A global education, he continued, is much more than having international campuses or exchange programs. It is an education that ensures that our students will be able to succeed in a world marked by interdependence, diversity and rapid change. A global education is one that provides knowledge and understanding of culture, language, geography and global perspectives. Most importantly, a global education is one that enables students to understand their roles in a global community and teaches them how their actions can affect the world. A new world calls for new visions, he said, pointing out how the forces of technology and globalization have linked humans together in ways never before imagined.
Humanity is now a shared enterprise.
He added that tomorrow s leaders will need to function as easily abroad and across different cultures as in this country. We will graduate students who will flourish in this world. Nearly 90 delegates representing institutions of higher learning from throughout the country and abroad joined community and business leaders, elected officials, former University presidents and more than 1,000 people for the ceremony September 27 at the George and Phyllis Rothman Center on the Teaneck-Hackensack Campus. Whitman, who received an honorary doctor of laws degree from FDU in 1996, described Adams as a scholar of vision, a man of ideas, a believer in the power of education. She added that although knowing about other countries, cultures and languages was once an academic exercise, today it is an economic necessity.