Practice and Community Involvement

• Community Leadership Learning Laboratory (MBA/Strategic Leadership)
• Leadership Practicum

The Community Leadership Learning Laboratory (CLLL)

The Dominican University of California MBA Community Leadership Learning Laboratory (CLLL) provides our executive MBA in Strategic Leadership (MBA-SL) students with a living laboratory for the study of leadership development, plus serves as a community consulting service to organizations throughout the Bay Area. Our goal is to foster long-term relationships between Dominican University and Bay Area organizations through the assessment of a participant organizations' culture and leadership effectiveness, and the provision of consulting and mentoring services.

The Institute for Leadership Studies uses assessment tools that are statistically reliable, valid and internationally recognized. The tools are created and managed by Human Synergistics International, a firm with 30 years experience working with organizations to assist them in reaching their full potential by strengthening their individual contributors, leaders, work teams, and cultures. HIS assessments and simulations have helped over one million individuals enhance their effectiveness and achieve increasingly greater levels of success.

Additional Information on CLLL: Community Leadership Learning Laboratory (PDF)

For further information about Human Synergistics: www.humansyn.com

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Leadership Practicum

• Business
• Occupational Therapy
• Bay Model Leadership Practicum

Business

The Leadership Practicum in the Business department is a service learning component embedded in select undergraduate and graduate business courses offering students practical experience by working in teams on current business and community projects. Students will experience the importance of vision, the relationships with one's partners and the behaviors that promote leadership effectiveness across diverse contexts. Over the course of one semester, Leadership Practicum students collaborate in teams on actual business-related projects based at Marin businesses and organizations. The projects, under the supervision of Dominican faculty and the direction of leaders in the Marin community, provide participants the opportunity to develop and hone ethical leadership skills.

Participants learn and practice techniques for enacting a vision, resolving conflict and promoting effective group decision making, individual and team effectiveness, planning organizational and community change, and using their written and oral presentation skills. These techniques will be studied in-class and practiced at the practicum sites throughout the semester. Projects have included clarifying a project's vision, environmental scanning, marketing and operational coordination, project management, canvassing customer and client interests, business plans and budgeting.

An example Leadership Practicum in the Business Department can be viewed here:
Bison across Continents and through Time (PDF)

Occupational Therapy

More information will be added at a later time.

Bay Model Leadership Practicum

The Bay Model in Sausalito: Management Team planning and designing the Exhibition for the Jason Project 2005

Project to plan and manage the creation of a specific component of the Jason Project exhibition which opens in February 2005. Expected attendees 5,500 attendees in the month of February. Student leaders serve as business consultants on a multidisciplinary team with content specialists (biologists and naturalists).

• Project Management: Clarify Vision, Environmental Scan and Preliminary Plan

Assess the marketplace identifying best practice examples of Concierge programs offered by Chambers of Commerce around the state of California. Update the Concierge Handbook and create a plan and draft budget to 1) implement staff training and 2) plan a Concierge Day for Bay Area Concierges and events planners.

• Sausalito background

Sausalito is a small community located on the southern tip of Marin County. It is nestled next to the Golden Gate Bridge and serves as a gateway to San Francisco and the South bay. This unique location and vast views has attracted some of the most rare shops, galleries, artists, hotels, restaurants and other local services. The town has been referred to as the artist haven. Sausalito with its picturesque views and tranquil settings, create a natural environment for artists to become inspirational in their creative endeavors.

The Sausalito Concierge project is a three-pronged project where each phase builds upon each other. For more information on the three phases of the Sausalito project, please click here: Three Phases (PDF)

Global Education Marin (GEM), located on the Dominican University of California campus in San Rafael, is an institution organized to help students in Marin county understand and participate effectively in the increasingly interdependent and rapidly changing world.  GEM is an outgrowth of the Bay Area Global Education Project founded in 1976.In 1986, GEM became part of the North Bay International Studies Project (NBISP) in partnership with Sonoma State University and is one of the international studies resource centers established by the legislature throughout California under the auspices of the California International Studies Project.

GEM develops leadership and resources in Marin County schools, emphasizing understanding of U.S. history in relation to the rest of the world, awareness of students' own unique cultural perspective, communication across cultures, critical thinking and analysis of world problems, recognition of interdependence with people world-wide, and the ethical consequences of decisions about complex domestic and international issues.

Under the umbrella of NBISP, a group of world language teachers began to meet and a few years later, with the passage of SB 1882, became the California Foreign Language Project of the Redwood Area (CFLP-RA).  This project is also jointly managed with Sonoma State University.  The main goal of CFLP-RA is to promote the teaching of second languages for communicative competence, but the project's emphasis on cultural authenticity and understanding creates many areas of overlap with NBISP.  Both projects, together and separately, have programs to assist teachers in dealing with the diversity in their classrooms and to provide equal access for all to the curriculum.

As part of NBISP and CFLP-RA, GEM is working to reverse the decline in elementary and secondary school students' knowledge of world cultures, geography, international issues, and world languages.  Activities include workshops and leadership days during the school year, summer institutes, development of elementary school world language teaching programs, and increased use of students and other community members who have international experience.  Emphasis is given to programs that encourage the expression of student voices.

