Global Engagement

Oregon State University has received $4 million to lead a national program that will engage educators, artists and writers in polar science activities and increase the impact and visibility of the scientific work underway in the Arctic and Antarctic. Polar STEAM, funded by the National Science Foundation via a five-year cooperative agreement, is a partnership of OSU’s STEM Research Center, the Arts and Education Complex, Pre-College Programs, CEOAS, and CLA.

Each year in the third week of November, Oregon State University celebrates International Education Week. If your unit has existing events planned for fall term which connect to the theme or if you would like to plan an event during this week for your unit to celebrate global achievements, impacts and community, please provide details by Friday, Oct. 7 for inclusion in centralized marketing materials.

Beginning fall term 2022, enrolled members of all 574 federally recognized Tribal nations across America will pay in-state tuition at Oregon State University. Students who are enrolled members of the Nine Tribes of Oregon may also be eligible for the state of Oregon’s new Oregon Tribal Student Grant Program. 

Anastasia Korovskaya is a 25 year-old Ecampus student who will graduate in spring 2022 with a bachelor's in public policy. Since moving to Portland from Ukraine when she was 5 years old, she has been highly active in a variety of professional, volunteer, political, and educational activities from Oregon to DC and in her native Ukraine. 

Hear from CLA faculty Ray Malewitz (SWLF), on a Fulbright serving as Distinguished Chair of American Studies at the University of Warsaw in Poland and his wife Emily (SLCS), who arrived in Poland in January 2022 and have watched the city transform as refugees from Ukraine are flooding in. The country of Poland, colleagues at the university, and Ray and Emily are all finding ways to help the refugees. 

In response to requests from students, ASOSU will pilot an International Student Center (ISC) for 2022-23. The ISC will serve as a lounge space where students can find support and community, as well as create a bridge between domestic and international students. ASOSU will gather data on student use and conduct a needs assessment to help shape long-term planning.