Harrisburg University has eight core competencies. Global awareness is one of those. To really drive global awareness home, we often want to take students or give the students opportunities to travel abroad. Personally, I've taken students to three or four different countries. We have other faculty that go to places like Brazil and Puerto Rico so that students have exposure to you know, a world other than what they may have been exposed to so far. Earlier this month, we had a ribbon-cutting at Ciudad de Saber, which is the former military base right next to the Panama Canal in Panama. Harrisburg University is starting graduate programs down there in Project Management Analytics and other disciplines. And the idea is that students get exposure to our faculty who traveled down there and teach classes three times during the semester, and they do the rest of the work remotely. So I always start out my Applied Geography class by asking students where's the furthest place they've traveled? And many of our students that really have not traveled extensively at all, let alone outside the country or even outside of the state, in some instances. Having those opportunities to study abroad, to understand different cultures, to realize that the world's really not that much different than they think it is --than they've been experiencing in their life -- it's really eye-opening.
