International Immersion

The first cohort of 40 BOLD Scholars across four institutions will together (or in a couple of groups depending on numbers) have an international immersion experience in the summer of 2017 as part of the two-year beta period.  If successful, the idea would be to include this for later BOLD cohorts in the summer before junior or senior year.  This trip will occur over the course of a three-week period and will be defined as a “Citizen Community Engagement” trip that would be scheduled so as to minimally interfere with a summer job.  The themes of the trips will focus on “local citizenship in a global world” at an established site abroad (i.e., Middlebury).  The goal of the international immersion experience is to reinforce in a global context, the issues of social equity explored through the BOLD program and foster the growth of BOLD Scholars as change agents locally and in the greater global community.  Scholars will be prepared for their international experience and equipped with cultural context and a specific set of learning objectives in order to enrich the experience and connect it to the program mission.