Director of Global Learning, Center for International Education
Northern Arizona University
Blase S. Scarnati is Director of Global Learning in the Center for International Education and Professor of Musicology in the School of Music at Northern Arizona University. He is on leave this year, working with the non-profit NGO, Kambia.com-Global Brigades as its Director of Academic Programs. Since 2007, he has worked with faculty to bring about curricular change through deep collaborations grounded in community organizing theory and methods. At NAU Scarnati was the founding Director of its First Year Seminar-Action Research Team Program, which saw 600 students each year working with over forty community partners on issues identified by the community, and which became one of the largest civic agency and community engagement programs in the country and was featured at the Obama White House in 2012. He was also the co-creator of the Global Learning Initiative, an across-the curriculum internationalization effort based in all undergraduate programs at NAU, which significantly contributed to the University receiving the 2012 Senator Paul Simon Award for Comprehensive Campus Internationalization presented by NAFSA: the Association of International Educators. Scarnati publishes and presents widely on faculty collaboration, global learning curriculum, and civic engagement. He has published in Bringing Theory to Practice-AAC&U Civic Series, Higher Education Exchange, Academic Leader, Teacher-Scholar, Diversity & Democracy, the Kettering Foundation Working Paper Series, and the Huffington Post among others. He holds a Ph.D. and M.A. in historical musicology from the University of Pittsburgh and a M.M. in music performance from Northwestern University.
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Wednesday, June 1, 2022
2:30 PM – 3:20 PM MDT