Renée Paquier, a faculty member in and the Chair of the Administration of Justice program, Dean of Professional Studies (starting January 2018), and long-time member of the WVC Global Citizenship Committee, is on a Rotaplast International mission in Agra, India. The mission team consists of seventeen medical and non-medical volunteers who will repair cleft lips […]
Monthly Archives: November 2017
Monday 20 November 2017 is Transgender Day of Remembrance and Resilience This day of remembrance started in 1999 to honor the life of Rita Hester, a black transwoman, who was murdered in Boston, MA. Every year on November 20, the transgender, gender nonconforming, and non-binary communities come together to remember, honor, and mourn the lives […]
International Education Week is an opportunity to celebrate the benefits of international education and exchange worldwide. This joint initiative of the U.S. Department of State and the U.S. Department of Education is part of our efforts to promote programs that prepare Americans for a global environment and attract future leaders from abroad to study, learn, […]
On Tuesday 7 November 2017 Study Abroad Program held two important events in the WVC Global Citizenship Center: first, certificates were awarded to the fifteen winners of WVC’s Global Citizenship Study Abroad Scholarship to study in France (in January 2018). Both WVMCCD Chancellor Patrick Schmitt and WVC President Bradley Davis were in attendance. Chancellor Schmitt […]
Education First (EF) was founded in 1965, and now, as a leader in global education, it has 500 schools and offices in more than 50 countries in the world. EF’s division, Study Abroad/College Study Tours, invited Drs. Tim Kelly and Dulce María Gray to attend their first Global Study Symposium (in Cambridge, MA), an educational gathering of […]