{"id":110136,"date":"2022-11-27T00:29:57","date_gmt":"2022-11-27T05:29:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.nmc.edu\/?p=110136"},"modified":"2023-11-18T22:36:57","modified_gmt":"2023-11-19T03:36:57","slug":"success-story-studying-abroad-yields-broader-perspectives-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.nmc.edu\/?p=110136","title":{"rendered":"Success story: Studying abroad yields broader perspectives"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>April 26, 2017<\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"NMC student Paige Harrigan in Costa Rica\" class=\"AlignImageLeft\" height=\"299\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.nmc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/aae204f3c66cc78d627b6bb0989f343fpaige-harrigan-1-3.jpg\" width=\"300\" \/>Before <strong>Paige Harrigan<\/strong> experienced her first study abroad trip in 2015, she had traveled fairly extensively, to Hawaii, Mexico and Caribbean islands.<\/p>\n<p>But that Costa Rica experience, including a home stay with two non-English speaking families and visit to a banana plantation, opened her eyes to a whole different world than the tourist-oriented resorts she&#8217;d visited before.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I absolutely loved the whole experience,&#8221; Harrigan said. &#8220;I got hooked, for sure.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ranked 12<sup>th<\/sup> among community colleges nationwide for short-term study abroad, NMC hooks lots of students like Harrigan &#8212; 45 will depart for four destinations next month. NMC also helps make study abroad more affordable with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nmc.edu\/global\/index.html\">Global Opportunities scholarship<\/a>, which awards up to $1,000 per student. Nearly all participants (42) received it this year.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"NMC student Paige Harrigan in Costa Rica\" class=\"AlignImageRight\" height=\"303\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.nmc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/aae1ddd9c66cc78d627b6bb00cca69e4paige-harrigan-2-3.jpg\" width=\"199\" \/>Harrigan is bound for her second study abroad destination May 8: Ecuador and the Galapagos Islands. Biology instructor <strong>Greg LaCross<\/strong>, who led a group to South Africa last year, will lead Harrigan&#8217;s group to do service work at a school in the capital city of Quito, and then field work in the islands.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve always wanted to go to the Galapagos. It&#8217;s always been a bucket list thing,&#8221; Harrigan, 22, said of the place where Charles Darwin refined his theory of evolution. Students will stay at Darwin&#8217;s research station, working with Ecuadorian national park personnel to perform ecological research, monitor sea turtles and catalog migratory patterns of indigenous species.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m really excited about the animals, all the different species,&#8221; said Harrigan, who graduates this spring from the collaborative NMC-Western Michigan program in Freshwater Science and Sustainability. This fall, she plans to &#8212; wait for it &#8212; travel, and look for a job on the West Coast.<\/p>\n<h4>Other 2017 study abroad destinations include:<\/h4>\n<p><strong>Sicily<\/strong> &#8211; Culinary students will participate in traditional Sicilian cooking classes, shop in local outdoor food markets, visit a cheese research center, make Sicilian chocolate, visit Mt. Etna, and participate in a local culinary competition. <em>First-time destination<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Morocco<\/strong> &#8211; Humanities students will enhance their understanding of world cultures via home stays with Moroccan families, interaction with Moroccan college students, development of a more in-depth understanding of Islam and visiting historic sites. They&#8217;ll also venture into the Sahara Desert via camel to learn more about traditional Berber customs. <em>First-time destination<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Ecuador (Yunguilla)<\/strong> &#8211; Business, culinary and education students will visit an eco-tourism cooperative, lending their skill sets to village families hoping to improve the economic welfare of the region by marketing and producing local products for visitors to the cloud forest. <em>Home stay included<\/em><\/p>\n<h3>Find out more at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nmc.edu\/student-services\/international-services\/study-abroad.html#study-abroad\">nmc.edu\/study-abroad<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April 26, 2017 Before Paige Harrigan experienced her first study abroad trip in 2015, she had traveled fairly extensively, to Hawaii, Mexico and Caribbean islands. 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