Charlotte Graham of Zanesfield, a 2022 Benjamin Logan High School graduate, is one of 19 first-year students at Ohio Wesleyan University selected for admission into the university’s Global Scholars Program.
The four-year Thomas W. Palmer ’69 and Susan Palmer Global Scholars Program recognizes students’ potential for high academic achievement and passion for international issues.
The selective program is part of Ohio Wesleyan’s Global Studies Institute, a hub where faculty and students from the natural sciences, social sciences, humanities, and fine arts come together to explore issues from all academic disciplines and work toward real-world solutions.
All new Global Scholars participate in a team-taught course during their first semester in which they explore a single issue in depth.
This year’s seminar, “Exploring Identity,” will be co-taught by Global Scholars co-directors, Nathan Rowley, Ph.D., associate professor of Environment and Sustainability, and Eva Paris-Huesca, Ph.D., associate professor of World Languages and Cultures.
“While identity may seem simple and straightforward,” Rowley said, “there are significant implications through how people view themselves and others through their identities — from colonialism and today’s issues surrounding multiculturalism, to eugenics and nationalistic movements, past and present.”
The Global Scholars also take as a group the university’s first-semester course, “The OWU Experience.” This year, the course will be taught by Paris-Huesca.
In their junior or senior year, the Global Scholars receive a $4,000 university grant to pursue an approved, semester-long study abroad experience of their choice.
As seniors, the Global Scholars complete a faculty-supervised thesis or capstone project, which they present during a year-end conference. Students who successfully complete all requirements of the Global Scholars Program graduate with a Global Studies Institute certificate.