Looking Back on 2021: Happy Holidays from Global Nebraska

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Associate Vice Chancellor for Global Affairs Josh Davis reflects on the biggest successes of Global Nebraska in expanding global education and offers warm holiday greetings to Huskers around the world.

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[00:00:08.850]As we finish the fall semester,
[00:00:10.680]I've been looking back on 2021 and I'm proud of all that we've accomplished to
[00:00:14.730]expand UNL global engagement - despite the many challenges that we faced.
[00:00:19.710]We began the year by announcing Nebraska's first institutional global strategy,
[00:00:24.090]which we called "Forward Together."
[00:00:26.010]It's a comprehensive plan to expand global experiential learning opportunities,
[00:00:30.600]grow our international research and creative activity and strengthen our global
[00:00:34.680]partnerships and the university infrastructure
[00:00:37.580]that supports this important work. As a university,
[00:00:40.200]we chose the Grand Challenges that we would focus on as a community,
[00:00:44.220]and our faculty continued to collaboratively work towards solution to these
[00:00:47.790]challenges. Over the summer,
[00:00:49.740]we transitioned the Mandela Washington Fellowship for Young African Leaders into
[00:00:54.360]a virtual program as one of 26 host institutions across the country.
[00:00:59.520]And we launched several new global experience courses that gave our students the
[00:01:03.630]opportunity to gain the skills that they would need an interconnected world,
[00:01:07.710]even if they couldn't travel abroad. This fall,
[00:01:10.470]we launched a new Peace Corp Prep program,
[00:01:13.050]and we hosted the Nebraska Ambassadors Forum,
[00:01:15.720]which brought leading diplomats to our campus.
[00:01:18.810]We also celebrated our global community here at UNL with more than 100
[00:01:23.100]international students participating in this year's Homecoming parade and
[00:01:27.150]hosting the university's largest ever International Education Week -- a month
[00:01:31.650]long celebration with over 100 events happening all across campus.
[00:01:35.760]Just last month,
[00:01:36.660]we announced that nearly $5 million have been secured for renovations to Louise Pound
[00:01:41.340]Hall to create a new global education center,
[00:01:44.850]which will serve as a hub of global engagement activity on our campus.
[00:01:49.080]As we look ahead to next year,
[00:01:51.330]I'm reminded that this kind of progress can't be achieved without strong support
[00:01:55.380]from our university partners and our global Husker family
[00:01:58.650]all around the world. To all of our community,
[00:02:01.530]thank you for your ongoing support, and on behalf of global Nebraska,
[00:02:05.700]I want to wish you the happiest of holidays. I can't wait to continue moving
[00:02:09.750]forward together with all of you in 2022.

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