Headline : Going Global through the Global Citizens Project Scholars program

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IIE congratulates Northern Arizona University on receipt of the 2024 Andrew Heiskell Award for Innovation in International Education. The University widened access to international education by designing the Global Citizen Project Scholars (GCPS) program, which pools financial and administrative support from throughout campus to make international education economically accessible to all. As a benefit of receiving the Heiskell Awards, IIE is publishing guest entries from each recipient institution.

What is unique about the population NAU serves and how did the challenges they face inspire the Global Citizens Project Scholars (GCPS) program?

Northern Arizona University (NAU) sits at the base of the San Francisco Peaks, on homelands sacred to Native Americans throughout the region, and has recently received the Hispanic-Serving Institution (HSI) designation. As a university, we strive to provide access to higher education for all Indigenous and First Generation students. Education Abroad wanted to extend  this access to international opportunities. Our team noticed  students were starting, but not completing, their study abroad applications, indicating their interest to participate paired with hesitance to commit. The Global Citizens Project Scholars (GCPS) program aims to ensure that financial barriers  do not keep students from going abroad. It allows them to gain cultural competencies that can only be developed by traveling and experiencing programs abroad.

To design the program, I used the model of a similar project I implemented on a smaller scale at my previous institution in collaboration with the Honors College. At NAU, the Honors College has a student base of nearly 2,000 students and also wanted to create more affordable multidisciplinary global programs. The program is open to all academic majors because it focuses on global citizenship. Initially, I worked with the Dean to develop accessible programming just for Honors students. Then, we  decided to include Honors-eligible, Indigenous, and First Generation students  to increase access for those not officially in the NAU Honors program

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