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MACIE student Annette de Nicker (center front) with program faculty members (left to right) Drs. Peggy Booth, Patty Kubow and Awad Ibrahim.

An innovative new degree at BGSU will address the “international knowledge gap” by preparing educators to effectively teach an increasingly diverse group of students, and at the same time prepare those students to be successful in an increasingly internationalized world.

BGSU’s College of Education and Human Development has responded to the problem by creating the master of arts degree in cross-cultural and international education (MACIE).

“There is a pressing need for this,” said Dr. Patty Kubow, educational foundations and inquiry and one of the program’s founders. “The international knowledge gap has been identified as one of today’s most urgent problems in education. American students lack awareness of international issues. In fact, a recent educational study reported that 25 percent of college-bound students could not identify the body of water separating the United States from Japan.”

The only one of its kind in the region, the MACIE program is designed to meet the needs of classroom teachers who plan to stay in the classroom, as well as people who will not be teaching in the traditional classroom but are nevertheless involved in educational outreach to disparate groups. In either case, MACIE graduates will not only be able to teach but to help make their organizations more globally aware.
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