President Phil Hanlon ’77 congratulates Shoshana Silverstein ’15 on winning a 2014 Truman Scholarship. (Photo by Eli Burakian ’00)
[more]Before week three of the Rockefeller Global Leadership Program, “Self Assessment with IDI,” began, participants took an online test, the Intercultural Developmental Inventory (IDI). This purposefully vague assignment (RGLP’s leaders intentionally did not provide much context), asked me to respond to many statements that evaluated my culture with respect to others.
[more]In his talk based on his new book “Embers of War: Vietnam Reconsidered," Professor of History and International Studies at Cornell University Fredrik Logevall brought the Vietnam War out of isolation and into the context of world events.
[more]Having spent significant time in both the United States and Korea, I often ask myself about where I belong. Am I a Korean-American or a Korean with an American passport or an American with a Korean passport? As a member of the Rockefeller Global Leadership Program, I stepped into the lecture room with these questions in mind.
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