YEAR IN REVIEW The School of Education offered classes on the Florence campus for the first time.
“In choosing Coughlin, I wanted to put myself in a position where
it means going out into the world; not just having students and
I would be able to meet with many exchange students and help
faculty travel and study abroad, but seriously engaging the people
them find opportunities to meet people and make friends.”
and situations they encounter, and engaging in sustained and
Last year, Goodenow studied in China. She is a business major
serious reflection on what they and their hosts experience. In
with concentrations in international business, economics and
other words, global engagement means waking up to the fact
entrepreneurship, and she looks forward to an international career
that who we are, what our lives mean, and how our lives unfold
in law.
are intimately intertwined with all the other beings and societies
AVP Killen reflects on the concept of a global university: “For a while now we have been asking: What does it mean to be a global university in Spokane, Washington, in the 21st century? What does it look, feel, and smell like to be ‘globally engaged’? First, it means thinking globally as a university – be that in designing curricula, picking particular examples of environmental,
In 2011-12 Gonzaga students studied in 26 countries, Argentina to Zambia. Prominent, as always, was the Gonzaga-in-Florence program, which will celebrate its 50th anniversary in 2013-14. The addition of education and engineering courses in Florence has opened the GIF experience to all majors.
philosophical or political problems for a class session, or doing
Faculty led programs this summer in Turkey, Zambia, Italy, Mexico
strategic planning as an organization. We are in the world –
and London, covering disciplines across the campus: biology,
something the Jesuits emphasize.”
broadcast studies, chemistry, communications, engineering,
“Secondly, being a place that welcomes the world – extending hospitality to international students and to visiting scholars and faculty, and taking them seriously as conversation partners, whatever we are learning or researching,” Killen said. “Thirdly,
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on the planet, and even the planet itself.”
Pauline Chung (‘12) and Jon Sunderland, Dean of Education Gonzaga in Florence
English, environmental studies, Italian, law, leadership, philosophy, psychology, religious studies and Spanish. The Gonzaga School of Law sent students to China for six weeks of comparative law studies. Now in its second year, the comparative