LaGuardia Community College takes leadership
role in connecting young people around the world
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global competence and
career readiness skill
is vital,” LaGuardia
Community College
President Kenneth
Adams said. “Given
current budget limitations,
as well as travel
restrictions necessitated
by the COVID-19
pandemic, providing
our students with the
benefit of international
exchange programs
with the Middle East
and North Africa, without
leaving New York
City is ideal. We are
grateful to the Stevens
Institute for their support
of this innovative
virtual exchange.”
The Stevens Initiative
is an international
effort to build global
competence and career
readiness skills for
young people by growing
and enhancing
the field of virtual exchange.
Created in 2015
as a lasting tribute to
Ambassador J. Christopher
Stevens, the initiative
is committed to
helping to expand the
virtual exchange field
through three pillars
of work: investing in
promising programs,
sharing knowledge and
resources, and advocating
for virtual exchange
adoption.
“We thank the Stevens
Initiative for
giving our students a
valuable opportunity
to develop the professional
skills and cultural
understanding
that will prepare them
for the global marketplace,”
Queens College
President Frank Wu
said. “At a time when
traditional exchange
programs aren’t operating,
Global Scholars
Achieving Career Success
enables our students
to collaborate virtually
with their peers
in the Middle East and
North Africa, and connects
young people in
those countries with
Queens College’s talented
and diverse
student body.”
In addition to developing
relationships
with their peers
abroad, virtual exchange
allows young
people to build empathy,
develop leadership
skills and learn about
new topics. While participants
have different
experiences depending
on their virtual exchange
program, all
are impacted in ways
both big and small, including
changes in career
trajectory, a new
interest in different
cultures and lifelong
friendships.
“People-to-people exchanges
are critical to
advancing global peace
and understanding”
said Matthew Lussenhop,
acting assistant
secretary of state for
the Bureau of Educational
and Cultural Affairs.
“Through early
adoption of virtual exchanges,
the Stevens
Initiative has elevated
technology to foster
collaboration between
students in the United
States and counterparts
in the Middle East and
North Africa.”
LaGuardia Community
College is one of 19
institutions of higher
learning to be named a
2021 Stevens Initiative
grantee. Through these
programs, the Stevens
Initiative will expand
its reach to nearly
75,000 young people
around the world.
“In our interconnected
and diverse
world, virtual exchange
is a necessary tool that
gives young people an
appreciation for their
world around them,”
said Christine Shiau,
managing director of
the Stevens Initiative
at the Aspen Institute.
“The Stevens Initiative
is proud to support
these programs
at a time when shared
understanding and experiences
among our
next generation of leaders
are more important
than ever.”
Reach reporter Bill
Parry by e-mail at
bparry@schnepsmedia.
com or by phone at (718)
260–4538.
BY BILL PARRY
As the scholastic
world adjusts to a new
normal during the
COVID-19 pandemic,
LaGuardia Community
College was selected to
lead an international
program to virtually
connect young people
around the world.
The Stevens Initiative
announced its
support of the Global
Scholars Achieving Career
Success (GSACS)
which will virtually
link a coalition of institutions
including
LaGuardia and Queens
College with a number
of universities in the
Middle East and North
Africa.
Under the Stevens
Initiative, the program
to be implemented
by LaGuardia and its
partners, advances the
United Nations Sustainable
Development
Goals and career readiness
competencies in
class-to-class virtual
exchanges between
CUNY students and
their counterparts collaborating
on experiential
learning projects.
“For our students to
be successful in today’s
increasingly connected
world, building their
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