Domestic Globalization: Evaluation of Curriculum Design for Future Global Citizens

Abstract

Higher education in the U.S. is a $490 billion dollar a year industry for over 5,300 institutions. If higher education wishes to continue to be more internationalized with a goal to produce global citizens, specific curricular pathways are needed in order to provide international exposure in many forms. This article discusses best practices in redesigning curriculum with an international lens for U.S. higher education institutions. Curriculum redesign requires three pillars which include a first-year curriculum foundation, retaining diverse staff and students, and providing pathways for all to achieve a global citizenship mentality. These pillars will help design curriculum that can be self-directed or lectured that releases the outside contingent financial support and empowers a newly internationalized inside of the institution to better serve the global leaders of tomorrow.