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 John Marcum Associate Provost for International Academic Activities and Universitywide Director, Education Abroad Program |
Four thousand
Education Abroad (EAP) students are expected to plunge into the challenges
of unfamiliar and mind-bending academic and social learning during
2003-04. They will be preparing themselves for careers in a California
heavily dependent on world trade. They will be equipping themselves for
effective citizenship in a troubled time when understanding of global
issues, be they environmental, cultural, political or economic, will be
critical to the survival of a democratic society. They will be relishing
the adventure, building new coping skills and learning within a context of
diverse histories, customs, pedagogies, languages, attitudes and diets.
Universally, EAP alumni - there are over 40,000 - report that participation in the program has changed their lives. It has enhanced their self-knowledge and confidence, opened new career opportunities, increased their understanding and appreciation of diversely complex, exciting, baffling, needful, stagnant and swiftly changing worlds beyond our borders. By bringing close to a thousand highly selective exchange students from EAP partner institutions abroad EAP also adds intellectual yeast to UC campuses. World offers glimpses into EAP enrichment of student lives and the University curricula. Its message is simple:
EAP is offering a range of quality study opportunities (33 countries, 141 institutions) unmatched by any other institution of higher learning. Need more convincing? Read on... - John Marcum |