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Center for International Education

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International Education at Washington and Lee strives to create an effective global learning environment by providing leadership, administrative oversight, and broad support for international learning and global engagement. Its primary functions are:

  1. To develop, guide, and monitor opportunities for overseas learning by students;
  2. To support faculty logistically in their international research, teaching, and curricular development;
  3. To advise and assist students, faculty and visitors from abroad in their integration into and involvement with the university and the local community; and
  4. To promote the ideals of global citizenship, intercultural appreciation, and mutual understanding in a rapidly changing world.

 

CIE News

  • Planning Steering Committee Named
    Appointment of a nine-person Steering Committee to oversee Washington and Lee's strategic planning process for the future of international education and W&L.
  • Radio IE
    November will provide several unusual treats for listeners of Radio IE.
  • W&L Students Around the World
    A total of 49 students will be spending their fall semester in twenty cities world-wide..
  • International Students Settle In
    First-year undergraduate international students from 17 countries arrive in Lexington.

From the Blog

  • Job Skills
         On any street in nearly any city or town these days one cannot help but notice the property offices because their windows are plastered with ads for property to buy or rent.  While I was walking down a London street recently, my attention was drawn to such a window only to discover that the [...]
  • Buried Dogs in Bayreuth
          I recently passed through Bayreuth to visit our partner university and to check in with the Washington and Lee Spring Term Abroad program that is centered there.  Bayreuth is an historic town of the northern Bavaria region of Franconia, best known as the place where the fantasies of Richard Wagner found both their expression [...]
  • Competition
    Washington and Lee students are among the many U.S. college and university students who find themselves in an entirely new competitive arena and that arena stretches far beyond the boundaries of college campuses.

W&L International News

  • @AlternateTextVisiting LL.M. Students Hope to Bring Better Life to Afghanistan
    M. Asif Ehsan and Sebghatullah Ebrahimi can see the path to peace and prosperity in their native Afghanistan, and it is a long one that may even wind through Lexington.
  • @AlternateTextTimothy Lubin Receives Two National Fellowships
    Timothy Lubin, associate professor of religion at Washington and Lee University, has received two national fellowships for work on his research project “Authority, Law and the Polity in India, 300-1700.”
  • @AlternateTextFulbright Awards and French Government Teaching Award Announced
    Four Washington and Lee University seniors have been awarded grants for postgraduate study under the Fulbright Programs while a fifth student has won a teaching assistantship through the French government through a Fulbright application.
  • @AlternateTextStudent's Photo Snapped Up by National Geographic
    "If I had arrived just a minute later I would have missed it," says W&L student Morgan Harris ’09, who keeps his professional-grade SLR camera on him whenever he can while traveling. One of his shots proved to be a winning one and has been selected by National Geographic photo editors to be included in their 2009 Glimpse calendar.

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