As its mission, ENGAGE serves as a coalition of returned study abroad students that transforms the study abroad experience into lifelong connections and cooperative action between peoples and social movements working towards a just and sustainable world. A key component of achieving our mission is to collaborate with study abroad programs to link their alumni and other returned study abroad students with opportunities to network and take action.

While ENGAGE welcomes all like-minded returning study abroad students into the ENGAGE member network, we are affiliated with the following programs and their alumni:

Center for Global Education at Augsburg College (CGE) - Mexico
The mission of the Center for Global Education at Augsburg College (CGE) is to provide cross-cultural educational opportunities in order to foster critical analysis of local and global conditions so that personal and systemic change takes place leading to a more just and sustainable world.

In keeping with this mission, CGE maintains a study center in Cuernavaca, Mexico and offers the following semester-long programs: “Crossing Borders: Gender and Social Change in Mesoamerica" and “Migration and Globalization: Engaging our Communities.”  There are also a variety of internship opportunities and summer academic programs offered through the center. To learn more about CGE-Mexico's programs, please visit their website.

CIEE-Thailand
The CIEE Study Center in Khon Kaen helps students to understand the complexities concerning development and globalization issues and the role students play as global citizens. Students learn about development and globalization from both an academic and a grassroots community level and its overall effects on a developing country. To learn more about the CIEE Study Center in Khon Kaen, Thailand, please visit their website.

International Honors Program on Rethinking Globalization
The International Honors Program on Rethinking Globalization (IHP - Rethinking Globalization) offers students a chance to explore what have been the realities of "development" over the past 50 years. Rethinking Globalization students have the opportunity to meet some of the world's most important critics of the notion of development and will see for themselves the consequences of a globalized economy that has now reached into every part of the world, affecting the lives of every single individual. They visit urban and rural landscapes and communities affected by globalization; learn first-hand about the movements that have arisen to combat such changes, and will learn about alternatives to the dominant worldview and practice. A curriculum of interdisciplinary courses draws on the fields of anthropology, ecology, political economy, and environmental policy to examine ways of understanding how globalization, development and progress impact the planet and its inhabitants, not least in terms of the consequences of global warming and climate change.

To learn more about the IHP - Rethinking Globalization program, please visit their website.

ENGAGE affiliation helps your program make a difference.
If you are interested in becoming an ENGAGE-Endorsed Program, please contact ENGAGE's National Coordinators.