Higher Education Institution
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Public | Four-year institutions
San Diego State University
San Diego, California 92182
SDSU Global Seal of Biliteracy Institute Background
SDSU’s Global Seal of Biliteracy is a digital badge that SDSU students can earn through participating in a cultural and linguistic immersion experience, and demonstrating Working Proficiency through standardized testing that covers reading, writing, listening, and speaking in a language other than English. The SDSU Global Seal of Biliteracy is a standardized measurement of biliteracy skills, and is open to all students who meet the requirements, regardless of their pathways to proficiency in their languages. As a transborder Hispanic Serving Institution, SDSU launched its Inaugural Global Seal of Biliteracy in Spanish in Spring 2021 to value and honor the language of our CaliBaja region. The SDSU Global Seal of Biliteracy was made possible through a three-year grant awarded by the California Department of Education’s Multilingual California Initiative. In the future, we want to celebrate SDSU’s multicultural location, student diversity, and university-wide dedication to global education by expanding this opportunity to include additional languages and majors, international and exchange students, and graduate students.
- Access
- Accountability
- Keys to access and accountability
Improve Access for all learners in more languages
Techniques to Retain HULs
- Dedicated counseling programs
Obstacles that HULs face
- Language availability
- Limited number of seats
Offer classes specifically targeted to HULs
Yes
Adapt delivery modes to HULs
Specific practices that are the reasons your HULs enjoy success in your program
Practice 1
Students enjoy success in this program by participation in the Language Seminars hosted by a Dual Language Education Professor. Students practice their reading, writing, listening, and speaking skills in a second language to prepare for the official language exam.
Increase ACCOUNTABILITY Through Transparency And Documentation
Program publishes clear description of its goals and requirements
Yes
Program makes public its efforts to increase HUL enrollments
Yes
Program makes public its definition of student success
Yes
Program incorporates online learning in order to increase access and/or improve learning
Yes
Co-curricular Offerings
- Business
- Education
Emphasize in your language program
- Diversity
- Cultural Literacy
- Global citizenship, cosmopolitanism
- Intercultural Competence
- Language Proficiency
- Translanguaging
- Usage/immersion learning
Implement any workforce preparation activities
No
Support co-curricular collaborations
- Campus teaching programs and/or centers
- Professional teacher association programs, seminars, workshops
- Schools of Education
Keys to access and Accountability
Recruit teachers from HUL communities
Yes
Teacher profile reflect
No
Offer in-service professional development
Yes
Support professional development focused
- Emergent Bilingual Learners from NA & heritage/immigrant communities
- Learners from a broad range or ‘different’ of cultures
- First in family to attend college
Program partner with any of the following
- Heritage communities
Private business enterprises that benefit HULs
No
Partnerships with philanthropic
No
Language immersion opportunities
Yes
Program conduct any of the following as part of their in-country language immersion programs
- Student surveys
- Faculty reports
US federal government programs do you encourage
- Fulbright Scholarship
Partner with any foreign university where students will receive scholarship
No
Institution Information
Institution classified as a Minority Serving
Yes, Hispanic-Serving Institution (HIS)
Actively Recruit Students from following groups
- People of Color
Is Language Required
Yes , It is a Department requirement
Accreditation
- Commission for Schools, Western Association of Schools and Colleges (formerly part of the Western Association of Schools and Colleges)