A day-long Global Education Summit, being held February 24 at Monona Terrace in Madison, aims to bring together advocates from Wisconsin’s business and education communities, as well as other stakeholders, to seek concrete ways to collectively advance international education across the state.
State Superintendent Tony Evers and Gilles Bousquet, UW-Madison’s dean of International Studies and vice provost for globalization, are hosting the event. Bousquet, who chairs the State Superintendent’s International Education Council, and Evers will give opening remarks to frame the day’s discussion.
“Many of us who have participated in discussions with the business and education communities have come to realize that the various stakeholders agree on the importance of global education—including many of the same desired outcomes—but, for the most part, have not come together to help create environments for advancing these goals,” says Bousquet.
Previous efforts to strengthen international education in Wisconsin have produced recommendations, most notably from the Wisconsin International Trade Council (1998) and the State Superintendent’s Statewide International Education Council (2005). The Global Education Summit aims to serve as a catalyst for putting at least some of these earlier recommendations into action.