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“These benefits are not theoretical but real, as major American businesses have made clear that the skills needed in today’s increasingly global marketplace can only be developed through exposure to widely diverse people, cultures, ideas, and viewpoints,” she wrote.
“Another dean who wasn’t interested in foreign cultures and foreign language might have been reluctant to support this in perilous economic times,” he says. “But [Kirby] understood the importance of the initiative right away.”
Why did we need to do this? Because the world our students will live and work in goes beyond Massachusetts Bay and beyond the United States of America. Ours is a world of interacting, changing but still different societies and cultures. Wherever our students are from, the world they will...
“These benefits are not theoretical but real, as major American businesses have made clear that the skills needed in today’s increasingly global marketplace can only be developed through exposure to widely diverse people, cultures, ideas, and viewpoints,” O’Connor...
Marian H. Smith ’04, a product of an upbringing that spanned continents and who drew unlikely personalities together through her warmth, vibrancy and love of different cultures, died in a suicide on Dec. 6, 2002. She was 19.