Scoring a Winning Goal! SDGs in Program Goals, Design, & Assessment

Wednesday, February 26, 2025

11:15 AM – 12:15 PM US EST

Presenter(s)

PJ Shoulders (she/her/hers)

Vice President of Institutional Partnerships
Study Abroad Association
CLAYTON, North Carolina, United States
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Mav M. Henningsen

Global Programs Coordinator
University of Tulsa
Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States

Session Leader(s)

Meg Ramey

Executive Director
WorldKind, Pennsylvania, United States

Slides

The UN's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) provide a meaningful and unitive lens for helping students recognize global challenges encountered abroad, such as poverty, inequality, and sustainability. Through case studies, we’ll discuss leveraging the SDGs in programming to increase retention for at-risk student groups and using the goals to build and assess global competency skills. We’ll also share gamified and virtual tools that educators can use to introduce and raise awareness of the SDGs.

Learning Objectives:

Articulate the importance of and develop strategies to incorporate the SDGs into their own program and training needs.
Use gamified tools to introduce the SDGs to students.
Analyze and assess the effectiveness of the SDGs on student cultural and global competency skills.