For nearly 50 years Lewis & Clark College has distinguished itself as a liberal arts college committed to international education. Since 1962 over 10,000 students and 235 faculty and staff members have participated in more than 700 overseas and off-campus programs in 66 countries around the world, always maintaining a balance of at least 60 percent of the programs outside of western Europe. Annually, the college is recognized as a leader among elite institutions in the numbers of students studying abroad and in the diversity of offerings in Asia, Latin America, Africa and Europe.
To foster a stronger sense of global citizenship among its students, the College has introduced new programming in Russia, Vietnam, Greece, Cuba, New Zealand and the borderlands of the United States and Mexico. Future programs are being developed in Brazil and Morocco. For the first time in recent years we have also seen enhanced interest by the faculty to lead overseas programs.
Students return from their experience abroad with a new understanding of the world and an appreciation that their personal choices make a difference.
We are receiving national recognition for how our students make meaning of the international education they receive at Lewis & Clark. In 2008 Lewis & Clark ranked among the top 20 undergraduate colleges in the country in the production of Fulbright Award winners for 2008-09. Six Lewis & Clark students won Fulbright Scholarships last year and are now pursuing teaching and research opportunities abroad. Moreover, Lewis & Clark tied for ninth in the nation among small colleges and universities with the most Peace Corps Volunteers in 2007. Since the Peace Corps’ inception in 1961, 312 Lewis & Clark alumni have served in the organization’s ranks.
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