The authors share thoughts based on their college’s international travel experiences as an encouragement to others who want
to pursue international education at their own community colleges.
International travel is probably not the first idea people have when considering a typical community college’s course offerings.
But during the past two years at Southside Virginia Community College (SVCC), we have had the opportunity to design and
teach classes in international business and tropical ecology that involved travel to France, Turkey, and Belize for some faculty
and students, and we are convinced that such classes will have an increasingly important role to play in community colleges in
the near future.