Global reach: Taking the world by storm

Lewis & Clark College is both a destination point and a point of departure, a place for exploring the world of ideas and serving the world at large. Here, the graduate school coordinates a sustained response to the Southeast Asia tsunami and sponsors community conversations to enlarge understanding of other cultures and places. The law school hosts international visiting scholars, conducts the International Environmental Law Project, and offers a specialty in international business law.

Here, faculty, students, and the community engage other scholars and experts on compelling global issues at our annual International Affairs Symposium. Here, our interdisciplinary international affairs program is a separate undergraduate department, one of few in the United States.

From here, students embark overseas for adventures in learning. Since 1962, more than 9,294 students and 211 faculty members have participated in 581 overseas study programs in 66 countries or geographic areas. Some 60 percent of our programs go to countries outside Western Europe.

And from here, many journey outward for lives of service. In 2004, among colleges and universities with fewer than 5,000 undergraduates whose alumni serve as Peace Corps volunteers, Lewis & Clark College ranked in the top 20 nationally. On Palatine Hill and around the globe, international studies and service connect both hearts and minds.

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