International Education Center

By Ian Wesselhoff Georgia College & State University exchange student Ayomide Rahman set foot on American soil for the first time in August. Just six months later, she is working at the Georgia State Capitol. Born and raised in London, England, Rahman is spending her second and final semester in Georgia interning as a senate aide to State Senators Kim Jackson, Sonya Halpern and Josh McLaurin. Rahman was one of just 35 students across the state accepted into the Georgia Legislative...

By Margaret Schell Nine Georgia College & State University nursing students studied abroad in Honduras for two weeks earlier this semester, including graduate students from the Women’s Health Nurse Practitioner, Nurse-Midwifery and Family Nurse Practitioner programs and two Bachelor of Science in Nursing students. The students traveled to different villages, bringing primary care services to people with limited access to consistent healthcare. The students cared for nearly 700 patients...

By Margaret Schell International Club co-president Nhu “Anna” Nguyen has made it her mission to help other international students feel just as welcomed and at home at Georgia College & State University as she does.Nguyen hails from Vietnam. But before she came to Georgia College, she attended a small high school just outside New York City where she knew all her classmates. That is one of the reasons why she likes GCSU so much.“I love the low ratio of students to faculty at Georgia...

By Margaret SchellThis summer, five Georgia College & State University students taught English to South Korean children ages 5 to 15. The GCSU students designed, practiced and implemented their lessons in classrooms with up to eight Korean students.Teaching English in a foreign country affords students a multicultural perspective that employers say they want in employees. International work experience speaks volumes to employers looking to hire. This is the first year of the South...