An innovative academic community dedicated to preparing students to become global thinkers and leaders in a changing world.
Personal Approach, Global Vision
Build your global awareness through classroom study, events and conferences at the United Nations, internships and study abroad.
Bhisé Center for Global Understanding
An interdisciplinary university-wide initiative that fosters global awareness, prepares students for leadership, and addresses pressing global challenges.
The Levermore Global Scholars (LGS) program challenges students to examine complex global issues, tackle pressing world problems and prepare for leadership in their chosen fields.
Open to students in any major, the program combines interdisciplinary coursework with experiential learning to provide a strong global perspective.
Through seminars and co-curricular experiences—including cultural excursions, internships, study abroad opportunities, service projects and activities at the United Nations—students develop the knowledge, skills and perspective needed to lead in an interconnected world.
LGS empowers students to think critically and collaboratively about global challenges while encouraging active engagement in creating positive change locally and worldwide.
Pillars of the LGS Program
As an academic and experiential program, LGS fosters global citizenship by cultivating students’ academic, personal and professional development in the following areas:
Learning Beyond the Classroom
Levermore Global Scholars engage in a wide range of experiences that deepen their understanding of global citizenship, social responsibility and civic engagement, including:
- Participating in LGS seminars focused on global learning and contemporary issues
- Attending United Nations conferences, workshops and events with international leaders and policymakers
- Completing community action projects, internships and volunteer initiatives
- Exploring international service opportunities and study abroad programs in more than 120 countries
- Taking part in cultural excursions and artistic events throughout New York City
At the United Nations
Levermore Global Scholars regularly participate in United Nations activities that connect classroom learning with real-world global dialogue and policymaking. Levermore Global Scholar Chitralekha (Pooja) Kar ’18 shares her experience and journey through the program.
What Defines a Levermore Global Scholar?
- who is able to demonstrate an understanding of major issues, processes and trends of global importance, recognize that different societies and nations hold varied views on the same concerns and better appreciate that we all face varying global challenges despite the global interdependence of cultures, traditions and governance;
- who has greater readiness and preparedness for shorter and longer stays abroad in order to learn about other cultures, nations and societies;
- who has a working knowledge of at least one foreign language.
- who has an appreciation for and experience in civic participation, volunteering, educating others and helping alleviate problems in a community.
- who is aware of the interconnectedness and the interdependence of various contemporary phenomena, their historical, philosophical, socio-cultural or environmental underpinnings and is able to demonstrate an understanding of the relationship between and among various academic disciplines in the context of analysis of different domestic and global economic, environmental, social, cultural and political phenomena.
- who develops the intellectual abilities to come up with ideas for positive social and global change and acquires skills, knowledge and experience of how to implement initiatives and get others involved.
Student Stories
Candice Garwood came to Adelphi from Kingston, Jamaica, and has discovered the richness of immigrant stories through her studies at Adelphi. A student in the Levermore Global Scholars program and Adelphi’s 2024–2025 Newman Civic Fellow, Garwood found inspiration within the African, Black and Caribbean Studies program.
