Global Engagement

Global engagement gives students an opportunity to learn about different cultures. It teaches students to accept different people, and to learn to work with different people. Global engagement also helps students get involved in helping the countries that are less fortunate. For instance, students can help with the water problems in the third world countries. Students that get globally engaged can help those countries. Moreover, global engagement would help decrease the number of diseases and deaths because the water is not clean.

In order to become globally engaged, students do not have to go to a different country. They can learn more if they go to a different country for school or a vacation, but if they cannot afford to go, they can still get globally engaged. Being globally engaged benefits students in many ways no matter what they are studying. Anthony Rock said, “Whether you are studying international affairs or nursing or education, business, environment, any discipline will involve global comparison and global engagement. Even if you’re undecided today, you can be assured that global issues will impact you in the future.”

Global engagement gives students an opportunity to understand other people’s decisions. Anthony Rock said, “You’ll want to understand and appreciate the variety of contributions that people make from a range of societies in what is a globally dynamic, knowledge-based community.” By experiencing global engagement, students experience many new things that they didn’t expect. Students would learn to appreciate other people and their cultures through the experience that they gain.