October 21, 2024
Heidi Upton, DMA, Associate Professor, Institute for Core Studies and Department of Art and Design, has been selected for the Stevens Initiative’s Fall 2024 Breakouts campaign. Dr. Upton is also a fellow in the St. John’s Global Online Learning Exchange (GOLE).
The Breakouts campaign is a collection of multimedia projects designed to illustrate virtual exchange as a tool to advance the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in a way that is understandable and inspiring.
As a St. John’s GOLE veteran, Dr. Upton has led GOLE courses with international partners from Manchester School of Architecture; Manchester Metropolitan University; Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany; and VID Specialized University, Norway. With her VID Specialized University faculty partner, Dr. Upton also partook in a year-long professional development program as part of the Norwegian Panorama Virtual Exchange/Collaborative Online International Learning Partnerships Initiative and the American Association of Colleges and Universities Institute on Virtual Exchange/Collaborative Online International Learning.
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