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An introduction by Stephen E. Hanson, Vice Provost for International Affairs and Director of the Reves Center for International Studies
World Minded Spring 2019
VOL. 11, NO 2
Established in 1989, the Reves Center for International Studies is today one of the premier centers for globalization in U.S. higher education. Its mission is to support and promote the internationalization of learning, teaching, research and community involvement at Â鶹Æƽâ°æ through programs for education abroad, international students and scholars, and global engagement across the university. Â鶹Æƽâ°æ is the number one public university for undergraduate study abroad participation, with over 50 percent of the university’s undergraduates studying outside the U.S. before graduation.
This year, more than 1,000 international students and scholars from nearly 70 countries have come to Â鶹Æƽâ°æ. And the Reves Center encourages and assists numerous international strategic initiatives across the university, including the Â鶹Æƽâ°æ Confucius Institute, which offers Chinese language and cultural activities to the campus and community, and the Global Research Institute, co-sponsored by the Faculty of Arts & Sciences, which supports faculty and student collaborations to find solutions to pressing global problems.
Read select stories from World Minded:
A Q&A with Betty Suchar '65
Reflections from 2018 Reves Faculty Fellow Oludamini Ogunnaike and Divya Dureja ’21
From W&M's Global Research Institute,
A conversation with Jenni Franklin, Senior Assistant Dean of Admission, and Stephen Sechrist, Director, International Students, Scholars, and Programs.
A Gates Scholar overcomes obstacles with a little inspiration from Marcus Aurelius.
You can learn more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.
Miguel Bardajà Horno MBA ’20 may have officially set foot on campus in August, but his journey to Â鶹Æƽâ°æ actually began Saturday, September 23, 2017, at 11 am.
Thanks to a partnership between the Global Education Office (GEO) at the Reves Center and the Council on International Educational Exchange (CIEE), eighty-five Â鶹Æƽâ°æ students submitted their passport applications for free.
Â鶹Æƽâ°æ’s Global Research Institute welcomed 15-year-old Lila Sugerman to Williamsburg for a sneak preview and discussion of the documentary she co-produced, “Period. End of Sentence.â€
Anee Nguyen ’19 discusses her travels throughout Europe as a student at St Andrews
Symposium Highlights Role of Women in Building Post-War Constitutions Around the World
Assistant Professor Katherine Barko-Alva has developed Â鶹Æƽâ°æ’s first master’s concentration in ESL and bilingual education.
Dr. Deborah Steinberg of Â鶹Æƽâ°æ’s Virginia Institute of Marine Science, a member of the National Science Foundation’s Palmer Long-Term Ecological Research program. PAL-LTER examines the long-term effects of climate change on the ocean ecosystem west of the Antarctic Peninsula.