GIEU in the News
University Press
The University Record
Vol. 61, No. 4 - Sept 22, 2008 Page 8
“Faculty, students explore cultures through first-hand experiences”
by Jared Wadley
Kyra VandeBunte left her comfort zone — home, familiar language and sanitation — all for a summer global experience in Tanzania.
The visit, part of the University's Global Intercultural Experience for Undergraduates (GIEU) program, required VandeBunte to live in homes without electricity or running water. She communicated with her host families by using non-verbal gestures and limited Swahili. And she helped build a small Maasai home using dry cow dung….For more information, click http://www.ur.umich.edu/0809/Sep22_08/16.php
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Michigan Today
February 24, 2008
"You realize, 'Wait, I can do this': U-M undergraduates in Africa and around the world"
by Amy Whitesall
Renee Pitter and a University of Michigan classmate were several days into a HIV education session in Johannesburg, South Africa, when they got to the part of their program that emphasized faithfulness.
Being faithful, they pointed out to their "students" – school and community leaders being trained to teach others – also means being faithful to yourself. It means deciding, first and foremost, what you're willing to do and what you're not willing to do….For more information click http://michigantoday.umich.edu/2008/feb/gieu.php
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The University Record
October 8, 2007
“Iceland journey unveils geological treasures”
by Nancy Ross-Flanigan
Walking across a still-warm lava field, getting a first-hand look at sites of historic volcanic eruptions, riding through a landscape that changes in an eye-blink from green to barren to other-worldly. These experiences stand out in Jacob hector’s mind from the three weeks spent in Iceland over the summer…For more information, click www.umich.edu/~urecord/0708/Oct08_07/07.shtml
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Geoscience News
Fall 2007 – Pages 11-14
“Let's Look at Rocks”
by Megan Cummins
There is a sound to stagnant water, its shallow breaths, although I don’t think I knew it – the way it buzzes like an insect – until I came back from Iceland, until everything in my life grew louder. There, the waterfalls crashed with the power of heavy traffic. The people of Iceland seem to have grown around the country’s geology…For more information, click https://www.lsa.umich.edu/UofM/Content/geo/document/Fall_2007_1.pdf
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Get Involved!
Fall 2007 – Page 9
“Undergraduate Meet World"
Mambo! That’s Swahili for “what’s up” and the appropriate reply is “poa”, which means “cool”. Those are some of the phrases that I picked up in the weeks I spent in Kenya. This trip was part of a U of M program called Global Intercultural Experience for Undergraduates (GIEU) which aims to send students and faculty members to various places around the world to learn intercultural skills through cultural immersion, service, and research. This particular site gave me a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to experience a lifestyle completely different from my own and at the same time, to gain insight into important social issues. The theme of the trip was “East African Communities and the AIDS Crisis”...For more information, click http://www.lso.umich.edu/downloads/GetInvolved07_5-1-07.pdf
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The Promise of Diversity
October 2006 - Pages 4-6
“Education Beyond Borders”
Global Intercultural Experience for Undergraduates Program
“The Global Intercultural Experience for Undergraduates (GIEU) program embraces the idea of education without borders. GIEU was founded in 2002 as a joint Provost and Vice President for Student Affairs initiative to give underrepresented students and faculty experiential field learning opportunities, and to help promoted the concept of a global university. Because GIEU was established in answer to the needs of faculty and students who wanted to improve their intercultural competencies, it offers interdisciplinary exposure, home stays, service learning, and/or research experiences in which both U-M participants and host communities benefit...For more information, click http://www.diversity.umich.edu/about/divnews-2.pdf
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The Michigan Daily
The Statement
Wednesday, Sept 13, 2006
“Off the Beaten Path: Unconventional Travel at U of M”
by Alex Dziadosz
Go abroad while you can…
The University hosts a variety of free and cheap avenues for studying – or playing – abroad. While most of these programs are University-sponsored, they tend to rely primarily on word of mouth for publicity. Some are highly competitive, but most remain obscure and underused…
Coordinator of Multicultural Teaching and Learning A.T. Miller sits tucked away like a rare but precious artifact…he runs four-year-old Global Intercultural Experience for Undergraduates (GIEU). It has a hefty name but a simple mission: to give more undergrads the chance to travel and to learn...For more information, click http://www.michigandaily.com/content/beaten-path-unconventional-travel-u-m
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University of Michigan News Service
May 9, 2006
“The world becomes classroom for students, faculty in U-M program”
by Jared Wadley
Ann Arbor, Mich. – Casey White will put to the test the A’s he earned from here semesters of Spanish at the University of Michigan.
