[IMC] [Press Release] Announcing new global engagement partnerships

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PRESS RELEASE:

For immediate release:

October 1, 2013

Contact: Megan Flowers, Communications Director

megan at universityymca.org, 217-337-1500

Building A Global Community

University Y announces new global engagement partnerships

What:  This fall the University YMCA is initiating five new global engagement partnerships
that are designed to  strengthen our work in meeting needs here on campus, in the
local community and around the world. The five new global engagement partnerships
are International Service Learning Initiative, Global Health Initiative, Intercultural
Horizons, Intercambio Cultural Maya, and Immigrant Friendly Communities.University
 Y partners include the Illinois Global Health  Initiative, the School  of Social
Work, CU Immigration Forum,  Intercambio, Y-Micro Lending  Project, and Engineers
Without Borders.

Why: The aim of this partnership program is to combine University Y  resources with
those of partner groups to develop new global initiatives  that will maximize the
converging goals of both organizations in ways  that would not be possible if each
were acting alone.

How: Using a legacy gift from the Cosmopolitan Club as seed funding, our International
Programming committee spent much of last year reaching out across campus and the
 community to develop new partnerships that are innovative, sustainable and promote
cross-community cooperation.

On Intercultural Horizons: All University Y global engagement partnerships	are	innovative,
 sustainable, promote growth	and	cross-community cooperation, including  groups 
beyond Urbana-Champaign.  For instance, the Intercultural  Horizons project seeks
to  recruit a  cohort of domestic and  international students would  participate
 in a  semester curriculum  designed to encourage a richer and  more meaningful 
 interaction and  dialogue between international and  domestic students on  campus.
The  cohort would also participate in local  service projects  with the goal  of
 an international service trip.  Students participating  in the  project would be
encouraged to become  advocates or change agents  on  campus seeking to instigate
new efforts in  their dorms, departments   and social and academic circles.

Quote: University YMCA Executive Director, Mike Doyle, on Intercultural Horizons:
 "One of the reoccurring themes we encountered when looking into new  Global Engagement
Initiatives was the need to improve and increase the  amount of meaningful interaction
between international and domestic  students on the Urbana-Champaign campus." says
Mike Doyle, Executive  Director of the University YMCA. "Global engagement partnerships
at the Y  engage people in developing cultural competencies and the key skills  
 to collaborate with people on campus, at home, and around the world."

Website:http://universityymca.org/international/partnerships/ [http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001VUQ3OqkYc_tvoOJDlUqi60NAk40tUqKZgcAN4CSrs8Q4qhUQzLeUhdxnFK4B52DdjNtSzW91q2p9tjGDFaqvfO033OZr9zVoGmGFmjKSJ7muIVHVptneLm1vo87GrllMsa3DtYJFswwKsYW2_lguDeXYZ-8MyMEX4Sd2X1Sco-U=]

For more information about the University Y's five new partnerships and other global
engagement programs at the University Y, please visit our global engagement partnerships
page using the link above.

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