Each year, Shippensburg University celebrates its diverse heritage with International Education Week. During this week, many events are planned to give insight to people in the school community who might want to take on broad challenges as they enter their professional careers after graduation. Starting on Monday, Oct. 27, SU celebrated International Education Week.
The week opened up with a Peace Corps presentation that showed what it would be like to join the Peace Corps and what volunteers do around the world. A member of the Peace Corps, Rachel Brown, told stories and gave background on what she does and what the Peace Corps does to help people. Monday night featured a panel of students who discussed their personal stories from traveling and study abroad. The event was moderated by professor Gretchen Pierce, of the history department, and professor Mark Sachleben, of the political science department. Some of the countries that were visited by SU students included Haiti, Israel, the Dominican Republic, as well as many countries throughout Europe.
On Tuesday, the department of modern languages hosted an “Immersion Afternoon” in Rowland Hall that took a look at a variety of different countries and cultures. There was a mix of foods from each country that was being represented as well as a karaoke jam. The event gave students a chance to talk to other students and faculty about different cultures and get a feel for certain countries.
Tuesday night brought a movie called the “Czech Dream.” It is about two students from the Czech Film Academy commission who organized a campaign to open a big, new super market called the Czech Dream. Wednesday afternoon, the Career Center hosted a workshop on how to find international jobs and internship opportunities. This was a big chance for students looking for that kind of work to meet people and establish new networks in the hopes of finding an international job upon graduating from SU.
The night brought more exotic foods as Reisner Dining Hall hosted an international foods night that had nine different stations of food showing the diverse selection of cuisine throughout the world.
To close out the week, Thursday brought a discussion forum in the CUB that discussed the meaning of a country’s flag. Each year this week comes, goes and shows its purpose in bringing out the diverse culture around the world. International Education Week is designed to reach out and tell people about the world’s diversity.
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