E6: Global Projects Program at 50 | Stephen McCauley & Lorraine Higgins, WPI’s Melbourne, Austral...
This academic year, Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) is celebrating 50 years of the Global Projects Program. Through the program, students conduct academic and research projects off campus at more than 50 WPI project centers on six continents for entire terms at a time. In this episode of The WPI Podcast, the co-directors of WPI’s Melbourne, Australia, Project Center share their experience and reflections on what these off-campus projects mean for students, project sponsors, and themselves. Guests: Lorraine Higgins, a teaching professor, and Stephen McCauley, an associate professor of teaching, are both in the Department of Integrative and Global Studies at WPI. You may also read the transcript below.
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