Center for Global Engagement

From Appalachia to the World

The Center for Global Engagement is committed to enhancing internationalization across the teaching, research, and service missions of ETSU through an array of global learning programs and opportunities available to students, staff, faculty, and partners, near and far. Through diverse, collaborative programs and funding opportunities, the Center for Global Engagement demonstrates how global learning can be gained not only abroad but also on campus, in the local community, in the region, and in other areas of the United States. While the Center seeks to serve all ETSU students and stakeholders, it puts a particular premium on opening access and removing barriers to such programs and opportunities for underserved students. Global programs and opportunities that enhance education and increase employability are available to all students, regardless of their background, discipline, or personal and professional goals. 

  • Community-Based Global Learning
    More information coming soon.
  • Comprehensive Internationalization
    Comprehensive Internationalization is a commitment, confirmed through action, to infuse international and comparative perspectives throughout the teaching, research, and service missions of higher education. It shapes institutional ethos and values and touches the entire higher education enterprise.
  • ETSU Global Year
    Sponsored and led by ETSU’s Center for Global Engagement, the ETSU Global Year Program is a comprehensive internationalization effort at ETSU that provides the campus, curricula, and surrounding community with a rich, complex sense of place and global interconnectedness through a year-long series of events, course enhancements, projects, and initiatives that focus on a single country.
  • International SOS
    More information coming soon.
  • International Education Week
    International Education Week is a joint initiative of the U.S. Department of State and the U.S. Department of Education. It is an effort to promote programs that prepare Americans for a global environment and attract future leaders from abroad to study, learn, and exchange experiences. The Center for Global Engagement provides a centralized hub for coordinating events and activities for ETSU's International Education Week. 
  • International Partnerships
    ETSU has a variety of international partners around the world, including those related to student education abroad, student and faculty exchanges, research collaborations, and shared academic programs.