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Photos by Bob Bailie WHERE IN THE W ORLD?



by Kate Foster, UMF President
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onsider contacts with Cameroon, Canada, Chad, Our Internatonal Exchange Ofce nurtures UMF
China, Costa Rica, Cote d’Ivoire, Cuba, The Czech relatonships with the Beijing University of Technology,
Republic...and that’s only natons beginning with “C.” Universidad Nacionale de Córdoba (Argentna),
Université du Maine (LeMans, France) and Université
Between study abroad, the natonal origins of our d’Angers (France) plus partners ready to meet demand
internatonal students, and faculty research, teaching, for study abroad elsewhere.
and travel courses, UMF “exchanged” this past year
with 32 countries. Add in the origins of foreign-born, In spring 2014, UMF inaugurated the Mitchell
U.S.-based students and the number grows to 40 across Internatonal Fellows Program, which provides $2,500
fve contnents: North America, South America, Europe, to UMF Mitchell Scholars pursuing internatonal travel or
Africa and Asia. study abroad. Honored by the U.S. Department of State
as a “Fulbright Top Producer” for our thirteen faculty
Our expanding internatonalism refects a virtuous Fulbrights, we’re now bolstering student Fulbrights. UMF
combinaton of global interest, creatve initatves and guided four UMF students through the process with one,
hard work. The Multcultural Club sponsors Discover the Amanda Barrows ’14, selected for a Fulbright English
World celebratons of the music, culture and cuisines of Teaching Assistantship in South Korea for 2016-17.
world regions, this year featuring Asia, Latn America,
France and Africa. In December, we piloted the Global Perspectves
Program with a deeply moving two-day trip for faculty
Academically, UMF is responding to internatonal and students to Lac-Mégantc, Quebec, sister city of
interest with a rejuvenated curriculum for our major Farmington, Maine and site of a horrifc rail disaster in
and minor in Internatonal and Global Studies. This July 2013. In January, we pledged to Generaton Study
past semester the IGS Roundtable Series has brought Abroad, a program of the Insttute for Internatonal
discussion of global issues such as the Ebola epidemic Educaton, to double by 2020 the number of UMF
and ISIS extremism to our broader community. students who study abroad or partcipate in an
internatonal internship or service learning project.
We ofer foreign language courses in French, Spanish,
Chinese and Japanese, and sponsor a bounty of credit- Internatonal experiences ofer life-altering opportunites
bearing travel courses to locales as varied as Italy, Peru, for discovery, learning and refecton. We celebrate
Costa Rica, Iceland and Spain. UMF’s growing world connectons.




















From lef: Students explore Rome’s Colosseum with Professor of Politcal Science Scot Erb during the May travel course. Assistant
Professor of Anthropology Nicole Kellet visits Uganda in the spring to conduct research with family members of women with AIDS.
President Kate Foster learns a modern African dance from internatonal students.


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