Director: Linda Palumbo Olszanski Office: Rome Hall 119 Phone: (706) 233-7459 Fax: (706) 233-7458 E-mail: lpalumbo@shorter.edu Office hours: M-F 8:30 am - 5 pm

Message from the Director

Global citizenship...this concept might seem vague at first, but the idea is actually a foundational principle to your education at Shorter.  We live in a highly interconnected world.  We truly are global citizens who need to work for mutual understanding between countries and cultures. 

Over the years, we have witnessed that an event in one part of the world can have a real impact upon our own part of it.  As today's university students and tomorrow's world leaders, you can only be successful in the future by understanding that we all have responsibilities and duties as global citizens.  That's what Shorter's Campus Globalization commitment is all about.

Welcome to our global community!

PROGRAMMING & EVENTS

The Office of Campus Globalization oversees international students' affairs as well as campus globalization programs.

GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES FORUM - FALL 2010 International Studies is pleased to welcome Mrs. Sheila Schulte for this fall’s Global Perspectives Forum. Mrs. Schulte works in the Office of International Education at the Georgia Institute of Technology where she manages the services for over 3,800 international students and scholars. Sheila has worked in international education since 1995 in positions at the University of Iowa, the University of Idaho, and Emory University.

She served as Chair of the Georgia Association of International Educators from 2003-2004. She was the Georgia State Representative to NAFSA: Association of International Educators, Region VII from 2004-2007. Mrs. Schulte was the project lead for a NAFSA Collaborative Grant in 2006 that focused on intercultural communication training for the University System of Georgia. She is the current Membership Chair for NAFSA: Association of International Educators.

Wednesday September 22nd
Topic: “Understanding International Student Flows: Where We Have Been and Where We Are Going”

Time: 3 PM
Location: Austin Moses Room

Wednesday November 17th
Topic: “Defining Tomorrow's Global Citizen”

Time: 3 PM
Location: Austin Moses Room

INTERNATIONAL DESSERT CONTEST
Date: Monday November 15, 2010
Time: 3 PM
Location: Cobb Room (Sheffield-Thompson building)

As part of the celebrations of the International Education Week (Nov. 15-19, 2010), Shorter University is organizing an International Dessert Contest. All faculty, staff and students are invited to submit one or more desserts of international flavor.

Amazing prizes will be awarded!

If you’d like to participate, please sign up by email with Mrs. Linda Palumbo Olszanski (lpalumbo@shorter.edu) before Monday November 8 th, 2010.