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Welcome to the Office of Global Engagement - the Wolfpack’s gateway to the world.

About NC State Global

As a leading public research university, NC State is dedicated to creating prosperity in the state, across the country and around the world. International collaboration is a critical component of these efforts – enabling shared discovery, innovation, and solutions to some of the world’s most pressing challenges. Equally important are opportunities for student learning and preparation for leadership and problem solving in our rapidly changing landscape.

NC State Global advances the university’s internationalization efforts through the development and ongoing support of strategic partnerships with institutions abroad and through the provision of critical infrastructure, support services, and campus programs here in Raleigh. Our office serves as the primary liaison with international offices at partner universities to expand study abroad opportunities, support international students, integrate international experiences into NC State’s academic programs and create new pathways for research, outreach, and professional development.

Mission

NC State Global provides institutional leadership to promote Global Learning for All by providing students, faculty, staff and the communities we serve with the strategic partnerships, global knowledge, cultural understanding, skills and hands-on experiences needed to empower the next generation of global leaders. We operationalize this mission through the following core values: 

  • Excellence: Setting high standards for the quality of our work and our relationships, to benefit people both home and abroad, as well as to experience personal and professional satisfaction in our own accomplishments
  • Collaboration: Building bridges across the campus and across the world, creating structures that facilitate the reciprocal sharing of each partner’s unique knowledge, skills and resources to build mutual capacity and advance the greater good  
  • Innovation: Continually examining changing external global conditions as well as internal institution and unit practices to proactively create relevant new initiatives, approaches and opportunities that address evolving needs and challenges
  • Outreach: Actively seeking and including a wide variety of partners and stakeholders in all our work, ensuring that we serve students, faculty, staff and community members or groups in global learning and collaboration 
  • Sustainability: Recognizing our global interdependence as we partner to steward our resources, linking the local to the global to help ensure that all may thrive, now and in future generations  
  • Inclusion: Inviting individuals and groups from all backgrounds, countries and cultures to participate in the campus community so that all of us can respect and embrace a wider variety of approaches to problem solving, relationship building, and well-being 
  • Integrity: Acting according to the values of NC State University, creating and pursuing global initiatives that promote professional standards, ethical decision making, transparency and accountability