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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.

 

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From the Blog

  • Get Out of Here!
         I never have any real doubts about my constant message to students and faculty regarding the importance of travel abroad and of opening horizons as a means to prepare for the future (or, in some respects, catch up to the present!) Yet, there are times when I wonder why the message doesn’t seem to [...]
  • 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 [...]

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