1. Learning about Southern Culture in New Orleans

   Global UGRAD Learns about Southern Culture in New Orleans

2. My Extended Minnesota Family

   Fahmida Zaman sometimes missed her family in Bangladesh during her Global Undergraduate Exchange Program experience. She spent the better part of 2012 at St. Catherine University in Minnesota, well removed from her home. But, she is thankful for the connections she made with professors, her “friendship family,” American and international students, and one very memorable meeting with another Bangladeshi.

3. Exchange Generates Ideas for Preserving Mali’s Rich Cultural Heritage

4. Meeting with International Visitors Is Just the Beginning for New York Couple

   Exchanges cultural and professional ideas through the International Visitor Leadership Program

5. Small Actions, Big Impacts in Bangladesh

   "Some boys ran up to me and asked why I was doing this," says Filip. "I explained that I had clean parks and places to play in and for one day I wanted them to have a place like that as well."

6. Tolis of Greece Returns for an Encore

   "One of the highlights on my trip was my meeting with Howard Schwartz, the organizer of the top Hip Hop dance event in the world, Hip Hop International, and the producer of the television show America’s Best Dance Crew."

7. Unpublished

   Lessons on Teaching the Hearing Impaired

   Lessons on Culture and Teaching in the International Leadership Educators Program.

8. Rebuilding a Georgian City

   Charlie Bush felt energized when he learned of his acceptance into the ECA Legislative Fellow Program. Charlie, a City Administrator, would be leaving the U.S. and traveling to the Republic of Georgia to exchange ideas on democracy and political participation.

9. Chance Encounters Lead to New Possibilities for Yolanda

   “I need to do something!” Rueda said to the U.S. Ambassador to Spain after meeting him at a volunteer award conference. “ The ambassador, taken by Yolanda’s passion to help others, recommended her for a VolVis International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP). Just a few months later, Yolanda came to the United States on a volunteerism and social innovation-focused IVLP with another Spanish colleague.

10. No Longer Scared of Dreaming Big: March Madness Makes for an Empowering Experience

    Belia was one of six female coaches to join 18 teenage girls from around the world for a multi-country basketball exchange.

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