Post by Michelene Wilkerson When I first got to college, I thought I made it. I thought I had moved past some of my biggest hurdles as a young Black woman: I wouldn’t have to hear too many stereotypes since I won two of largest merit-based leadership scholarships in the country. I along with millions of Black…
Re-posted from Jenn Tenczar of Undergraduate Career Development on April 30, 2014 “Let’s Dream Big. It doesn’t cost anything.” This was Sheryl Sandberg’s, Facebook’s COO and the author ofLean In: Women, Work and the Will to Lead and Lean In for Graduates, opening message to participants sitting in on PricewaterhouseCooper’s first Women’s Leadership Series webcast that was presented…
Post by Fernando Maturana & Hernan Sangueza MBA, Class of 2014 INCmty is a celebration of entrepreneurship and innovation that aims to bring together in the same place both entrepreneurs and their business ideas with investors, following the model of a Festival, and seeking to become an international benchmark for entrepreneurs in Latin America. The…
PERUGIA, Italy, November 18, 2013 — A Babson College student is gaining hands-on international marketing experience while studying abroad in Perugia, a small medieval city in central Italy. Kirtit Nahar is currently enrolled in BSIM 390: International Marketing at the Umbra Institute. This course provides students with an overview of theoretical and current business practices…
Post contributed by the Babson Latin American Club On Friday, December 6 the Babson Latin American Club [BLAC] hosted Felipe Kast for a high powered session on Entrepreneurship as a Tool to Overcome Poverty. Mr. Kast is the former Chilean Minister of Planning, recently elected Congressman and leader of the reconstruction of the country after…
Post by Florenza Phung, Class of 2014 Budapest (Left), Barcelona (Center), Cinque Terre: Vernazza (Right) Last semester, I studied abroad at Bocconi University in Milan, Italy. During my time abroad, I traveled around Italy to cities such as Rome, Florence, Venice, Sicily (Catania & Palermo), Bologna, and Cinque Terre. I also visited Hungary, the…
Last month, Babson Undergraduate students Dell Warren, Chia Chou Pan, and Breeana Blackmon along with Amir Reza, Vice-Provost for International and Multicultural Education traveled to Stowe, Vermont. Why Stowe, you ask? Each year international educators (think study abroad and international student advisors and other staff who work toward internationalizing campuses and programs) gather for a…
NPR reports on one student’s long journey from the Gaza Strip to the University of Indianapolis. “There are only two legal ways in and out of the Gaza Strip. Egypt runs one, and has sharply restricted crossings after the military takeover in July, citing security. Israel tightly controls the other. Abuassi’s first challenge was getting permission…
Here at the Glavin Office of Multicultural & International Education we are constantly capturing statistics of incoming international and outgoing study abroad students. In fact we have entire teams dedicated to supporting and guiding these populations. A community that is perhaps more complicated to define is that of Third Culture Kids. Third Culture Kids (TCKs)…
Post by Amy Mon, Class of 2012. Right after walking across the stage during graduation in 2012, I was unsure of what I was getting myself into. I was accepted into the prestigious organization Teach for America as a 2012 corp member. This past year was the most challenging year, but also one in which…
