Global Initiative
Fall 2018-Spring 2019: "Twenty-First Century Crises"
What is Global Initiative?
SUNY Orange's Global Initiative is a college-wide interdisciplinary focus on a topic of global importance. Global Initiative seeks to expand students' horizons, bring academic departments together in collaboration and infuse a global perspective on its curriculum.
While the Global Initiative is rooted in the College’s International Studies Program, the project involves students, faculty, staff, and community members in a year-long focus including discussions, lectures, workshops and other special events.
"Any institution of higher learning has an responsibility to serve as a center for enlightened and informed discussion and debate on contemporary issues and challenges. Over the last decade, Global Initiative has been crucial in fostering educated discussion in the Hudson Valley by presenting the work of scholars, artists, and scientists from both the College community, and from all over the United States."
-Professor Greg Geddes, professor of History and current Coordinator of the Global Initiative.
"As an anthropologist, I believe that the Global Initiative is one of the most exciting educational events to be held at the College in the last several years. In our increasingly diverse and complex society, it is vital to a liberal arts education to become knowledgeable about worldwide, national and regional trends and developments which affect all of our lives.
- Professor Barry Kass, faculty member.
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We are hoping we can create something meaningful here at SUNY Orange. Global Initiative is a project that is collaborative. It is educational and it is intended to be inspirational, too. ”
- Professor Paul Basinski, Chair of Global Studies Department and past Coordinator of Global Initiative.
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