Table 6: Making the Case for Global Learning and the Humanities: DePauw University's Global Studies Fellows Program, Moving Forward

In today’s higher education environment, cuts to the humanities are common. DePauw University is bucking this trend, however, with a new Global Studies Fellows Program grounded in the humanities. While such programs are usually based in business or the social sciences, DePauw’s program builds on the intellectual value of the humanities for global learning (GL) to anchor and capitalize on its faculty’s GL expertise across the disciplines. This session will offer an overview of the faculty-led effort to collaboratively develop the program with administrative guidance and support, the program’s learning and institutional goals, and the open-access principles at its heart. This innovative program offers data-supported insights into what students find valuable in a humanities-focused approach to GL, how GL can be cost-effectively scaled up, and how GL opportunities can be made more available to all students. Student demand for the program is in line with our popular business fellows program.