in one of our students, who was studying abroad in senegal, learned about this project, came back tospelman and talked with her colleagues in the student government association about watching the student government initiative to send -- to raise money for the 10,000 girls project and meant to travel back to senegal third spring break to deliver the funds and to help with this project. they have done this now a couple years in a row and it's been quite exciting for those students many of whom i've never been out of the country before to be able to engage with young people around this particular project, looking at the impact of education and the lives of girls in a country where access to education is still quite limited for girls. and as i'm talking about this project, and thinking that it does incorporate the kind of ideas that you are talking about, president bottomly, in terms of the teamwork involvedcommon terms about the raising of funds and getting themselves there. in the most recent trip they were there hoping to build a library in the task of just doing that working collecti

thinking about how to engage our students, not just as they travel abroad, whether it is senate all -- senegal for the more traditional countries -- or thinking about how we can expand our sense of global connection right on the campus every day. we do not have the kind of international student population that one finds here at wellesley at spelman, but we do have the application of atlanta, which is an increasingly international city. Ñiwe have been visiting dignitaries who can come to campus to engage with us, and to use technology so that students may have the opportunity to engage. that has also been a very important part of our thinking about global problem solving. for example, not long ago, we had students who were looking at environmentalÑixd issues, sustainability, and we were invited to participate with a group of students atÑi dubai women's college. being able to do that, toñr have students in atlanta -- this is of course something that the 21st century are allowed to do. when i was in college, even bu+t a few years ago. these are some of the ways in which we think about helping stu