UC Santa Cruz is implementing its Strategic Plan for Internationalization (SPI), and corresponding Implementation Plan, both living, evolving documents that culminate our extended two-year participation in the American Council on Education’s (ACE) Internationalization Laboratory.
In 2020, the Global Classrooms initiative was launched by the Division of Global Engagement to increase opportunity and access to global learning opportunities for all students.
In fall 2021, professor Minghui Hu offered his online course in Global Environmental History to be part of the virtual exchange, and nine students enrolled from different universities around the Pacific Rim.
The Division of Global Engagement builds connections across campus to expand global learning opportunities for all students which also supports the Beyond the Classroom priority of our Student Success Initiative.
Partnerships
APRU Virtual Student Exchange fall courses coming soon.
Browse last year's fall offerings for a glimpse of exciting course options from top universities including Korea University, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, The University of Sydney, and more!
Browse the GlobalConnect database to discover the various ways that UCSC establishes connections around the world, through Agreements, Collaborations, Networks, Programs/Opportunities, and Projects.
Global Engagement seeks applications from all interested instructional faculty (Senate and Unit 18) to develop Global Classrooms to be offered at UCSC beginning in AY 2022-23, and no later than AY 2023-34.
Sereena, a Film and Digital Media Studies major, discusses participating in a Virtual Global Internship (VGI) as a transfer student from an immigrant household.
A postdoc scholar at UCSC’s Institute of Marine Sciences, Tommy Clay is a marine ecologist based at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Southwest Fisheries Science Center in Monterey...
