The Center for Global Engagement offers public service opportunity for students in Boise and South America

Center for Global Education staff, photo provided by Gonzalo Bruce. Boise State’s Center for Global Engagement received the 2022 U.S.-Andean Innovation Fund Grant Competition through the 100K Strong Innovation Fund – a collaboration that launched last year to create entrepreneurship opportunities for students in the U.S. and Honduras. With this new grant, Boise State will partner with Universidad Científica del Sur in Peru and Universidad Tecnológica Privada de Santa Cruz in Bolivia through the end of the year to engage in programs focused on closing the gender inequality gap in the Americas. “The program focuses on developing new curriculum and methodologies centered around global problems, using problem-solving approaches and using global perspectives,” said Gonzalo Bruce, the Center for Global Engagement’s assistant provost. Business administration, law and global studies majors will analyze and form perspectives on public policy, legal studies and economic development pervasive gender inequality in the U.S., Peru and Bolivia. Select students in the School of Public Service will travel to South America in May, while students from Peru and Bolivia will come to Boise State in September for an immersion experience where they will meet with faculty members, non-governmental and community organizations, and legislators. “This is indeed […]

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