{"id":51920,"date":"2015-10-05T21:09:58","date_gmt":"2015-10-05T21:09:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/global\/?p=51920"},"modified":"2022-04-20T20:10:24","modified_gmt":"2022-04-20T20:10:24","slug":"get-ahead-by-going-abroad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/global\/2015\/10\/05\/get-ahead-by-going-abroad\/","title":{"rendered":"Get Ahead By Going Abroad: The Importance of being a Global Citizen in the 21st Century Workforce"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Get Ahead By Going Abroad: The Importance of being a Global Citizen in the 21st Century Workforce<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Thursday, Oct. 22 at 2:00 p.m. in the Chapel<\/p>\n<p>Students often hear claims that an off-campus experience (like an internship or study abroad) is life changing, transformational, and all around good for you and your resume. But why is this? Who decided that being a global citizen is important? Stacie Berdan, a world-wide leader and expert in Global Education, will be on campus presenting on this very topic.<\/p>\n<p>Stacie will focus on how going global is a mindset, why <strong>today\u2019s workers need global skills<\/strong> to compete, whether at home or abroad, and the steps students can take to become a global thinker. She will tie in how international\/off campus experiences <strong>can help students grow in self-awareness<\/strong>, which can propel them forward in their pursuit of <strong>meaningful work<\/strong>, and emphasize the idea that gaining global skills\/mindset is an important part of college, regardless of major.<\/p>\n<p>Everyone is welcome and encouraged to attend this interactive and fun presentation.<\/p>\n<p>Sponsored by: the Center for Global Education and Experience &amp; the Strommen Center for Meaningful Work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Get Ahead By Going Abroad: The Importance of being a Global Citizen in the 21st Century Workforce\u00a0\u2013 Thursday, Oct. 22 &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":236,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-presentations-and-visits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/236"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51920"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53493,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51920\/revisions\/53493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}