ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on fostering a global culture on campus through cross-cultural programming, outreach, and engagement through global student leadership. The key points are understanding the importance of experiential learning, training and engaging students to serve as intercultural facilitators, and utilizing global programming. The importance of experiential learning was articulated in Edgar Dale’s “cone of learning experience” model, which demonstrated that students tend to retain only 10%–20% of the information provided through reading and listening to lectures. In recognizing the agency of students in campus internationalization, building students’ intercultural competence and engaging student leaders in programs become extremely important. There are some key opportunities to do this, including orientation programs, international and nationality clubs, cross-cultural programs, and international living centers. Community outreach is becoming an ever-increasing focus of international education given the turbulent societal context in which higher education institutions must increasingly navigate.
