Center for Global Engagement
Bringing the World to Baylor. Sending Baylor to the World.
The Center for Global Engagement seeks to coordinate and facilitate the efforts of individuals and groups throughout the campus to transform the world through international travel, research, and study, through the development of greater cultural competency and understanding, and through support for an increasingly diverse campus community.
Explore the world and gain invaluable opportunities to grow professionally and personally by immersing in different world cultures.
The International Student and Scholar Services (ISSS) Office provides guidance and support to those at Baylor who have an F-1 visa or J-1 visa, helping them with their initial transition to Baylor and their connection to the Baylor experience.
Global Baylor recognizes that students who are both academically and cross-culturally prepared should be able to adapt and succeed in a diverse and multicultural world.
Our program provides a pathway for students who are fully qualified to enter Baylor University undergraduate programs but still need to improve their English.
Our mission is to create meaningful and sustainable partnerships with institutions around the world. We aim to provide our students, faculty, and staff with opportunities for academic exchange, research collaboration, cultural immersion, and international engagement that enrich their educational journey and contribute to global solutions.
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Read More NewsAll throughout campus, Baylor faculty and students utilize their God-given gifts and passions to address the world’s greatest challenges through research. Their work and its impact exemplify the Baylor mission in action. Truly, they are “Baylor in Deed” to those who benefit from advances in health, engineering or technology or are served by resources that provide access to food and clean water or bridge disabilities across a wide spectrum of human need.
This research impacts neighbors close to home and around the world. It reflects Baylor’s unique position as a Christian research university. Through the years, the University’s size has grown as has its influence and impact. The Baylor motto now reads Pro Ecclesia, Pro Texana, Pro Mundo: “For the Church, for Texas, for the World.” The addition of Pro Mundo to Baylor’s 173-year old motto is rooted in our Christian mission that is global in scale. It further captures our commitment to deepen Baylor’s impact beyond state and national borders to countries and peoples around the globe.
As Baylor strives to recruit more international students as part of its Baylor in Deeds strategic plan, part of that process includes ensuring international students adjust and transition to life in America.
Baylor’s First Year International Program includes GBL 1205 Transition to the U.S. University and Transition to the U.S. University Workshops. All undergraduate students with F-1 visas need to choose one to complete, according to Matthew Piech, a lecturer in the Global Gateway Program.
“Previously, they could select to participate, but this semester they’re actually being required as part of their new students experience,” Piech said.
At the Study Abroad Fair on Tuesday in the Bill Daniel Student Center, students shared a Dr Pepper Hour while learning about various opportunities for travel to mix with academics.
The event was hosted by the Center for Global Engagement, a program that connects Baylor students with the world. Holly Joyner, associate director of Global Engagement and Marketing, said the Study Abroad Fair has been going on for 20 years and is always held during Dr Pepper Hour.
“[The] Study Abroad Fair is specifically for all students, but mostly domestic students who want to go on student abroad experience,” Joyner said. “International students are already having a study abroad, but they’re also welcome to go, as long as their visa status allows it.”
Baylor Missions applications for spring break and May 2025 trips to Central and South America, Africa and select parts of Europe and Asia are now open.
Senior Program Coordinator for Missions Bailey Hebert said these trips provide students with a glimpse into how their future careers can relate to ministry.
“We offer students the chance to look at topics that they might be interested in or passionate about,” Hebert said. “This includes looking at food insecurity, racial inequity and English as a second language.”
The two major deadlines are Oct. 30 and Nov. 6.