The World as a Campus Trips Over Break Help USD Students Serve and Learn
Trips sponsored by USD's Center for Academic Global Engagement (CAGE) over this past winter break included domestic and international locations:
CUBA -- USD was the first South Dakota state school to sponsor travel to Cuba specifically with a focus on health services. Fourteen students, among the first Americans in over 50 years to enter Cuba, learned about health care, dentistry, education and elder care. The students were accompanied by Carole South-Winter, Ph.D., assistant professor of health services administration, who said Cuba’s health care system as a model that students can learn from. She predicts that the country will have a large medical tourism industry in the near future.
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES -- Fifteen USD students traveled to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) for seven days and saw Middle Eastern culture from a new perspective. Stops included the Jumeriah Mosque, Falcon Hospital and Burj Khalifah, the tallest building in the world. One of the students on the trip, Ashley McKeown, said she was able to interact with people who had faced discrimination and social tension, and was encouraged by their kind words. The students were accompanied by Timothy Schorn, Ph.D., director of International Studies.
IRELAND -- Nineteen students traveled to Ireland for 10 days to attend lectures on leadership and entrepreneurship. The students were recruited through CAGE and accompanied by Kimberly Grieve, Ph.D., dean of students at USD. Though there were guided tours and lectures, the students had the freedom to explore on their own most afternoons.
The AWOL program, also part of CAGE, made it possible for numerous students to participate in service learning trips over winter break to Orlando, Florida; Dallas; Springfield, Missouri; and Guatemala. They worked with multiple organizations, including Give Kids the World, Senior Care Health & Rehabilitation Center and Habitat for Humanity. Each trip gave the students involved a new perspective, and allowed them to build new relationships with fellow students and the people they were serving.
Equador and Peru are among the location of future CAGE trips.
Read one student’s firsthand account of her first trip abroad, a missions trip to Puerto Rico.
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