McDaniel College Names Freshman Lindsey Cardona of Silver Spring, Md. to its Inaugural Class of Global Fellows

2013 Apr 24

McDaniel College freshman Lindsey Cardona of Silver Spring, Md. is among 20 first-year students named to the inaugural class of Global Fellows.

McDaniel's Global Fellows program is a structured three-year program that is open to freshmen and is designed to enhance their understanding of global issues, develop heightened intercultural competency and cultivate the skills and attitudes important to leading successful lives in a global context. Students will earn a Global Fellow designation on their transcript upon completion of the program.

The Global Fellows program is in conjunction with the college's office of Global Initiatives, which expands McDaniel's commitment to international education through new academic programming, globally-themed extracurricular activities, and innovative approaches to travel learning, such as study abroad, as well as global experiential and civic engagement opportunities.

For more information about McDaniel College, visit www.mcdaniel.edu.

McDaniel College, recognized nationally among 40 Colleges that Change Lives and U.S. News top-tier liberal arts colleges, is a four-year private college of the liberal arts and sciences offering more than 70 undergraduate programs of study, including dual and student-designed majors, plus 25 highly regarded graduate programs. Its hallmark faculty-student collaborations in research, teaching and mentoring plus hundreds of leadership and service opportunities enrich a lively learning experience that is rooted in a personalized interdisciplinary and global curriculum. Innovative January courses take students to points all over the world while McDaniel's degree-granting European campus offers a unique opportunity for international study at the only American university in Budapest, Hungary. A diverse and close-knit community of 1,600 undergraduates and 1,560 part-time graduate students, McDaniel's spectacular 160-acre hilltop campus in Westminster, Md., is an hour or less from Baltimore, D.C., the Chesapeake Bay, the Amtrak station and Baltimore-Washington international airport.