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Dyce was an exchange student at Reid Hall in 1988 and compares her immersive experience with more modern approaches to exchange programs.

“Meeting with the teachers and the youth was equal parts heartbreaking and inspiring. The commitment to education and the role they see education playing in their lives is significant, though not without its challenges. One young man that we met from South Sudan had already completed primary education successfully in South Sudan, but since he had to flee without his papers, he is starting again in the Accelerated Education Programme. He appeared determined to persevere,” Prof. Mary Mendenhall says

This is part of the university’s continued objective to grow global representation on campus and enhance its role in addressing global challenges and seek global solutions and impact through education and research represented in the universities communities-faculty, students, staff and alumni.   

Murphy spent four weeks in Chile participating in an internship through the Global Opportunities GO! Program.

AFP Habitat is working with students at Columbia’s School of Professional Studies on a trio of projects.