In response to the newest information from the Open Doorways report, the College of Notre Dame ranks #3 amongst Ph.D. granting establishments for the 2022/2023 educational 12 months, with an 87.5% participation fee for undergraduates learning overseas. This exceptional statistic displays the college’s sturdy dedication to offering college students with transformative alternatives to immerse themselves in various cultures across the globe.
With such a excessive proportion of scholars learning overseas, making certain their well being, security, and safety throughout journey is difficult however is of utmost significance. On the College of Notre Dame, journey well being, security, and safety is an integral element of each research overseas program preparation.
The college prioritises not solely educational success but in addition the protection of its college students by providing strong assets to handle any state of affairs, irrespective of the place they’re on the planet. In coordination with the college’s International Security & Safety group, Notre Dame International is devoted to equipping all college students, school, and employees with the instruments and help they should keep wholesome and secure whereas touring overseas.
Offering help for all the Notre Dame International community across the globe requires efficient communication and a complete system to make sure that everybody, wherever they might be, has entry to obligatory info. Beneath are a number of key ways in which Notre Dame International addresses journey well being, security, and safety for college kids learning overseas.
● Proactive Preparation & Schooling: Notre Dame International collaborates with numerous campus stakeholders to make sure that all college students, school, and employees are correctly registered for his or her journey, obtain important pre-departure info, and are geared up with the mandatory well being, security, and safety assets globally. Notre Dame International additionally requires all college students, school, and employees to attend a compulsory pre-departure assembly and full a web based “Journey Security 101 Course.” School are required to attend journey chief coaching led by the International Security & Safety (GS&S) group.
● 24/7 Help and Well being Protection: One of many foundations of Notre Dame Globals’ strategy is making certain that every one college students, school, and employees have entry to complete insurance coverage protection and 24/7 emergency help. The college’s partnering with Crisis24 and GeoBlue permits GS&S to watch and supply help to all college students when wanted. It’s key when occasion communication with the Notre Dame group world wide is required. The cell functions and web-based variations of each methods can be found for all college students, in order that they have the assets at their fingertips.
● Care & Wellness Assist: Particular to pupil well-being whereas overseas, a Care & Wellness Advisor place was created to help health-based incidents overseas. This embedded skilled addresses well being issues through the pre-departure course of, connects college students with in-country and telehealth assets and helps college students and households when severe well being and psychological well being points come up overseas.
● Assist on the Floor: Notre Dame International offers on-the-ground help in quite a few international locations and areas the world over, together with Beijing, Hong Kong, Mumbai, Jerusalem, Dublin, Kylemore Abbey, London, Rome, Mexico, Santiago, and São Paulo. This world community is greater than a launching pad for our school and college students. It permits for wealthy collaborations with native universities, analysis centres, governments, church buildings, and grassroots organiSations.
Chris Ray, Director for International Security & Safety, states, “The mission is to reflect on-campus well being, security, and safety assets no matter location and wherever college students, school, and employees are situated on the planet—particularly with a objective to make sure college students have the assets out there to give attention to the cultural expertise and their teachers.”
All of the help on campus is handed to all the worldwide places wherever college students are learning.
Whereas we can’t predict future occasions, the Notre Dame group can take consolation in understanding that Notre Dame International has established a sturdy infrastructure to make sure preparedness for any state of affairs. This isn’t a small enterprise and entails many alternative items on campus, in addition to all the Notre Dame International group. Being a part of this group reaffirms the facility of worldwide schooling and the affect that our work has on college students. No matter sector we’re a part of in worldwide schooling, it’s humbling to know that the work we do can and does make a distinction not just for the current however for the long run.
In regards to the creator:
Brigitta Richmond, director, summer time & short-term research overseas, Notre Dame International
As director of summer time/short-term research overseas applications inside Notre Dame International, Brigitta Richmond oversees over 30+ summer time and short-term research overseas applications on the College of Notre Dame and is answerable for implementing the technique and operations plan of Notre Dame International’s summer time and short-term research overseas applications.
She collaborates throughout NDG’s world community and different campus departments to help the establishment’s total targets and offers cross-cultural, analytic, and linguistic help in particular tasks and initiatives. Brigitta additionally advocates for underrepresented college students in research overseas; as a first-generation school pupil herself, she prioritised offering alternatives for college kids to share their tales by the coed lens. Brigitta has traveled extensively in each her educational and private life. She has lived in Austria, Hungary, and Romania and is fluent in Hungarian. As an immigrant and thru her travels as a younger youngster, Brigitta grew to become captivated with worldwide schooling early on.
Brigitta holds two M.A.s in nationalism from Central European College in Budapest, Hungary, and an M.A. in cultural anthropology from Ball State Universit
