Worth the Journey: A Gilman Scholar’s Experiences in Prague

Hannah Koutishian at the St. Vitus Cathedral in Prague

The competitive national Gilman Scholarship Program gives high-achieving college students of limited financial means the opportunity to study abroad. Receiving a Gilman grant was only one challenge Hannah Koutishian ’22, a nursing major, would meet to fulfill her international study goals—but she persevered.

One GCU Service Trip to Ghana Touches More Than 850 Lives

GCU nursing students volunteer in Ghana

Eight Georgian Court nursing students went to Ghana in January hoping to make a difference in people’s lives. And they did, using their training to provide malaria testing/treatment, wound care, and blood pressure checks to more than 850 Ghanaians, as well as attending to two births. The people being served made a difference in the students’ lives, too.

New Study Abroad Award Gives Flight to Student’s International Teaching Career Goals

Sister Mary Catharine Sullivan and alumna Cheri Gudgeon Quinlan ’79

Brianna Barbarise’s upcoming two-week study abroad experience is a story of firsts. The first in her family to attend a four-year college, the Georgian Court senior, a double major in education and psychology, will travel internationally for the first time to Ecuador in January. Brianna’s trip is possible because of a Georgian Court award, the Sister Mary Catharine Sullivan Award for Global Education.

Bringing Out the Global in the Local

Two Georgian Court students in downtown Lakewood

Global diversity is a big deal in Lakewood, New Jersey, home to Georgian Court University and thousands of families connected by their Mexican-American or Orthodox Jewish heritage.