Global Education Marin
Dominican University of California
50 Acacia Avenue, San Rafael, CA 94901
Tel: 415-485-3286  Fax: 415-459-3206
bartholomew@dominican.edu
http://csmp.ucop.edu/cisp/
http://csmp.ucop.edu/cflp/

Global Ambassadors

Dominican publicizes the program to the international students and invites students who are likely candidates to participate. GEM and Dominican interview prospective participants to gauge their interest and English fluency. At the beginning of the fall semester, selected participants attend an orientation and training, planned by GEM and the Office of Admissions. During the academic year, GEM matches students with teachers and classrooms, introduces students to the teachers who request their services, and accompanies them to the presentation. The program is supported by GEM and the Institute for Leadership Studies.

This program creates long term benefits for all concerned. The international students gain a deeper and more authentic knowledge of American education. The training and experience in the classroom prepares them for leadership roles at Dominican and wherever they may go. For the classroom teachers and their students, it creates a meaningful cross-cultural educational experience.

The Global Ambassadors Program has several learning objectives:

• To provide a leadership development program for international students.
• To deepen international students' knowledge of American education.
• To stimulate and strengthen interaction among international students and the Marin educational community.
• To promote international understanding and goodwill in Marin County schools.

The 2003-2004 academic year was a pilot year, with three students participating.  Seventeen students went through the Global Ambassador training in Fall, 2004.

Participating Global Ambassadors 2004-05

• Sarina Raut (2007), Nepal 
  
• Alma Martinez (2008), Mexico
• Tenzin Bhutia (2007), Tibet 
  
• Sarah Ouano (2006), Thailand
• Simi Chandi (2007), Finland 
  
• Rolando Crisostomo (2006), Philippines
• Jun-Woo Kwon (ELS), Korea
  
• Hyun, Min Soo (ELS), Korea
• Hideyo Degawa (ELS), Japan 
  
• Jin Hee Kim (ELS), Korea
• Rie Sakai (ELS), Japan Lee,
  
• Yong Whan (ELS), Korea
• Kim Jeong Eun (ELS), Korea 
  
• Jeong-Hwan Kim (ELS), Korea
• Simone Cucurachi (ELS), Italy 
  
• Pierre Charrier (exchange student), France
• Elodie Jedrey (exchange student), France

2003-04

• Sarina Raut (2007), Nepal
• Munish Mehta (2007), India
• Ebil Matzutaro (2004), Palau
  
  

World Affairs Council

The Marin Chapter of the World Affairs Council (WAC) offers a series of monthy programs on the Dominican University of California campus, in the Creekside or Shield Room.  Each month, from August through June, WAC presents a lecture on a specific world issue, e.g. War in Iraq, Energy Crisis, Palestine/Israeli conflict, etc.  The evening starts with an optional dinner tied, if possible, to the theme or region of the evening.  Dessert and program follow.  There is a Q & A after the talk.  Schedule and prices are below.

Reception: 6:30 PM, Dinner: 7:00 PM, Dessert: 7:30 PM, Program: 8:00 PM
Dinner and Program:
WAC Members and Dominican Faculty & Staff: $25
Non-members: $30 
Dessert and Program:
WAC Members and Dominican Faculty & Staff: $6
Nonmembers: $9
Students witrh valid ID:  Free
Location: Dominican University of California, Caleruega Dining Hall

Previous Events have included:

• Islamism and Democracy in Algeria: Fred H. Lawson, Professor of Government at Mills College
• Outsourcing: Hartmut Fischer, Professor of Economics, University of San Francisco
• How Government and Industry are Transforming Japanese Capitalism: Steven K. Vogel, Associate Professor, Political Science, UC Berkeley
• Challenges in American Foreign Policy: Michael Nacht, Dean, Goldman School of Public Policy, UC Berkeley

The Kremlin and the West: Andrei P. Tsygankov, Assistant Professor, International Relations and Political Science, San Francisco State University

For the current Marin Chapter event visit: http://www.itsyourworld.org/
The World Affairs Council of Northern California
or contact Alice Bartholomew at 415-485-3286 or bartholomew@dominican.edu

Great Decisions

The Great Decisions class, a collaboration between Dominican University of California, Global Education Marin, and the Marin Chapter of the World Affairs Council,  is offered in the spring semester through the Department of Politics and International Studies.Every year the Foreign Policy Association (FPA) chooses eight topics of current debate.  All over the country citizens hold great decisions programs, using the FPA briefing book articles as a starting point for lectures and discussions.  The two-hour class starts with a lecture of approximately 30-40 minutes, followed by a Q & A.  After a break, participants discuss the talk in relation to the FPA article and then come to consensus on the questions posed by the FPA.  Answers are sent to the FPA.  On the basis of the responses, FPA lobbies the Federal Government on foreign policy.  This is an excellent opportunity to exercise civic engagement.

Contact Alice Bartholomew at 415-485-3286 or bartholomew@dominican.edu

Partnership with Sir Francis Drake High School

Through Global Education Marin (GEM), Dominican has a partnership with Sir Francis Drake High School's Interdisciplinary Global Studies program (DIGS).  This integrated program for 11th and 12th graders combines the study of history and government with the study of art.  Dominican professors are frequently invited to speak to the students.  So far this year, they have heard talks on the U.S. election process and history as reflected in the history of American art. Dominican is the venue for some of these talks, as well as panel presentations on various historical aspects.

Global Education Marin and the Department of Politics and International Studies arranged for a panel to speak to DIGS students. The panel included a B-24 pilot, one of the Tuskegee Airmen, a B-17 pilot, a WWII hidden child, a Vietnam vet, and a doctor who treated returning vets at Letterman.

The last presentation of the year was on the Civil Rights Movement.