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Francine Blume
Director of Experiential Education
Career Center
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Dr. Francine Blume works with Career Center advisors, faculty, and employers to promote academic internships of the highest quality for AU students. She is also actively engaged in developing and implementing instructional media and technologies, and with learning assessment of Career Center activities.
Her philosophy of experiential education is that students should be engaged with relevant and intellectually challenging assignments to compliment their internships. Reflection on the experience, whether through classes or virtually, are key.
Francine’s previous experience includes adjunct teaching in Justice and Peace Studies, educational program development and direction with nonprofits and educational organizations, curriculum development for a refugee resettlement project, and teaching English as a second language.
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Degrees
PhD, Political Science, University of Hawai'i at Manoa
MA, Instructional Development and Technology, Southeast Asia Interdisciplinary Development Institute
BA, Sociology, University of Missouri – Kansas City -
Favorite Spot on Campus:
Zatkin-Butler Gardens
Book Currently Reading:
Wikinomics by Don Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams
Languages Spoken:
Spanish
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OFFICE
- Career Center
- Butler Pavilion - 5th Floor
CONTACT INFO
- (202) 885-1806 (Work)
- (202) 885-1804 (Office)
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Partnerships & Affiliations
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Japan Fulbright Memorial Fund (JFMF) Teacher Program
Judge (2001 – 2003)
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Goodwill International Service Awards
Judge (2002)
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National Association of Colleges and Employers
Member
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Member
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American University Staff Council
Member (2000 - 2002)
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Cooperative Education and Internship Association
Member and former Vice President for Internships
Scholarly, Creative & Professional Activities
Professional Presentations
- Get a Virtual Life: Academic Applications of Second Life (Ann Ferren Teaching Conference, 2008)
- Just Because You Can Doesn’t Mean You Should: Ever Expending Options with Instructional Media (DC Career Consortium, 2007)
- Using New Technology to Reach Out to your Students (NEASEA South District Meeting, 2006)
- Creating a Culture of Peace: Teaching Strategies for Change (21st Annual Peace and Justice Conference, 2006)
- Experiential Education: Roots and Realities (NSEE/APSA Short Course, 2005)
- Philosophy of Experiential Education (NSEE Mid-Atlantic, 2004)
- Experiential Education (with Marie Spaulding, Ann Ferren Teaching Conference, 2004)
- Training the Trainer (CEIA Professional Development workshop, 2003)
- Taking Stock of the Peace Movement: Where We Are and Where We’re Going (Georgetown University Forum on Seeking Justice Nationally and Internationally, 2001)
- Program Evaluation (Goodwill Industries Human Resource Institute, 2000)
Media Appearances
Selected Publications
- What to Do When You Leave Your Internship, InternshipRatings.com
- “Opportunities for Growth: The Professional Development Program,” Fulbright Center News
- “An Experiment in Nonviolent Education: The Peacemaker Training Institute,” The International Journal of Nonviolence
- “Peace Zones: Exemplars and Potential,” The Acorn: Journal of the Gandhi-King Society
- “Peace and Popular Culture,” Fellowship
- A Living Breakthrough: Exemplars in Systems Transformations (with Dr. PRM Tayko)
AU News and Achievements
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SIS Career Week: A Source of Insight and Connections
Over 550 students and alumni participated in at least one of the Career Week’s eight events....
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