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International Education

What Is International Education?

With a student body representing more than 100 countries, we are dedicated to providing high quality international education addressing important global issues integrally tied to our students long term success. Ours is a comprehensive model and offers a wide range opportunities to enrich your global experience including study abroad, virtual exchange, and off-campus educational and cultural events and a robust international studies curriculum.

Most of our international students who graduate Lone Star College then continue their US education at top notch institutions. Not only do our students successfully transfer to complete undergraduate degrees with low costs for their first two years at LSC, they spend those years developing skills and making connections that last a lifetime.

Foundational to our work is our open-access programming  on all campuses to provide engaging activities and workshops that foster learning about other cultures and key skills intercultural competency skills. The International Education Team, made up of our staff, Faculty Fellows on each campus, and our HIE directors hosting events for students every month: from foreign film screenings to virtual events on the International Space Station, and more.

 

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International Centers

Each Lone Star College has an International Studies leadership team.  Please see the below listings.

CyFair

LSC-CyFair

Professor Laura Taggett, 
Laura.Taggett@lonestar.edu

Kingwood

LSC-Kingwood

Professor Shuang Xu, 
Shuang.Xu@lonestar.edu

Montgomery

LSC-Montgomery

Professor Mark Marotto, 
Mark.Marotto@lonestar.edu

North Harris

LSC-North Harris

Professor Janice Hartgrove-Freile, 
Janice.Hartgrove-Freile@lonestar.edu

 

Tomball

LSC-Tomball

Professor Margaret Jelinek Lewis, 
Margaret.S.JelinekLewis@lonestar.edu

UP

LSC-University Park

Professor Madhulika Tandon, 
Madhulika.Tandon@lonestar.edu

Nationally Recognized, Globally Connected

Andrew Heiskell Awards

Lone Star College won the 2014 Heiskell Award for Internationalizing the Community College through the Faculty International Exploration Award. The Institute of International Education's (IIE) Heiskell Awards showcase the most innovative and successful models for internationalization of campuses, study abroad, and international partnership programs in practice today.

Senator Paul Simon Awards

Lone Star College won a 2013 Senator Paul Simon Award for Comprehensive Campus Internationalization presented by NAFSA: Association of International Educators. The Simon Spotlight Award is intended to highlight specific individual programs and services that are judged to be outstanding and/or especially innovative.

Fulbright U.S. Scholar Top Producer

Lone Star College was a 2012-2013 top Fulbright Scholarship U.S. Scholar Top Producer. The Fulbright Program, the U.S. government's flagship international educational exchange program, is sponsored by the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs of the United States Department of State.

 

We have partners around the world—from the French Embassies of New York and Washington, DC who have provided study abroad scholarships for their summer French bootcamps to the International Business School in Rabat(UIR), Morocco that supports our recently established international business track. These partners play a role in student success inside and outside of the classroom. Other scholarships from our global partners include the Institute of study abroad Ireland, who together with the Irish consulate in Austin provides intercultural competency and travel programming and BAFTX.  s See below for more partnerships. LSC is the also host college for CCID which is the only organization to support comprehensive international education for community and technical colleges.


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