Events and Opportunities

12:00pm | Friday, January 31, 2025

Online

Part of the Spring 2025 Conversations Centering International and Multilingual Students. In this workshop you will learn about a language portrait activity for inviting students to reflect on and share their linguistic and cultural identities and brainstorm ways you can build on these new understandings. 

11:59pm | Monday, February 3, 2025

This six-week online strategic planning and networking experience, held March 18–April 29, is designed to enable higher education institutions to take their emergent or established COIL initiative to the next level of scale and engagement.

12:00pm | Friday, February 7, 2025

Online

Part of the Spring 2025 Conversations Centering International and Multilingual Students. In this workshop you will learn more about international students’ career development needs, global career development resources to support all UMN students, and ways that you can make a unique impact within your influence area.

12:00am | Wednesday, March 5, 2025

The award recognizes outstanding student contributions to international education and acknowledges important work being done by students at the University of Minnesota to internationalize the curriculum and campus.

12:00pm | Friday, March 7, 2025

Online

Part of the Spring 2025 Conversations Centering International and Multilingual Students. In this session, we’ll consider how fun and a playful mindset can engage learning in globally and linguistically diverse classrooms.

12:00pm | Friday, April 25, 2025

Online

Part of the Spring 2025 Conversations Centering International and Multilingual Students. In this workshop, we will explore what is understood by this language or accent bias, how this connects sense of belonging and inclusion, and how we can work to create a more linguistically affirming and just campus.