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 NewsBaylor Round Table hosted their annual International Thanksgiving Dinner at Cashion on Wednesday night.
The vice president of BRT and co-chair of the International Thanksgiving Dinner Meredith Moore said the organization provides 260 seats for students and their family members, and the registration list was full.
“We have another 50 Baylor Round Table ladies who we are helping with the event and who are serving as table hosts,” Moore said. “Each table has a Baylor Round Table person and sometimes their husband or somebody from the Center for Global Engagement. And then the table hosts have a little conversation with the students.”
The Center for Global Engagement will host International Education Week from Nov. 11-15. The week will consist of a variety of events, lectures and experiences put on by departments and organizations for faculty and students to attend.
Holly Joyner, associate director of global engagement and marketing for the Center of Global Engagement, said this will be Baylor’s sixth year hosting International Education Week as a large-scale event.
“We started making it more of a large-scale event out of our office in 2019 when I was hired as a bigger push on just trying to make Baylor a little bit more [of] a global university in terms of things they want students to be interested in,” Joyner said. “Our office basically asks all the different academic units and student orgs if they’re interested in hosting an event, and then we coordinate it from our office in terms of the marketing.”
Students who complete six credit hours of global engagement courses, four semester-long experiential experiences and one international engagement activity can apply for the Certificate in Global Engagement. The certificate certifies the student’s success in academic skills, leadership and cross-cultural understanding.
The certificate program has a current total enrollment of 404 students. This program experienced an increase in enrollment, growing from 114 to 404 students from 2023 to 2024.
With summer coming to an end, most Baylor University students returned to campus after spending their vacation at home or with family. Others, however, took a different route and spent their summer exploring the world through Baylor’s Robbins College of Health and Human Sciences study abroad programs. Join us now, as we look back at a recap of the summer’s study abroad trips!