Florida State University’s Center for Global Engagement welcomes more than 110 new international students from 35 countries to campus this spring. To help new students succeed, CGE offered a luncheon and an orientation at The Globe where students met new friends and learned about FSU’s campus, resources, and maintaining their immigration status.
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To introduce international students to Thanksgiving, FSU’s Center for Global Engagement (CGE) partnered with the Westminster Oaks Retirement Community whose residents welcomed about 60 students on Sunday, November 19, for a Thanksgiving dinner.
Students enjoyed traditional Thanksgiving cuisine – such as turkey, stuffing, and mashed potatoes – with Tallahassee residents. In addition, the CGE provided international food from several local restaurants.
The International Peace Scholarship (IPS) scholarship provides up to $12,500 for selected international women pursuing graduate degrees.
In 2016-2017, P.E.O. International awarded Xin Shan, an FSU international doctoral student in Industrial Engineering, an IPS award to help her pursue her degree in the U.S. before returning to her home country.
The Provost’s Latin America/Caribbean Merit Scholarship provided six new international students from St. Maarten, Dominican Republic, British Virgin Islands, Belize, and Ecuador with scholarships for the 2017-2018 academic year.
Through this scholarship, the students receive a scholarship of $500 per semester and classification as a Florida resident for tuition purposes.
This year, scholarship recipients are studying subjects from criminology, biological sciences, and economics to hospitality and sport management.
The Center for Global Engagement held a graduation reception on Friday, April 21, to honor the more than 400 international students who completed degrees and programs during 2016-2017.
Mary B. Coburn, the Vice President for Student Affairs, spoke to students, faculty, and staff at the reception and shared the importance of having international students at FSU.
Florida State University recently became one of only four universities to win a prestigious national award for integrating international education throughout the university.
FSU students and staff are gearing up for Spring Break travel. Here are a few helpful tips from the U.S. Department of State for ensuring a safe, fun trip.
FSU Special Academic Programs (SAP) international student Jingyi Situ has maximized her time on FSU’s campus by getting involved with student organizations, clubs, and an on-campus internship.
Situ – Management Information System (MIS) major at Capital University of Economics and Business in Beijing, China – is the CGE's Global Exchanges Intern; a member of a professional business fraternity, Alpha Kappa Psi; and a member of the FSU Cybersecurity Club.
Roee Ben Sira, globally acclaimed composer, arranger, ethnomusicologist, and pianist from Israel, will be featured in FSU’s Rainbow Concert of World Music, one of the country’s largest higher education world music programs, on Tuesday, February 28.
Ben Sira is an internationally renowned contemporary master of Brazilian choro music, an instrumental genre with origins from 19thcentury Rio de Janeiro. Choro is the musical intersection of upbeat samba, bossa nova, jazz, and classical, truly making it world music.
Florida State University Athletics and the Center for Global Engagement invite students to come out and show their support for the FSU women’s basketball team and international student athletes at the FSU vs. Wake Forest game on Thursday, February 9, 2017, at 7 p.m.
Here are some fun facts about our current international team members.
Iho Lopez from Blanes, Spain (#22 – Forward)