He is active in the Global Intercultural Experience for Undergraduates program, and his group will travel to Spain from June 27 through Aug. 3…
GIEU is unlike traditional study-abroad programs that can be time-consuming and expensive, thus excluding many students who could most benefit, such as students of color and other underrepresented student groups, first-generation college students, and students enrolled in intensive or accelerated academic programs, for whom an entire semester off campus would be difficult…For more information, click http://www.ns.umich.edu/htdocs/releases/story.php?id=249
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The Michigan Daily
November 18, 2005
“Students make spiritual journey in Spain”
by Katerina Georgiev
Legend has it that when St. James, one of Jesus’ apostles, was beheaded in 42 AD, his disciples stole his corpse and put it on board a ship with a crew of angels. After seven days the ship landed in Galicia, but the disciples were unable to bury their leader because the king and queen of the region were not Christians.
After some time, the queen of the area – which later became the city of Santiago in Spain – converted to Christianity, and James was finally buried.
In the 8th century, a hermit found St. James’s tomb, and the journey to Santiago became an important pilgrimage site for medieval Christians. Even today, it is estimated that nearly half of the people who make the pilgrimage to St. James’s tomb do so for religious reasons.
Others, like the 14 University students in the Global Intercultural Experience for Undergraduates program make the trip down the historic “Camino Frances,” a popular route to the tomb, for class credit.
Students participating in the program receive two credits and an opportunity to travel through Europe…For more information, click http://www.michigandaily.com/content/students-make-spiritual-journey-spain
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UROP Newsline
Vol. 8, No. 2 – November 2005
“Going Global – Becoming a World Citizen”
To live and work in the world, university students must view themselves as a citizen of the world, requiring one to think about local issues within a global context and vice versa. Increasingly, UM is encouraging students to consider educational opportunities that take them beyond the confines of campus and home. Here are some of the many international experiences available to students as experienced by UROP Peer Advisors in Summer 2005...For more information, click here.
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Department of Romance Languages and Literature Newsletter
Fall 2004/Winter 2005
“The Pilgrims of El Camino de Santiago”
by Annie Hesp
In Spring 2004, 14 students from the University of Michigan along with faculty member Andy Noverr and graduate student Annie Hesp laced up their boots, pulled on their backpacks and headed to Spain to walk the Camino de Santiago (St. James Way). The goal of this project was to analyze how the concept of community intersected with the Camino while traveling along the trail…For more information, click http://www.lsa.umich.edu/rll/eventsnews/images/RLL%20newsletter2004.pdf
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Mechanical Engineering
2004-2005 Annual Report – Page 9
“S.M. WU Manufacturing Research Center Launches Three Initiatives”
Three major initiatives were launched during the 2004-2005 academic year, in addition to numerous other activities, according to Professor Jun Ni, who directs the S.M. Wu Manufacturing Research Center…
Under the sponsorship of U-M’s Office of the Provost, Ni also led a group of 16 U-M undergraduate students to Shanghai, China, as part of the Global Intercultural Experience for Undergraduates (GIEU)…For more information, click http://me.engin.umich.edu/news/pubs/ar/ME2005AnnualReport.pdf
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Abroad View
Fall 2004 – Page 10
“El Camino de Santiago”
By Annie Hesp
The first time I met Nick Hoekstra was at an information meeting for students interested in hiking the Camino de Santiago in May of 2004. We would be walking each day, living communally with other pilgrims from all over the world and researching the multiple levels and meaning of community that exists on the Camino. Admittedly, I hadn’t imagined that a blind student would want to join us on this 200-mile pilgrimage across northern Spain…For more information, click http://www.abroadview.org/globalcitizen/hoekstra.htm
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University of Michigan
Financial Report – Page 22
Year End June 30, 2003
“A World of Learning”
The Global Intercultural Experience for Undergraduates Program –
In the summer of 2003, when most of their peers were working traditional jobs, attending classes, or simply taking it easy, several dozen U-M undergraduates fanned out across the globe as part of a new interdisciplinary field study initiative established to promote intercultural understanding through experiential learning…For more information, click here.
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Mechanical Engineering
2002-2003 Annual Report – Page 20
“Global Partnerships Continue to Grow and Flourish”
Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
Cooperative programs with Shanghai Jiao Tong University have continued to provide valuable international cultural and educational experiences for students and faculty over the past academic year.
Formally established in 1999, ME’s partnership with SJTU facilitates collaboration and sharing of knowledge between the two universities.
Undergraduates may participate in the Global Intercultural Experience for Undergraduates students program (GIEU), a university-wide program that offers exposure to global issues…For more information, click http://www.michigandaily.com/content/students-make-spiritual-journey-spain
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The University Record
October 1, 2002
“Students and faculty take classroom experience global in GIEU program”
by Kevin Bergquist
Andrea Coronil could write a book about her experiences last summer. But she found a simple piece of paper says just as much.
Coronil, and LS&A student from Ann Arbor, recalled a day she spent as a volunteer in a children’s youth center in Oaxaca, Mexico, as part of Global Intercultural Experience for Undergraduates (GIEU). One of the women working there was feeling down, she says, and the group later found out the woman’s eldest son was missing. Coronil and another volunteer made a simple flier to post downtown in Oaxaca, where children often go to sell goods and where the woman’s son was last seen…For more information, click http://www.ur.umich.edu/0102/Sep30_02/gieu.html
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