ETSU Global Year Program
Sponsored and led by ETSU’s Center for Global Engagement, the ETSU Global Year Program is a comprehensive internationalization effort at ETSU that provides the campus, curricula, and surrounding community with a rich, complex sense of place and global interconnectedness through a year-long series of events, course enhancements, projects, and initiatives that focus on a single country. Throughout the academic year, exploration of and interaction with the country occurs in multiple ways, including but not limited to:
- enhanced courses across the curriculum featuring country-specific content
- co-curricular activities on and off campus
- research projects and presentations
- library showcase of country-specific holdings
- education abroad program development and offerings
- visiting scholars, performers, and/or specialists
- new institutional partnerships and activities in target country
- campus and community events with a country-specific focus
- cultural events, exhibits, and lectures
- emphasis on scholarship and fellowship opportunities in country (e.g., Gilman, Boren, Fulbright)
- engagement with student organizations
The ETSU Global Year, in addition to supporting ETSU’s efforts to internationalize the campus and the curriculum, helps fulfill ETSU’s vision of “developing a world-class environment to enhance student success and improve the quality of life in the region and beyond” and its values of respect for “diversity of people and thought,” and its affirmation of “the contributions of diverse people, cultures, and thought to intellectual, social, and economic development.” The program also strives to support ETSU’s mission to provide “enriching experiences in honors education, student research and creative activity, study abroad, service learning, and community-based education.”
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ETSU Global Year: Scotland, 2024-25
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ETSU Global Year: Ecuador, 2022-23
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ETSU Global Year: Faculty Seminar
The ETSU Global Year Faculty Seminar participants are selected through a competitive application process in the fall prior to the beginning of new Global Year. Seminar participants meet regularly with the Global Year leadership team during the spring semester to develop academic projects related to the selected country, and then travel as a cohort to the target country the following summer. -
Future Global Year Countries
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How ETSU Global Year Countries are Selected