Bringing Global Leaders to our Students

This past Fall, Global Communities was excited to launch its Global Conversation Series, a program focused on bringing global leaders to engage in dialogue about timely global issues with the UMD community. We launched our first conversation with former Ambassador to Vietnam, Mr. David Shear. GC students had the chance to participate in an intimate and candid conversation with Mr. Shear where they asked him about his interational diplomacy career, views on current U.S. and East Asian Relations, and what the direction he believes U.S. foreign policy is headed in. 

GC Students Tackle the Hard Issues in Globalization Course

Students Lend a Hand in our Local Community

Branching out beyond the UMD campus and taking advantage of the opportunities, community, and culture that the broader DMV  (DC, Maryland, and Virginia) area have to offer is one of the features that makes Global Communities unique. Global Communities students enagement outside of our campus home was recently highlighted in the Office of Community Engagement's biannual report, Fearless Connectons! 

For the 2017-2018 academic year, GC is proud to share that:

GC Students Awarded Prestigious Study Abroad Scholarships!

Congratulations to GC Alum Measu Bellay, Class of 2018, and current GC student Owen Brinker, Class of 2020, for their spectacular accomplishments!

Measu Bellay was awarded the U.S. Department of State’s Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship where she studied in Thailand! The Gilman Scholarship is a grant program that enables students of limited financial means to study or intern abroad, thereby gaining skills critical to our national security and economic competitiveness.