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Study Abroad Pioneer Gives the Opportunity to Others

Dr. Dorothy E. McBride (B.A. Liberal Arts ’62) believes in the importance of exploring our global community, and that it’s best to start doing so as soon as possible. “My mother, Louise Lilly McBride, received her bachelor’s degree in Spanish from UM in 1929, and her master’s degree in Spanish from UM in 1951. She always encouraged my sister Virginia and me to go abroad— to research, to travel, to learn. I studied in Costa Rica in the 1960s, then in England, and finally in France. Virginia [McBride Altman (B.S. Journalism ’56)] spent a year in Paris in 1958 as a Rotary Ambassadorial Scholar. Spending that Read More...

Global Education

When the College of Arts and Sciences adopted the motto "Connecting the West with the World," we hoped students would take it both figuratively and literally-especially now that the University has study abroad and exchange opportunities on every continent except Antarctica.

One of the College's great strengths is its ability to provide a global education, in both the figurative and literal sense: students must study a wide array of subjects in addition to their major, and come to understand how their specialty fits into the universe of disciplines. And they literally have access to a myriad of cultures, histories, languages, and bodies of knowledge-and now have great opportunities to experience those firsthand through study abroad.

UM's study abroad program has grown exponentially since its inception in 1972, when the University started offering students the opportunity to spend a term studying and living abroad as participants in one of several programs created and administered by the Department of Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures (formerly the Department of Foreign Languages).