The GCA has emerged as a leader in global citizenship education, preparing diverse students for work, life, and citizenship in a rapidly globalizing and interdependent world.  The GCA also partners with institutions to integrate global citizenship learning into curricula and strategic plans to enhance the global engagement of campuses and to prepare ever-larger number of students for engaged democratic citizenship and global social responsibility.

A GCS is a short-term program offered by the Global Citizenship Alliance for students as well as for faculty and administrators of colleges and universities. It is designed to provide an intensive seven-day international experience for participants to explore pressing issues of global concern and to view such issues from a perspective both literally and figuratively outside the borders of the United States.

Recent studies by the ACE, NAFSA, the World Economic Forum and others indicate a deficit of international skills, knowledge, and experience among U.S. college students, and call for dramatic expansion of study abroad opportunities as part of a concerted effort to make undergraduate education more international and globalized. A GCS is designed to fulfill a pressing need by providing predominantly U.S. colleges with a short-term, affordable, and intensive international experience designed to help develop the global competency skills of their students and faculty members.

To expose participants, students and faculty alike, to important global issues and to provide them with critical tools for understanding new developments in world affairs.

A GCS experience results in students and faculty at participating institutions becoming more aware of global issues and what it means to be a “global citizen”, more discerning in their assessment of information pertaining to world affairs, and more understanding of America’s place in the world as well as of non-Americans’ perception of the U.S. Students and faculty bring their enriched understanding back to their home campus classrooms and campus environments. Faculty incorporate new ideas and information sources into enriched syllabi and course materials.