Vision: We envision a University of Wyoming community that engages, thrives, and leads in an interconnected and interdependent global society.
Mission: The mission of the Global Engagement Office is to provide institutional leadership in shaping, supporting, and pursuing the University’s goals for advancing comprehensive internationalization. In this regard, central functions of the Global Engagement Office include:
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Collaborating with faculty to further internationalize the curriculum;
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Supporting engagement in international research and scholarship;
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Embedding education abroad programming as a high-impact educational practice across the curriculum;
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Recruiting, supporting, and educating a large and diverse population of international students and scholars; and,
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Prioritizing international initiatives that engage the campus and community in programming that contributes to the well-being and sustainability of Wyoming and the world.
Guiding Priorities:
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Access and Equity: to promote inclusive international higher education opportunities by identifying and removing barriers to access.
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Comprehensive Resource: to enhance the Global Engagement Office’s leadership role in shaping, supporting, and pursuing the University’s goals for advancing comprehensive internationalization.
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Global Engagement: to provide programming that intentionally aims to produce graduates who are intellectually and internationally engaged citizens who understand their role in contributing to the well-being and sustainability of Wyoming and the world.
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Health, Safety & Security: to employ institutional resources and national best practices to effectively and continuously monitor, evaluate, and respond to health, safety, and security conditions of all international engagement.
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Community-Engaged Learning: to facilitate community-engaged learning through meaningful and respectful educational exchange with local and international hosts.
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International Partnerships and Collaboration: to elevate the University’s global standing and broaden its global reach through international partnerships and collaboration.
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Research and Scholarship: to advance opportunities that encourage the UW community to engage in international research and scholarship and to utilize existing literature to inform new directions for inquiry and practice.
Land Acknowledgement
“We collectively acknowledge that the University of Wyoming occupies the ancestral and traditional lands of the Cheyenne, Arapaho, Crow, and Shoshone Indigenous peoples along with other Native tribes who call the Great Basin and Rocky Mountain region home. We recognize, support, and advocate alongside Indigenous individuals and communities who live here now, and with those forcibly removed from their Homelands.”
-ASUW Senate Bill #2699
