Katie Lopez Receives M-Global Education Abroad Resource Grant for Undergrad Peace Corps Prep Program

Assistant Director of the Office of Global Activities Katie Lopez is a co-leader on a new M-Global Education Abroad Resource Grant, "Developing Core Competencies Critical to Intercultural Fieldwork: Peace Corps Prep Program".

Through a partnership of the International Center, School of Social Work, School of Information, School of Natural Resources and Environment, the Center for Global and Intercultural Studies, and the International Institute, an initiative called the Peace Corps Prep Program will be implemented here at U-M. Peace Corps Prep prepares undergrads for international development fieldwork and potential Peace Corps service. This program intends to build the following four competencies among undergraduate students:

1. Training and experience in a specific work sector
2. Foreign language skills
3. Intercultural competence
4. Professional and leadership development