Global Programs in Sustainability recognized by the Institute of International Education
Stephanie Schupska
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More than 250 UGA students study internationally each year through the university’s Global Programs in Sustainability Discover Abroad office. One of many study-abroad programs at UGA, GPS has had such an impact on UGA students, faculty and other universities that it has earned UGA an honorable mention in the 11th annual Andrew Heiskell Awards for Innovation in International Education, given by the Institute of International Education.
UGA came in second to the University of Rhode Island’s international engineering program in the study-abroad category.
“The award is a very deserving recognition of UGA’s success in developing outstanding study-abroad programming for our students,” said Kavita Pandit, associate provost for international education.
UGA sends an average of 2,000 students abroad each year through programs in countries all over the world; and one in four UGA graduates have had a study-abroad experience ranging from three weeks to a year at the time of graduation.
The Heiskell Awards honor the most outstanding initiatives in international education among the more than 1,100 higher education institutions worldwide. The 2012 awards recognize seven programs conducted by nine campuses. The categories include study abroad, internationalizing the campus, internationalizing the community college and international partnerships.
Global Programs in Sustainability recognized by the Institute of International Education
Uttiyo Raychaudhuri, associate director of Global Programs in Sustainability, and Kasee Laster, director of education abroad at UGA, will travel to New York City on March 9 for the Heiskell Awards ceremony.
UGA Global Programs in Sustainability, under the direction of Meigs Professor Michael Tarrant, is unique among the university’s study-abroad programs not only because of its interdisciplinary nature—courses offered range from landscape architecture to law and all the sciences, social sciences and humanities in between—but also because of its focus on human-environment interaction and sustainability.
“Our program is centered around nurturing a global citizenry,” Tarrant said. “We are looking at the core values of human dignity and humility: Fostering a love and respect for the peoples and environments of the world to which we belong.”
Students traveling through Global Programs in Sustainability can choose from programs that visit Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, Bali, Thailand, Great Britain, Ireland, Antarctica and India.
“The courses are interdisciplinary and experiential in nature,” Raychaudhuri said, “focusing on the diverse facets of sustainability from societies to the environment, so that students are better educated and informed with a sense of global citizenship, environmental stewardship and inter-cultural competence.”
UGA Global Programs in Sustainability, housed in the Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources, got its start in 2001 when a group of 29 students traveled with Tarrant to New Zealand. Since then, it has become one of the largest study-abroad programs in the nation, Raychaudhuri said. Since 2005, the program has enlisted 250 students each year and, during better economic years, serves up to 400 students annually.
Global Programs in Sustainability recognized by the Institute of International Education
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