AMICAL institutional collaboration and the global liberal arts

This session reports on a collaborative project between faculty and librarians at AUP and AUI in Fall 2022 as part of the First Year Experience at AUP and the core curriculum at AUI with input on information literacy, data management (content creation), the future of teaching and learning through collaborative initiatives between institutions, faculty and librarians, and faculty, librarians and students, and global impact as an international project between AMICAL institutions in Europe and the Arab World. The project was supported as part of the AMICAL Digital Collaborations Cohort and the Global Course Connections Program of the Great Lakes Colleges Association (GLCA) — Global Liberal Arts Alliance (GLAA).

Students from AUP and AUI worked together on material read in class and on images gathered from field trips in the Paris region and Morocco. Focus groups were held by video-conference and presentations created as part of a research project aiming at new data creation. An earlier iteration of the project has been published. The present iteration benefited from membership of the AMICAL Digital Collaborations Cohort and the GLCA Global Course Connections Program, which brought together over two dozen pairs of courses from institutions in the US, Europe, North Africa, South Asia, and the Arab World. The project thus benefited from significant external expertise and from earlier lessons learned. This session will present the project and will be of interest to faculty, librarians, and those working with innovative and digital initiatives, notably within the First Year Experience and international collaborations.