Highlighting the growing trend of global education, the Democrat and Chronicle recently profiled SUNY Geneseo’s abroad programs:

Five students just returned from the town of Borgne in Haiti's northern peninsula, where Rose-Marie Chierici, an associate professor of anthropology, helped set up Haiti Outreach Pwoje Espwa, commonly known as H.O.P.E.
"They wanted to get some on-the-ground experience in seeing how the community responded to the cholera," said Wes Kennison, faculty fellow for international programs at Geneseo who accompanied the students as their instructor for this one-credit, service-learning course.
During their nine days in Haiti, the students — three of them pre-med — visited schools and churches, talked to the mayor, interviewed hospital staff and collected data about cholera that they will now use for a report on the community's response to the outbreak.
Meanwhile, Lauren White, a 21-year-old senior at Geneseo majoring in international relations, just completed a two- week, two-credit course in Nicaragua, where the college has established programs to help the local population.
White's duties included teaching and helping a women's business cooperative, Fuente de Pino, develop a website to market baskets they made from pine needles.
"This placement is important to me because one of my career interests is to work with fair trade businesses like Fuente de Pino," she said.

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