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SLP Community life and stories
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AJCU SLP First Group (6-26 Aug 2008)?
Elisabeth Miku Hirao, Marin Koguchi, Yurie Une,
Yumi Yamanaka, (Fr Toshihiro Yanagida SJ)
Sogang Yeon Choi, Seounghyun Jeon, Soyeon Park,
Jongnam Won, (Fr Kupyong Chong SJ) Sanata
Dharma Dhionisius Gumilang
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Future directions

• Internal mobility
• Inter-Ateneo collaboration
• Core curriculum
• Theology and spirituality and multi-culturalism
• Science and philosophy and society
• External mobility
• Formalize bilateral and multilateral partnerships
  with members of AJCU network
• Student and faculty exchange
• Faculty development
• Institutional development (e.g. XU CIT and ATMI)?

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Terima Kasih