“There’s isn’t a single aspect of the Baruch experience that isn’t influenced by globalism,” says H. Fenwick Huss, PhD, Willem Kooyker Dean of the Zicklin School of Business. Baruch’s students, faculty, and staff continue to both contribute to and benefit from the College’s expansion of its global footprint and perspectives. Here are some highlights.
At the programmatic level, Baruch has established a comprehensive global business education program, offering more than a half dozen new, dual master’s degree programs in partnership with universities in China, Italy, and Israel, with additional relationships under development in Vietnam, India, South Korea, and Argentina. Two of these programs recently celebrated milestones. The inaugural cohort of the dual-degree graduate-level program offered jointly by Baruch College and Israel’s College of Management graduated in June. This fall Baruch welcomed the first 3+1 undergraduate cohort of Zicklin’s partnership program with the Southwestern University of Finance and Economics in Chengdu, China, in which students begin their studies in China and complete their degree in the U.S. at Baruch, earning bachelor’s degrees from both institutions when they graduate.
Baruch’s best and brightest students continue to be global ambassadors for the College. Through the counseling and support of the College’s Office of National and Prestigious Fellowship Advising, Baruch students have been awarded the privilege of life-changing study abroad experiences. This fall four undergraduates traveled to Japan and Taiwan as Freeman-ASIA award scholars, and four students, recognized with Gilman Scholarships, studied in Japan, Denmark, France, and the U.K. Each year more than 300 students study abroad in more than three dozen countries.
Students can also experience global collaboration without leaving campus. One example of this is the International Conference of Undergraduate Research, which uses video- conferencing technology to give undergraduate researchers the opportunity to present and discuss their research with students around the globe in real time. Offered this September for the fifth consecutive year, the two-day academic conference connected 14 Baruch students with peers in the U.K. and Australia. Meanwhile, Baruch faculty and administrators continue to travel the globe, sharing their expertise and embodying the College’s inclusive worldview.
Among Baruch’s representatives on the world stage were President Mitchel B. Wallerstein, PhD, who delivered the keynote address at the Global Finance Forum in Shanghai in June, and Marxe Dean David Birdsell, PhD, who traveled to Toronto in August for a presentation at the 2018 World Cities World Class University (WC2) symposium.
“Baruch College provides students with the knowledge, competencies, and perspectives to pursue their aspirations in today’s global environment,” says Dean Huss, whose words are evidenced in the College’s expanding alumni community, which now includes 15 international affinity groups in 13 countries.