Janice Thomas, Ph.D.

Kenneth D. Weiss

Breakfast (CC Dining Room)

**Janice Thomas, Ph.D.**, Brookdale Community College

Guest Speaker

**Moderated by: Kurt Thiede**, The American College of Greece  

Panelists:
* **Laura Fattal, Ph.D.**, William Paterson University  
* **India Karavackas, JD**, Stockton University  
* **Marcy Yeager,** Northern Essex Community College  
* **Alicia Iola,** Northern Essex Community College  
* **Vandana Nadkarni,** Raritan Valley Community College

Panel Discussion I – Globalization and the Curriculum

**Moderated by: Laura A. Sosa, MBA, CMA,** Professor - Economics, Global Business and Management, Program Coordinator - Business Administration, Mercer County Community College

Panelists:
* **Naveen Seth, Ph.D.**, Stella and Charles Guttman Community College, CUNY  
* **Erin Sabato, MA**, Quinnipiac University  
* **Jeffrey S Markovitz, Ph.D.**, Community College of Philadelphia  
* **Sarah Iepson**, Community College of Philadelphia  
* **Alison LaLond Wyant**, Arcadia University

Panel Discussion II – Student Mobility: Why Should Students be Globally Competent?

Lunch (CC Dining Room)

Beyond high-level terms like “diversity” and cultural “awareness,” colleges face major challenges in defining and measuring the cross-cultural skills they seek to develop in their students. This session will discuss strategies for putting meaning and data behind efforts to develop intercultural competency and diversity.

Learning Objectives: Attendees Will:
* Identify learning goals within a framework of intercultural competency and diversity
* Describe multiple types of institutional interventions
* Compare and contrast data elements for assessing intercultural efforts.

Breakfast (CC Dining Room)

Guest Speaker

Janice Thomas, Ph.D., Brookdale Community College

Panel Discussion I – Globalization and the Curriculum

Panel Discussion II – Student Mobility: Why Should Students be Globally Competent?

Lunch (CC Dining Room)

Beyond the Hashtags: Putting Meaning, Method, and Measurement Behind Intercultural Competency and Diversity