Global Gateway to UM Campus

"At the heart of Dr. Fluck's curriculum is the idea of Cross-Cultural Communication and Adaptation; from that basic idea students begin class as separate individuals and end class together as global citizens. Students who decide to complement their degree program with any of Dr. Fluck's courses will gain an understanding of active skills needed in cross-cultural interaction, develop a heightened awareness and sensitivity of global cultures, and generate a drive within them to encourage future positive interaction among all people on a global scale."

Frederick Snyder-Manetti
UM Graduate Student (M.I.S.), Human Environmental Interaction and Climate Refugee Research

Global Gateway to K-12

“As an observer to the first grade Global Gateway lessons presented by Mr. Fluck, it was phenomenal to see the level of engagement which the students had throughout the entire program. It was interesting to see that many students, some of who weren’t able to recognize a world map, were by the end of your time together picking out individual countries correctly.”

Angela Opitz, Counselor
Rattlesnake Elementary School

Global Gateway to Community

“This will be my second semester attending these monthly films in the Global Gateway Foreign Film Series and I look forward to each and every one. I attend the film series because I believe in the value of understanding other cultures and how that awareness will allow me to more comfortably interact with people from diverse backgrounds. The unique opportunity of seeing foreign films (that are open to the community) is why I love being a student at the University of Montana and a member of the Missoula community!”

Brandy La Roux
UM Senior, Psychology

Global Gateway

Global Gateway is an educational services portal, offering multicultural, diversity and global competence trainings to the UM campus community, the K-12 educational system and community organizations. It promotes mutual understanding and infuses innovative educational opportunities that allow multicultural and diversity education to thrive and global competence to develop.

Record Seminar Growth Between 2014 and 2015

Global Gateway has enjoyed an unprecedented growth in recent years. Trainings have more than tripled between 2013 and 2014, from 48 seminars offered to more than 170 seminars provided. Between January and December 2015, multicultural and global competence education trainings expanded to a new record, with over 290 seminars, as indicated in the graph below.

Data on all seminars developed and provided since 2004 is recorded and can be accessed. Detailed information on previous seminar titles, affiliated departments, offices, schools, or organizations, dates and locations can be retrieved through Past Seminars in the Global Gateway Archive.

Global Gateway's award-winning pedagogical approach is utilized in multicultural, diversity and global competence seminars and trainings for a wide-variety of Global Gateway Partners on the UM Campus, including outreach activities to Missoula County Public Schools (K-12) and building ties to the Missoula Community.

We are confident that Global Gateway is an educational service that deserves high marks, but don't just take our word for it, please take a few minutes, browse through the testimonials that more than 70 participants posted and discover how global gateway services have made a difference for participants.

To find out how to join, collaborate and benefit from Global Gateway services, please contact globalgateway@umontana.edu.

Udo Fluck, Ph.D.
Director, Global Gateway
Multicultural and Diversity Education, Global Competence Training and Program Development

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